Next week, I have the distinct pleasure of visiting our nation’s capital. I’ll be taking in the sights and sounds of our government at work. Maybe meeting with our congressional representative to talk some Klingon. Also will definitely be seeing some friends. Oh yeah… and there was something else:
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I admit it. I have some street cred I’ve got to maintain. I am a rebel like the Fonz. I don’t play by the rules, I wear a leather jacket sometimes, and I can make the jukebox play my favorite songs. So when I decided to rejoin SHRM and try this whole thing again, I [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve always wondered why so many people in HR are uninterested in talking politics. Trying to get one of you guys to talk about health care reform out in the open is like pulling teeth without health insurance. Get it? Because I said… nah, forget it.
I always chalked it up to [...]
Note: This is my final formal post on the 2009 SHRM annual conference. All of the other information is being wrapped into more topical posts in the coming weeks. I think you’ll enjoy this post anyway so read on.
I have the day off today but it certainly doesn’t feel that way. I am way behind [...]
Apparently eating delicious (but unhealthy) food, drinking hurricanes and walking 1,000 miles in one day isn’t a good way to avoid waking up with a foot cramp. That’s how SHRM Tuesday started out for me. It was a great day after that.
I spoke in the morning with Silkroad about their talent management suite and what [...]
Monday was a good and busy day for SHRM and Your HR Guy. Here’s a rundown of what happened and how things are playing out.
I started out the morning talking to the Disney Institute about their training programs and they invited me to come check it out at some point. As long as it isn’t [...]
The first day of SHRM seems to always be a wash. You are exhausted from traveling and you just get thrown into the middle of something that is already going. Being as the conference was in New Orleans, it was litterally impossible to get here before 2:00pm without a red eye flight.
This means I missed [...]