Sometimes, You Quit a Job for Love
Every once in a while you an employee who decides to move out of state, or another city, or a country, to be with the love of their life. There’s very little you can do as an HR pro or leader to keep...
View ArticleWhy Most HR Strategies Fail
We wear a thousand hats in HR. Developing a good, solid HR strategy is one the hardest things you’ll ever have to do. Most of the time, when I see an HR strategy fail it has to do with the...
View ArticleIf I was the National HR Czar…
I think the next President should add a position to their cabinet. That position would be called HR Czar. That person should be me, and here’s what I would do as the HR Czar. As HR Czar I would: –...
View ArticleThe #1 Way You Can Tell Recruiting In NOT Important to Your Executives
I had a recruiting leader reach out to me recently and ask for help. They had some critical positions they needed to fill but weren’t having any success. The executives were all over her to get her...
View ArticleHow do you become a great HR Pro?
From The Project mailbag: Tim, I’m a recent HR graduate and I want to be great in HR. How do I become a great HR pro like you? Is there certain things I can do, read, etc.? Marcy...
View Article6 Things That Will Make You A Great HR Pro
Yesterday, I wrote this post on a question someone asked me about How do I become a great HR Pro? I told them to stop sucking. Then I remembered I wrote this about three years ago – it’s better than...
View ArticleFailure Is The New Black!
(Rerun from 2013 – This one still holds up very well!) This inspiration came from my friend William Tincup. If you don’t know him, you need to know him, he’s brilliant. Like my head hurts after...
View ArticleDoes it matter if a POTUS has ever hired anyone?
In the last Republican Presidential Debate, candidate Ted Cruz got in a nice jab on candidate Donald Trump about hiring illegal aliens. At which, Trump fired back (he always fires back) that he was the...
View ArticleGoogle Announced They Discovered The Secret to a Great Workplace!
Over the past five years, I’ve been outspoken over my dislike of Google HR. But I have to give them credit now, because they spent years of work, really digging into the concept of teams and employees...
View ArticleDoes my black face make me look more diverse?
I’m sitting at the conference room table. It’s surrounded by my peers, most of which are white, one other, besides me is black, sprinkle in a couple of females, welcome to corporate America. We’re here...
View ArticleWho is responsible for the lack of good workers?
It’s parents. First and foremost I blame parents. Parents are the number one reason you can’t find good workers because parents want their kids reach higher than they did. Thus, if Mom or Dad worked in...
View ArticleThe First Rule of Recruiting
Sometimes we go so far into the weeds in recruiting we forget what is really important. We have to have a brand! We have to have an ATS! Or a new ATS! We have to have a CRM! What the hell is a CRM! Our...
View ArticleEmployees don’t leave organizations, they leave…
BOSSES! Right?! Right? Right… For at least the past two decades, the foundation of employee engagement has been built on this one simple principle. Employees don’t leave organizations, they leave Bad...
View ArticleMaternity/Paternity Plans in 2016 #HRTF16
Hey, gang! I’m at HR Tech Fest in Washington D.C. and so far there has been some exceptional content and keynote sessions! One of those keynotes was given by Jim O’Gorman who is the SVP of Talent and...
View ArticleThe 3 Conference Speakers You’ll See At a Conference Near You
I was sitting at an HR conference last week next to my friend, Laurie Ruettimann, listening to someone talk about something they did at some company and made this statement: “You know, you only see...
View ArticleDeath of the Millennials
I was at a conference recently and one of the keynotes actually gave a presentation on how to work with millennials. I thought to myself, “how 2009 of this person to do this!” I’ve vowed at this point...
View ArticleDon’t Apply to College if You’re White, Middle Class and Male
I heard a female comedian the other day say one of the truest things I’ve ever heard: Look, if you’re a white dude, and you’re failing in America, you’re really a failure! You’re like the definition of...
View ArticleMichael J Fox’s Perspective on Co-Workers #WorkHuman
Michael J. Fox was one of the closing day keynotes at the WorkHuman conference this year, and he killed it like you expect. One of the key takeaways I took from his talk was in regards to all those...
View ArticleThe Greatest Retirement Benefits You Can Give Your Employees
My Dad retired this past year. I’m already ‘leveraging’ him for some time. He has so much of it now! It’s like he won the time lotto and he’s throwing it around because he’s got so much of it. “Hey...
View Article4 Tips for Hiring Candidates Who Have True Grit!
In our ever constant struggle to find the secret sauce of finding the best talent, many organizations are looking to hire candidates who have grit. What the heck is grit? Candidates who have grit tend...
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