At ‘lunch’ with Drive Thru HR

 

   Next Monday, 14th May, I’ll be talking on Bryan Wempen and William Tincup’s blogtalk radio show, DriveThruHR - and I’d love for you to call in or listen online.

 

The show is at noon central time – which is 6.00pm here in the UK, so it’s a tea-time show really.  And it lasts thirty minutes.  If you miss the show, you can listen to the archive afterward.

If you’ve not listened before, the show’s format is to ask guests about “What’s keeping you up at night?”…

I’m not sure what I’m going to be talking about yet…  and the truth is, I don’t have problems sleeping.

However, here are some of the things I’m currently working on, so I guess I need to pick on of these…

 

• Clients (All UK and Ireland at the moment)
• Measurement scorecard
• HR Business Partner training
• Change process support
• Career development
• Support for an HR technology vendor

 

• Workshops (UK, Barcelona, Bangkok)
• Measurement
• HR Business Partnering
• Change management
• Advances in Recruitment, Learning
• Social Media for HR

 

• Other paid (and unpaid) activities
• Preparing for conferences, eg
• Connecting HR unconference (CHRU) next Wednesday (though just the drinks for for me this time)
• Economist Talent Management Summit in June
• Singapore Human Capital Summit in September?
• HR Technology Europe in Amsterdam in October
• Dubai HR Week and HR Performance in November

 

• Writing a couple of guides which are well past their due date.

 

Do let me know if there’s something particular that you’d like to hear me talk about.  If not, I’ll probably end up choosing one of the above topics when the hosts ask the question..

 

 

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HR and Enterprise 2.0 Happy Hour

 

  I also managed to speak about HR’s role in Enterprise 2.0 on last week’s HR Happy Hour with Steve Boese, Shaua Moerke and Matt Wilkinson from Socialcast.

Do take a listen – and it’s well worth paying particular attention to the part where Matt describes the Socialcast product – I do think this systems’ security and integration features does generally make it a more compelling proposition for intra-organisational use than Yammer (which we’re using inter-organisationally for Connecting HR).

As well as the technologies and processes aspect of Enterprise 2.0, we also talked about the culture component – which was the subject of my presentation with Margaret Schweer, and which I still need to review on my Social Advantage blog…

I will just say that I thought Matt and I were talking about two slightly different things – ie his interactions vs my relationships, his talking to staff about how they connect today, my focus on supporting strategic objectives etc.  I’m going to come back to this on Social Advantage too.

 

Also see:

• Andrew McAfee on HR Happy Hour: close but no dice
• CHROs and Collaboration

 

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Marc Weedon, Sr. Director - Human Resources Polycom - Europe, Middle East & Africa: International HR

 

   I’ve been having a bit of a break from podcasting over the Summer, but I’ll be back soon.  Talking HR will return in October, and its new, sister show, HR Talks Back, kicks off with another interview on 28th September 2010.

This is going to be with Marc Weedon, Sr. Director - Human Resources Polycom - Europe, Middle East & Africa and I’ll be talking to Marc about International HR.  The show broadcasts live at 3.00pm BST (tbc) and an archive will be available after this time.

• Listen to the show at blogtalkradio
• Subscribe to the show at itunes

 

The show also gives you the opportunity to talk to Marc and ask him questions about this complicated aspect of HR.  The number to call if you’d like to do this is +1 917 932 1997.

 

Some background

Marc is a senior level international HR generalist who has experience of delivering great HR services (organisation design, recruitment, onboarding, learning and development,performance management, engagement, retention, reward etc.)

• across all functions (R&D, manufacturing, logistics, installation, project management, sales, marketing, tech support, customer service, returns, corporate functions etc.)
• across borders (currently 20 countries in EMEA)
• with and through teams (largest HR team managed = 16)
• in different ownership environments (private, public, US owned, French owned, UK owned, etc).

 

Job satisfaction for Marc means adding value, getting things done, and playing an active role in the wider HR community. Any spare time is taken up by playing and watching anything involving a ball, reading, cinema and theatre, along with spending time with the family (one wife, two kids, and two cats). Marc is also an active founder-member of the Thames Ditton Tennis Club, and the Keswick Curry Club!

 

He didn’t mention it in his bio, but I met Marc 15 or so years ago when I worked at West London Training & Enterprise Council, and Marc was a client of mine.  He also participated in a HR networking group we set up called Exchange, and he is now a key member of our new social media-enhanced group, Connecting HR.

