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Someone to Know: Q&A with Alyeska Pipeline Director of Human Resources Fred Millen

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Fred Millen, Director of Human Resources at Alyeska Pipeline is an HR guru who specializes in workforce planning, employee development succession planning and more. With a background in Theology, he’s a wonderful storyteller, speaker and counselor to many.

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Turning Observation into Innovation

Leading Blog

It requires skills that too few have developed. In the case of Centenary College, “we needed to experience the college as if we were students, to understand it as if we were their families, and to visualize it through the eyes of high school guidance counselors or a business’s human resource staff.” Capture the stories.

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Why Reframing is Important to Great Leadership

Leading Blog

This idea, of course, is to develop the ability to use the appropriate frame or script to generate a unique approach to handling challenging circumstances instead of relying upon our tried and true default approaches. Human Resources — Leader’s role as coach. Symbolic — Leader’s role as storyteller.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Last week, I had a short conversation with one of my colleagues in HR about the all important topic of employee engagement. Megha By Conor Neill , August 6, 2010 @ 12:34 pm Storytelling is a skill - it can be developed with practice.

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Future of HR: The Transition to Performance Advisor

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Most HR Departments have developed a matrix HR Structure with Generalists (Advisors or Business Partners) mixed with Specialists (in Centers of Excellence, aka COEs). HR Professionals must be “data storytellers.” HR Professionals who develop these competencies will thrive in future organizations.

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Possibility Maximizer: Tom Peters Little Big Things Video Series

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   He is an excellent storyteller and has no problem communicating a clear and powerful message in these very short video segments.  Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

However, time and again, organizations are reminded of the benefits of investing in the engagement levels and efficiency of their human resource. We’d be lying if we said companies loved them either as the process of organizing and scheduling team activities for work can be quite laborious.