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SHRM Tuesday: Oh My Tired Feet

by Lance Haun on July 1, 2009

Apparently eating delicious (but unhealthy) food, drinking hurricanes and walking 1,000 miles in one day isn’t a good way to avoid waking up with a foot cramp. That’s how SHRM Tuesday started out for me. It was a great day after that.
I spoke in the morning with Silkroad about their talent management suite and what [...]

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SHRM Monday: The Party Hasn’t Stopped Yet

by Lance Haun on June 30, 2009

Monday was a good and busy day for SHRM and Your HR Guy. Here’s a rundown of what happened and how things are playing out.
I started out the morning talking to the Disney Institute about their training programs and they invited me to come check it out at some point. As long as it isn’t [...]

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The first day of SHRM seems to always be a wash. You are exhausted from traveling and you just get thrown into the middle of something that is already going. Being as the conference was in New Orleans, it was litterally impossible to get here before 2:00pm without a red eye flight.
This means I missed [...]

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SHRM Updates All Next Week

by Lance Haun on June 26, 2009

This Sunday morning, I am getting up at the crack of dawn to travel southeast to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual conference in New Orleans. What that means for you is that you will get up to the minute coverage of all of the happenings in New Orleans. If you haven’t seen [...]

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Updated SHRM 2009 Schedule

by Lance Haun on June 19, 2009

I updated my schedule for the 2009 Annual Conference. I forgot to add the fact that I am going to definitely be meeting up with all of my blogging pals before our session. Also, I’ve heard rumor of a tweet up Monday? I don’t know many details about that yet.
I’ve been told the likelihood of [...]

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Not Everything In Life Is A Lesson

by Lance Haun on June 16, 2009

I watched the NBA Finals on Sunday night like a lot of people. As a Portland Trail Blazers fan, watching the Lakers win was like watching Lex Luthor (Kobe Bryant) take down Superman (Dwight Howard): the villain won. As I watched as the Lakers celebrated and the Magic sat there with glazed over eyes, I [...]

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Love Helping People? Don’t Go Into HR

by Lance Haun on June 9, 2009

Like many HR bloggers, I field several questions a month about how to get started in HR. When I hear that their primary reason for considering entry into the field is that they really love working with and helping people, I almost universally tell them to reconsider HR as a profession. Look, I love the [...]

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Going To SHRM? Let’s Meet Up!

by Lance Haun on June 1, 2009

I have already received several messages from companies about meeting up at SHRM 2009 in New Orleans and I’d like to throw it out to y’all as well. Are you going to SHRM? Do you want to meet up there? Here’s my agenda so far:
Sunday June 28th

Plane arrival early afternoon
2:30-4:00p – Jack Welch keynote
Late Afternoon/Evening [...]

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Exit Interviews Are Band Aids On Broken Legs

by Lance Haun on May 26, 2009

So let’s say you’re working for a company with turnover problems (i.e. losing your best people to competitors) and management comes to Human Resources to figure out why people are leaving. What far too many HR people will suggest is that the organization should use an exit interview to get the information and report on [...]

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You Wanna Get On My Blogroll?

by Lance Haun on May 21, 2009

Since you’re probably not working today anyway, why don’t we take care of a couple of housekeeping issues? 
To the right and down from this post, you’ll notice a blogroll. I haven’t updated it in over a year. If you have recently linked in to my posts or commented, you’re probably going to be included in [...]

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