 

Future shows

I’d like to start broadcasting these interviews every couple of weeks, so look out for future shows.  And if you think that you’ve got something important to say on HR and talent management, then do please get in touch.

 

Some more links

• HR Talks Back: Genevieve Glover, Executive Director, HR for AEG Europe: Developing a One Team focus
• The (International) HR Carnival
• SHRM Ohio: Hairpin bends on the freeway - HR in a not quite flat world

 

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Andrew McAfee on HR Happy Hour: close but no dice

 

   I don’t manage to make many HR Happy Hours (actually just the TRU London one – for obvious reasons), but I do listen to the archives (and I know Steve Boese listens to Talking HR too).

But I had to catch tonight’s show: Enterprise 2.0 and HR, with Andrew McAfee.  As you may know, I’ve recently been posting on HR 2.0 here, and attended this year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which included a keynote from McAfee.

Of course, all of this meant that I found a lot of the show to be a bit of a repeat.  More importantly than this, I also felt that it largely missed the point.

McAfee described the changes in web 2.0 technology, the growing impact of millenials, and the need to manage knowledge by finding and locating experts etc (“If only HP knew what HP knows, we’d be three times as productive”).

To me, none of these factors are as important as the socialisation of the workforce.  Creating an environment where people know each other, trust each other and can work together effectively because there’s a social context behind what they do.  This is partly about understanding the strong and weak ties McAfee mentioned.  But it’s much more about the subject of Mark Bennett’s tweet (“I think *capturing* "know-how" is not as effective as having those who have the "know-how" *collaborate* with others”).  It’s about creating relationships between people and influencing their conversations, not just linking people up to experts.

This is why not just Enterprise 2.0, but Enterprise 2.0 and HR is such a hugely important topic.  If we see Enterprise 2.0 as something that’s about technology (or in McAfee’s term, not not about technology), then HR’s role is limited mostly to adoption.  Actually, that’s still a really important role, but not as important as a strategic planning one.

HR’s role isn’t increased that much if we just focus on ties.  OK, a human search engine may be more powerful than a traditional one, but it’s still not going to lead to much of an advantage.

But if we think about socialisation, then HR’s got to be firmly in charge of the agenda.  We’re the people who understand how people can be brought together to collaborate effectively.  And we can use some of our existing tools such as team and leadership development, organisation design, culture change etc to produce a more social workforce too.

By the way, the impacts of doing this are much greater than ‘making people feel good’ which was McAfee’s summary of the benefits for HR leaders.  Relationships can create competitive advantage.  This is the real 2.0 opportunity – for business and particularly HR.

 

Also see these posts on the Enterprise 2.0 conference on Social Advantage:

• Enterprise 2.0 summary
• Enterprise 2.0: Social Media and Community
• Enterprise 2.0: Communities aren’t sites, they’re ...
• Enterprise 2.0: Sharepoint – an all-or-nothing dec...
• Enterprise 2.0 tweet-up
• Enterprise 2.0: IDEO and Innovation
• Enterprise 2.0: CSC and Social Collaboration
• Enterprise 2.0: Cisco and the Human Network @ Work...
• Enterprise 2.0: Culture and the islands of Me and ...
• Enterprise 2.0 conference: EMC’s business case

 

and on social learning and HR 2.0 on Strategic HCM:

• Social learning – why it’s important and how we can use it
• HR and Communities (Talking HR 029)
• Connecting HR and ‘Community’
• Personnel Today - Social HR and Learning 2.0
• Social Learning Zone follow-up
• The Social Learning Zone (webinar)
• The Social Learning Zone (webinar) part 2
• Social Learning for Business Success - Save Money and Increase Capability
• Lynda Tyler-Cagni, ex- Ermenegildo Zegna on HR 2.0
• Summary of Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston
• Social Learning at the Enterprise 2.0 conference
• HR 2.0 at the Enterprise 2.0 conference: Human Resources and Workforce Collaboration
• Stefano Sedda, Meridiana on HR 2.0
• HR 2.0 on the rise

 

then there’s:

• My review of Andrew McAfee’s book

 

I’m proposing to present at the next Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco:

• People, culture, behaviours
• Diving deeper into HR 2.0

 

Have a look at some of the links – they should keep you busy!

