Weekly Reading List - Week 20
Here is your weekly reading list for week 20 of 2009, your sixth categorised summary of all the HR, Leadership, Team performance and People management activity on the blogosphere and news-sites this year. We keep trying to deliver you the most relevant articles, in a form that allows you to judge and see only those that are most relevant to you.
Let me start with a quick post on Pandemic preparedness resources for the Swine Flu in the workplace (Eric Davis). Quite a good place to go if you are in a region that is facing cases of the illness.
Now, your classified reading list:
Some Crisis and some Post Crisis notes, comments and posts:
- Asking for a Raise Now: Confidence or Chutzpah? (Stefanie Smith)
- Controlling Compensation Dollars in Today’s Economy (Paul Hebert)
- Use of recruitment agencies won’t resume when recession ends (Guy Logan)
- Surviving the Recession (Carmine Coyote)
- How to Motivate Workers in a Downturn: Be Honest, Don’t Pander (John Hollon)
- Whistleblowing cases may rise if trust lost through job cuts isn’t rebuilt (Guy Logan)
- HR professionals moonlight as coaches to supplement incomes (Helen Gilbert)
My question at this point is: when, crisis or not, has our profession not moonlighted?
A few thoughts about sourcing - Recruitment, Succession Planning and Career Management:
- Signs it’s time to move on to the next job seeker (Hayli Morrison)
- Addressing a new hire’s known weakness (Alison Green)
- Jobs Not Synonymous with Careers (Raz Chorev)
- Staff Retention: Top 10 Tips (David marriott)
- My first day on the job (involves numerous beers) (Steve Boese)
- Are video CV’s back on the agenda again? ……..I hope not!! (Andy Headworth)
- What Do You Mean Our Employer Value Proposition (EVP) Doesn’t Compare?!?!?” (Rob)
- The Demise Of Job Boards And The Rise Of People Searching (Dan Schawbel)
- Nameless CV proposal slammed by HR chiefs (Guy Logan)
- 4 Tips for Efficient Succession Planning (Sarah Green)
- The Job Section of HR Magazine - Will the Last HR Team Without Any Ideas Please Turn Off the Lights? (Kris Dunn)
Some general Human Resource stuff:
- Absence management: Out of sight, out of mind (Virginia Matthews)
- Why Do HR Employees Behave Badly? (Jim Stroud)
- Corporate B.S. Term #283 – Holistic (Human Resources Pufnstuf)
- The completely random Carnival of HR (Recruitment 2.0)
- It’s An On-Demand World: Does Your HR Department “Get It”? (Breanne Potter)
- Enabling HR Transformation in current times through Effective Systems usage (Amit Avasthi)
- Nervous about your employee survey? Considered Appreciative Inquiry? (Ian Buckingham)
Creativity - a process to generate it in your workplace:
- Using the SCAMPER Process for Increased Creativity (Cy Charney)
Communication and Harmony in the workplace:
- Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain (Amber Shah)
- Five Steps To Better Employee Communications (Lance Haun)
- Bad, Bad Manager: “You Can’t Leave Me!” (Jessica Lee)
Leadership: sources of it and tips to achieve it…
- Leadership Lessons from Mom (Dan McCarthy)
- A Metaphysical Conundrum: Advice On Not Following Advice (Morgan Ives)
- Quotable Quotes: CEOs In The Making (Miki Saxon)
- Want To Learn The Art Of Persuasion? Consult Aristotle (Alexandra Levit)
- Understanding the Leadership Contract (Nina Simosko)
An interesting article on how HR was REALLY used in a strategic way:
- Case Study: Pixar’s Winning Strategy of Inclusiveness (Michael Lee Stallard)
Yet again, gender in the workplace:
- Gen Y women - out of the workplace woods? (Rebecca Throman)
- Women Bullying … Women? (Chloe Angyal)
- Female Leaders: A Rocky Climb to the Top (Dan McCarthy)
Warning! Very Stereotyped, imaged video…
Teams, team-building, brain-storms and constructive arguments:
- Team Building (Alison Green)
Well, Alison, you do have a point. The number of team-coaches and team services has exploded in the last years. But I have met a number of extremely qualified people that go beyond the “team cohesiveness reduces turnover” line. It is a question of what’s on offer, and what you need at the end of the day… - Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams (Teresa Amabile)
- 11 Rules to Use for Effective Brainstorming (Mike King)
- 6 Steps to Setup an Effective Brainstorning Session (Mike King)
Organisational Culture and happiness at work:
- Exploding Common Myths About Corporate Culture (Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff)
- 7 Ways to Be Happier at Work (Jeff Stibel)
Generations in the workplace:
- Generation Y One year On (Andy Headworth)
- Managing Generation Y (Bruce Tulgan)
- Marketing to Gen Y: Don’t Go Mobile (Tyler Hayes)
- Will this Recession Finally Erase the Boomer/Gen Y Divide? (Paul Hebert)
- Integrating Generation Y Into the Workplace (Holly J. Culhane)
- Is Generation Y Completely Stupid? (Kyle Lacy)
- Gen Y Does Not Lead The Same Life You Do (Tyler Hayes)
- The Demise of Job Boards and the rise of people searching (Teresa Basich)
- This Economy Will Finally Connect Boomers and Gen Y (Anonymous)
- Poor ‘Generation Y’ employment prospects mean HR could miss out on talent (Guy Logan)
- Separation of powers. Why drawing lines between generations needs to stop (Teresa Basich)
- Gen Y Needs Boundaries For Action (Rebecca Thorman)
- How important is company culture to Gen Y (Peter Epstein)
Engagement or how to motivate people to work (and keep working) well for you:
- When a recognition program feels too fluffy (Alison Green)
- Engagement, Performance, and “The Right Things” (Steve Roesler)
- More employers to measure employee engagement against reward (John Charlton)
- Here’s How to Discourage Your Future Workforce (John Hollon)
- Alignment Drives Engagement and Productivity (Alice Snell)
- One More Way to Engage (Steve Roesler)
- Workers who stay may not be the ones you want to keep (Nic Paton)
- The Five Social Appetites That Drive High Performance (Paul Herr)
A few notes on strategic use of reward and remuneration (a very academic looking model by Brendan too):
- Stepping Up & Intrinsic Rewards (Ann Bares)
- Reward in a downturn - EMEA findings (Nick Boulter & Jose Ignacio Arraiz)
- Rewards Metrics: Engagement versus the Bottom Line (Ann Bares)
- If I make the effort will I achieve my goals? (Brendan)
And let’s conclude with a few notes on L&D in the workplace…
- Measurements for Evaluation and Management of the Training Department (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Dan Klein)
- Is Lack of Training Going to Cost Your Company? (Michael D. Haberman)
- Generate More Revenue By Making Training Everyone’s Job (Doug Kennedy)
- How to encourage cross training on your team (Denise O’Berry)
- Top Five Ways to Communicate Training Programs’ Value (Manage Smarter)
May your week be truly engaging… and may your comments get flourishing!
