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Barbara Milhizer, CCP, SPHR is a partner at PeopleResults, a human capital consultancy focusing on change, organization, talent and communications/new media. Barbara’s background includes over 15 years of HR with key leadership roles in rewards & recognition and talent strategy at both Accenture and PeopleResults. Contact her at bmilhizer@people-results.com.
Exit Interviews: The 2nd Most Worthless Activity HR Has to Handle
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Let’s be clear, the most useless HR … Read more
The SHRM Certification Flap: How to Fail Communications 101
As an SPHR (certified senior human resources professional), I should be worked up about the Society of Human Resource Management’s recent announcement that … Read more
Coming Down To Earth, or How Do You Handle Overconfident Employees?
Recently the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) released its survey of math, science, and reading skills of 500,000 15-year-olds across … Read more
Recognition Done Wrong? It Starts Killing Your Stars
My last weekend was spent reading 33 college scholarship applications from some amazing kids. They didn’t just volunteer, they started charities. They … Read more
Deficiencies, Benefits and the Real Winners in the New War for Talent
In his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, author Malcolm Gladwell spends a lot of time talking about how presumed … Read more
Is Your Talent Brand Totally Toxic?
As I watched Sunday’s Super Bowl commercials, I paid particular attention to those with celebrity endorsements. At a staggering $133,000 per second … Read more
What Penney’s Ron Johnson Could Have Learned From Pope Francis
OK, they’ve probably never met, but it strikes me as interesting how two “turnaround” leaders of embroiled organizations, took wildly different approaches, … Read more
Stupid is the New Brilliant — Is Your Company OK With Risk-Taking?
Everyone wants to be innovative. Companies think that because the word appears on their website in 42 point font that makes it so. But what is innovation … Read more
Managing Millennials: Leveraging Their Strengths to Benefit Everyone
Millennials have out-sized expectations for their careers. They have been told they can be anything and do anything according to their terms. They are … Read more
The No. 1 Talent Management Strategy You Probably Still Aren’t Using
I received an email last week from a former colleague thanking me for shaping the vision for a project that finally got launched to much success five years … Read more
Exit Interviews: The 2nd Most Worthless Activity HR Has to Handle
Let’s be clear, the most useless HR activity is Performance Management. Hands down. But since I have been an enthusiastic beater of that horse already, a … Read more
Choosing a New Pope? It’s the Ultimate Succession Plan
The Catholic Church is many things, and regardless of your view of the institution, you have to acknowledge the impact of choosing the next pope to replace … Read more
10 Ways Engagement Surveys are Killing Engagement
Over lunch, my friend Susan asked what she probably thought was a harmless question, “What do you think of employee engagement surveys?” After … Read more