#SHRM13 Recap Links:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM HILLARY CLINTON
LESSON #2:: Leadership is a team sport. Have you ever had a leader that is “holier than thou” ? Well, Hillary spoke to the heart and made it clear that leadership whether it be on a Presidential campaign (okay, maybe that’s my personal wish) or in the office, it’s a team sport. Leaders should lead by not only example, but from within the actual team.
Employees Need a Career Dashboard
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average number of years an employee stays with their current employer is just under five years. The statistic isn’t meant to scare anyone. Quite the contrary, it should challenge businesses to maximize employee productivity during the time an employee is with the company. It means organizations need to put solutions in place to accelerate processes like onboarding and career development. The more effective these processes are, the faster employees can become fully productive.
Why We’re All Really Salespeople…
- About 1 in 9 Americans — 15 million people — work in sales; however, when all workers are asked the question, “what portion of your time do you spend convincing people to give up something for something you have to offer,” people say that they spend 41 percent of their time on that activity.
- his leads to this conclusion: we all spend a great deal of time convincing, persuading and influencing people to make a change.
In other words, as Pink puts it, “It’s kinda like selling … except the cash register doesn’t ring. … and like it or not, we’re all in sales now.”
#SHRM13 Day Three: Some Random Observations
The first few days of the annual Society for Human Resource Management conference here in Chicago have left me inspired.
How Google sets performance goals [video]
How Google makes choices on goals that individual contributors are going to chase, how they negotiate what goes into that valuable space, how the goals are supposed to cascade, how they are (or aren’t) part of the performance process, all goals are made public, etc…
Millennial Job Seekers are Consumers
1/3 wont’ buy from you…. the majority share bad experiences…
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