Woe to the candidate experience. Perhaps not dead, but terminal. No longer a hot topic, not the high point of networking conversations anymore yet this drama still plays out as an endless soap opera searching for new sponsors. We can do better. Consider for the evidence: In the last month an exceptionally talented peer who had … Continue reading The Experience
Pay It Forward
Do the right thing. Sometime in the next five to ten years my career as such will be over. I won't be doing HR work as an 'employee' although I'm sure I'll still teach and speak and above all mentor. I'm asking you to consider mentoring too. Prior to the Digital Age there was no … Continue reading Pay It Forward
We Want You! (sort of…)
No thank you. Sam and I go back for years having met at a tech company and keeping up with each other since. He's a good guy, talented as an HR Business Partner and his skills are above average. He has a strong brand. Last November a tech firm reached out to Sam, and over … Continue reading We Want You! (sort of…)
A Matter of Degrees
She shivered. As my better half and I left a quaint little bistro in the early evening the temperature had changed since we entered. From a balmy 70 initially, (21 to my friends on the other side of the pond) it was now a nippy 62 (17) since the sun set. Not that much of … Continue reading A Matter of Degrees
Good News
It was a dark and stormy night... Actually that's not true: it was a beautiful sunny morning but I've always wanted to start a post like that! The phone rang and although I didn't recognize it I answered anyway as it was a local call and I hoped I hadn't fallen into the trap of … Continue reading Good News
Fall Out
Everything in its season. There is no question the world's a little colder place in the fall. While my friends south of the equator are fast heading towards spring, we in the northern climes are snuggled into fall looking towards the Equinox and winter's arrival some seven weeks' hence. Baby, it's cold outside. Yet, it's … Continue reading Fall Out
Math 101
Can you add and subtract? In the war for talent there are so many top ten lists and theories about engagement it's hard to keep it all straight. Yet, let's start with a simple question: can you add and subtract? Over the years I've worked with hundreds of managers from newly-sanctioned team managers to C-suite … Continue reading Math 101
Hope
Watch the children. Right outside my door is a running path that goes around a small pond, skirts the edge of two hospitals and eventually meanders past a pretty good-sized playground at the edge of a large market. The playground is usually full, other than school days and times. I use this path daily, sometimes … Continue reading Hope
Greatness
Are you grateful? Yesterday I had a full day - between playing golf and then marshaling I was on the course for 14 hours and the peak temp was 99 (37 C for my global friends.) It was a long day. I knew I had to stop at the grocery store on the way home, … Continue reading Greatness
The Doctor is Out
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on tv. That's an old commercial so it my not resonate with many of you but what I remember being surprised about was that the actor had to remind the viewer he wasn't a doctor. As if. Flash forward to current times and I find myself using … Continue reading The Doctor is Out
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