by Jean Herreman | Apr 20, 2018 | Management
Back in the 1960s, Baby Boomers were famous for the mantra, “don’t trust anyone over 30.” Now Millennials are following their example. They don’t trust leaders, or politicians, or the companies they work for. As a result, they insist on...
by Jean Herreman | Mar 16, 2018 | Technology
Last month, Forbes published Portrait of an HR Data Analyst, which lays out the case for HR analytics, the skills required to excel at it, and the reasons people with these skills are in short supply. The article is one of many that urge HR to beef up our analytics...
by Jean Herreman | Feb 4, 2018 | Human Resources Change Management
Judging by the number of recent articles about performance management, it might seem that organizations are discarding annual appraisals in record numbers. Critics of traditional systems write them off as traumatic events that gobble up time, yet fail in a multitude...
by Jean Herreman | Jan 6, 2018 | Human Resources Change Management
While the NCAA Basketball Playoffs were in full swing, the sound of referees’ whistles filled my house. I wasn’t the one glued to the TV until the wee hours of the morning, although I followed the brackets and even had the conference apps on my phone. The...
by Jean Herreman | Nov 24, 2017 | Business, Management
An article in the Harvard Business Review pushed my buttons. The title was How nice bosses get ahead. Nice is a wimpy word, an imprecise word. It pussyfoots. It equivocates. Nice is vanilla, neither a strong compliment nor a biting insult. We default to it when a...
