by Jason Lauritsen | Dec 7, 2010 | Change, Leadership, SHRM
Let me first say that I can’t believe I’m about to write this post. After all, I’m supposed to be the radical, status quo crushing HR leader who runs around in his spare time calling himself a Talent Anarchist. If anyone should be...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 7, 2010 | Change, Leadership, Process
The holy grail in HR seems to be to find a system or process that will impact every employee and affect change uniformly across the board. We strive to build performance management and talent management processes that can be applied at every level across the...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 2, 2010 | Leadership
I recently read a blog post by a blogger who is an HR professional by day. In the post, she said something to the effect: “I have a love/hate relationship with HR.” This struck me the wrong way. In fact, the more I thought about it, the...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 25, 2010 | Culture, Leadership
I recently sat in a facilitated discussion about the development of emerging leaders with a group of my peers from large employers in my area. During the course of the conversation, one particularly seasoned HR leader at the table offered up that one of the most...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 19, 2010 | Change, Leadership
Being the expert feels good. It means that you get to render your judgement about others actions and hand out advice freely. In HR, we are frequently called upon to be the expert when it comes to employees. And boy do we love to give out advice on...