 

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Genevieve Glover, Executive Director, HR for AEG Europe: Developing a One Team focus

 

   You already know my Talking HR show, in which I and my co-host Krishna De talk about HR, right?

Well today, I begin a new series of shows, deliberately titled HR Talks Back.  The idea of this is to give HR leaders, located anywhere in the world, the opportunity to talk about something that’s important to them.

We kick off the series with an interview with Genevieve Glover, Executive Director, HR for AEG Europe in which Genevieve talks about developing a one team (‘one tent’) focus.  The show broadcasts at 12.00pm BST on Thursday 8 June and an archive will be available after this time.

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The show also gives you the opportunity to talk the Genevieve and ask her questions about this one team approach.  The number if you’d like to do this is +1 917 932 1997.

 

Some background

AEG, with its international head office in Los Angeles, is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. It owns or operates some of the world’s best arenas and theatres, numerous sports franchises and a collection of companies dedicated to producing, promoting and presenting world-class live entertainment.

Genevieve is responsible for the development and deployment of the HR and Training strategies for the various businesses within the European Group. This includes The O2, the world’s most popular music venue for the last 3 years, and also incorporates businesses within the exhibition, family entertainment and transport sectors. Genevieve is also Chairman of Thames Clippers, the commuter boat service along the Thames and majority owned AEG business.

Genevieve is a Non Executive Director for London Excellence, a not for profit organisation who’s vision is "all organisations in London and beyond will be recognised as performing to world-class excellence standards" and represent AEG Europe as an ‘employer representative’ on the London Accord Employers Coalition board (an employer-facing government initiative set up to enhance employment and skills provision for those furthest away from the labour market. The LEAC has a minimum target of helping an additional 5,000 people into jobs by 2012). Finally, Genevieve was a finalist in the CQI UK Quality Business Leader of the Year Award 2008.

 

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I’d like to start broadcasting these interviews every couple of weeks, so look out for future shows.  And if you think that you’ve got something important to say on HR and talent management, then do get in touch.

 

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HR and Communities (Talking HR 029)

   Yes there was a reason why I suddenly did those two Social Advantage posts on communities (1, 2): so that I could refer to them in tonight’s podcast on the role of communities, their importance, their management (or facilitation!), and also on the HR function’s role in supporting them (see this post at Strategic HCM).

For this show, Krishna and I were joined by Claire Boyles from Management Matters.  Thanks a lot, Claire, it was great speaking with you.

You can listen to the archive here.

 

Picture: Community Maturity Model from the Community Roundtable

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Connecting HR and ‘Community’

 

   We had another great ‘Connecting HR’ tweet-up last week.

One of the issues at the back of my mind during the evening revolved around the idea of community, and Gareth Jones’ email to attendees prior to the tweet-up that mentioned the ‘Connecting HR community’.

Now, personally, I’m not sure that this group of people is a community as yet, although there are, I think, signs of one developing.  And I’m not sure I’d use the C word at this stage as I don’t think you can make a group into a community simply by calling it one.

But I do see where Gareth is coming from, and agree that it would be great if Connecting HR does develop into a community, because I do think there is a need for more social connection and meaningful relationships between practitioners in HR and talent management, and across the different disciplines within this (resourcing, development, communication, legislation etc).

So my thoughts went back to the discussions on community at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston the week before this.  I have still to complete my postings from this conference, including those on community, but you can review my current status of postings at http://bit.ly/e20conf.

But there was also this short conversation over Twitter that got me thinking about HR and community:

 

 

So, is community management the new HR?  And if it is, how many practitioners understand this?

We’re going to be talking about this issue on Talking HR at 7.30pm BST / 2.30pm ET today.  Do join us if you can.

 

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Presenting in an online world (Talking HR 028)

 

   Tomorrow I’m going to be keynoting at Kenexa’s European Summit.

It’s a face-to-face rather than an online / social media presentation, but it’s a presentation about social media, so I was thinking back to our last Talking HR podcast on presenting in an online / social world:

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This show was a triggered by my question in the previous one, about how presenting changes, either when presenting online, or when presenting f2f but there’s lot’s of social media stuff going on as well (eg incorporating the twitter backchannel).

However, as I’ll be talking about tomorrow, I think the social world is  much bigger thing than just a world which uses social media.  It’s one in which ‘social’ is important – ie one in which we need to put value on connecting, relationships, conversations and so on.

