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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Deciding To Read About Decision Making?

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In a week that was probably way overdone in looking at various analogs used to aid in decision making, a series of articles to stimulate thinking along those lines is needed from time to time. We have all been in situations where a CEO or other key executive reads a popular management book and suddenly the decision paradigm blows with the wind of a new idea… sometimes even when it is only new to them.… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Deciding To Read About Decision Making?

Your Background Check Is Completed – What Does It Say?

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln There is a lot of hype about personal branding and what it can do for your career. There seems to be a prevailing belief that marketing hyperbole can right all wrongs, polish all rough edges, and hide embarrassing events. After all, this technique is… Read More »Your Background Check Is Completed – What Does It Say?

Do Not Read: Unnecessary Instructions for Weekend Blog Posts?

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I have confided to friends that my dream job is to be a teacher or writer or both. I spend an inordinate amount of time writing and thinking about writing. If I did not have to earn a living, the starving artist inside of me would call being an author my full time job. Of course, with no life experiences other than my imagination there would not be much to write about. So I choose… Read More »Do Not Read: Unnecessary Instructions for Weekend Blog Posts?

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Stories About Minotaurs and Manatees (Not Really!)

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    The blogger’s nightmare is when his muse is instructing him to be creative in a serious and positive sense, but something keeps whispering to his brain that there is something really funny about all this. It was a tough job, but Monday through Friday was published with a certain amount of decorum. Today it is time to play with the words a bit. Technically, Mentor and Minotaur are heterographs different in spelling and… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Stories About Minotaurs and Manatees (Not Really!)

Part IV – Informal Mentoring

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Not all companies have formal programs to start a new employee on the right track. Many long term employees entering new jobs may not be afforded a formal program to bring them up to speed. It is necessary in some cases for mentors to self appoint themselves to fill a training gap. It is also important for all of us who need assistance to seek out and appoint our own mentors. Is this some sort… Read More »Part IV – Informal Mentoring