A reader writes:
I am an Admin in Health care for the last 25 years,most recently working for a company for a year that had 15 secretaries before me. I came as a temp and worked with the secretary that was there for 8 days. I came in one day and she was gone.
A reader writes:
I have a similar question as the young lady from 2/1/08, but mine has more twists. I too am considering filing for bankruptcy. I’m considering filing because I have accumulated about 30k in credit card debt due to job loss and due to a 50% decrease in pay. I have now obtained employment, however I am still earning considerably less than I have in the past. I’ve scaled back in all aspects of my life, but I still think this is going to be the best option for me. I should also let it be known that I am NOT late on anything. In fact I have a 700 credit score!
The family went to dinner last week and ran into a previous supervisor of mine. We exchanged pleasantries, updated each other on family happenings (many grandchildren for him, Bill’s heart surgery for us) and had a nice conversation.
Whenever I think of this one supervisor, I always come back to a meeting a few years back. In an unguarded, very frustrating moment, he let loose with a reactive, in-your-face, less than 20 word comment about his management team. I was part of his management team and we were all in the room.
Of all things HR, performance management is the one thing I think about more than anything. I posted about it here. I watched it here. I read about it here and here. I tweeted about it here:
Reading WSJ article on performance feedback http://tinyurl.com/5faf3v This is where we need to be heading.
Rericson @lisarosendahl totally agree. Doing a lot of “Gen Y” ee work - for my company and for clients. Shifting culture to one of feedback is key.
I leave you with this little jingle as I disconnect for the holidays to connect with family and friends:
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Happy Holidays to you and yours.
The legendary character of Santa Claus is known for bringing smiles to children’s faces during the Christmas holiday season with his jolly laugh and generosity.
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I lost a friend. Nothing bad, I just can’t seem to find her. Last time I knew where she was, she was outside of Chicago, having just returned from Iraq and was putting her life back together.
I just opened up my Google Reader and saw 19 new posts. They were mostly from HR Thoughts. Now, I have been trying post regularly lately but I did not generate these posts over night.
I opened my e-mail a few minutes ago and saw a message from a fellow HR blogger we all know and admire. He is gathering 2009 predictions from the blogosphere for HR, recruiting, blogging, technology, etc.
The way my days have been going lately, I knew that if I did not respond right now, it would be almost 2010 before I got back to it. So, I gave him three off the top of my head. I don’t want to steal his thunder so I won’t “divulge” my three but I have got to tell you one of my predictions:
HR professionals reaching out to HR students via blogs etc to provide valuable industry insight and learnings.
Wouldn’t this be so cool? Does anybody say “cool” anymore? Am I showing my age? Ah, who cares.
What do you think?
PS. If you have any predictions you’d like to share, you can send them to Lance Haun, Your HR Guy, at lancehaun (AT) gmail (DOT) com.
I had not been in Twitter all day and tweeted a quick tweet as I rushed out the door to pick up the kid:
What does that tell you about my day? I was having a tough day. Out two days last week with a sick little girl, the e-mails, phone messages and requests for my assistance piled up. We were facing a national credentialing suspense coming due today and a bunch of employees to move through system to increase our completion rate. More meetings than I had expected; each running longer than they were scheduled for.
Open Season 2007 was a disaster.
Each and every employee was served and served well; however, it was at the expense of our HR Assistants’ sanity. Not only did the final week of open enrollment coincide with the week performance awards for 1300 employees were to be coded for payment, employees waited until the last minute to make appointments, walk-ins were constant and we had people lined up outside offices throughout the day. We kept a lot of chocolate on hand and I kept a close eye on my staff.
I deactivated my Facebook account a little over a year ago. I reactivated it a few days ago.
Why? I wanted to give it another try. The family has not jumped on the Twitter bandwagon (yet). The closest family members are 4 hours away, the rest are on either coast or somewhere in between. We see them periodically, or sporadically, at best. They have things happening in their family units each and every day and a glimpse into their days would give us that much more of a connection.
I am trying Twitter. I am on week two now and am not yet “in the groove.” I keep trying to categorize what it is and what I am doing with it and I can’t. So, what’s a girl to do?
This girl will go back to this comment from Chris (Manager’s Sandbox) in response to this post:
I was watching my daughter in gymnastics the other night tumble, leap and cartwheel her way across the mat. She points her toes, extends her fingertips and holds her head high. When she does a handstand, finds a balance point or lands her round-off, sunbeams shine from her eyes.
The legendary character of Santa Claus is known for bringing smiles to children’s faces during the Christmas holiday season with his jolly laugh and generosity.
The legendary Carnival of HR is known for bringing smiles to reader’s faces with links to great posts by the best (and nicest) bloggers the web has to offer.
On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer on Vixen, on to the HR Carnival and this bag of posts!
If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that my second grader had her first after-school activity yesterday. You also are I aware that I had forgotten about it.
Each night we always talk with the kid about the next day: school lunch, drop-offs and pickups at daycare, evening activities, etc. We did not discuss her Dazzle Me Draw class. So, when her friend asked her about it and reminded her it was later then day, she thought I had forgotten, She was right, I did.
Laurie Ruettimann, Punk Rock HR, has a wonderful, straight to the point post at Cheezehead.com about social networking. ”Times are changing and HR professionals need to learn what it means to identify and acquire talent in the 21st century.”
I appreciate the post because honestly, I have a lot to learn. I don’t know what it really means to identify and acquire talent in the 21st Century. Ahh, that felt good.
With Google Reader, this blog, and now Twitter, I am dipping my toes into a very big pond. Each and every day, I feel that I am so close to something very unbelievably powerful, yet I don’t know how to get right into the midst of it.
As an HR leader, I want to know about ”social networking, recruiting applications, and sourcing methodologies.” I want to know how I can best mobilize my staff to “communicate with candidates using a mix of technology and old-fashioned recruiting skills.”
I want to know about building relationships with people I can’t reach out and touch (beware: my age is showing). Can I say that it is like jumping into the midst of new culture?
We are in the midst of a major transformation in how people communicate with each other. We have access to real time information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can get communicate with next door neighbor, the person we have yet to meet across the globe, and everyone in between.
It is simply amazing. I want to “get” it all but know that, literally, within minutes, what I “get” will be either be changed, improved, or replaced by something else.
So, my question to you is, “What do you do to keep your finger on the pulse?”
I simply have got to know.
Fistful of Talent is at it again! They unveiled their second round ofTalent Management Blog Power Rankings. Click here to see their list of the top 25 best talent/recruiting/HR/human capital blogs. But don’t stop at the Top 25, continue down to the “also receiving votes” list to round it all off.
Congratulations to all and thanks to Fistful of Talent for bringing this all togther!
Leaders work with complex issues every day. Leaders must make the tough choices. Decisions have to be made and leaders have to make them. Leaders make 100’s of decisions in the course of a week; most without much effort. And then, there comes the ones that are not so easy.
As a leader, the first step after realizing that you have a decision to make is realizing that decisions can be complicated.
I’ve been tagged again. This time the tagger is Angelique at Inspired HR. Her Halloween 2007 picture is too funny, I can’t pass this tag up; however, I am going to give you an abbreviated version.
So, here are a few Random Things About Me from my (much) younger days:
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