From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Everything DiSC® 363™ for Leaders

June 30, 2010

Are you a business coach or an internal training and development professional that uses a 360° feedback process for professional development of your clients?  In general, I like the 360 process and have had good luck implementing them for clients.  However, it’s not all peachy-keen. A few of the “beefs” I have with the process [...]

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How HR Can Create Value: Fixing the Broken Button

June 22, 2010

The other day I was at a client’s office listening to a presentation.  The topic was how to effectively complete the company’s online timecard system. As the group was discussing the details of how to complete the online timecard, the talk turned to how to notify ones supervisor of impending PTO (Personal Time Off). One [...]

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Finding a New Voice

June 15, 2010

On June 5, 2010, I was welcomed into the  Women of HR community as a contributor. I can almost hear it all the way from Minnesota.  Polite, yet insistent, it’s Women of HR’s Editor-in-Chief Lisa Rosendahl tapping her foot, waiting.  Jennifer, when will your first Women of HR blog post be ready? It’s an honor [...]

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Game-Changers Welcome Resistance

June 11, 2010

This morning, while preparing for the work day, I had a random thought and quickly posted it to Twitter: Props to Joan Koerber-Walker for starting the #BeOriginal hashtag on Twitter. Judging by the number of retweets, I’d say this tweet had legs!  Or should I say “wings?”  To go beyond the 140 characters with that [...]

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HR Carnival, Freaks, and Serendipity

June 9, 2010

One of the greatest things about playing in the social media arena is the wonderful serendipity that unfolds.  For example, a few months back, I was comparing resources with fellow leadership development colleagues Dave Brand, Dan McCarthy and Susan Zelinski . At that time, they recommended the site Institute for Corporate Productivity as having great [...]

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Advice for Leaders Who Blog

June 8, 2010

I just returned from a quarterly management meeting being hosted by a client.  It’s a two-day meeting being held offsite for 30 mid- to senior-level managers of a business unit.  During the meeting, Pete, head of a 1200-person business unit, unveiled his brand-new blog.  I really admire Pete. He’s been taking risks and encouraging his staff [...]

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Are Your Employees Going the Extra Mile?

June 4, 2010

Leaders, when’s the last time you saw your employees go the extra mile?  Today? Last week?  Last month? The photo at right was taken by Terry P., the Library Media Supervisor at my kids’ elementary school. (Back in the day, we called them “librarians”.) Shortly before this picture was taken, Terry had been doing an [...]

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Making Decisions, 100 Years at a Time

June 3, 2010

I’ve been watching reruns of the Ken Burns series The National Parks  on PBS. It’s an in-depth look at the birth and evolution of our country’s national park system.  Called “America’s best idea” by writer and historian Wallace Stegner,  men both famous ( Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir )and lesser-known (Stephen Mather , Charles Young) were [...]

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