What if one-on-ones were like an episode of The Voice?
What is a one-on-one? It’s a conversation between a leader and team member to discuss performance. Where the person is going well and what needs improvement. These meetings should take place often (monthly is a good start) and should be in a neutral space or where the employee feels comfortable. These conversation gems can unearth […]
A Marriage of the Two Most Unlikely Partners
Who should control enterprise social technology in the organisation, IT or HR? This is an interesting problem because it isn’t so clear cut and because HR may not realise this should be on their radar. HR is ultimately responsible for selecting and running the HRMS system used in an organisation. IT needs to be heavily involved […]
My experience using enterprise social technology
We have been using our own enterprise social technology internally now for some time. I’d like to share just one of the many experiences. In part I’m doing this to help illustrate the benefit of enterprise social technology. It helps answer the question of why someone would want to use it. I’m also sharing the experience […]
Talent Management in Not For Profit Organisations
Should Not for Profit organisations spend time on Talent Management initiatives or should they put all of their effort towards the people they are trying to help? After all, time spent on the people in an organisation is effort that could go towards the people the organisation is trying to help. Last week I attended […]
Is HR resisting social technology?
I believe social and HR technology is helping to bring about a new world of work. But is HR itself getting in the way of this happening? Sometimes it doesn’t take that long for big change to occur. When personal computers started to arrive in corporate life during the late 80s and early 90s secretaries and […]
Today we rescue the working world from tyranny
Organisations can be tyrannical places in a sense. Very different to the world we live in outside work. In the morning we arrive at work and step into an older hierarchical world. At the end of the day we leave work and step back into our democratic lives – for those of us who live […]
Crowdsourcing vs. 360 Degree Feedback (part 2)
In the last blog post I introduced the differences between Crowdsourcing vs. 360 Degree Feedback. In this post we’ll look at some different needs and pick the best tool for the job. If your need is any of these, 360 Degree Feedback is the best tool for the job Identifying actual behaviors to develop as opposed to […]
