Best of the HR Happy Hour 2010 - Part III

Rolling on with our look back at the highlights of the HR Happy Hour show in 2010 with today's look at the best show from the the 3rd Quarter of 2010. Before we get to that, a recap of the selections so far:

Best of Q1 - Episode 28 -'Chief Culture Officer'

Best of Q2 - Episode 49 - 'The Why of Work'

The pick for today, representing the period of July - September 2010 is  the show from August 19, 2010:

Episode 59 - 'About Your Performance Review' with guest, UCLA Management Professor and author of the book 'Get Rid of the Performance Review', Sam Culbert.



This was an incredibly lively, interesting, and provocative show as Professor Culbert echoed the ideas in 'Get Rid of the Performance Review' on the show.  Simply put, the current practice of performance management and the performance review as conducted by the vast majority of companies and managers is irreparably broken, and needs to be scrapped altogether for the benefit of organizations, managers, and employees. It is one-sided, biased, fails to inspire and improve employee performance, all the while serving as that annual exercise of dread that everyone hates.

Culbert was on fire during the show, and if nothing else, was passionate and committed to his ideas, and didn't really care if you liked them or not.

Personally, this was probably my favorite show of 2010.  Maybe.

Have a listen, or listen again and let us know what you think.

Tomorrow - Best of Q4, 2010 Honorable Mentions, and a preview of this week's 'HR Happy New Year' show.

Best of the HR Happy Hour 2010 - Part II

On this 'not and actual holiday but sort of feels like one week' we are taking a look back at the best HR Happy Hour Shows of 2010.  Yesterday we featured the top choice from Q1 2010 - was from January 28, 2010,  Episode 28 - 'Chief Culture Officer'.

Today we move on to the second quarter of 2010 and the pick for that period is Episode 49 - 'The Why of Work',  a show originally aired June 10, 2010.

The show can be replayed from the show page here - or using the widget player below:

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We were pleased and honored to be joined by industry leader and legend Dave Ulrich to talk about his latest book, also titled 'The Why of Work'; and to get a sense of Dave's feeling that work and the workplace can and should aspire to be something more that just a means to earn a paycheck.  That the best managers and leaders find a way to tap into the meaning and purpose that most people are seeking, and to build richer and more powerful environments that support the organization, the community, and the individual.

This show took ages to put together, and we were really pleased and proud of how it turned out.

Have a listen if you missed it, or give it a second playing and let us know what you think.

Tomorrow - the best show from Q3 2010.

Best of the HR Happy Hour 2010 - Part I

As 2010 winds down I thought I would look back on some of the highlights of the HR Happy Hour show  in 2010 to acknowledge and remember some of the great guests and topics we covered this year.

Each day this week we will look back on one of the best or most interesting shows from each quarter of 2010, starting today with Episode 28, a show from January 28, 2010 - 'Chief Culture Officer' with our guest, the author of Chief Culture Officer, Grant McCracken. This was a bit of a departure from the usual 'HR' talk on the show, but I think was one of the best shows of the year.

Listen back to the show from the show page here - or using the widget player below.

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This was a really interesting and informative show discussing the importance of the understanding of culture and making meaning from that understanding in a corporate context. Trends, popular culture, patterns in living and working, demographics, all these and more impact the way we live and work, and applying a reasoned and anthropology-based approach in the corporate setting were discussed on the show.

Have a listen if you missed this one, or take a re-listen, and let us know what you think.

'I thought it was fabulous'

No that isn't my assessment of last night's HR Happy Hour show with Professor Samuel Culbert, author of  'Get Rid of the Performance Review', it actually was the Professor's 'review' of his own book!  You have to hand it to the guy for confidence.

Kidding aside, the Professor was a fantastic guest, with a strong point of view and belief that the performance review, as currently practiced by most organizations, is so inherently flawed that it actually has serious detrimental impact on organizational effectiveness, and employees' career development.

Where else in the current HR and management dialog are you going to get comparisons of most HR departments to the KGB?  The show can be replayed using the widget below, and can also be found out on iTunes, just search for 'HR Happy Hour' and download this, and any other archived show.

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Have a listen to the archive of the show and let us know what you think - annual performance review time in your organization will be here before you know it, you may need a few talking points ready to go.

Recap - Episode 54 - 'Enterprise 2.0 and HR'

HR Happy Hour - Episode 54 - 'Enterprise 2.0 and HR' with guest Andrew McAfee

Original broadcast date - Thursday July 15, 2010

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This was an interesting and informative conversation with Andy McAfee, the person that invented the term 'Enterprise 2.0', and author of the essential book on the subject - 'Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges'.

We discussed some of the history of Web 1.0 and 2,0, how the important concepts of Web 2.0 apply inside organizations, and some of the ways that HR and business leaders can take advantage of these tools to achieve business objectives.  It is a huge topic to be sure, and in an one hour show we could only really scratch the surface of Enterprise 2.0, but hopefully we managed to at least provide the HR pro some solid background and a basis for further exploration.

So give a listen and let us know what you think.

Also, apologies for not keeping up to date on posting previews and recaps here, we are trying to decide the best way and most efficient way of getting show information out there.

We have a Facebook page, LinkedIn group, this blog, as well as mine and Shauna's personal blogs, so figuring out the best way to get show info out there is a little tricky, but hopefully we will arrive upon the right answer soon.

As always - thanks for listening!