What’s wrong with the way we train? Too much text, too few images, formulaic presentations that are so much based on rules that it’s a wonder there’s any life left in the training room at all. “We’ve dehumanized learning,” Clint…
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We Want Disruption Until It’s Us Being Disrupted
“So many of us in business (say) ‘I want innovation. I want disruption. I want the next big thing’,” said Bradley West to his DisruptHR audience in Winnipeg last year. But “Stop changing my process,” he added mockingly. The message…
The War For Talent Is a War For Attention. Here’s How to Get It
The war for talent may be misnamed. It’s really a fight for attention, says Katrina Collier, a social recruiting trainer at The Searchologist. Once upon a time, when placing an ad in the newspaper employment classifieds was how employers sourced,…
If You Want to Have Impact You Need Influence. Here’s How to Get It
Do you believe HR professionals are in the best position in the world to make an impact? Jennifer McClure does. That’s what the HR veteran and CEO of DisruptHR and Unbridled Talent told her Kansas City audience. But it doesn’t…
What Would Happen If Everyone’s Pay Was Known?
What would happen if everyone knew how much everyone else was making? Crazy, you say? It might work for major league sports, but not for us. Wait a minute, says Josh Ingalls, who was Sr. HR Business Intelligence Consultant at…
Ready or Not Here Comes Generation Thumb
Talking about millennials in the workforce is so yesterday. Time now to start preparing for Gen Z, or, as Chad Norman calls them, Generation Thumb. This is the generation born after the turn of the century. They’ve never known a…
It’s Not Complicated. HR Is About the People
Andrea Butcher thinks we’ve over-complicated HR. “We’re making tools and processes for the business and not for people,” Butcher tells her Indianapolis audience of HR professionals. “So no wonder people don’t like us, because we complicated it. We’re confusing it.”…
HR’s Job Should Be to Encourage Conflict
For years we’ve been hearing the drumbeat about making the workplace fun. So, as Amanda Ono tells it, we drank the Kool-Aid, installing ping-pong tables, organizing parties and offering a host of perks. “But what happens when we wake up…
The Best HR People Aren’t HR People
It wouldn’t be a DisruptHR event if what you heard was what you expected. Sometimes though, we get surprised, like when Amanda Hudson said, “When you’re done studying HR, stop learning about it altogether.” Why did she offer her Toronto…
You Won’t Get It If You Don’t Ask
Carol Sankar’s DisruptHR talk may be focused mostly at women professionals, but what she has to say about your first job is good advice for everyone: Ask for what you want. Don’t do what she did when she was offered…