The 'Checklist Managing an Innovative HR project' is part of the book "Building Powerful Networks; the Arcadis Global Shapers story". This book, about the i...
We were able to interview Tom Haak in his office near Utrecht in The Netherlands.
Tom is the founder and director and director of the HR Trend Institute.
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HR and management often want to do too much too quick. I have been guilty as well. My personal archive is full with HR-plans that have never been totally implem...
In December 2012 I posted an article "13 roles for HR in 2013". I hope you have been able to play some or most of these roles last year. For 2014 they are all s...
As I am still recovering from my fall nearly two months ago, I have to spend more time at home. For 10$ per month I got Netflix, and I can watch as many movies ...
A friend works at a company that is very data driven. The beliefs of this company are laid down in a nice booklet for all staff. Belief number 6: "We do not rel...
In 1994 I was working for Philips Consumer Electronics and the proud user of a personal computer. This was the early days of making presentations on the PC. Bea...
Long time ago when I worked for another multinational, there was a program to improve the relations between headquarters and the countries (sometimes also calle...
Improving the way we collaborate globally is an important theme in the organization I work in. Supply and demand are not well distributed globally, and the bett...
When I entered one of the former organizations, I asked for the organizational charts, to help me to find my way. It turned out org charts were implicitly forbi...
During the last weeks I reviewed and discussed various plans of the HR teams in our regions and operating companies. Always good and stimulating discussions. St...
There is a constant push to uniformity. HR needs to push back. We need more diversity!
Can we imagine:
An organization without job grades and job titles...
Next week is the last week of one of the members in my team. She will move (internally) to a bigger job. We have worked nearly six years together, and I will ce...
The ability to speed up and slow down at the right moment is of great importance for HR. The tendency is to move at high speed all the time, but this is not ver...
Routines can be comfortable. Sometimes too comfortable. Maybe it is time to kill some routines.
Stop with annual performance reviews. Switch to weekly, bi-...
I was stimulated a lot by a recent blog of Robert Paterson .
He showed how LinkedIn helped him to map his network.
Via the link in his blog I immediately made...
Hollandse Signaalapparaten
On March 1, 1983, I started at Hollandse Signaalapparaten at their head office, in Hengelo. Henglo is in the east of The Netherlands...
It started with an advertisement placed by Philips Electronics on January 22, 1982. I had finished my university study (Psychology) in December 1981. Philips was looking for "Four psychologists or sociologists for a fast career". This appealed to me and I applied....
30 simple ways for leaders to increase the engagement of the people in their organizations.
Living the values
Express a clear future mission and strateg...
