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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 …
Quick – how many milliliters of morphine should you give to dull the pain of surgery? Don’t know? Let’s try this –which chemotherapy drug do you give for cancer? Give up? Okay how about this one – should you take aspirin and Coumadin at the same time? Unless there is an MD, LPN, RN, NP or some other group of …
I have never missed a deadline here at FOT in 7 years. And I don’t plan on it. I’ve come close–but I’ve never crossed that line. If you don’t know–we have a wonderful Editor, post-manager, whip-cracker in Ms. Cara Lucas. Her job is to schedule us cats and make sure we get something witty, smart, new and different up on …
I hear it all the time, “We’d be so screwed if we had a normal HR person. I’m so happy we have you.” Not really. You’d just be screwed if you had someone who wasn’t a real person, trying to manage real people. I’ve worked my way up through this company from an HR Assistant to the HR Director, I’ve …
The dealership has been hit with an epidemic, which makes absolutely no sense to me since I made them all get a flu shot (myself included). Side note, men are super wimpy when it comes to needles. HTTP://WWW.FASTHOMEWORKK.COM professional essay writers I have always been one to actually show up to work when I'm sick. I'm not going to do …
If you’ve been in HR for at least 30 minutes you’ve heard someone in your organization bitch about a bonus. It comes part and parcel with the gig – from the beginning of time when the first caveman decided he needed some additional incentive for his cave drawers and developed the 5 drawings and you get an extra brontosaurus burger …
This past week I’ve been putting some finishing touches on a Pecha Kucha presentation I’m giving at the end of the month. Pecha Kucha – pronounced “pa-chok-cha” – is a style of presentation made up of 20 slides (predominately images) shown for 20 seconds each. Originally devised by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in 2003 in Japan, it was …
Need some Recruiting & Sourcing Juice to get you going these days? Feel like you’re connecting with lots of people in the Talent Pool, but they’re not yielding the information you’d like (referrals, intel, leads, “word on the street”, etc.)? Perhaps it’s time to step back and think about the structure of the Talent Pool itself . . . Before …
Gather round the HR Tractor campfire, y’all – it’s time for a square-dancin’ rant or two. Don’t be scared – just let your feet go and “Dosey Doe“. It don’t have to be pretty the first time. All you have to do is hop up from your chair, clap loudly, approach your partner and circle to the back, and then …
