What was once old is new again?

I received my email from the Wharton School today and in it was an article about the nature of the HR profession as conducted in a study for PricewaterHouseCoopers. The finding of the research showed that
if you "step into the office of the head of corporate human resources today and the odds are you will find a 53-year-old man with a bachelor's degree who has been with his current employer for 15 years. He has spent about half his work life in HR roles, most often in workforce development. And he would not be that much different from the man holding the job a generation earlier. While the face of corporate human resources departments is changing as more women and more executives with international expertise ascend to the top HR positions, predictions that HR leaders would increasingly come to their jobs with broad and diverse front-line management experience have failed to come true. Indeed, HR leaders are even more likely to rise up from their own ranks than a decade earlier, according to a new Wharton research paper titled, "Who Gets the Top Job? Changes in the Attributes of Human Resource Heads and Implications for the Future." Click the link to see the full report.

What are they Thinking?

How many of you have teenagers or adolescents at home or even young adults? Ever tried to figure them out? Not going to happen you say? I am in the middle of reading a fascinating new book entitled the M-Factor. Written by Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman of Bridgeworks, it talks about the benefits and the pitfalls of working with Millenials ( born between 1981 and 1999). Gives you a real look at their wants, desires and the benefits that they bring to the workplace. It is an excellent follow up to their first book "When Generations Collide."

Life's Journey

Good afternoon from not so sunny Florida,

Ever since I was a child, I have been told that life is a journey. The only catch is that the journey defies science in that it is not the shortest route between two points. Life brings to us a whole collection of twists and turns along the way. Back in 2008 I had made the decision to achieve two goals both of which I achieved in 2009. The first was to go back to school ( who would have thought being older than most of the students in the classes) and get trained in the six sigma methodology. We completed this in May of 2009 getting the Six Sigma Black Belt from St Petersburg College. The other goal was to finally bite the bullet and earn my SPHR certification. We accomplished this in June of 2009. Our initial goal was to return to corporate America where I could put these new skills and knowledge to work on a daily basis. However as fate would have it, corporate America decided that since I have been a consultant since 1980, I did not fit into the “corporate square peg.”
As a result we have made the decision to return to the consulting arena and expand our services beyond just strictly corporate mobility. We have expanded our services and am currently assisting a non-profit organization in rewriting their policies manual. Our emphasis is going to be in the arena of the under 100 employees particularly those about to break the barrier of 50 or more employees.

We invite you to visit our reconfigured website at http://www.dbaiconsulting.com and see what we can now offer. If you have or know of a connection that might be in need of these services let me know how I might be of assistance to your network.

What Will They Think?

Twitter Donates Entire Tweet Archive to Library of Congress

Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress. Twitter is a leading social networking service that enables users to send and receive tweets, which consist of web messages of up to 140 characters.

Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets per day from people around the world. The Library will receive all public tweets-which number in the billions-from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.

From our client family

 Today Oakwood announced the promotion of T.J. Spencer to Vice President, Relocation & Managing Director, International. In her new role, Spencer leads the international sales effort, the operation and expansion of the Global Alliance Network, and maintains her responsibility for relocation industry sales.