Learning & Development: The Advantages of Being a Slow Learner

By David Creelman Thomas Pynchon is a celebrated American author yet he titled his collection of early stories “Slow Learner.” Was Pynchon a slow learner?...

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Can You Teach Business Savvy?

By David Creelman The universal complaint about HR is that it is not sufficiently business savvy. Is this something we can fix through training and...

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How to Derive Insights from HR Data

By David Creelman In a previous article I discussed how to get clean data for HR reporting. Now let’s move on to the next problem:...

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How to Get Clean Data for Your HR Reporting

David Creelman All the talk about people analytics has led to a resurgence of interest in better HR reporting. Unfortunately, most of the advice on...

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Escape from Big Data

By David Creelman You probably feel under some pressure to do something with “Big Data”. What you should actually do is probably far less clear....

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An HR Transformation to be Proud of

By David Creelman If you studied science or engineering (back in the day), you probably still find the standard practice of HR a bit odd....

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Bad Advice, Good Advice, and the Best Advice Ever

By David Creelman A recent HR publication suggested that a good interview question was “What song best describes your work ethic?” That’s bad advice. Enough...

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Tricks for Handling Tough Problems

By David Creelman Simple problems fly by so quickly we hardly notice them; it’s the tough ones that occupy our days and perhaps our sleepless...

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