Category Archives: Technology

Empower Employees for Success with Social Onboarding

Employers generally stink at welcoming new employees into the fold. I know this partially because I’ve been “brought on board” several times throughout my career; but I know this mostly because I’ve watched HR departments botch it up time and time again. It usually goes something like this: spend a whole day in a conference…

HR Should Introduce the Social Possibilities

Here’s a piece I wrote for Dice’s Employee Resource Center during the most recent HR Tech conference. Enjoy.. Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized adviser to the world’s largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future. She closed down HR Executive’s 15th Annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago this year to a packed house of technologists, HR…

People First. Numbers a Close Second.

I blogged for Dice this week at HR Executive’s HR Technology Conference from Chicago. A lot of the conference about big data this year.  Big data isn’t about data. We’re over that now. It’s about how the heck you do something with it. It’s about bringing data to life – making it jump from the page…

A Stroll through HR Tech

For those of you who can’t join us in Chicago this week for HR Executive’s 15th Annual HR Technology Conference, I walked the expo hall with my video camera in hand – as I am wont to do – so you could kind of get a feel for what it’s like. Lots of vendors, lots…

It Ain’t an HR Strategy Without Technology

When you put together HR strategy for 2013 and beyond, will it include a section devoted specifically to technology? Does it contemplate (1) technology that you have today and want to upgrade (2) technology that you don’t have today but really need, and (3) technology that very few are using today but you want to…