Learning How to Learn
“. . .we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning...
10 Questions to Help You Hire Better People
As a recruiter, how would you describe the culture at Apple, Microsoft, AT&T or at your own organization? I think being able to distill the essence of an organization’s culture into a few well thought out adjectives is worth a lot. It helps you choose people who...
4 Common Recruiting Assumptions Challenged
There are a handful of beliefs within most professions that need to be examined from time to time for validity and accuracy. Assumptions can be very dangerous when they are swallowed without critical thought or current evidence. The medical profession believed for...
Moving from Transaction to Engagement
Recruiting is finally moving away from transactional thinking and beginning to understand how to better connect and engage with relevant candidates. We are not there yet, and I may be too optimistic, but many recruiters are making the transition to engage candidates...
Why MOOCs Might Revolutionize Your Recruiting Methods
While recruiters continue to gain skills in search techniques, candidates are elusive and wary of getting unsolicited emails, In-mails, and efforts to get them engaged with your firm on Facebook or LinkedIn. Recruiters should be much smarter about how they find and...
Three Cool Products Found at the HR Technology Conference
By Kevin Wheeler Even though more than 2 weeks have passed since the HR Technology Conference 2013 in Las Vegas ended, it seems that the positive vibes from the event continue. As a futurist, whenever I attend I focus my attention on the technologies that are emerging...
Why Women are Key to Your Organization’s Success: 4 Strategies to Hire Them
Women have become the new workforce. There are now slightly more women workers than men, given the recession and the shrinking of the manufacturing and construction industries. They have less unemployment: So far this year the unemployment rate for men is about 8.8...
How Gen Y Learns & What it Means for Education
Gen Y, those in their twenties now, are born of bits and bytes. They hardly read. They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination. This generation is the one that will redefine learning. And because of...
Fearless Forecast for 2014 & Beyond
I recently did a webinar for ERE.net, sponsored by Glassdoor, discussing the trends and issues I see for the coming year or two. Some of the topics I cover include: The emergence of a world of “streaming” data that requires real-time action The dominance of social...
Think Tank Session at Genentech
Last Friday, a small group of business people, human resources leaders, recruiters, educators, and futurists met to start the process of indentifying the trends and issues that will impact talent management, human resources, recruitment and learning over the next...
What’s the Difference Between Training, Education, Development and Learning?
We in the corporate learning space often discuss the concepts of learning, education, training and development. These terms are used so frequently, we might assume we truly understand the differences between them. In this short post, I will review the differences...
Beyond Words: Learning Gen Y Style
This generation is the one that will redefine learning. And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20th century will fade away faster than we imagine. As I travel around the world...