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    Are you (or someone you know) having ongoing career challenges that to go beyond, “It’s a tough business environment these days and everybody feels stressed”? Do you feel as if you have so much work you can never get even the important things accomplished? Worse yet, does it seem you can’t get those [...]

#TChat Radio Show Recap for 8/31/11 with the @12Most folks!

If you want to make it rain inside and out, you’ve got to be able to control your talent weather. More precisely, you must be able to understand the molecular makeup of your talent clouds, and how rapidly the combining and recombining of the molecules change the innovative power of your people. Wouldn’t you rather [...]

HR is such an open, unique field that finds itself bound by the past.  Organizations continue to churn and churn on HR programs and ideas that haven’t been current in years (or even decades). The difficulty facing folks is how to break away from the past. We tout “change management” as a profession, but change [...]

Planting words on my MacBook Pro stimulates me emotionally and intellectually as I sow client career stories from bud to blossom.  This focused, brain-powered activity, though invigorating, is physically sedentary and potentially unsustainable if not combined with the appropriate amount of physical activity. In Joe Lavelle’s recent post, “Exercise Like a CEO,” he underscores the [...]

“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”   ~Dalai Lama The old adage goes, if you’re not going to say something nice than don’t say anything at all. Yes, silence speaks volumes but so can efficient communication and it’s a stretch sometimes when [...]

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones was searching for the Ark of the Covenant, the key to all human existence. HR has been on a quest for its own Holy Grail for years – credibility. In this post, Laurie Ruettimann says the way to get HR credibility is to take over. Move into [...]

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” — James Matthew Barrie Somehow I missed that memo the first time around. The one about making sure to underestimate your marketplace and overestimate your sales cycle when you’re starting a new business. Or even a new career for that matter. New careers [...]

Today’s post is by Katrina Kibben — Social Media Manager at Care.com, an innovative and resourceful social media marketing professional who enjoys helping companies of all sizes use traditional and nontraditional tactics to increase profitability and product awareness. She is working with Care.com’s annual event, Care@Work, which develops smarter ways to work by using new [...]

Just having returned from HRevolution, I was filled with tons of ideas, approaches and philosophies.  My head was swimming with where to go next.  I was trying to land on what aspect of HR resonated with me coming out of this UnConference.  Then I remembered . . . I had a conversation with Dwane Lay and William [...]