T3 – @Learnkit
This week on T3 I’m reviewing elearning company Learnkit. Learnkit is a custom elearning agency that, through our unique Learn-cycle pedagogy, produces engaging and enjoyable learning experiences to...
View ArticleThe Undercover Job Start
I’ve had quite a few friends start new positions in this past year. It’s exciting to see so many people get great opportunities after living through the recession! One common thing happens to all of...
View ArticleCan HR out Crazy a Crazy Employee?
In HR we run into employees all the time that do “Crazy” pretty dang good! I’m always interested in how we work around crazy. Almost never do we just fire crazy and get rid of it, we tend to keep it...
View ArticleHow To Fall In Love With Your Job. Just. Do. This.
A psychologist, Arthur Aron, came up with a way to get to strangers to fall in love with each other. His research is fascinatingly simple! It basically comes down to having the two people sit down...
View ArticleT3 – @Learnkit
This week on T3 I’m reviewing elearning company Learnkit. Learnkit is a custom elearning agency that, through our unique Learn-cycle pedagogy, produces engaging and enjoyable learning experiences to...
View ArticleThe Undercover Job Start
I’ve had quite a few friends start new positions in this past year. It’s exciting to see so many people get great opportunities after living through the recession! One common thing happens to all of...
View ArticleCan HR out Crazy a Crazy Employee?
In HR we run into employees all the time that do “Crazy” pretty dang good! I’m always interested in how we work around crazy. Almost never do we just fire crazy and get rid of it, we tend to keep it...
View ArticleHow To Fall In Love With Your Job. Just. Do. This.
A psychologist, Arthur Aron, came up with a way to get to strangers to fall in love with each other. His research is fascinatingly simple! It basically comes down to having the two people sit down...
View ArticleWhen Keeping It Real, Goes Wrong in HR
You might have seen this recently in the news. Three HR employees at Wyman-Gordon Company decided it would be a good idea to ‘secretly’ videotape and employee they wanted to terminate. Three HR...
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 One Way to be Successful at Recruiting
Eight years or so ago I started seriously writing for the first time in my life. The only other times I ever wrote in my life were school papers, a journal that my high school English teacher, Ms....
View Article5 Instagram Filters That Will Make HR Better at Recruiting!
You know it’s true—you’re a great HR Pro, but you don’t really like to recruit. That’s okay, because you’re good at a million other things your company values. But here’s the thing: A recent Deloitte...
View ArticlePokemon Go Your Employees To Better Health
I hate posts that just comment on the hottest thing going on in the world. Here’s the thing, I’m the last guy you want to hear some commentary on Black Lives Matter! So, you get Pokemon Go commentary...
View ArticleRecruiting Blocking and Tackling!
This week I was at CareerBuilder’s Empower Roadshow talking with a few hundred Talent Acquisition pros and leaders in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Great event, great group of pros that were super...
View ArticleIs Smiling at a Black Person in an Interview a Racist Microagression?
From the land of we’ve gone off the deep end of political correctness, check this out! Do you suffer from “White Guy” smile? “When you pass a person of color on the street, do you give them the “white...
View ArticleT3 – Pilot (@Pilot_Inc)
This week on T3 I review the new startup coaching technology PILOT. PILOT is the brainchild of Ben Brooks. I’ve known Ben for years, he’s a super smart HR Pro/Leader based in New York who has an...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt will end up being an Employer Problem
Take a look at this chart: Basically, what this chart is showing you is that America has a massive student loan debt problem. Want to know what the next ‘housing crisis’ will be? It’s right here in...
View ArticleThe One Conference HR Pros Need to Go to in 2017 #WorkHuman
So, I’ve been on the record that my favorite conference to attend is the HR Technology Conference. It’s my favorite because I geek out on HR and TA Tech and I’ll send three days on the expo floor...
View Article5 Things HR Leaders Need to Know About Developing Employees
I think we try and deliver a message in organizations that all employees need and want to be developed. This is a lie. Many of our employees do want and need development. Some don’t need it, they’re...
View ArticleThe 12 Steps of Recovery for Passionate Assholes
I wrote a post last week titled, “The 5 Things HR Leaders Need to Know About Developing Employees“. In that post I had a paragraph: When I was young in my career, I was very ‘passionate’. That’s what I...
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