Posts Tagged ‘HR strategy’

Mary Ellen Slayter

Robin Schooling on how to foster a corporate learning environment

This post was written by SmartBrief’s Doris Nhan. SmartBrief senior editor Mary Ellen Slayter reported live from this year’s annual SHRM conference, where she spoke with Robin Schooling, the vice president of human resources for the Louisiana Lottery Corp. Robin sat down to discuss how she and her team developed a successful learning environment in [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , , , , ,
1 Comment
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

A sign of respect

If “HR is dead,” what shall we make of this? More human resource executives are being asked to serve on corporate boards because of their specialized knowledge of critical issues, such as executive pay, leadership succession and integration following a merger, The Wall Street Journal reports. In the first 11 months of 2009, 7% of [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: ,
2 Comments
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

Looking forward to 2010 with Libby Sartain

As part of our upcoming year-end report, I spoke with Libby Sartain, the former chief human resources officer of Yahoo! and Southwest Airlines, and former chairman of the board of the Society for Human Resource Management. She is co-author of “HR from the Heart” “Brand from the Inside,” and “Brand for Talent,”  and a member [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , , , , ,
3 Comments
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

Strategic restructuring: Are you cutting fat or muscle?

Today’s guest post is by Mark Nyman, a principal of The RBL Group, a strategic HR and leadership systems advisory firm. He is co-author, with four senior partners at RBL, including Dave Ulrich, of “HR Transformation.” His expertise is in large systems change, organization design and alignment, change management, strategy development processes, executive coaching, large [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , ,
1 Comment
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

Today’s bonus tracks: Using Twitter for recruiting

Many HR professionals are pondering how to put social media tools to work in their recruiting strategy.  In this Q&A, Craig Fisher, a veteran recruiter, explains where Twitter fits in with his plan. “Twitter is a huge traffic driver to our company web site and job board.  I get direct referrals from posting jobs on [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , , ,
0 Comments
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

HR’s seat at the table

Last week’s SmartPulse question: Do you feel like senior executives at your organization take HR’s perspective seriously? No, 61% Yes, 39% A sense that they aren’t taken seriously is a common lament among HR officials — even when they assume a VP title.  It can be difficult to escape the perception that your department’s role [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , ,
2 Comments
Permalink

Mary Ellen Slayter

Today’s bonus tracks

Your SmartBrief on Workforce will be ready in a few hours. Keep yourself entertained (and informed) with this other helpful links we found this morning. Frustrated recruiters can go commiserate with Tim Tolan over at Fistful of Talent about excessively picky hiring managers: “Narrowly defining a search assignment to find, locate and place a candidate [...]

Continue Reading »

Tags: , ,
0 Comments
Permalink