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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Art Brooks, HRM Today : Overcoming Top Myths in HR - There are a lot of myths floating around about the human resources function.  My favorite: HR as a cost center.  My favorite: HR as a cost center.

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Stay Focused During Meetings: Best Practices to Incorporate

Chart Your Course

To get the most out of this substantial cost center, employees and employers need to maximize attention and retention at every meeting. Americans have more than one billion meetings per year. At around $338 in staff salaries for each meeting, this amounts to a huge amount of money spent each year on meetings.

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Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

Tanveer Naseer

Your competitor is getting nothing but a disingenuous cost center. Maybe you shouldn’t wait a year to communicate something that matters so much in a format that makes Human Resources happy. It doesn’t matter what you write on the page. Remember, most employees don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses.

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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? Most boards underestimate the concept of change management and the science behind human behavioral change. Vice President Human Resources, Bosch North America. How are you going to shake things up next? Charlie Ackerman, Sr.

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Future of HR: The Transition to Performance Advisor

LDRLB

HR is an enigmatic profession, as the authors write, “the sad reality is—even in today’s enlightened age of recognizing the value of people to the business—too many top executives still view HR as a non-strategic cost center instead of a core, profit-contributing function.” I was provided with an advance copy of this report to review.

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