get the facts about bullying

The sleeping dragon is waking up! Although bullying at work has always existed, community awareness, media interest, inept management practices and victim injuries are encouraging this dragon to roar. The results are reflected in huge payouts, media outings and the high costs of poor productivity and employee disengagement within organisations.

Two of the key harmful factors are lack of awareness for targets and lack of validation by managers. They are sustained by the myths that create and sustain workplace bullying. Here are some samples....

1. Bullies are bad

top 10 learning tools

t’s time to update my top 10 learning tools and techniques list. This time I’ll try to focus more on tools and services. You can view my previous lists of Aug 08 and Jan 08.

Top 10 learning tools 

10 Things the HR Department Won't Tell You

Discover shocking reasons why you might not get a callback—or a promotion

By Kimberly Fusaro 

Photo: © Thinkstock

If everything’s going smoothly, you probably won’t interact with the folks in human resources much between the day you’re hired and your last day with the company. But every day in between, it’s their responsibility to make sure you’re doing your job well. Which means they know a lot more than you might think. We checked in with human resources experts to see what your current employer is keeping tabs on—and how your next employer could be judging you based on a whole lot more than the résumé you submitted.

1. Background checks have gone beyond Google.
Before calling in applicants for a job interview, HR will snoop around online to make sure there are no virtual red flags. “Social media ‘stalking’ has become the norm—especially at larger companies,” says Mary Hladio, who worked in human resources for more than 15 years and is currently CEO of leadership group Ember Carriers. “Beyond typing names into asearch engine, companies will also employ sophisticated online monitoring platforms that dig even deeper. If there’s something on the Internet you wouldn’t want your boss to see, it’s probably in your best interest to take it down.”

Will’s Learning Landscape Model

Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by Harold Jarche

Will Thalheimer has developed the Learning Landscape Model and created this 13 minute video to explain it.

Overall I find the model useful, though I would replace “Learning” (at 2:15) with “Instruction”, because that’s really what training departments provide in order to promote on-job-performance.

It is also good to see on-job-learning as part of the model. The various measurement points, beyond Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation, (at 9:50) are really worth noting. There are over a dozen measurements noted that are often ignored in organizations.