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 […]