Over the last couple of years, there's been a good bit of market investment, expanding a strategic capability of Human Capital Management. In an emerging community of practice that spans the responsibilities of Operations, Information Systems and Training / Learning & Development, an awareness has been building that by accurately being able to evaluate individual [...]
Backstreet’s Back
Hello, World. I'm back again... via GIPHY Since last I posted here, not only did I partner up with Megan Bowe to create an important and successful consultancy with MakingBetter, but we executed on a vision to create an "industry organization" that serves to improve the quality of the tools and practices employed by professionals [...]
Follow Your Arrow
Sometimes I find myself listening to country because NPR tells me to. Sometimes I up and move across the country for a new job because my spirit animal tells me to. It’s happened before. Most times my spirit animal sounds like Pantera’s “Walk.” Occasionally it sounds like Digital Underground’s “Doowutchyalike.” This year it sounded like [...]
What I Learned Before My Summer Vacation
If anyone ever tells you you're too old to skateboard, maybe you should listen to them. Then again... that's not exactly what I would do.. or what I did. So, on April 26, 2013, I hit a milestone on an epic journey that began almost five years before, with all the thinking that went into [...]
How Unconferences Work
Over the past year with two gatherings for Up to All of Us, we’ve continued to make the time in each excursion to build a common language we can all speak which helps set the expectations that we're here to make ideas better and shared... not to cut them down. One can argue a lot [...]