2016: A Great Year in HR & Beyond!

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough
Twenty-five years ago, I took my first class in Human Resources.  Shortly after that, I was a Cooperative Education student with the Department of Health & Human Services’ Regional Personnel Office in Dallas (as a GS-3) then a GS-4 in their Assistant Secretary for Personnel Administration in Washington, D.C.  Twenty years ago, I landed an opportunity with NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Human Resources Office in Houston, Texas, and it’s been a fun career ever since then.

So, for this final post of 2016, I’d like to spend some time reflecting on the year, especially as it relates to my family, career, and side business.  Then, I’ll share my favorite 2016 Blog Posts as well as my favorite book posts from the past year.

But first, I’d like to go back to 2008.  As part of my NASA Leadership Development Program experience, I took a class sponsored by the Society of HR Management on the “HR Scorecard:  Linking People, Strategy, and Performance” in preparation for my rotation assignment to The World Bank’s International Finance Department, where I was slated to help them develop a risk management framework for HR.  The class was based on the 2001 book The HR Scorecard by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich.

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