Jilaine had a fab time with host and HR thought leader Mark Franklin talking about how and why, with Bruce Croxon (Co-Founder of Lavalife and a star of CBC’s Dragon’s Den), she launched Sprigg, allowing easier, faster and metric-driven employee reviews

Listen to Jilaine

Last week, Shanna Landolt and Tim Baker were interviewed on the show about their career paths and the upcoming SocialHRCamp event led by Jeff Waldman.

Shanna Landolt, Tim Baker and Jilaine Parkes have all been guests on Mark Franklin’s CareerBuzz radio show

Sadly Jeff was taken ill and so couldn’t make the show so our very own Marketing Manager, Bill Banham, did a cameo to plug this month’s hottest HR ticket.

Not yet booked your ticket to SocialHRCamp? Learn more.

Mark Franklin and his team will be in attendance to meet and interview attendees and speakers.

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The project will directly fund the building of a school in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Working in the communities of Mondaña and Bellavista, both in the Napo province, Free The Children is developing sustainable community partnerships to ensure children have safe and wonderful places to learn and so that communities are empowered to change their circumstances and lift themselves out of poverty.

– See more at: http://socialhrcamp.com/socialhrcamp-partners-with-free-the-children/#sthash.5tZh66tn.dpuf

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Established in 2012 as the first-ever global HR Unconference, November’s #SHRC14 will focus on bridging the business case of social media and new technologies.  With a vision to inspire HR leaders and organizations to take the next step with social media, the Camps provide the opportunity for participants to design a learning path in partnership with local and global thought leaders.

Toronto, Nov 2014: Sign up here to apply for a complimentary guest pass today:

Sprigg Talent Management Solutions is once again partnering with the SocialHRCamp ‘Unconference’ series around Canada and USA and will a Sponsor at the Toronto Camp in November 2014. Sprigg Founder & President Jilaine Parkes is scheduled to offer a talk on performance management software an better ways to achieve social engagement.

Contact Sprigg today to apply for a FREE GUEST PASS*

SocialHRCamp (#SHRC14) is the catalyst to accelerating HR’s adoption to social media. This is a key event for HR professionals in the GTA looking to learn more about new local business technologies and to learn lots of new social media tips from some of North America’s leading Social Media experts.

Produced by well known Canadian HR social media guru, Jeff Waldman, the event attracts HR professionals and business leaders. Here’s the day’s agenda.

About SocialHRCamp
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* Limited time offer. Offer ends July 30th 2014. Applicants must be HR professionals or in related role. Sprigg reserves the right of discretion when allocation tickets.

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Sprigg Talent Management Solutions – Simple, Intuitive, Mobile Friendly & Cloud-Based Talent Management Software

One of the core functions within human resources is performance management.  The idea is relatively simple.  HR possesses the expertise to support the organization; people managers, executives and employees to improve individual and collective performance.  This is not a new concept at all.  The big questions is, “have we as an HR profession figured out how to do this well”?  As an HR practitioner with more than 13 years of direct HR experience working with a variety of small to large organizations I would say, “no”.

For many HR practitioners a typical performance management system is loaded with processes, documents, guidelines, rules, forms and anything else you can think of.  This exists because of our desire to be fair and equitable, be legislatively compliant and reports.  Ask yourself this question.  Have these traditional systems and processes successfully boosted employee performance?  The answer is clear, “N. O.”  These systems are typically complex and focused on promoting the wrong behaviour, all misaligned with improving performance.  Ideally they may make sense but practically they don’t.

Enter Sprigg Talent Management Systems

I have been following Sprigg Talent Management Solutions for a couple of years now and have been impressed with their platform, simply because it has a fantastic and easy-to-use interface, its set of core features are ones that HR actually needs (unlike other platforms that are laden with too many features that are not needed), is mobile friendly and incorporates social principles (including gaming).

When it comes to HR technology, the key things that make for good HR software are user experience (particularly onboarding and customization), mobile, integration and analytics.  Sprigg Talent Management Solutions hits each one with flying colours.

Flexibility

The biggest observation of the Sprigg platform is its flexibility from a user experience perspective.  The technology is well thought-out from the administration panel to goal setting to people manager tools.  A fantastic feature is the social platform that enables employees to share status updated with one another.  This one-stop-shop platform that can be used from a smartphone, tablet and laptop computer allows for huge flexibility in when, where and how the tool is used.  Simply put the more user friendly it is the more it will be adopted and used on an ongoing basis.

At the End of the Day…

Software that meets the criteria mentioned above will always beat out its competition.  More importantly, if the tool truly helps solves a REAL business challenge/problem then you know it’s a winner.  Sprigg Talent Management Solutions does this.  It’s a great piece of software that I believe really does help organizations improve employee performance.

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The ‘unconference’ attracted over 100 HR and related professionals from Canada, USA and UK and was the largest event yet from Jeff Waldman, Salima Nathoo and their team of HR social media gurus and sponsors.

This was a fantastic event for HR professionals interested in HR technologies and social media. The quality of presentations and the enthusiasm from the audience was first rate.

Watch out for reports and findings to be released from SHRC and Sprigg’s partner, HRreview magazine, in the coming weeks.

Here’s a selection of tweets from the Nov 1st event:

1. Linda Jonas ‏@LinJonas 

   +100 “@qc_lady: “Be authentic, responsive & accessible to create engagement.” @raehanbobby #SHRC13 << also accountable”

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2. HRreviewNorthAmerica ‏@HRreviewNA

   The benchmarks for content marketing success #SHRC13

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3. hr virtual recruiter ‏@Hr_VirtualGirl

   Grazie mille @JeffWaldmanHR and @SocialSalima for organizing a fabulous day #SHRC13

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4. Shanlli Fermin ‏@ShanlliFermin

   RT “@SocialHRCamp: Thank you to our sponsors, speakers and volunteers for making this event possible! #SHRC13”

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5. Bobby Umar ‏@raehanbobby

   Thanks all for awesome leadership! RT @CorporateHRGirl: Great event today! Fantastic! @SocialSalima @JeffWaldmanHR #SHRC13

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6. Sprigg Talent Mgmt ‏@SpriggTMS 4h

   Content marketing and HR talk at #SHRC13. The crowd are loving it!

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7. Emily Koolen ‏@emilykoolen

   Thank you @SocialHRCamp & all the engaged attendees! Amazing way to end the week! Great to connect & re-connect with so many peeps! #shrc13

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8. SocialHRCamp ‏@SocialHRCamp

   Thank you to our sponsors, speakers and volunteers for making this event possible! #SHRC13

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9. Rachelle Falls ‏@CorporateHRGirl

   Great event today! Fantastic! @SocialSalima @JeffWaldmanHR #SHRC13

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10. Samantha Sandell ‏@qc_lady

    “Be authentic, responsive & accessible to create engagement.” @raehanbobby #SHRC13 << also accountable

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Within the HR and Recruiting space we are absolutely inundated with events — conferences, unconferences, workshops, seminars, webinars, virtual events and so on.  Each event offers some kind of value that we in the community can realize by attending, some more so than others.  The 16th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition is taking place in just a few days; October 7-9 in Las Vegas, and I will be attending for the first time.

I am absolutely stoked about it as every single possible HR technology platform will be there showing off their stuff and giving us the latest and greatest in HR tech.  With all of the hype surrounding this event, I have asked myself one question. — “why is HR Tech important to attend”?

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