HR Sales Masala – five ingredients for HR striking business
HR must strike business just as salesmen strike new opportunities. HARDCORE-HR-SALESMAN! HIGH-IMPACT-HR-PROFESSIONALS love their customers. They work like businesses. They think like entrepreneurs....
View ArticleMeetings – the practical alternative to work
A Chinese friend once told me: “Why stand when you can seat, why seat when you can lay down?” (the apology of laziness, lol). But HR mindset generally is: “Why give quick call when I can have a...
View ArticleLike wars, meetings are a last resort!
On the last post (Meetings – a practical alternative to work), I shared the pain of the unspoken disease that affects most of us, a pain shared by HIGH IMPACT PROFESSIONALS but nurtured by...
View ArticleSHOOT COSTS FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER
If there is one thing I love is cost cutting. I like to picture myself as a Cost Terminator, a Judge-Dredd-of-Splurgecity. It is somewhat a tantric experience to see that grease-cost-fat-ball sticking...
View ArticleDoes training generate return on investment or are employees only boosting...
Employees love training. Makes their résumé looks better, get time out from work etc. Managers also love it, because showing a shiny training program show how much they care for talented people. But...
View ArticleAbout “caring” (not in the HR soft way)
This may appear soft & cute, but is serious biz. This is about our capacity of establishing strong bond with talents. A lot of companies say that “people are our main asset”, but do organizations...
View ArticleHR: are you bringing RESULTS or managing PROCESSES?
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you”. F. Nietzsche “He who fights with...
View ArticleThe (HR hardcore) Negotiator!
If there was an HR minimum curriculum, would it be odd if all HR professionals learned about “negotiations”? People costs are huge, and HR is dealing with high budgets all the time (from benefits to...
View ArticleHR: should we stand up or stay silent at the corner?
HR has stood silent at the corner of the room for too long. We (HR professionals) have been trained to comply, to run processes. We need to start generating more impact. We need to move away from the...
View ArticleAre you being held hostage by your Talent?
Modern days wars, there are two ongoing conflicts that are lasting for decades: the Korean war and… Talent Wars! Both are going on as long as we can remember, and are probably equally far from any...
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