The most important thing in this new world isn’t anything to do with social media, it’s about being social.  And the one thing we forgot to talk about on the show, in terms of presenting f2f, is allowing time to be social.  For Q&A; for conversations over coffee before and after a talk; and for just being around.

It’s why I think it’s increasingly dissonant for presenters to stroll in and stroll out again as soon as they’ve finished speaking (often protected by minders).  And of course, it’s particularly incongruent if they’re talking about social media / management 2.0 (Gary Hamel at al take note). 

It’s why I’ll be at the Kenexa conference all day tomorrow.  I hope to meet some of you, dear readers, there.

 

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Delivering effective presentations part 1 (Talking HR 027)

 

   Tonight, Krishna and I spoke about our experiences in delivering presentations (and quite a bit about Eyjafjallajokull).

 

Listen to the show here:

 

We’re going to come back to this topic and talk about presentations in the social media world on 17 May:

• Delivering presentations online – how it is difference
• Delivering real-world presentations – responding to the backchannel (ie people tweeting while you’re talking).

 

Join us again then!:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkinghr/2010/05/17/talking-hr-028-delivering-presentations-in-an-online-world

 

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The future of learning (Talking HR 026)

   Tonight’s Talking HR show focused on the future of the Learning & Development function.

Krishna and I spoke to Debbie Carter from Training Journal (TJ) about their L&D 2020 research.

Some of the linked we talked about include:

• The TJ research
• Lego case study
• Bersin UK Training Factbook
• CLO Magazine Research
• Jane Hart’s social learning case studies

 

 

Krishna also spoke about the CIPD Ireland social media conference she attended today (including social recruiting case studies from SAB Miller and Oracle).

Listen to the show here:

 

 

 

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TRU highs

 

   It was a pretty mad couple of days and is taking a while to climb back down from.

One thing is certain, I’m never again going to experience the same sort of high after meeting just one solitary HR blogger as I have in the past.

Not after what seemed like a hundred of them at TRU London!

 

Tweets:

Take a look at this list of my post-conference tweets to some great HR and recruitment tweeters!

• @DeeAllan really enjoyed meeting you and we’ll meet again!#ivegottomovetosingapore! #trulondon3:51 PM Feb 20th via web

• Some of my favourite UK HR journalists, all at #trulondon: @MJCarty, @Oldshep, @Martincouzins, @charlie_elise3:49 PM Feb 20th via web

• Great to meet @RichardAlberg @Saraheadworth @Skirit@mr_linkedin #trulondon3:47 PM Feb 20th via web

• @LisaScales really want to meet up again to talk more about social collaboration #trulondon2:32 PM Feb 20th via web

• @Mid247 great to meet you too Chris, thanks for inputs on HR leadership etc #trulondon2:31 PM Feb 20th via web

• @HappyEmployee Great meeting you Etienne and hope to see you at #truparis #trulondon2:31 PM Feb 20th via web

• Great to meet @blogging4jobs @GreggDourgarian @marenhogan@ImSoSarah @Fishdogs @Theredrecruiter @Ray_anne@braingain #trulondon2:31 PM Feb 20th via web

• And amazed that I did actually get to meet the awesome mr @jimstroud #trulondon2:26 PM Feb 20th via web

• So glad to meet US HR blogging stars @Lruettimann and @SteveBoese at #trulondon. Special #twitterluv to @TrishMcFarlane2:26 PM Feb 20th via web

• Can’t believe it was only the first time I’d actually met @Andyheadworth @MikeETaylor @TheSourceress @petergold99@Louisetriance #trulondon2:25 PM Feb 20th via web

• Great to meet @NickPrice @MichelleFF @Stephenodonn@SiteAdvisor @Sourcersrini @SussexMatt @stevenewson@1ntelligence @topbananas #trulondon2:24 PM Feb 20th via web

• Great to catch up at #trulondon: @MervynDinnen @Alanwhitford@WendyJacob @Mattalder @garelaos @CarveConsulting@Katiecanton2:21 PM Feb 20th via web

• Back to work this pm to catch up on last few days out at #trulondon- great event & v well done to @BillBoorman @Radicalrecruit@akiki2:05 PM Feb 20th via web

 

Posts:

You can read all of my blogs on the event here.

