The Best Thing About LinkedIn
Awhile ago, I committed to one post each month about social media/networking in Human Resources. This is that post. Keep reading. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking website. It “links” you with people in your organization and people you’ve worked with in the past. It links you to vendors and service providers that you do or [...]
HR Lessons from “The Closer” — Don’t Be Like Brenda
This week’s posts are my way of honoring one of my favorite shows on television — The Closer, which ended its 8-year run last week. In case you’ve never watched, the show follows Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson and her team of detectives as they solve high-profile murder cases for the LAPD. Because of her [...]
Everything I Know About HR, I Learned from Yoda
He’s little. He’s green. He’s old and wrinkly. He talks funny … Yoda is everything Star Wars for me! We don’t know a lot about Yoda’s background. By the time we meet him in the first trilogy, he’s already near death. However, the one thing that comes across very clearly from him is his wisdom [...]
Take A Chance on Me
I am a proud and unabashed ABBA fan!! Seriously. Dont stop reading this post. One of my favorite ABBA songs is Take a Chance on Me. It reminds me of a CEO who took a chance on me and gave me my first real shot in HR back in the late 80s. I had just [...]
Caught in a Bad Bro-Mance?
The Plant decided to create a mentoring program to identify and develop leadership and management talent within the organization. I’m not sure if it was a deliberate part of the succession plan, but it was clear they recognized many of their senior-level managers were nearing senior-citizen and they needed to build the bench. I was [...]
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