by Jamie Notter | Nov 7, 2012 | Humanize, Managing People
Google has a cool online publication called Think Quarterly. The current issue is about Open, which obviously gets my attention, given that one of the four human elements we identify in Humanize is Open. Senior Google exec Jonathan Rosenberg has the first article,...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 16, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize, Managing People
We don’t take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That’s all good, but does it help the new...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 1, 2012 | Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
There is a fairly straightforward post on the HBR blog about putting big data to use. The article provides guidelines to companies who recognize the potential of big data, but aren’t sure where to start. It provides guidance on what kinds of opportunities to...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Managing People
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 19, 2012 | Change, Humanize, Managing People
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I’ll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, and I’m excited to be bringing the...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 5, 2012 | Culture, Individual Development, Leadership, Managing People
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points they make about their culture (“Values are...
