The beginning of every year always pushes people to make resolutions to hopefully improve themselves in one way or another. The (Cincinnati) HR Roundtable … Read more
Avoid Buyer’s Remorse With This Checklist For HR Tech
There is an increasing trend within the business world to incorporate technology — especially AI-enabled — that can provide a competitive edge … Read more
It’s No Longer About Getting a Seat at the Table. Tomorrow’s CHROs Need to Lead Business Change
Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health generates some $19 billion in annual revenues and employs about 50,000 people across the nation. The healthcare company … Read more
You Can Build An HR Department Without HR People
What do you look for when you’re hiring for an HR opening? A person with HR experience and a SPHR or CEBS or a SHRM-SCP? If those are your criteria, … Read more
HR, We Have A Problem: Up To 80% Of Employees Don’t Trust Us
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 … Read more
Data Journalism for HR: A Beginner’s Guide
For the average person, data without a narrative is like a trip into the wilderness without a compass: overwhelming and disorienting. But when the facts … Read more
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 … Read more
5 Ways CFOs and CHROs Can Drive Performance Together
There’s been plenty written on the differences between the “people side” and the “numbers side” of business, and yet organizations with a high level of … Read more
Everyone’s Got HR Metrics. It’s What You Do With Them That Matters
When Google Analytics debuted in 2005, the ability to look under the hood, and see who was viewing your website (and for how long), was all at once foreign … Read more
4 Steps to Becoming a Valued Business Partner
What if you could speak a language understood by everyone in the world? What, you say. There is no such language. Ashley Vella, an Amazon HR business … Read more
Smart Hiring Can Keep Your Startup From Failure
Research suggests that about 75% of venture-backed tech startups fail to thrive. Only slightly over half of all new businesses survive five years. I didn’t … Read more
6 Steps for Making Smart Decisions With Wearables Data
Several years ago, data gathered from sociometric badges (wearable devices equipped with sensors) revealed something interesting about the Bank of … Read more
Make Sure There’s a Business Purpose Before You Jump
It may be true that the average line manager is more data-savvy than the average HR manager, but that doesn’t mean they have a clue about how to approach … Read more
5 Steps for Linking Employee Engagement to Business Outcomes
When it comes to employee engagement surveys, you don’t always get what you pay for. Consider this: Many years ago, a municipal organization I worked with … Read more
Three Reasons Why HR Needs Data Science
Data science has crept into so many areas of business that even smaller companies have begun to adopt some of the techniques large organizations have been … Read more
6 Steps to Great Talent Reviews
It’s great news that talent reviews have become almost universal in larger organizations, avoiding the fads that have overtaken HR processes like … Read more
3 Steps Companies With a Blended Workforce Should Take to Protect Themselves
Companies that solely rely on traditional hiring models may soon lose their ability to remain competitive. Traditional models of hiring no longer provide … Read more
4 Benchmarks and What They’ll Tell You About the Business
Skilled talent is becoming harder to find. National unemployment is at a 16-year low of 4.1%. Companies are competing with one another to provide more … Read more
Make Solving the Business Problem Your Anchor
I remember hearing myself when I used the phrase, “Let strategic and business be your anchor” with a group of HR professionals. The famous phrase, “We’re … Read more
Managers Are Hoarding Talent: A Hidden Problem That’s Likely Hurting Your Firm
Expediting the transfer of employees among diverse business units allows a firm to develop and retain employees, while simultaneously increasing the … Read more