Posts Tagged ‘Corporate Responsibility’

William Tincup-StarTincup Generous HR Marketing Guru

12th April
2010
written by Margo Rose

Every week, I seek out people doing extraordinary things in the Recruiting/HR community to be guests on Compassionate HR.  William Tincup exemplifies generosity, and encourages his employees to follow suit.  Tonight, William beautifully articulated his vision in supporting the arts in Texas where he documents public art of all genres.  In time, he will develop a walking trail brochure that will be a guide to all the noteworthy public art in the area.  The public art includes sculpture, horticultural art, monuments, and even paintings on buildings.  This project is called “Art Worth.”   He plans to document via the web (www.artworth.org).  He’s passionate about this project and hopes to inspire people to understand and appreciate public art.  He’s made a 5 year commitment to this project.  In addition he’s empowered his employees to engage and volunteer with the local Opera.  They’ve banded together to do fund raising events, and Opera appreciation.

In addition, his employees are involved in serving the Leukemia foundation.  They raise funds by getting donors to support their athletic events. Next year, they plan to build a home for habitat for humanity.  Now a little about his background:

“William Tincup is the co-owner of “the best human capital marketing firm in the world,” Starr Tincup (www.starrtincup.com).  He is active in social media (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) and blogs regularly at JPIE (www.jpie.com).  He is a graduate of Leadership Fort Worth (2004) and Tarrant County’s United Way Blueprint for Board Service (2004).  In 2007, he was honored as a “40 Under 40″  by the Fort Worth Business Press.  In 2008, he was featured on the cover of Strategy Magazine.  In 2008 and 2009, his firm was ranked among the “Best Places to Work” by The Dallas Business Journal.  In 2009, he was featured as a “Top Human Capital 100 Influencers” by John Sumser.

I invite you to check out his website, read his blog, and learn more about the innovative ways he is serving his community.  I’d personally like to thank him for being a guest on Compassionate HR.

Your twitter pal,

@HRMargo

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Corporate Responsibility and Employee Engagement

30th March
2010
written by Margo Rose
One of the most important take-aways from ERE Expo did not have to do with recruiting. It had to do with Corporate Philanthropy, Responsibility, and Volunteer Commitment. As the host of Compassionate HR, my role is to feature amazingly generous people doing incredible things. Nothing thrills me more when I hear about a Company engaging in an empathic volunteer project in their community.

I’m a flag waver for this cause. I am absolutely convinced that employee engagement begins with helping people feel apart of something larger than themselves, encouraging a sense of belonging to something meaningful and important that is not necessarily work-related. When employees are engaged in team volunteer project they are developing team building, communication, and leadership skills. The projects can work wonders in building employee brand loyalty. This is bound to have a positive impact on retention and recruitment efforts. When a company can boast their steward leadership, it builds good will in the community, and with candidates.
The United Way is a great organization that helps social services agencies in the community. I applaud their efforts. However, when employees are pressured to give through payroll deductions it can be demotivating in some cases. I assert it is better to get people to do something that doesn’t impact their pocket book. A project that engages their minds, and hearts is good for team spirit, an furthermore, they can see tangible results when the project is complete. Anything that makes a person feel good inside is valuable. It’s life enhancing, and empowering.
I used to be a corporate trainer who lead workshops on leadership, team building, conflict resolution, and communication. Recently, a light bulb lit up in my mind. All of these topics can be facilitated through a corporate volunteer project. I decided to launch a radio program that would feature these amazing people in our industry. I started doing research to find these people and companies who were going above and beyond the call of duty to demonstrate steward leadership.
For example, the team from Oracle built a library at a school in India, they developed an educ… Meg Bear,Vivian Wong and Amy Wilson spear headed the endeavor. These programs were instituted by employees, it was not a corporate imperative, however, Oracle supported them by provided them with resources, time off of work, and employee recognition and rewards when the projects were completed. It turned into a self-directed work team that accomplished great things for the global community. I was so inspired by their work, I had them as my first guest on Compassionate HR. I’ve been producing bi-weekly shows that feature extraordinary people in our industry that are engaged in their community, and world-wide.
At the ERE Expo several presenters discussed their global philanthropic efforts. They validated the point I am making. The charismatic presenter, Kat Drum shared what Starbucks is doing around the globe, as did talent acquisition guru Jeremy Eskenazi of Riviera Advisors. Corporate community efforts, and volunteerism is not just good PR, it’s good for recruiting efforts, HR employee recognition and retention programs. Think about how much organizations spend on employee satisfaction surveys, employee recognition programs. Think about how much stress is created when evaluating the cost of hire and retention. Just think about how compassion in action can benefit everyone.
My point is this: employee engagement is enhanced by providing a truly meaningful experience. Gerry Crispin said to me during the conference, “World Class Recruiters are not just people who are good at what they do, they are the ones doing great things in their communities.”

Tags: employee, engagement, recruiting, retention


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Gerry Crispin & Glenn Gutmacher-Recruiting Industry Leaders, Next on Compassionate HR

22nd March
2010
written by Margo Rose

You can’t go anywhere in the recruiting industry without hearing two names uttered: Gerry Crispin and Glenn Gutmacher. Master consultants, they lead our industry with the vision of leadership. Glen and Gerry equally impressed me because of their commitment to developing our future leaders. Not just in our industry, but in many industries, Crispin and Gutmacher wave the flag of corporate responsibility.
Compassionate HR is committed to shining a light on great leaders doing great things. In the words of Gerry Crispin, Board member of ERE: “World Class Recruiters are not just people who are good at what they do, they are individuals who are doing great things in their communities.”

Tune in this evening and hear their stories. Glen was kind enough to post the following paragraph on Arbita’s website:

Beyond Job Boards on CompassionateHR Blog Talk Radio

Glenn Gutmacher
Arbita’s Glenn Gutmacher and recruiting industry guru Gerry Crispin are the guests on the next edition of the popular online radio show, Compassionate HR, hosted by Margo Rose (also known as HRMargo). The topic will be “Beyond Job Boards”, the methods behind the popular webinar developed by Glenn and Shally that help job-seekers expand their methods for finding full-time or project work by using completely free online methods. Gerry is involved because he invited Glenn to present the webinar for the alumni association of his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology (one of several universities whose alumni associations have raved about Glenn and this webinar). Together, they will talk about this innovative example of how world-class recruiting research / sourcing methods can be flipped to benefit the job-seeker community — techniques that are 100% free to job-seekers to implement — in a way that scales better than 1-on-1 career counseling (though that’s very important work, too!) and open the discussion to other ways that recruiters can give back as well.

Login on Monday, March 22 at 7:30pm US Eastern Daylight Time / 4:30pm US Pacific to listen and/or ask your questions at

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/comphr

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