Preview - Episode 83 - Leadership in the Social Age

HR Happy Hour - Episode 83 Leadership in the Social Age

Thursday January 20, 2011 - 8PM ET - Call in 646-378-1086

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Social Networking and Social Media are changing, influencing, and at times making traditional approaches to management and leadership seem somewhat dated, and perhaps ineffective. Leadership and Leadership Development in particular face new opportunities and difficult conundrums driven by the rapid growth of social media, and for more traditional leaders, particularly when faced with the changes in expectations these challenges are more pressing and acute.

This week on the show we will be joined by Kevin Eikenberry, leadership expert and author to talk about leadership in the social age. What new challenges does social present for leaders? What if the leader is not naturally 'social'? Are the expectations of employees, customers, and the public for more openness and transparency forcing many leaders out of their comfort zones?

Finally, we will also look at how current and aspiring leaders can further their own development by leveraging resources and approaches in the social space, as well as how HR professionals can incorporate social aspects into current leadership development initiatives.

I hope you can join us!

Preview - Episode 82 - 'The Motivation Show'

HR Happy Hour - Episode 82 - 'The Motivation Show'

Thursday January 13, 2011 - 8PM ET

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What is motivation and can HR do anything about it?

What can HR do to do “engagement” better?

Is it really HR’s problem?

How should a company run incentives and rewards programs?

From guiding behaviors that need to continue to fostering environments that discourage the less desirable behavior- HR is involved.

Please set your clocks, watches, iPhones - whatever, you don't want to miss this special show with Trish and Paul. And who knows, maybe Steve and Shauna can run the Twitter back channel for a change!

Preview - Episode 81 - 'Emotional Intelligence'

HR Happy Hour - Episode 81 - 'Emotional Intelligence'

Thursday January 6, 2011 - 8PM ET

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Emotional Intelligence has been defined as the dimension of intelligence responsible for our ability to manage ourselves and our relationships with others.  Emotional Intelligence, or EQ for short, has been shown by many studies to be an important differentiator in personal and organizational performance.

Beyond the practical and straightforward measures of technical skills and ability, EQ examines one's awareness and control of emotion, empathy for others, social expertise and capability for creating and sustaining personal relationships, personal influence, and integrity.

EQ can be critical for the development of successful leaders, accurately assessing candidates in the hiring process, and encouraging and realizing superior levels of organizational achievement.

Why does EQ matter?  Can a better understanding of EQ in yourself and others make you a better leader, follower, parent, or person?  How does EQ impact work?  To try and answer these questions we will be joined by our guest Adele Lynn, of the Lynn Leadership Group.

Ms. Lynn has had a distinguished career as an organizational consultant and author, having published six books on Emotional Intelligence, including here latest work, The EQ Interview, Finding Employees with High Emotional Intelligence.

I hope you can join us for what should be an interesting show as we look at EQ, and examine why and how EQ should be important to you, and to your organization.

Best of the HR Happy Hour 2010 - Part IV

Today we wrap up the look back at the best of the HR Happy Hour from 2010 with the top show from the 4th quarter, the period from October - December 2010. But first, a quick review of the top shows from the first nine months of the year:

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

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

Best of Q3 - Episode 59 - 'About Your Performance Review'

The top show from the 4th quarter of 2010 is a show originally aired on November 11, 2010 - Episode 75 - 'HR and Enterprise Collaboration.

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This was a really interesting and informative show, and I selected it as a 'Best Of' pick from 2010 not just for the content of the show itself, but rather almost any '2011 Predictions' article we see these days talks about the need for organizations to become more connected, more collaborative, and frankly better at using and leveraging the knowledge and ideas of their people.  New technologies, more enlightened leaders, and more adept HR professionals all have important roles to play in transforming organizations into more capable and efficient collaborative enterprises, and for those reasons mainly, I think this show represents well what the HR Happy Hour can do, bring to light an important topic, gather leading experts from around the world, and share and discuss with our listeners and friends.

So we made our selections for the 'Best of 2010' , there are a few other shows that we really enjoyed and I did want to mention them here in the yearly wrap-up post.

Best of the Rest for 2010

Episode 26 - 'The Best HR City' - A really fun show where we tried to determine which city was the 'best' for HR.  Spirited debate, passionate supporters, and in the end, a dominant win for.....

Episode 36 - 'Show Me the Money' - A in-depth look at one of the most fundamental aspects of the HR world, employee compensation.  Super guests, great content, and an interesting show.

Episode 47 - 'HR and Indie Culture' - Another departure from 'traditional' HR topics, but a really interesting look at the world of Indie culture with Kaya Oakes, author of 'Slanted and Enchanted'.  Slanted was my favorite book in 2010, and this was quite possibly my favorite show of the year.

Episode 54 - 'Enterprise 2.0 and HR' - Our initial look at the world of Enterprise collaboration and the role for HR and HR leaders. Andrew McAfee, creator of term Enterprise 2.0 and author of the book 'Enterprise 2.0' joined us for a great look at the role these technologies will play inside organizations.

Episode 72 - 'Fistful of Talent Radio' - It is an honor to be a part of the crew at Fistful of Talent, and even more fun when they come by the HR Happy Hour show.  Great people, interesting takes on recruiting and talent, and a super fun show.

That is just a few of the many shows we really enjoyed this year - but the year is not over just yet, and we have one more offering in 2010!

Tonight 8PM ET - December 30, 2010 - Episode 80 - 'HR Happy New Year'

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We will look back on 2010, talk about some of favorite shows and guests, as well as look forward to 2011.  We don't have any 'official' guests booked, so we are relying on the listeners to give us a call and participate tonight.

Thanks so much for all the support and encouragement this year, and I hope you will be with us in 2011 as we keep going with more and hopefully even better show.

Thanks again!

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.