Here’s some disruptive HR advice from the Denver DisruptHR group: “HR needs more sex.” “More specifically, idea sex.” What HR … Read more
Who Is Gen Z and How Are the Schools Getting Them Ready?
You know all that stuff about Gen Z? How they’re digital natives, want to be entrepreneurs, that they’re into experiential learning, etc., … Read more
To Improve Performance, Keep Score
If you want to win, someone has to lose. “No more ribbons for participation.” That’s Ben Keenan’s prescription for getting peak … Read more
What Is Your Superpower?
One of those trite interview questions goes like this: “If you had a superpower, what would it be?” What would you do if what you got back was, … Read more
Training the Law and Order Way
Tim Hiller has a L&D technique that is plenty edgy even for a DisruptHR program: He likens planning a training session around a kind of law and order … Read more
How HR Can Be the Bridge Between the Centuries
HR is on a metaphorical bridge between the centuries. Some HR professionals — many, perhaps most — work for legacy companies struggling to make … Read more
Culture Begins With a CEO
“Company culture is not an HR function. It comes from the top.” — Dax DaSilva I saw this quote the other day and, as you know my wont, I stop, … Read more
Court Reinstates EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting
This episode of Epstein Becker Green’s Employment Law This Week® features a recap of the biggest labor and employment law news from March 2019. In this … Read more
If Your Office Is Cold, Blame the Men
The temperature in your office is just one more piece of evidence that, as Francis Rios says, “companies were created by men for men.” Walk … Read more
What It Takes to Be a Paradox Navigator
Are you a Paradox Navigator? Do you know what that is? Dave Ulrich, and his son Michael, coined the term to describe one of the key competencies of human … Read more
Saying It’s OK Doesn’t Mean the Harassment Was Welcome
This is a DisruptHR talk that will disrupt your way of thinking about the victims of sexual harassment — that way so many of us declare, “Why … Read more
Tip Credits and Gossip Make Labor Law News
This episode of Epstein Becker Green’s Employment Law This Week® features a recap of the biggest labor and employment law news from February 2019. … Read more
Everything You Need to Know About Recruiting Millennials In 5 Minutes
OMG! Here’s a video that in 5 minutes will remind you about everything you should know about recruiting millennials. You’ll want to watch it a … Read more
Get Ready For the Coming Human-Enhanced Workplace
When Pierre LeGrand says to a room full of HR people, “I want to postulate that we are the architects of a new age organism of interconnected … Read more
Abolish Your Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Pay Policy
You thought “Don’t ask. Don’t tell” was a compromise invented over gays in the (US) military. You are wrong. It was the long … Read more
Your Culture Should Be Like a Donkey
Here’s a thought: Your company culture should be more like a donkey than a unicorn. Not our idea. Laurie Bennett said that. His entire presentation … Read more
Are Your HR Practices Brain-Friendly?
HR practitioners are too much like the barber-surgeons of the Middle Ages. Reason enough for HR to be “blown to smithereens,” let alone … Read more
Stop Sucking at Hiring
How many times have you heard a hiring manager decide on a hire because of “good chemistry?” Be honest with this one: Have you ever hired … Read more
Why You Shouldn’t Touch My Hair
You’ve heard the term “unconscious bias.” Every regular reader of TLNT has come across articles about it. You may even have touched on … Read more
Love: The Next Leadership Skill
To paraphrase Jackie DeShannon, “What the business world needs now is love, sweet love.” What’s love got to do it? Exactly what Robin … Read more