From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Bloggers helping Haiti

January 27, 2010

HR Carnival for Haiti is now open! This is a special edition of the HR Carnival that has one purpose:  to focus a spotlight on agencies that are providing relief and aid in Haiti.  The intended approach was that anyone wishing to participate would select an agency that they wished to support or know more [...]

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Haiti is going to need our help for a long time

January 26, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Here are some ways to help There are hundreds of ways to help in Haiti.   I was going to write a profile of Doctors without Borders.  I decided to take a different direction instead.  So here is an aggregated list of charities that different groups have recommended, along with [...]

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Life Lessons from 25 Years in HR

January 25, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Highs and Lows are part of every career This article is probably a bit murky, but that was purposeful.   I am trying to capture the major lessons that I have learned over the first 25 years of my career in Human Resources. I started working in HR on January 20, 1986.  I [...]

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HR Carnival to aid Haiti: Do a little research!

January 24, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife What can we do to help right now in Haiti? On January 27th, I will be featuring a special edition of the HR Carnival intended to provide assistance in Haiti.  You can help.   I am not asking for your money this time, just that you do a little research.    Details [...]

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Why Al Gore Shouldn’t Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker

January 23, 2010

Al Gore via last.fm An Inconvenient Choice? Last week, China Gorman used Twitter to announce that Al Gore had been selected as the Keynote Speaker for the 2010 SHRM Conference and Exposition in San Diego. It didn’t take long for the news to spread, or for a debate to spring up on Twitter about whether [...]

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Why Al Gore Should Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker

January 23, 2010

Image by Steve Rhodes via CrunchBase A ConvenientTruth Twitter is a great tool for making connections, spreading the word on services, exchanging thoughts, and sharing important information with various communities.  Last week, China Gorman broke the news on Twitter  that Al Gore will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition [...]

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Being Strategic in a Non-Strategic World

January 21, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Slightly behind Schedule I am still working on my “Lessons from the Drop Forge” post promised yesterday.   Here is something else instead. So, you want to be strategic? Who doesn’t? How can you be a strategic player in a role where not every opportunity challenges you to work in [...]

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Starting my first job in Human Resources

January 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Time flies when you are having fun Today is the anniversary of the beginning of my HR career.  It marks the beginning of the 25th year that I have been doing work in this crazy confusing field. It is also the calendar day anniversary of  the first official Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

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I heard about this great HR job today on Twitter

January 19, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Human Resources Specialist Wanted This is a real help wanted ad that I ran across this morning on Twitter. I was amazed both by how well it is written, and the opportunity it discusses.  Whoever did this is doing really great HR work. The District of Columbia Public School system is looking  [...]

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Reflections of Hope and Discord: Dr. King and Haiti

January 18, 2010

Martin Luther King, Jr. via last.fm A time to pause and reflect The Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday in the United States is a day that always makes me pause and reflect, for a variety of reasons.   It is a day born out of controversy and discord, honoring a man who fought to change [...]

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