This is a rant towards people managers out there and my fellow recruiting and HR pros. Three counter offers?! Really? At what point are you just being excessive, if not desperate?
If people are formed into a team to work on a project, suddenly things fall apart. One person will be over enthusiastic and another totally bored... Meetings become places where missed milestones get slipped even further, frustration sets in - quietly at first - then tempers boil over and the project starts to sink fast...
I now tend to think of feedback more like going to the dentist: necessary for health, but not really enjoyable. That being said, there are tricks to making feedback easier to give and to hear.
When I talk about "the wrong reason" to go into HR, the most common ones that I hear when I ask HR people why they did it are "I love people" or "I love talking to people" or "I love helping people"...
The primary aim of blogging shouldn't be just to get a resume or place a candidate; the one focus of blogging really should be to share your thoughts and ideas and show what it's like to work somewhere. The other stuff takes care of itself...
Generational segmentation was designed (and is very useful) for things like marketing and workforce planning. Not for leadership. It's all about how to lead and manage the individual...
There is a dearth of data on the adoption of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) in Australia. The truth is almost every organisation currently use some form of technology to manage their workforce...
HR's predominate role should be about getting the folks in the company to hone their skills. To get more of the people in the system to be better at their jobs. The minute you attribute success to talent you absolve yourself of having any responsibility for their success or their failure...
The shift from advising to directing, as big as it is, can actually be a very subtle one. In fact, it can be so gradual a shift that HR professionals themselves don't even realise they've crossed the line and started exerting formal authority where none exists...
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