Also check out the following blog posts (there are LOTS of others too):

• Cheers from TRU London 2 by Trish McFarlane
• Mind the Gap by Steve Boese
• TRU London Day 1 Recap and The Brits – TRU London Lingo by Jessica Miller-Merrell
• TRU London: the very good, the slightly bad and the tiny bit ugly by Matt Alder
• True Chaos. Thoughts from #TruLondon… by Gareth Jones
• Networking, Learning but I still got Those Talking Gen Y Blues – TruLondon thoughts and Trains, Planes and Automobiles – #TruLondon and the Power of Twitter by Mervyn Dinnen
• TRU London – The Unconference Experience So Far, Is the Social Web One Big Job Board? and TRU London 2010: Where HR, Recruitment and Social Media Meet by the Personnel Today team (Martin Couzins, David Shepherd and Michael Carty)
• Live* from truLondon, TRULondon - the excitement begins! and If Gen Y is nonsense, gen why can't we stop talking about it? Thoughts from truLondon by Charlie Duff at HR Zone

 

Podcasts: 

• Steve Boese’s HR Happy Hour – TRU London Day 1
• My Talking HR (featuring Gareth Jones and Aland Whitford) – rather marred by problems with technology (difficulty logging on then cut off later on) – but some interesting thoughts about future unconferences? (I think we were describing the forthcoming Learning camp?)
• Another HR Happy Hour – TRU London Wrap Up
• Alan Whitford’s RCEuro – recorded from the pub at the end of the event!

 

And photos:

 

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2010: The year things change? (Talking HR #023)

 

Yesterday’s Talking HR show (#023) looked back at 2009 and forward to 2010.  We were joined for part of the show by Alan Whitford of RC Euro:

Listen to the show here (or subscribe on itunes):

 

 

I think the major theme of the show (which I hadn’t intended / designed) was that we (or at least I) do think things are going to start to change.  This may be an optimistic hope (to use Alan’s words), but as Tammy Erickson says, ‘changes won’t settle in this year, but they’re coming’.

Perhaps what we need most is some confidence to push the boat out a bit further than we have.  To do, as Chris Ferdinandi says, some amazing things.

Perhaps banks will even change their bonus policies next year!?

 

 

Resources for the show:

• Krishna’s post on Dan Pink 
• HR Magazine article re people looking to change jobs in 2010
• Jon’s post on other bloggers’ new year resolutions
• Robert Peston’s post on bankers’ bonuses
• TRU London unconference
• Krishna’s events (find entries for 11 January)

 

Picture credit: Chris L. Demarest 

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HR+ podcasts

 

One of the other things I committed to do last year was to provide an update on my favourite not-just-HR podcasts, ie all the good ones I listen to which I thought were too general to go on my HR podcast list (check this out too!) - and which I’d suggest a strategic HCM practitioner or someone in a similar role should be listening to - or watching - as well.

Well, here they are…

 

	Best of Today – there’s nothing better to go with your cornflakes (especially if you’re based in the UK of course)
	BNET: The Useful Commute – short useful discussions on workplace and other issues
	The Engaging Brand – super! (you’ll also find the show’s host Anna Farmery on the Podcast Sisters, with my co-host on Talking HR, Krishna De)
	Evolutionary Provocateur – interesting and unusual insights
	FIR: For Immediate Release – great info on communication and social media
	Great Work Interviews – some amazing conversations with Michael Bungay Stanier
	Listen to Lucy – my highlight of the week (at least it was until the return of Martin Lukes)
	Peter Day’s World of Business (recommended very strongly by David Shepherd at XpertHR)
	RSA Events – for when I can’t get there in person
	Talking HR – OK, I know I included this on my HR list too, but Krishna and I do try to focus at the HR+ / HCM level too
	TED Talks – you know about this, right!
	Total Picture Radio – yet more great interviews (with Peter Clayton)
	Cranky Middle Manager with Wayne Turmell (my interview with Wayne is here)  You can also catch Wayne at Working Week

 

 

There are a few others I listen to regularly as well (Business Week – Behind this week’s cover story, The Economist – The week ahead, Harvard Business Ideacast, etc, but the ones above are a good start).

