HRM Today is proud to announce that we’ve been selected as the official blogger for the 7th Annual Internal Communications & Situational Messaging Conference, a marcus evans event. The conference will help attendees design, launch and drive internal communications and engagement strategies to deliver optimal results within various organizational situations.

This informative conference will be held from November 30 to December 1, 2011 in Boston, MA. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re proud to announce that HRM Today has been selected as the exclusive blogger of the upcoming Strategic Talent Management & Leadership Development Canada Conference - July 21 – 22, 2011 in Toronto.

Continuing its Talent Development and Leadership Planning in Business Strategy series, marcus evans invites you to attend the Talent Management & Leadership Development Canada Conference. Case studies from leading experts in Talent Management, Leadership and Organizational Development will include insights on how to develop, manage and grow a multifaceted Talent & Leadership Management program that best fits within the organization aligning to the culture and business goals.

Hear from your peers first hand as they outline some of the operational strategies they are employing to ensure optimal succession planning into key positions and how to retain valuable talent to ensure competitiveness all while contributing to the organization’s bottom line.

By attending this conference, you will:

1. Set the talent and leadership planning strategy in line with the corporate business objectives
2. Harness a recognizable talent development culture
3. Develop valuable and competitive talent
4. Transform talent programs and renew commitment
5. Learn effective communications for commitment to success
6. Plan for future talent

This is not a trade show; our Talent Development and Leadership Planning series is targeted at a focused group of senior level leaders to maintain an intimate atmosphere for the delegates and speakers. Since we are not a vendor driven conference, the higher level focus allows the delegates to network with their industry peers and speakers.

Previous companies that have attended our Talent Planning series include:

• Microsoft Corporation
• Pitney Bowes
• Intel
• GM
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber
• Sony
• W.W. Grainger
• USPS
• Staples
• Phillips
• Best Buy
• Volvo
• American Airlines
• Verizon
• Waste Management
• Wal-Mart
• Cardinal Health
• Whirlpool
• McDonald’s Corporation
• Nordstrom

Want to know more?

• Visit the official website for more information and registration.
• Join the Talent Development LinkedIn Group to be able to start networking with other industry leaders before and after the conference.
• Follow the conference @MEHumanResources with #TalentEvent. We will provide periodic updates and it’s a great way to network with your industry peers!
• Hear from Deborah Peirce, Director of Global Talent Managent at Baxter International at last year’s 6th Annual Talent Management & Leadership Development Conference as she outlines the critical role of talent management in supporting a growth trajectory. View the interview here.

HRM Today is proud to announce it has been selected as the official blogger for the upcoming 5th Annual Internal Branding & Employee Engagement Conference.

The conference, hosted by marcus evans, will help attendees deploy and evaluate strategies to maximize engagement and behaviors aligned to the brand. Hear from more than 18 Employee Engagement and Internal Communications leaders on how to deploy and evaluate strategies to maximize engagement and behaviors aligned to the brand. Read the rest of this entry »

The agenda and speakers for the i4cp Annual Conference 2011: Next Practices of High-Performance Organizations have been announced! The event will take place at the InterContinental Montelucia in Scottsdale, AZ from March 15-18, 2011.

“i4cp has experienced over 60% member growth in 2010 and we’re expecting record attendance at 2011′s conference,” said Kevin Oakes, i4cp’s CEO. “Each year, i4cp’s conference is consistently ranked as a top benefit by our member organizations for its vendor and consultant-free networking atmosphere, as well as for the senior-level, strategically focused sessions. It’s truly one of the most unique events each year in the human capital industry.” Read the rest of this entry »

HRM Today is proud to have been selected as the official blogger for the 4th Annual Strategic Recruiting Conference, a marcus evans event. The conference, which takes place in Miami, FL on May 17 – 18, 2010, is a continuation of marcus evans’ Strategic Recruiting in Business Strategy series. More than 20 Recruiting, Staffing, Human Resources and Talent Acquisition professionals from leading companies will provide insights on how to attract top-level candidates through enhanced recruiting practices that align to the current employment change.

HRM Today will be on hand to meet with attendees and speakers and provide coverage to the blogosphere about the various insights that will come from the conference.

Interested in attending this innovative conference (and also meeting an HRM Today expert)? Learn more or signup now at http://www.marcusevansch.com/HRMToday Read the rest of this entry »

A very cool announcement today that I would like to share with you. Today, we’ve united with HR Bloggers to create a comprehensive online community for members of the HR profession. We will offer a portal for professionals to seek and give advice, stay on top of trends, and explore innovative ways to keep the workplace working.

We’ve come a long way since I started this little project. I am happy that we will continue growing the site in a positive direction.

If you were a member at HR Bloggers, your membership information and the social network has been moved to network.hrmtoday.com

If you had a blog at HRM Today, it has been relocated to blogs.hrmtoday.com

For the full press release, you can check out press section of the new website.

Thanks!

