Your future employees are texting fools. Are you prepared?

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Communication in business is critical to success. Communication with employees and between employees is essential to any business running correctly. Therefore HR must be adaptable and understand how to best communicate with employees. Are you going to be prepared to communicate with your future generation of workers in a way they are most receptive too? […]

Thanks iPhone: The Future of Your Paycheck Is Mobile

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Last week Apple announced a new application, in conjunction with their new phone, called Apple Pay. This application will allow iPhone holders to pay for goods and services by tapping a terminal. The payment is automatically made. Many of us already pay for some things by using our phones. I cannot remember the last time […]

Will HR Be the Last to Adopt Wearbles in the Workplace?

Wearables can be a great tool for HR I and several others have written about wearables being used in the future. Wearables have been talked about for several years but mostly as novelty items. I wrote about them because I think they can be a great tool for the HR professional. However, we have not […]

What is a Futurist & Why You Want to Be One at Work

7 Steps To Being A Practical Futurist I have been writing several years now on “futurist” topics for human resources professionals. I have presented on Seven steps to being a practical HR futurist. But after reading an interview with Intel’s Brian David Johnson, their resident futurist, that I thought about how you can go about […]

Does Your Future Rely on Your Information Collection Today?

Did you know that the Library of Congress archives tweets? They started in 2010 with the existing 21 billion tweets already in existence. Today in 2014 they now have over 600 billion and are collecting a half a billion daily.  I learned this factoid from Thomas Frey in a post he had about the future […]

The Future of HR Is What HR Is Not

My friend Paul Hebert gives me a good-natured ribbing about the fact that I write about the “future” and give presentations on it too. He will ask me about my crystal ball and what it is telling me today. I know he is joking with me, but many people do look at futurists as seers, […]