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I hate public speaking…

April 14, 2013

When it comes to public speaking – don’t do what I do, and please listen to what I have to say! Are you afraid to speak in public?  If so, welcome to the club, my fellow glossophobes. Public speaking makes me nervous every time I do it, no matter what.  Even getting paid to do [...]

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Tips on effectively influencing the C-suite

November 4, 2012

Influencing the C-suite I recently attended a conference session in San Antonio where it was suggested that  employee and labor relations specialists and consultants face a giant credibility problem in the C-suite.  People in the C-suite will spend money, but it’s tough to get them to write checks on proactive employee relations initiatives unless you [...]

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Secret diary of an introverted “extrovert”

October 27, 2012

Cut out the chit chat and get down to business I wrote this piece for Sanera Camp, a small business blog  run by my friend Alicia Arenas.   The original title was “4 Tips For People Who Don’t Like Networking”.   Basically, it offers up some ideas on how I use social networking to meet people virtually [...]

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Did you miss me?

October 4, 2012

I was on vacation Sorry about that, folks.  I left town (and the blog) with little or no explanation last week.  I was lured away by the invitation to take a last minute vacation with my wife.  Nobody would say no to that!  The one rule was that we were both turning off our computers [...]

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SHRM endorsed slate wins by large margin over SMFT write-in slate #SHRM

September 13, 2012

You probably already have this in your email if you are a paid up member of SHRM for 2012,but just in case you haven’t seen it.  Here ya go via Jose Barrios: The third-party election oversight company that SHRM retains to administer our board election processes, Election Services Corporation, has confirmed the election results; and [...]

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The Complete Compendium #NoFearHR

September 8, 2012

#NoFearHr on Drive Thru HR   Jay Kuhns and I are going to be on Drive Thru HR on Tuesday of next week.  Yeah, that’s 9/11/2012. We’re going to talk some social media, and maybe even a little bit about our sometimes collaborations on a project we titled #NoFearHR. What the hell is #NoFearHR, you [...]

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My Farewell Speech to HR Florida (the other IMPORTANT part)

September 5, 2012

The HR Florida Wrap, hold the lettuce and mayo I started writing this little farewell ditty to my role at HR Florida a few days ago.  I talk too much, and ran out of room to get it done on one post.  Then I ran out of time to get it done over the weekend.  [...]

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My farewell speech to HR Florida (part one)

September 2, 2012

Goliath has power, but David got game! #HRFL12 Good morning. It’s the Sunday of 2012 Labor Day weekend, so it’s a lock that no one will be reading this is until at least Tuesday.  That’s alright. I might not finish it until Tuesday.  We’ll see. It’s also the first Sunday after the 2012 HR Florida [...]

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(Data) Impression from HR Florida #HRFL12

August 30, 2012

Social Impressions from HR Florida We just wrapped the 2012 HR Florida State Conference.  I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about, but not a lot of time right now.  Ket’s go with this.  Thanks to my social tech members for being a part of our little events.  You know who you [...]

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2012 Illinois HR Conference (#ILSHRM12) – They’re on a mission

August 8, 2012

Illinois SHRM – pretty damn good          I’m told the guys in the picture above are John Jorgenson (@JKJHR) and Dave Ryan (@DavetheHRCzar).  I can neither confirm or deny, but they wound up on my phone sometime in the past few days. I just got back home from the 2012 HR Illinois State [...]

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