Saturday Blueprint With Michael Lombardi (The Daily Coach: January 18, 2025)

Quotes from the Article of Interest:

1. "So much of the problem with assessment comes back to a lack of direction. If you don’t define who you intend to be, how can you ever figure out what’s wrong with your organization? Without that clarity, you’re just lost—making really good time, but going nowhere."

2. "You’ve got to create a sense of belonging so people can take coaching, not criticism. Building a team is a spiritual challenge—it’s about creating a connection that’s bigger than any one person. It’s a profound communion between people, tied to a purpose greater than themselves. When you have that, you can assess the team. Without it, you’re building on shaky ground. You might be right; you might be wrong, but there’s no real foundation."

3. "Building a winning culture comes down to these three core areas: devotion versus loyalty, accountability versus responsibility, and being on the same page versus alignment. If you don’t have these worked out—if you haven’t clearly defined them and built your organization around them—you have no chance of building a championship team, no matter how much talent you have. But when you focus on these principles, you create the right culture. And when you create the right culture, the right people will follow."

7 Trends That Will Shape HR in 2025 (SHRM, January 14, 2025)

 

AI’s Impact on Talent Strategy

As AI usage becomes ever more ubiquitous, an increasing number of organizations are harnessing this still-evolving technology to transform talent acquisition. However, that’s a relatively recent development—of the 1 in 4 organizations that use AI to support HR-related tasks, nearly two-thirds only began doing so in 2023, according to SHRM’s 2024 Talent Trends: Artificial Intelligence in HR report. 

In other words, most organizations have yet to tap into AI’s vast number of potential applications. Those who are, though, most commonly put AI into play to support recruitment, interviewing, and hiring by streamlining or increasing efficiency. What does that look like in practice?

• Nearly 2 in 3 companies use AI to develop job descriptions.

• More than 42% use it to customize or target job postings to specific groups.

• Around two-thirds use AI to review or screen applicant resumes, communicate with applicants during the interview process, or automate candidate searches. 

“By streamlining these tasks, we’re really seeing employees who feel they’re able to be more efficient and effective, and as a result, they’re more engaged,” Link says.

The use of AI can also be a boon to improving diversity in the applicant pool, SHRM’s research shows, with nearly 30% of companies reporting that AI allows them to better tap into underrepresented talent networks.

In addition to talent acquisition, HR professionals are drawing on AI to increase and encourage workforce knowledge and development, identify gaps in employee knowledge, and track employees’ learning and development progress.

“The best employers today are basically offering very large learning management systems (LMSs) so people can tackle any type of learning that they want to have,” Link says.

That is key, he explains, because many younger employees are no longer content to wait years to gain exposure to certain skills or experiences. Employers that give these workers the knowledge they seek may be able to hang onto them longer.

Articles of Interest for February 6, 2019

#GetSET - Strategic • Engaged • Teamwork

How enthusiasm can give job applicants an edge (Business 2 Community)
https://www.business2community.com/human-resources/nothing-sells-better-than-enthusiasm-in-the-job-interview-02165526

5 Tips from Nike Recruiters on How to Ace Your Tech Interview (Work It Daily)

https://www.workitdaily.com/tips-nike-recruiters-tech-interview/

4 Ways Simplifying Your Choices Leads to Better Results (Mick Ukleja, Success.com)
https://www.success.com/4-ways-simplifying-your-choices-leads-to-better-results/

Article of Interest for November 30, 2018

Twice in my professional career, I have not made a transition in my employment career with a gap in the employment. During both gaps, I enrolled in coursework to gain additional skills as well as refine others that have both proved to benefit me in the short and long-term. This article about Job Search Depression expresses some advice that I thought would help people break through in the process.

Job Seeking Depression (The Ladders, Nov. 29, 2018)

Articles of Interest for November 26, 2018

“Abundance flows into your life
when GRATITUDE flows out of your heart.”
- Jon Gordon

An edited picture from my walk on the campus of Pacific University,
where I serve as the Sports Information Director on Sunday, November 25

Articles of Interest (May 21, 2018)

It's been a while since I last added to my blog and now that is the summer months, I feel that this is an opportunity to pick up where I left off. This blog has been established to work with job seekers and job holders to integrate the methods of #GetSET. SET stands for Strategic • Engaged • Teamwork. I hope you'll find some articles of interest that you can read. If you have an article that you'd like to contribute, send me an email.

Strategic
• How to Make Yourself More Valuable (Jim Rohn, May 21, 2018)

Engaged
• What to Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer (Glassdoor, May 18, 2018)
• Why It's Best to Be Curious During Job Interviews (FastCoDesign, May 19, 2018)

Teamwork
• Leave Your Administrative Job and Find Out Who Your Friends Aren't (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2018

Articles of Interest (Feb. 20, 2018)

SET - Strategic • Engaged • Teamwork

Strategic
• Choosing to Make a DIfference Makes You a Leader (HERC Smart Brief/Leadership, 2/12/18)
• Weekly Career Hack: Are you a Career Olympian? (Brand Your Career, 2/17/18)
• How Thinking Strategically Can Boost a Career (Forbes, 2/20/18)
• How I Went from Being a NBA Publicist to an Author and Podcast Host (Muse, 2/20/18)

Engaged
• How Giving In To Distraction Can Improve A Career (Ladders, 2/14/18)
• Be Careful What You Put on Your LinkedIn Profile (Forbes, 2/14/18)
• Use a Checklist to Avoid Errors on a Resume (Glassdoor, 2/14/18)
• Growth = Change (Leadership Promises by John Maxwell, 2/21/18)

Teamwork
• Listen to your staff -- that's why you hired them (Lead Today, 2/5/18)

Interview tips
• Avoid These Common Interview Mistakes (CNBC, 2/13/18)


Of Note...
• 2018 CoSIDA U Camp (June 25-26)
If you are in the early years and/or months of your sports information career, this is a program that is suited for you. 

• CoSIDA Convention (June 27-30)
If you plan on being in attendance and would like to meet up, let me know.