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A mountain to climb

HR people are renowned for saying “no” right? Manager 1: “Obviously I wanted to give you a pay rise of 40% but HR said no.” Manager 2: “Look it isn’t my fault they won’t give you the title of ‘Emperor of...

Published 26 Oct 2010 8:45 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, charity, advertising, commitment, kilimanjaro, sponsorship
Listen to the music

Want to know one of the signs that an industry or business is going to fail? They don’t think they can. It has been true over the ages and it is true to this very day. Organisational arrogance is the very first step towards organisational decline. This...

Published 26 Oct 2010 8:45 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, Recruitment, change, institutional arrogance, music industry
Into connected

I am not an expert on Social media. I update my Facebook status a lot (especially when drunk) and I follow a couple of blogs. I have a LinkedIn account and I registered on Twitter a year ago because Stephen Fry said it was a good idea but I have never...

Published 25 Oct 2010 8:47 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized
Reform is one thing, cuts are another

It won’t have gone unnoticed by many of you that yesterday was the announcement of the coalition’s Comprehensive Spending Review. I participated in a live blog courtesy of our friends at Personnel Today. All of the commentary was pretty straight...

Published 21 Oct 2010 8:47 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, comprehensive spending review, coalition announcements, welfare reform, window dressing
Keep Faith

“If you want to make the weather Then you have to take the blame If sometimes dark clouds fill the sky And it starts to rain…..and folks complain” Or to put it another way, sometimes you have to learn, “to take the crunchy with the smooth...

Published 19 Oct 2010 8:48 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, leadership, billy bragg, commitment, faith, focus, head and shoulders, lyrics
Allez les Bleus

As you know this week sees the much awaited, much talked about and in many sectors much feared Comprehensive Spending review. Throughout Westminster and beyond public servants are adopting the brace position, hoping that the hobnail of doom will go stamping...

Published 18 Oct 2010 9:01 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, ARSE, comprehensive spending review, france, industrial action, public sector, solidarity, trade unions
Water Fights

I don’t know how many of you are fans of Spooks, the BBC1 drama based on the British intelligence services (blimey writing that on a blog might be enough to get me…..well, best not think about that…)? On Monday the episode featured a scientist who was...

Published 15 Oct 2010 8:27 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, blog action day, conflict, global warming, spooks, water
School of thought

One of the things that I will never quite understand about being a Dad is the balance between the inner me and the outer me. More precisely, how far I can let the inner me show in matters relating to my kids, their wellbeing and their future. Decisions...

Published 13 Oct 2010 8:54 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, education, choices, hobson's choice, personal, secondary school
Performing dogs

So I’ve talked a lot about improving HR right? Because it is a bit of a mission for me and because I’m a bear of very little brain. You know what we should do if we really want to show that we are serious about change? If we want to show that...

Published 12 Oct 2010 8:45 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, performance management, hr bollocks, appraisals
Urgh

On Friday night my daughter came down with a stomach bug. Last night I came down with the same thing. After a night spent talking to God on the big white telephone, I’m not up to much. Normal service will re resumed soon. Take care. Read More.....

Published 11 Oct 2010 10:46 AM by My Hell is Other People

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Awkward subjects need open discussion

There are some subjects that still seem to be taboo in the workplace, well maybe not taboo but which cause a sense of awkwardness. One of these became the subject of a minor “exchange of words yesterday” in the twittersphere. It started when I was asked...

Published 7 Oct 2010 9:32 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, women, men, absence, menstruation, misogyny
Connect for?

You may remember some months back I went to the first ConnectingHR tweet up. It was the first time that I had ventured out as TheHRD and I had a brilliant time and met lots of brilliant people. You can read about it here. I then went to the second tweet...

Published 6 Oct 2010 9:36 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, social media, connectinghr, internal comms, unconference
Untaught ability

How much risk do you take? Does it differ in your work to your personal life? Do you use the same basis for making “risky” decisions depending on the context? These are the questions that have been buzzing through my head all night when I should have...

Published 5 Oct 2010 9:04 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, risk, creativity, decision making, gut instinct, innovation
Trying Behaviour

Well who would have believed the brouhaha that arose last Thursday and Friday? I write a post. And things go mental. What started with a press release on 30 September heralding the launch of Think HR, Think Again finished with the CIPD being forced to...

Published 4 Oct 2010 8:34 AM by My Hell is Other People

Filed under: Uncategorized, HR, Personnel Today, CIPD, Think HR Think Again

October 2010 - My Hell is Other People

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A mountain to climb

Listen to the music

Into connected

Reform is one thing, cuts are another

Keep Faith

Allez les Bleus

Water Fights

School of thought

Performing dogs

Urgh

Awkward subjects need open discussion

Connect for?

Untaught ability

Trying Behaviour