HR Happy Hour Network

HR Happy Hour Episode 96 - 'Talent : More Money, More Problems' Thursday April 21, 2011 Call in 646-378-1086 Twitter Hashtag - #HRHappyHour The market for top talent, like tech professionals, high performers, and people with specific skills in high-demand industry is heating up again. We know the stories - Google offering seven figures to keep talent from jumping to Facebook, shortages of specific skills in major markets like NYC and Washington. As the market heats up, and the offers climb, the poaching increases, and the 'battle' gets dirtier, you need to make sure you understand the trends and your best strategies for reacting and even attacking. This week on the show we will talk with Tom Silver from Dice.com and Tom Becker from Comsys to help us make sense of the where the talent wars are being fought, and what you can do to make sure you emerge on the winning side. It should be a fun and interesting show and I hope you can join us.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 95 - 'HRevolution 2011 Preview' Thursday April 14, 2011 - 8:00PM ET Call-in 646-378-1086 The 3rd HRevolution Event is coming up on April 29-30, 2011 in Atlanta, GA and promises to be a day of learning, connecting, and exploration of the most interesting and important issues facing Human Resources professionals today. On the show this week, we plan on taking about an HRevolution with an assortment of the event's creators, session leaders, and event sponsors that will share their perspectives on the upcoming event, offer some insights as to the topics they will be covering at HRevolution, and discuss why it is important for both practitioners and HR supplier partners to support these efforts. Just some of the folks that plan on joining us this week are Trish McFarlane, China Gorman, Kevin Grossman, Nate DaPore, Curtis Midkiff and more... If you are attending HRevolution 2011, then the show is a must-listen, even if you are not, you should check the show this week to hear what all the talk is about. It will be a fun and interesting show, and I hope you can join us.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 94 - 'The 8 Man Rotation' Thursday April 7, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 You can learn all you need to know about recruiting, talent management, effective team dynamics, managing star performers, aligning compensation with performance, and succession planning from studying the history of the National Basketball Association. Don't believe it? Where else but in big-time sports can you see the effects of talent assessment, recruiting, leadership, and employee engagement played out, in public, under the spotlight, every day of the year? What players to draft, which ones to develop, which ones to cut loose, and how to build the right mix of personalities and talent to achieve team goals are the primary concern of all sports franchises. And we will also talk about the Final Four, the NBA Playoffs, and Moneyball. Joining us on the show will be The 8 Man Rotation dream team - Kris Dunn, Lance Haun, Tim Sackett, and Matt 'aksBruno' Stollak. I hope you will join us.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 93 - 'Next Gen HR Technology' Thursday March 31, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 This week on the HR Happy Hour we go back to our roots so to speak, with a special show focusing on HR Technology. We will be joined by IHRIM Board Chair Nov Omana as well as Gretchen Alarcon, VP Human Capital Management Strategy for Oracle. We will talk about the upcoming IHRIM Annual Conference for HR Technology vendors and professionals, the changing landscape for HR Technology from both the vendor and customer perspectives, as well as some of the most important and interesting HR Technology trends and issues that you need to be aware of. It should be an hour of geeky HR Tech goodness and I hope you can join us!

HR Happy Hour - Episode 92 - 'HR, Communication, and Social Media' Thursday March 24, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 HR. Communication. Social media. Need I say more? The ever thought-provoking Jason Seiden takes over the mic at the HR Happy Hour show to chat with Curtis Midkiff, SHRM social media guy, and others (hey—why not you?), about the ever interesting HR and Social Media space. Jason and Curtis and whomever else joins the fun this week are sure to provide interesting, compelling, and maybe even some controversial takes on HR, Communications, and Social Media. Call in with your thoughts: 646.378.1086 on the how's and why's of making social media work from an HR perspective. Seiden back in house, it is a good thing!