Jen, Lance and Laurie

I wanted to let HRM Today readers know about the 11th Annual Talent Management Summit being held in Las Vegas by Human Resources IQ on October 20-23 and a special discount you all can get just for reading this blog. Very exciting, I know. I was trying to get them to commit to maybe some trick ponies or some of those guys that juggle flaming bowling balls because I heard those are a big hit but I think they are sticking to stuff that is actually useful to HR professionals.

I just wanted to highlight a few things that this conference has to offer:

• They have case studies from some real live companies like MGM Mirage, MetLife and Avon (my personal fave)
• Applicable seminars that you can actually go back to your work and apply. Check out some of the presentations from past seminars (All PDF’s)
• A Zappos University tour (you may have heard something about them)
• Networking opportunities with other great HR people
• And of course, Vegas!

I am bummed I can’t go because I do like going to Vegas (I was just there a couple weeks ago) but Human Resources IQ are the good guys and they’ve done ten of these things so I think they might know a thing or two. Human Resource IQ is around for the same reason HRM Today is around: HR people helping other HR people navigate the changing environment. When I was talking to their marketing manager, it seems like they really want to attract people who understand the online aspect of our industry. They are reaching out to a lot of bloggers to have them attend this event (via discounts and even complimentary press passes) and I told them I’d be happy to spread the word (even if I can’t go).

It gets even better. If you use the promo code TMHRM when you sign up, you’ll get a 15% discount just like that. Seriously! Then you can work on getting the upgraded suite at the Venetian. Don’t get your hopes up on that though.

Check out the HRM Today Group on The HR Bloggers Network.

This week has been full of wins for HRM Today but that’s not what I want to talk about. What I do want to talk about is how we plan to scale up our site from this point forward. The amount of content being submitted to the network is growing larger and it needs to be addressed. I want to leave you with these thoughts for the weekend.

• We want a lot of content! That means continuing to encourage contributors to come to HRM Today and start blogging. I want to start everyone off now as an author which means they can post to their blog as little or often as they like without me moderating (as is currently set up).
• With that, we are only going to really moderate front page postings and limiting them to the highest quality content. That means front page posts are going to include original content and high quality syndicated stuff. As much as possible, we are going to do full posts on the front page.
• The feed will be divided up into “All postings” and “Front page postings only.” Default feed will be front page with high visibility put into the all postings feed too.
• People with sites that automatically feed into the site will continue indefinitely.
• There will always be an editor deciding what goes up on the front page but I want there to be a social aspect to decide what articles we missed.
• I keep saying “we” when there is only “me” but I don’t feel like going back and changing it now.

Anyway I kept going back and forth and if we have 50 contributors to the site pouring in feeds, original content and all the good stuff we want (100+ items posted a day let’s say), HRM Today becomes a news aggregator which was never really the purpose. For those who want that, they can still get that (through the all posts feed) but I think for the majority of people, that’s just too much. I have deleted far more posts that have come in than have been posted because I don’t want to kill people with HR overload.

The three pronged goal is to obviously serve readers with HR industry specific blogs, allow others to join the conversation effortlessly (with a community element) and grow the HR blogging community for the better. I think this tweak continues us on that path.

I am going to start next Monday with an original post by HR Minion and switching everyone from contributors to authors. The featured category will be posts that make it to the front page and in the main RSS feed. All other blog posts that do not make it on the front page will continue to be posted to the respective author blog, category, and date archive as well as the all blogs RSS feed.

Questions, comments, concerns or lavish praise? Direct it to lance (at) hrmtoday (dot) com

In a deal scratched over a couple hours of e-mailing (including a quip about someone’s grandma), I am pleased to announce a sponsorship deal with Laurie Ruettimann’s HR Bloggers group (www.hrbloggers.com). This is a deal that makes a lot of sense for both parties but let me outline some of my goals with the sponsorship of the group:

1. Grow a social network for HR bloggers – I like writing blogs, I don’t like running social networks. That being said, I think the benefits of social networks are huge. Upping the level of conversation between HR people is something I think blogs and social networks both accomplish.
2. Grow the number of HR bloggers - There needs to be more of us and we need to stop being wimps about blogging. I have learned a ton about recruiting from dedicated, grassroots recruiting communities like recruitingblogs.com, recruiting.com and the multitude of recruiting bloggers having robust conversations about their trade. HR needs that now more than ever.
3. Grow my site – Usually a sponsorship involves money so I made a calculation that this will help build HRM Today into a better site with more visitors and a better product for readers. With more visitors and better product, we can start talking about revenue opportunities as well as rev share opportunities that reward people for posting content to the network.

The best part about this deal is the hope that each will continue to do what each does best (social networking and blogging) and that the changes made will be ones that increase the number of users and increase the quality of the respective sites. The optimal goal from my end is that if an HR pro wants to get plugged in to the online HR community, they can become a part of both HR Bloggers and HRM Today and they instantly have a network of other HR professionals.

Is this an idea that resonates with you? If so, do two things:

1. Sign up for accounts on HR Bloggers and HRM Today
2. Invite HR colleagues to join both with you

That’s it! Instant community.