Monthly Archives: June 2010

Step it Up, Lon! Even if Just for Us.

Lon O'Neil

Dear Lon (if I may), Thanks so much for inviting me to blog from the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition. It is a privilege I’ve not taken lightly. You and your team of more than 350 SHRM employees and irrefutably one of the best volunteer organizations around provided great content at a great venue…and…

Wanna Lead? Be Vivid!

vivid

If you missed the SHRM 2010 Annual Conference and Exposition closing session with Marcus Buckingham, you pretty much missed the SHRM 2010 Annual Conference and Exposition. There was a lot of good content this week, but Marcus really capped it all off. His presentation dripped of relevant, thought provoking, and inspirational insights for the very…

Applied Mathematics and HR? Yeah Right.

applied mathematics

Korn Ferry celebrated its 40th anniversary in the executive search space last year and since acquiring Lominger in 2006, they’ve been in the research based leadership development business too.  Ken De Meuse, Ph.D, associate vice president of Intellectual Property Research, and J. Evelyn Orr, M.A., intellectual property development consultant, spoke to a packed house of…

An Employee Suggestion Box that Rocks!

glassdoor

I really haven’t spent a lot of time down on the Expo floor at SHRM’s 2010 Annual Conference.  If you’ve ever been to a large industry show, you know that the floor is loaded with over-zealous vendors pushing the “latest and greatest” to throngs of people who at the end of the day probably have…

What (the ‘f) were you thinking? A new calling for HR…

wtf

As trusted colleague Mark Stelzner said, if you’re going to earn a couple of new luxury vehicles for giving a speech you should at least spend 30 minutes tailoring it to your audience. We heard a lot of what we’d expect to hear from Al Gore this morning at the SHRM 2010 Annual Conference, but…