 

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Talking Blogtalk

 

      You’ll have hopefully listened to some of my Talking HR podcast shows, broadcast on Blogtalk radio:

 

 

Well later today (6.00pm GMT), I’ll be talking to some hosts of other Blogtakradio HR and recruiting shows about podcasting / the use of Blogtalkradio:

• Bill Boorman
• Geoff Web (Radical Recruit): Recruiter House Party
• The Recruiting Animal
• Steve Boese: HR Happy Hour
• Paul Paris (Recruiter Reqs): The Ex-Recruiter
• Alan Whitford: RC Euro
• Stephanie Lloyd (Radiant Veracity): Dream Job Radio

 

We’ll be addressing:

“Why do they do it? what makes a good show? What shows are memorable from 2009? What works & what doesn't? Call in and ask the hosts anything you want to know about podcasts, radio shows or the subject of their show. Should be lots of talk as the hosts turn guests.”

 

Do join us if you can (call +1 646 727 3988 - open invite).  Or as per Talking HR, you can listen to the archive after the show:

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bill-boorman/2009/12/21/the-radio-hosts

   

You can also check out some other great HR and recruitment shows here.

 

 

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More on Next Generation HR (Talking HR 022)

 

   Tonight’s Talking HR show (#022) took the CIPD’s New Generation HR research that I’ve discussed before for a deeper and fuller review.

However, although I tried to be positive, my reactions to the research report remained largely the same.  Krishna seemed to think very much the same as me as well.  And it looks as if you agree with us too – 24 of you have responded to my survey asking about what you believe provides the basis for Next Generation HR in your organisation.  These are the results with 20 hours to go:

 

• Sustainable Organisational Performance (CIPD)  4 (16%)
• Human Capital Management  9 (37%)
• The Social Business  5 (20%)
• Behavioural HR  4 (16%)
• Externally Focused HR  3 (12%)
• Green HR  2 (8%)
• HR 2.0  6 (25%)
• Imagination Based HR  4 (16%)
• Evidence Based HR  4 (16%)
• Strengths Based HR  2 (8%)
• Other  1 (4%)

 

 

I’m really interested and impressed that Human Capital Management and HR 2.0 top your votes (have you see these two things mentioned anywhere else recently??? – perhaps at the top of this blog for instance?), with both these options, and the Social Business scoring more highly than the CIPD’s suggestion, Sustainable Organisational Performance.

 

Find the show here

And the show notes here (including all the resources mentioned on the show).

 

 

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HR and Innovation (Talking HR 021)

 

   Just time to get the show notes out from the last episode of Talking HR before we do the next show (#022, on Next Generation HR) tonight.

 

For #021, I was joined by a guest host, MOK, from the Innovation Beehive.

We discussed the importance of innovation during, and helping to exit from, the recession. And also HR's role supporting innovation - creating an innovative culture etc.

We also reviewed a new book - The Silver Lining by Scott Anthony.

 

Resources:

• The Innovation Beehive (MOK’s company)
• CIPD event on Managing through the Downturn (where I met MOK)
• VISA Europe case study (from MOK’s event)
• Sylvia Ann Hewlett Top Talent research
• Moon Shots community
• ASDA ‘knocking down the walls’ article
• Gregg Fraley: Jack’s Notebook.

 

Listen to the podcast: you can download the podcast to your hard drive or play it streaming from the web.  You can also subscribe to the show at itunes.

 

Talking HR is hosted by Krishna De and Jon Ingham and you can contact us with your thoughts and feedback about the show at talkinghrpodcast(at)gmail.com.

 

 

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Social Learning (Talking HR 020)

 

   So Talking HR is finally back with a new show on Social Learning.

What’s that?  Well, in the show I started to define social learning as something more than just the use of social media to support learning.  But I’d now like to elaborate on this (I didn’t want to go on about this before or this one point could have taken over the whole show).

My main point is that learning has always been social.  So social learning can’t just be the application of social media.  But it has to be something different to what learning has been before.

This is a similar argument to the one I’ve used t suggest that HR 2.0 and management 2.0 are approaches aimed at the development of social capital.

And I’d suggest that learning 2.0 is probably about social capital as well.  But I think it’s about one form of social capital in particular – and this is ‘the learning organisation’.

I read somewhere that when the learning organisation first became popular (via Peter Senge and others), it wasn’t really achievable.  Social media has made it much more so.

But I’d suggest that there’s an important distinction between learning that uses social media, and learning that aims to create a learning organisation.

The other way of looking at this, which I also mention on the show, is that when we talk about social learning, we really should mean social learning, ie learning of the social unit (the team or the organisation as a whole) and not just learning socially (generating, co-creating and sharing content, collaborating etc).

It should be about developing a common understanding, a common way of doing things, a new culture even, between people in a team.

This is the real reason that social learning is so important.

