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The State of Benchmarking in 2009

A quick note: APQC's 2009 State of Benchmarking survey is now live and accepting data. We conduct this survey every three to five years to determine the major issues that benchmarking professionals are facing in the current environment. If you are involved in benchmarking at your organization, we would very much appreciate your input. The survey should take about 10 - 15 minutes to complete and, in exchange for your participation, you will receive a summary report of the findings. Click here to access the survey.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 16b - An Interview with Scott Davis, author of The Shift, part 2 of 2

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 16b - An Interview with Scott Davis, author of The Shift, part 2 of [...]

Management Decisions As Mystery

"You are looking at longer Time Span goals and creating systems," I said. "What is Curtis' goal?" Glenn looked serious. "Curtis doesn't have to worry about the system. As a supervisor, he just has to make sure production gets done." "Is that why he is throwing you under the bus? You are trying [...]

Top 10 Reasons To Hire a Business Coach

Comic for July 9, 2009

Top talent management blog

If you think the MJ Memorial was the big event this week, you’re wrong!

Fistful of Talent has just published it’s fourth round of talent management blog power rankings and this blog is placed at number 13 out of 130 Talent, HR and Recruiting-related blogs.

Thanks to everyone at FOT, definitely one of my top reads.

Here are the other top scoring blogs for you to check out too:

The top 13 scores:

1. cheezhead™ (Power Index Rating - 96 | 1st Place Votes - 1 | v. 2.0 ranking - #1)

2. Your HR Guy (Power Index Rating - 72 | 1st Place Votes - 2 | v. 2.0 ranking #6)

3. HR Bartender (Power Index Rating - 68 | 1st Place Votes - 1 | v. 2.0 ranking - #17)

4. Compensation Force (Power Index Rating - 66 | 1st Place Votes - 1 | v. 2.0 ranking - #4)

5. Seth Godin (Power Index Rating - 57 | v. 2.0 ranking - #20)

6. Punk Rock HR (power index rating - 51 | 1st place votes - 1 | v. 2.0 ranking - tied #22)

7. Renegade HR (power index rating - 49 | v. 2.0 ranking - N/A)

8. TalentedApps (power index rating - 48 | v. 2.0 ranking - #24 + v. 4.0 winner!)

9. The Recruiter Guy (power index rating - 47 | 1st Place Votes - 1 | v. 2.0 ranking - #2)

10. All Things Workplace (power index rating - 45 | v. 2.0 ranking - #8)

11. The Business of Management (power index rating - 44 | v. 2.0 ranking - #21)

12. e-Recruitment/Social Workplace Blog (power index rating - 41 | v. 2.0 ranking - N/A)

13. Jon Ingham's Strategic HCM (power index rating - 37 | v. 2.0 ranking - N/A).

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The Difference Between Coaching and Consulting

Comic for July 8, 2009

HR Carnival 8 July 2009

The latest carnival is being hosted by Aaron Queen at EffortlessHR, a provider of online HR software, forms and templates for small business owners (anywhere from 1 to 500 employees).

Rather tactlessly on my part, it includes my recent post on the low value of forms and templates! Sorry Aaron!

As usual, the carnival includes a whole heap of great posts from around the world (well, at least the US, UK and India), so do take a look.

Photo credit: Alon Laudon

Technorati Tags: HR Carnival,Effortless HR,HR templates

Consulting - Research - Speaking - Training - Writing

Strategy - Talent - Engagement - Change and OD

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jon [dot] ingham [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com

United Breaks Guitars

Unfortunately companies like United have created cultures where people take pride in doing their job poorly. And the continued long term customer hostility companies take shows no sign of letting up. My suggestion is to take Southwest or Jet Blue (or Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific). Unfortunately sometimes you need to travel somewhere that [...]