HR Happy Hour - Episode 91 - 'ERE Expo Preview' Thursday March 17, 2011 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 This week the HR Happy Hour looks forward, in a preview of the upcoming ERE Expo to be held March 23-25 in San Diego. The HR Happy Hour will be on site next week, doing a special live webcast version of the show, so this week we thought it would be a good idea to preview the event, talk to some of the organizers and presenters, and give a bit of a feel for what will be happening on the web show from the event itself. So this week, we will dive into some of the main themes of the Expo, social recruiting, the changes and developments in technology, global recruiting and more. Some friends from ERE will be on hand, as well as some leading expert presenters, and in true HR Happy Hour style, you never can be too sure what might happen next. I hope you can join us for a kind of a recruiting roundtable on this week's HR Happy Hour show.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 90 - 'Liquid Leadership ' Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 Do generational differences matter? In society, in politics, in the workplace? For all the argument, debate, and discussion about the impact of Gen Y and Millennials as 'blocks', there are an equal amount of arguments that claim these generational labels are meaningless, and people need to be valued and managed simply as individuals. Does the greater context of life experience, exposure to technology, and the major societal events actually shape and help define a generation in ways that can be evaluated and leveraged. Can multiple generations survive and thrive in the workplace if these larger and broader trends are not appreciated? This week on the show, we will be joined by Brad Szollose, author of 'Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia, Multi-generational Management Ideas That are Changing the Way We Run Things' to talk about these issues. I know the GenY is a silly label folks will be out in force telling us these kinds of debates are crazy, but I am not so sure. Decide for yourselves this week!

HR Happy Hour - Episode 89 - 'The Union Label ' Thursday March 3, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 We've been doing the HR Happy Hour show for close to two years, and we've never done a 'unions' or 'organized labor' show before. Why? Well, for the most part unions and organized labor were not really topical, not terribly interesting, and seemingly almost a relic of a earlier time in industrial America. But in just the last few weeks the news from Wisconsin has thrust unions, labor relations, and collective bargaining from the dimly-lit back room to the front page. Today, you can't tune in to any cable news channel without getting the latest update from the statehouse in Madison. All of a sudden, we've all received a 10-minute course in collective bargaining. Do the events in Wisconsin have broader, more universal implications? Is this really a kind of 'Custer's last stand' for public sector unions in America? Do unions even have a place any more, in an economic landscape increasingly marked by rapid change, and institutions that are forced to evolve and adapt much faster than ever before? And one final question - since the issue of union support seems to be almost entirely tied up in politics, are elected officials of all stripes taking advantage of the situation in Wisconsin (and other states) to further there own aims? Lots of questions, lots of passion, and no easy answers. But after two years the HR Happy Hour will at least open up the floor as we talk about unions, labor, politics, and the future of work. Our labor relations guy, Mike VanDervort will join us for the show, as well as MIT's Thomas Kochan, and maybe even an additional guest or two, but we really want you the listener to join the conversation as well. Postscript - who remembers the 'Look for the union label' song?

HR Happy Hour - Episode 88 - 'Feedback and Performance' Thursday February 24, 2011 - 8PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 Dread the annual performance review? Well, join pretty much all your colleagues and friends that have come to loathe that yearly exercise in futility, discomfort, and double-talk. Want to share the good news and recognize the great contributions of your team, your peers, or even your managers? I guess you could send an email. Better not 'copy all' though, because people get enough email every day. Maybe you could just get them a gift card or something. Although who will remember the $25 pop at Olive Garden come review time next spring. Hate the tools and sytems (HRIS, Talent Management, collaboration) that your organization has foisted on you? Join the club. Man it would be nice to get some help with the performance/feedback process, with the peer and team recognition process, and using a system that was actually fun and engaging. That would be pretty awesome. And what is more awesome is that there actually is a solution that can help your organization with all those problems, it is called Rypple. And better still Rypple co-CEO Dan Debow and Rypple Head of Sales David Priemer will be our guests this week to talk feedback, performance, and why enterprise software doesn't have to suck. It should be a fun and interesting show as we welcome the smarties from Rypple.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 87 - 'Robots and Social Networks' Thursday February 17, 2011 In the last thirty years the remarkable advances in technology have irreversibly changed and shaped our relationship with these technologies,and quite possibly each other. Whether it is the development and increasing influence of smart and sociable robots, or the constant connectivity and apparent intimacy of social networks like Facebook and Twitter; these modern technologies have impacted us in ways that perhaps were unanticipated, unwanted, and potentially detrimental. Do the advances in robot technology detract from our ability to connect and relate to each other? Does the constant connectivity, the prevalence of lives led online, in virtual relationships that have the potential to overtake our real world connections, threaten to drive us, paradoxically, into increased solitude? Are we trading the real for the artificial? And if so, what does that mean for us, for our relationships, our understanding of privacy, and for the future of our workplaces? Joining us on the show will be Professor Sherry Turkle of MIT, and author of 'Alone Together', to talk about the implications of the advances in these technologies, and the potential impacts, both good and bad, from the rise of the social age. This should be an interesting and provocative show, and I hope you can join us.