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12 to 18 March, 2012

Leadership
The Art of Making Your Point–Avoid Getting Lost in the Sauce
Dawn Lennon via Business Fitness
Take a listen. There’s a lot of “noise” out there. Words fly around indiscriminately. We phone, we write, we text, and we post. We’re yak, yak, yakking, almost non-stop. Communication is a discipline that has potent impacts on our careers. What we say and how we say it is an indicator of our:

• grasp of business issues and objectives
• commitments and loyalty to the team
• ability to see beyond our own self-interest

We may want to think that some things we write or say at work will be taken with a grain of salt, but that would be naive for employees and bosses alike. Read the whole post here on Business Fitness.

22 Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Received
Aimee Groth and Kim Bhasin via Business Insider
No one can make it alone. The most successful leaders are where they are today because they took advice from people they trusted. We've compiled some of the best tips that executives have shared throughout the years, including lessons from tech icons like Bill Gates, empire-builders like Richard Branson and legendary investment gurus like Warren Buffett. Read all about it about it here on Business Insider.

6 Reasons Employees Must Speak Up to Thrive at Work
Glenn Llopis via Forbes
At a time where the demand for transparent communication in the workplace is at a premium, employees are not speaking-up enough. How you express your opinions at work (or not) is a direct reflection upon how people experience who you are and what you represent as a team member, department leader and as an individual. Your voice defines the value you bring to the organization, In most cases, your identity is misrepresented because your voice does not consistently communicate what is really on your mind. If this sounds too familiar, it is apparent that you are not performing at your most optimum levels. Read the whole article on Forbes here.

Recruitment
Why Social HR is Ready for Prime Time
Rob Garcia via The upMover
We’ve been talking about social business for a couple of years now, but even though social media and networking have found their way into the enterprise, HR has been lagging behind. This is now starting to change. First let’s define what we mean by social business and Social HR.
A rather generic definition for “social biz” is a company or business that leverages social communications and the social graph to accomplish a business goal or to maximize performance (optimize resources and talent) within a key business functional area. Examples include: sales (Salesforce, Chatter), customer service (Zendesk, CoTweet), talent management (UpMo), team collaboration (Yammer, Moxie, Jive), recruiting (JobVite, SmartRecruiters), and performance management (SuccessFactors, Rypple, WorkSimple). Read the whole article here on The UpMover.

5 Tips To Retaining Star Gen Y Talent
Lauren Maillian Bias via FastCompany
Every company wants to tap a new generation of innovative and vibrant talent, but few companies have figured out how to successfully retain the rockstars who can help catapult your company or team to the next level. Retaining phenomenal talent has always been difficult, but doing so with the Gen Y demographic poses new challenges: salary and title are no longer enough, because Gen Y has a completely different barometer of success and happiness. Money is not synonymous with happiness, and titles do not automatically translate to success. Bottom line: Gen Y wants to be fulfilled and make a meaningful impact; in fact, many of them want to somehow change the world, or at least the lives of those around them. Read the whole article here on FastCompany.

New Source of Hire Study Shows Job Boards Strong Performers
John Zappe via ERE.net
HR technology provider SilkRoad says jobs search site Indeed.com is the leading source of external hires for its 700+ customers, providing 42 percent more new employees than CareerBuilder, the #2 source. Overall, the SilkRoad results show job boards accounting for a high percentage of hires that aren’t either internal candidates, referred by employees, or come through the company career site. Read the whole article here on ERE.net

At the Work Place
If We Had A “Like” Button At Work
Abhijit Bhaduri
Facebook seeks to raise $5 billion in an IPO that looks likely to be the largest by a web company since Google in 2004 and could place the social network’s value as high as $75 billion to $100 billion. All this is even more incredible, when you look at the user base of 845 million members, more than half of whom, or 483 million, return to the site daily.These millions of users have shared more than 100 petabytes (100 quadrillion bytes) of photos and videos with Facebook, and produced an average of 2.7 billion ‘likes’ and comments a day in the final 3 months of 2011. What makes Facebook so popular? It has to be the ‘like’ button.

