http://www.yourhrguy.com Insight into the HR World Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/07/01/shrm-tuesday-oh-my-tired-feet/ 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. ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/30/shrm-monday-the-party-hasnt-stopped-yet/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/28/shrm-conference-sunday-dont-call-me-the-press/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/26/shrm-updates-all-next-week/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/19/updated-shrm-2009-schedule/ [caption id="attachment_730" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by David Dow/NBAE/Getty Images"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/16/not-everything-in-life-is-a-lesson/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/09/love-helping-people-dont-go-into-hr/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/06/01/going-to-shrm-lets-meet-up/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/05/26/exit-interviews-are-band-aids-on-broken-legs/ 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 ... http://www.yourhrguy.com/2009/05/21/you-wanna-get-on-my-blogroll/