 

I also attempted to link Honey & Mumford’s learning styles with Li and Bernoff’s social technographic profiles (the ladder from Groundswell – pictured).

 

 

Listen to the podcast and read the show notes at Blogtalkradio.  You can download the podcast to your hard drive or play it streaming from the web.

Subscribe to the show at itunes.

Talking HR is hosted by Krishna De and Jon Ingham and you can contact them with your thoughts and feedback about the show at talkinghrpodcast(at)gmail.com.

 

 

This post is cross-posted at Social Advantage.

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HR Podcasts (update)

 

We didn’t manage to do Talking HR again last night – show 20 on Social Learning will hopefully now be on Monday 12th October 2009 instead.

Anyway, with a bit more time spare, I thought it might be time to update my original HR podcasts post, given that just over one year has gone by, and that there are now a few more shows out.

This is my impression of the best HR podcast shows currently available.  Listen, download, subscribe:

 

	Bill Boorman (Ready for Lift-off) provides cross-Atlantic commentary and conversation on recruiting, social media etc.
	Knowledge infusion's fortnightly Bill Kutik Radio Show (Bill reminds me should say ‘biweekly’ for my American audience) features some great, professional and interesting thought leader interviews.
	I’m sure SuccessFactors’ newly named Business Execution Radio podcast is just as good as the previous People Performance Radio (although I must admit, I’ve not yet listened to it since SF’s repositioning).
	CIPD Podcasts provide some good analysis, discussion, interviews with CIPD staff and HR professionals.  Some of it will only be relevant to the UK or CIPD members, but much of it does have worldwide application too.
	Stephanie Lloyd hosts conversations on recruitment, career management and associated issues at Dream Job Radio
	Globoforce Podcasts provides some well argued cases for strategic recognition from Globoforce’s Andrea Dumont and Derek Irvine.
	HR.com Podcasts provides the audio from the organisation’s webcasts.  (I find it useful to listen to the podcasts on my iphone and then download the slides from HR.com if I’m sufficiently interested.)
	Steve Boese and the HR Minion’s HR Happy Hour – good content, lots of fun and loads of participation.  I may even stay up to join in live one day.
	HR Marketer’s HR Market Share Podcast is aimed at HR vendors (I think), but it always includes lots of useful information for practitioners too (you may even learn how to help your IT folk out with SEO).
	Human Resources IQ (IQPC)’s HR Today Podcast features interviews with IQPC conference speakers, authors etc.
	HR Watches the Office analyses The Office, NBC’s hit comedy (not quite as good as the original BBC version!) from an HR point of view. This includes discussions with HR pros, leaders, and specialists.
	Kenexa HR Thought Leadership is a new podcast series that’s well worth a listen.  There’s also: -    Lessons In Organisational Change -   Minds At Work -   Recruiting Strategies.
	Matt Lafata HR Technology Happy Hour Web Mingle is another HR technology podcast, and like the other happy hour above, is always good fun (learn about my favourite sci-fi show here).
	The weekly Personnel Today Audio – Friday Podcast provides discussion on recent HR news and other issues - mostly only relevant to a UK audience.
	Public Sector HR Podcast – a really interesting, well presented podcast that’s definitely worth listening to by professionals in the private sector too.
	Jim Stroud's Recruiters Lounge – HR celebrity interviews and controversial topics that daily affect the fastest growing service industry in the world.  IMHO, the best of several recruiting podcasts.
	The Recruiting Animal Show is a ”fast-paced, hardball forum of recruiting infotainment”.  Just turn the volume down!
	Chris Ferdinandi’s Renegade HR Podcast is a series of interviews with bloggers, authors and others, supporting Chris’ renegade HR manifesto.
	And of course, you know Talking HR.  Together with Krishna De, an ex-SVP HR and client, and now a leading light in the use of social media, I discuss the latest issues in HR and employee engagement in the digital economy.
	Trinet HR Minute provides fairly basic information on different topics – but you have to admire them for fitting this into a 1, well really 2-3 minute, podcasts

 

You can listen live to the Bill Kutik Radio Show, HR Happy Hour, Mat Lafata, and Talking HR.  The last three also allow (and encourage) you to join in the conversation via the phone.

 

What other HR podcasts do you think I / my readers should be listening to?

 

I’m also going to post shortly on other, broader focused podcasts that I’d suggest HR / talent management practitioners should listen to.

 

 

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