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There are scores of tips for HR pros to help make their companies better – be more strategic, be disruptive, be an advisor, etc. Being all those things is good, but it takes focus. Here are seven controllable (but not always easy) acts any HR pro can do that trumps a Master’s Degree and will make their company better. Get off …
If you run a coffee bean company (which I do), expect more bags of beans to be sold and when Barry complains about doing more work (e.g. more bags of beans to fill), you will need to listen. If you recruit and hire people (which I do), expect that someone (e.g., other Barry) at your client company will spam your …
Too often, I work with founders and executives who are desperate to find good people. They either spend too much time on recruiting, which takes them away from their core work (i.e., building or selling a product, raising money, etc.) or they spend too little time on recruiting and have few good people in the pipeline. Whether you are growing …
A career happens the day we learn how to make a dollar for ourselves, which can come at almost any age when you count lawn mowing, babysitting, paper route type jobs. If you take the traditional route – graduate college, then work – you can get fooled into thinking your career is outside of your control until one day you …
There continue to be many HR Tech tools and apps sprouting up that claim to make it easier to give feedback and guidance to people. While I’m a big fan of more transparency, when it comes to conversations about performance or just giving clear guidance, these conversations…wait for it…should happen in person. The HR Tech tools out there sound good …
A few years back I became aware that there was a “Speaker’s Circuit” for HR people. The more I became aware of it, the more it sounded like a wonderful place to be. You have done everything in your career and now you are being paid hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to travel the world and…..speak. I later …
Waking up before 5 AM is simple but not easy. The majority of people hit snooze a couple of times and crawl out of bed much later. Every night, go to bed early to get 7-8 hours of sleep and set your alarm for a wake-up call at 4:27 AM. Simple but not easy. Not bragging here, just sharing what …
Taking the long route gives you perspective. A career is long and perspective is what you need to make good choices about your career path. It’s easy to look for the shortcut, as you would look for the shortcut to getting home fast after work, but there are few shortcuts to a good career. Instead, you should appreciate that you …
It’s easy and feels good to talk about your competition and blame them for the reason your life is a failure. I get destroyed by my competition on a regular basis. With Sumato Coffee, I study our online competition, follow the clues they leave behind and go for a different angle. With consulting, I study what big consulting firms are …
Career websites are a web developer’s work and a marketer’s dream. Examples of work and employees at a company can be used to capture stories for a website and market them as what it looks like to work at your company. The prettier the website, the more it looks like your company has a top brand. Nice websites make it …
