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“Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley” is one of the reasons I continued to watch SNL in the 90’s. Al Franken invented and acted out Stuart in a way that made you laugh and cringe at the same time. I’m not an affirmation gal. The closest I get is coaching my daughter to tell me to “Buck up, Mommy!” whenever I …
We all want our employees to continuously develop their skills, but sometimes there just isn’t enough support and encouragement from management for people to take advantage of L&D activities. Watch this episode of our L&D Hangout series with Fistful of Talent’s Kris Dunn and Training Specialist from Kinetix, Ginger Knighton, to hear some tips on how to get managers on board with their …
How many of you have dreams about work? Of course you dream about work. How could you not? You work more than you sleep. I guess the key question is the following: How weird are your dreams about work? Are you married to the 64-year old boomer with the brochures about the tea party? Are you dating the accounts payable …
April Fools’ Day is a fun tradition of fooling others into believing something that isn’t true. It’s mostly harmless and in good fun. It’s less harmless when this becomes the standard practice for giving feedback in the company. Yet all too often, companies inadvertently set up feedback mechanisms that encourage foolish feedback – the type that is inaccurate, incomplete, and …
If you read my bio, you know I’m a music fan. In particular, I get excited by loud, vibrant and heart-stopping tunes. So when a former colleague messaged me he was touring with AC/DC and they’d be in Houston, I had no shame in asking (ok… begging) him for tickets. Not only did we have amazing seats, but he also hooked …
Leadership slang time, people. Let’s give you a term you can text your fellow HR/Talent pros in response to hearing that they’re stuck in a time-suck they shouldn’t be in. The term/acronym? NINA. “No Influence, No Authority.” NINA refers to people who really can’t get things done in an organization, and it’s position/situation specific. Consider the following: – Authority is downward sloping. People with …
I belong to a few recruiter groups within Facebook. Inevitably, at least once a month, someone posts about a candidate NastyGram, crowdsourcing responses. The crowdsourcing probably happens because the recruiter wants a) validation that they’re not a bad person and b) creative ideas on response (even if they never act on them). We know from different stats out there, like …
Talent pros across the country have spent most of early 2016 trying to figure out how to basically just keep up. Escalating wages, tight labor markets and (mostly) good economic indicators. All we have to do is recruit and hire, retain top performers, set the right compensation, run a comprehensive but affordable benefits program and make sure everyone gets along. …
I’m Generation X. If there was ever any doubt about that, this post should put that doubt to rest. One day last year found me rolling through airports in Baton Rouge and Philadelphia. As I was running through the Philadelphia airport to catch a plane, I spotted a bunch of old school autographed photos on the edge of a depressing …
New hire paperwork and onboarding are two different things, right?! In this episode of our L&D Hangout series, our very own Kris Dunn and Dawn Burke discuss how to onboard with a purpose. Kris DunnKris Dunn is a Partner and CHRO at Kinetix, a national RPO firm for growth companies headquartered in Atlanta. He’s also the founder Fistful of Talent (founded in 2008) …
