Limeade said Larry Colagiovanni became chief technology officer, responsible for evelopment and technical strategy. He joined Limeade as vice president of R&D in April. Before that, he was VP of marketing technology and general manager of eBay Seattle. High-volume video recruiting and branding platform Heroes Jobs said Daniel Sullivan will join the company as vice president of sales and client success. He’s held positions at Monster and Professional Diversity Network. Brent Skinner joined 3Sixty Insights as director and principal analyst of its HCM research practice. Most recently, he was a principal in Cornerstone OnDemand’s Global Thought Leadership & Advisory Services. Jill Jones joined CrossCountry Consulting to head the firm’s Workday practice. Most recently, she worked at KPMG as a managing director leading sales, alliance and project teams. Financial services […]

As always, the fireworks popping over our heads this Fourth of July were marvelous to behold. As for the week before that, the content at #SHRM19 was similarly crackling. While there, my fellow attendees might have been forgiven for swearing they saw the following three cartoonish light bulb–containing thought bubbles actually popping over my head… Getting Zen about Compliance Sorry to get deep—with all the compliance-related presentations at #SHRM19, it’s clear: We want to minimize the risks of compliance. We must, lest we incur fines and damage to our brands. This is why we must “get Zen” about compliance. Compliance is a way of life. Once we think we’ve finished complying, we’ll be finished for sure—as in, “toast.” As we willingly submit to the never-ending […]

At the dawn of the space age everyone was in it together. Fear may have been there at first, but good vibes were, too, and eventually took over. Even at the Cold War’s height, most every culture on Earth found camaraderie in cheering on these brave, revered humans as they succeeded in their endeavor to leave this earthly plain and touch the hand of God—or reach the Moon, at least. It’s been a group effort so far for homo sapiens to escape Earth’s gravitational force and enter space, the final frontier. And there’s a metaphor here for employer culture, and it bears on employee flight risk. An employee might escape your organization’s gravitational force because you are a nurturing mentor and great employer. The next […]

What is reflexology? The centered and (or) Eastern-tuned might know. Before today, I didn’t. So, as a service to the TalentCulture community, I looked it up. Here you go. Most of us would benefit from reflexology. That makes me think of yoga. One of these days, I’m going to sign up for Bikram Hatha yoga again; it’s been nigh on 10 years since I tried yoga. Maybe, if I were to wind down my consultancy and seek work at a high-tech start-up in Silicon Valley (or America’s Technology Highway or the Mile-High City), my new employer would pay for my yoga classes, or even offer yoga at company headquarters—on-demand, during office hours, with an onsite instructor also on my employer’s payroll. Continue reading here: Give Me a Break! #TChat Preview

Who passes up an opportunity to use the word fealty outside the context of medieval fantasies or galaxies far, far away? Frodo is engaged in his work; so is Luke Skywalker. And, inspired by their leaders, they become leaders themselves. Strong leaders beget strong leaders—and loyalty and engagement and trust. Think Yoda. Think Obi-Wan Kenobi. Think Gandalf. It’s the way of the hobbit, of the Jedi, of the wizard, of the force, of Middle Earth—and of the world of work. It’s Not You, It’s Me Who believes that one? To believe the line is to believe the white lie, and the organization whose former employees give this response when asked why they left, ought to know it’s its own fault sometimes, its former employees’ fault […]

Earlier this year The HRO Today Innovation Gap Survey set out to identify disconnects between vendors’ and users’ perceptions of human resources technologies. But the survey’s title, however provocative and promising, falls short of doing the survey’s results justice. This is not a gap. It’s a canyon. The differentials in perceptions are gaping, revealing possibly deep shortcomings in the ability of vendors’ technologies to assist practitioners with the most important aspects of their jobs. Vendors might, in fact, be creating solutions whose functionalities hew poorly to practitioners’ needs. At their core, the findings cast doubt on whether or not vendors and practitioners even agree on the very semantics of innovation itself (not that they’d necessarily think to ask the question in the first place). Continue […]