LinkedIn Reveals How To Get Lucky At Work
Julie Bort via Business Insider
You looking for a lucky break? You aren't alone. Some 84% of 7,000 professionals surveyed by LinkedIn say they believe that luck plays a part in a booming career. Lucky breaks seem random. It's a tip on a new job; a chance meeting with a prospect that leads to a big sale; overhearing details of a business deal while at the coffee shop. Read the full article here on Business Insider.

Serious About Performance
Doug Shaw via What Goes Around Limited
Gareth and I have recently started working with an interesting company called Careergro. They are in the field of employee owned career development and as part of our initial working together, we’ve been discussing the similarities and differences between career development and performance appraisals.
So I’m grateful to Felix Wetzel for sharing a great talk from TEDxPortsmouth over on Google Plus. It’s called Serious About Performance, by the sports and business coach Dr Chris Shambrook. I’ve embedded the talk down below so you can take a look if the following observations from it interest you. And even if they don’t, it’s worth a watch for a fantastic sporting analogy (around five minutes into the film). Read the full post here on What Goes Around Limited.

HR Trends
Quitting is the New Mission Statement
Nidhi Subbaraman via FastCompany
Take this job and shove it" just doesn't cut it any more. At a time when jobs are scarce, it takes spectacular courage to quit one. Maybe that's why we've seen a recent trend of people leaving their jobs with a grand flourish. Today it was now-former Goldman Sachs exec Greg Smith, who scorched the firm on his way out the door with a New York Times op-ed titled, "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." Yes, the new, smart way to resign now involves grabbing some attention from would-be next employers or patrons to your new startup, all while making the ex-boss think hard about the culture or direction of his business. That probably sounds about right to Generation Flux. And that's why quitting is the new mission statement. Watch the whole slide show here on FastCompany.

Talent Management When the Old Outnumber the Young
Tammy Erickson via Harvard Business Review
The population used to be shaped like a pyramid: lots of young people, a medium number of middle aged, and a few old folks. But the demographic geometry has changed radically in just the last few decades in many parts of the world — and will shift further over the decades ahead in still others. We now have diamond- or rectangular-shaped populations in many countries and will at some point have inverted pyramids — the old will outnumber the young. The United Nations' most recent study on demographic trends confirms these changes and puts to rest any assumption that the pyramid-shape will return. The former ratio of old-to-young already no longer exists in many countries and, much of the world will soon follow. Yet many of our talent management practices today are derived from this old idea. Read the full article here on Harvard Business Review.SOURCE LINK

Budget 2012: What to Expect for Job Sector
via The Economic Times
TimesJobs.com talked to experts to know their wish-list and expectation from the Budget 2012.Experts look forward to a positive impact on hiring in most sectors including IT/ITeS, Banking & Finance Infrastructure, Power and Healthcare. Industry leaders have echoed the need for capital infusion in digitization and development of infrastructure, which will result in increased employment. Read the full article here on The Economic Times.

HR EVENTS
Getting Headhunters Within: Turning your Employees into Recruiters
Subject Matter Expert: Ashish Tiwari
Venue: Your Computer
Date: Friday 23 March, 2012
Time: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST
To register go here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/879087654
In this webinar we will be discussing that how the employees in an organization can be the best recruiters. We will also be looking at the best ways to motivate the employees to provide the best talent and what is the cost saving done by this kind of hiring. Learn more here.
Smartsizing as a Cost Effective Alternative to Layoffs
Subject Matter Expert: Sarabjeet Kaur
Venue: Your Computer
Date: Friday 30 March, 2012
Time: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST
To register go here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/931255310
In this webinar we will be discussing that how we can use smartsizing to handle layoffs for cost optimization. We will be discussing the various practices of smartsizing. We will also be discussing that how smartsizing is replacing downsizing. Learn more about it here.