Ideas & Trends
RSS feed for this sectionFeatures insights and ideas, primarily from guest contributors, focusing primarily on tools, technologies and emerging best practices and case studies.
Among the topics discussed: HR solutions, industry trends, HR strategy, HR and recruiting software, social media, recruitment strategies, talent management, hiring practices, and much more.
Inside HR: Cornerstone OnDemand’s Michael Carden
Tweet The biggest challenge for HR professionals is still “attracting the best people and then getting the best out of them,” says Michael Carden, vice president of small business operations at Cornerstone OnDemand. Making people work well for your organization is the difference between great businesses and not so good businesses. Developments in HR technology [...]
Continue reading...Inside HR: Trish McFarlane on the Power of Social Media
8. May 2013
Tweet HR pros need to acquire and maintain fluency key IT applications, including applicant tracking systems and cloud-based software, says Perficient HR Director Trish McFarlane. McFarlane also says networking — both online and off — is vital for HR professionals and especially recommends they get active on Twitter. “For me joining Twitter several years ago [...]
Continue reading...Inside HR: Laurie Ruettimann, on What It Takes to Succeed in HR Today
1. May 2013
Tweet Human resources consultant Laurie Ruettimann says the ability to make good business decisions, deal with numbers and think analytically are high on executives’ list of goals for human resources professionals, and “that’s the right kind of competencies for anyone in the business world.” Still, she thinks that human resources departments need to be working [...]
Continue reading...#LASHRM13: HR’s Turning Point: Are You Staying in Place or Moving Forward?
17. April 2013
Tweet Adapting to project-oriented work and accepting the social nature of today’s workforce will help human resources professionals make the critical shift away from purely tactical functions and move toward essential strategic roles that help companies succeed. That was the message of HR practitioner Robin Schooling and recruitment marketer/technologist Bill Boorman earlier this week at [...]
Continue reading...#LASHRM13: Jennifer McClure, on the Future of HR
10. April 2013
Tweet Challenging human resources professionals to be curious, determined, innovative and disruptive, HR veteran Jennifer McClure told the attendees of 2013 Louisiana SHRM conference in Baton Rouge that they can develop a competitive advantage by building strong business acumen and in-depth business knowledge. McClure, an HR practitioner for nearly two decades, gave an afternoon keynote [...]
Continue reading...What Do You Do When the Boss Isn’t Looking?
6. March 2013
Tweet Recently I started watching a show called “Undercover Boss.” If you’re not familiar with it, company CEOs decide to do some surprise field visits incognito, posing as candidates for a job on a reality show. If you’ve seen the show, you know it follows a pattern. The formerly disengaged CEO gets a chance to [...]
Continue reading...New Study: Baby Boomers More Entrepreneurial than Gen Y
27. February 2013
Tweet This guest post is by Dan Schawbel, upcoming author of “Promote Yourself” and founder of Millennial Branding. My company recently teamed up with Monster.com on a new and very unique study on employee attitudes across multi-generations of workers. The three main generations in the workplace who participated in the research include Gen Y [...]
Continue reading...10 Commandments of Organizational Change Management
2. January 2013
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Tweet This post is by Tara Seager and Yousuf Siddiqui of Ally Solutions Group. Learn more about Tara. 1. Thou shalt … Identify the leader of the change. Although it is true that everyone on the project team can be a leader and that the change can have many champions, usually there is one executive, [...]
Continue reading...What’s Your Best Tip for Increasing Employee Engagement?
1. January 2013
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Tweet Get Ready to Incentivize “This is more so for increasing employee engagement than measuring. We’ve had instances where an employee has come to us with an idea (not asked of them) to help grow the business. Once it was enacted, and we saw tangible results from it, we found some way to reward the [...]
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15. May 2013
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