Discover Articles Written by Darren A. Smith for HR.com

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Our founder, Darren A. Smith, has been busy sharing his insights with the likes of The Grocer, KamCity and the BBC and has now included HR.com in that list.

From why HR is the weakest link to delving deeper in the question ‘how are you?’ Darren works with the team at HR.com to share his expertise to shape the future HR generation.

About HR.com

HR.com is the largest social network for HR professionals and they strive to educate the next batch of HR leaders, managers and educators through flexible training and events.

They also offer the most comprehensive HR certification exam preparation and guarantee a passing score on all SHRM and HRCI certification exams.

You can explore each of Darren’s articles below:

How Are You? Let’s Give This Question The Upgrade it Deserves

With the pandemic hopefully in our rear-view mirror, I was again able to stay away in a hotel. A client meeting. The next morning checking out that question came, ‘Did you enjoy your stay, Sir?’. My reply, like most people’s, ‘Yes, good thanks’. The hotel has no interest in really knowing how my stay was. This is a question asked at every hotel checkout desk around the world, in every language, and has been asked for one hundred years.

This article was published by HR.com on the 4th May 2022. You can read the article on HR.com. Alternatively, you can view it on our blog.

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‘HR, You are the Weakest Link – Goodbye’

This was a finding by the Corporate Leadership Council having surveyed 16,000-line managers. The HR people were criticised for 3 things in particular: lacking business acumen, bad workforce planning and poor engagement strategies. There are three ways to look at this data. From the HR perspective, from the line managers’ perspective, and how we change this data for the future. Let’s begin with the line manager.

This article was published by HR.com on the 27th October 2022. You can read the article on HR.com. Alternatively, you can view it on our blog.

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