What Happened To Lance's Posts?

At some point this last year, I was posting to my blog 2-4 times a week and all was right in the world. A couple of months ago, that stopped. I’ve still posted about once a week but that was it. I’ve received a couple messages about the drought and thought I would give you an update.

Back in the olden days, I was barely writing anything. So it was easy to do 2-4 posts a week with no sweat. With my new position at ERE, I was doing a bit more writing but it wasn’t significant. As we were talking about launching TLNT, I knew I’d be involved but I didn’t know how much. That’s where the shift occurred.

I was committed to doing three posts a week on TLNT. I still did a SmartBrief poll (which seems a lot easier than it is), this blog, occasional posts on ERE as well as adding or featuring content from the community. This blog is left out in the cold a little bit. Sometimes I figure out what people want to still talk about here and other times I don’t.

In any case, many of you aren’t subscribed to TLNT yet and if you like what I do here, I think you’ll really like what I’m bringing to the new site (it’s even edited for clarity!). Here are excerpts from a few of my recent pieces:

Thanks For Doing Your Job, Now Here’s Your Pink Slip: So people that worked for the Miami Heat the last couple of years probably thought it was a good gig. The team was a bit up and down and the fan base is generally dispassionate about basketball. After the LeBron acquisition though, the job was really quite good for a couple of weeks — until you ran out of tickets to sell.

Sometimes, HR Should Plan The Office Party: I’ve got news for you: sometimes a party needs planning, and sometimes, you’re the somebody that’s going to make that happen. Now, I don’t know many people who like planning parties. And pre-HR, I didn’t know anything about planning a party outside of what we did in college. That primarily consisted of securing a keg of the cheapest beer, spreading the word, and keeping freeloaders from the tap. This experience didn’t help me that much unless I was going to be working with a bunch of other college students.

Want to Retain Good, Young HR Pros? You Better Recognize Them!: As a young HR pro, you get hammered with the worst kind of work. I remember doing weeks of number crunching on our self-insured benefits data only to find my boss taking credit for discrepancies I found. When I pushed for several changes in a single department to help with retention and culture and got them approved, guess who took credit for the changes he was once fighting? The department manager, of course.

How Will Employee Training Change in Free Agent Nation?: And that’s why, for the most part, that sort of long-term, external training or tuition reimbursement will simply just go away. It will disappear from offer sheets and policy handbooks and then out of the memories of the few people that remembered a time when a company wanted you to develop on their dime. Now I’ve been with companies that don’t do tuition reimbursement or external training and personally, it doesn’t bother me. But I’ve talked to many folks who have lamented this change and blamed every generation, company, and even unions.

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