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Meghan M. Biro

Like most people who gravitate toward HR, Meghan loves people. Early in her career, Meghan realized she was a rare people person who understood tech. As a high tech recruiter, Meghan worked with hundreds of companies, from early-stage startups to global brands like Microsoft, IBM and Google. Meghan founded TalentCulture in 2008 to lead a conversation about the future of work with her peers in HR and leadership. These days, she is consistently included in lists of top online influencers and writes about HR tech and talent management at Forbes.com, SHRM.org and a variety of other media outlets. Her career background spans recruiting, tech, marketing, branding and digital media. As an HR tech analyst, author and brand strategist, Meghan is sought after for her ideas about the future of work, is a regularly featured speaker at global business conferences, and serves on boards for leading HR and technology brands.
Picture of Meghan M. Biro

Meghan M. Biro

Like most people who gravitate toward HR, Meghan loves people. Early in her career, Meghan realized she was a rare people person who understood tech. As a high tech recruiter, Meghan worked with hundreds of companies, from early-stage startups to global brands like Microsoft, IBM and Google. Meghan founded TalentCulture in 2008 to lead a conversation about the future of work with her peers in HR and leadership. These days, she is consistently included in lists of top online influencers and writes about HR tech and talent management at Forbes.com, SHRM.org and a variety of other media outlets. Her career background spans recruiting, tech, marketing, branding and digital media. As an HR tech analyst, author and brand strategist, Meghan is sought after for her ideas about the future of work, is a regularly featured speaker at global business conferences, and serves on boards for leading HR and technology brands.

Teams In and Out of the Workplace: #TChat Preview

Do you work with the person in the next cube, or is your closest associate half a world away? Do you work in an office with walls or an Internet café? Is your favorite mode of communication a quick water cooler chat, an IM or a detailed email? Are your go-to teammates working on your current project, with you, or working on other projects, elsewhere? Today it could be any or all of the above as people find themselves working in geographically distributed multigenerational teams. Even independent contributors work on teams. Whether you’re in an office or a cube, a train

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Loyalty and Engagement in the World of Work: #TChat Preview

An article in Knowledge @ Wharton on the issue of declining employee loyalty struck a chord with me. Our recent #TChat about brand humanization, employee engagement, and multigenerational workplaces also surfaced this as a consistent theme from our community: Leaders and HR practitioners are worried about employee loyalty and the costs, both organizational and financial, of less-loyal employees. In multi-generational workplaces, declining loyalty seems more apparent than ever. Younger workers are less attached to brands and more attached to causes and missions. Today, workplaces must offer not only relevant work, fair compensation, and clear goals: There also must be a shared

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The State of the Multigenerational World of Work: #TChat Preview

Here’s an interesting people factoid: At least three generations are playing in the workplace sandbox today, with a fourth set to join soon. The Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y are about to welcome Gen Z, sometimes called Gen 9/11. And we have more expected to arrive in the next decade. While the entrance of a new generation into the workplace often signals the exit of another, we don’t expect Boomers to move on to retirement as quickly as anticipated. Longer lifespans, better healthcare and a failing economy are creating unusual pressure on would-be retirees, keeping many in the workplace — and

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Uniting Business Vision & Brand (Or Not): #TChat Preview

Brand issues have been a hot button topic for us at The World of Work as of late. Employee brand has given way to employer brand — many companies find that their on-staff brand ambassadors have built huge personal brands and followings, but have failed to transfer that value to their employers. Personal branding has lost some of its shine, as pundits from the HR camp point out that personal brand cannot be allowed to trump employer brand when the force of an individual’s personal brand outweighs the messages and values of the company brand. So, after a couple of years of tentative introduction,

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Engage The Humans for Social HR Leadership: #TChat Preview

There’s a fun event today, Wed May 16th – A Live Social HR Camp being hosted from Vancouver, BC Canada and six other locales spread across four countries. It’s the first-ever SocialHRCamp, an un-conference aimed at  helping HR professionals collaborate to determine what it takes to leverage and integrate social media within the workplace. Pretty cool stuff. Also, check out Hashcaster for the live tweets and of course your favorite Twitter client. I’m also excited to play hostess, speaker for our Boston, MA event that will take place the first week of December here at Google Cambridge — Please stay tuned for

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Employers and Employees, Unite Your Brands! #TChat Preview

Employers are using social media to put a shine on brands. That’s no surprise, but what may be is the degree to which they’re letting employees’ voices be heard as part of that brand message — pretty exciting times for brands. Not all leader’s feel comfortable with the approach, however; we have witnessed many a branded message gone haywire and plenty of companies that wished they could have retracted tweets. It’s a strategy not without risk: Some individuals have strong personal brands, which may dilute the employer’s brand. Yet, since most employees have ready access to social media, the strategy has the feel of inevitability.

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Leaders Make Teams Better, Stronger…Weaker? #TChat Preview & Recap

It’s an old television show, but some in our community will recognize “The Six Million Dollar Man” in this week’s World of Work #TChat forum. I’m a complete sucker for pop culture in all forms so I could not resist this eight track flashback (HA) blast from the past. In anything but the smallest of organizations, you simply can’t be a leader without a solid team to back you up. It just doesn’t work, which is why there are so many books, columns, blogs and tweets about leadership. Yet leadership is an elusive trait for many people. Not everyone is a

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The 5 W's of Innovation: #TChat Preview

In business we’re always looking for trustworthy answers from leaders and employees, so why not borrow a method that’s worked well in another industry? Bloggers, writers, journalists — they learn a few things early on or along the way: how to write pyramid style, how to interview, the right questions to ask, and so on. There’s a standard set of questions: the who, what, when, where, why and how. It’s a simple approach with a little magic, and it usually elicits trustworthy answers. For this week’s World of Work #TChat, we’ll look at the five Ws that can lead to a culture of workplace innovation.

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Bringing the X Factor to HRO Forum's iTalent Competition

As a general rule (it’s part of my personality really) I try to withhold judgment, being an open-minded seeker of people talent in all forms and shapes entails this, but I’ve just been given an opportunity to be officially judgmental. HRO Today Forum, a lively and informative event for the HR and talent management industry, has invited me and several of my colleagues and friends to serve as judges for the 2012 HRO Today Forum’s Startup America Partnership iTalent Contest. The panel of judges — I’m still amazed and honored to be included — will review the latest HR, recruiting and talent

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Smart Leaders Check Their Teams' Talent Vitals: #TChat Preview

Understanding talent vitals, the heartbeat of your business — you don’t often hear the term “vital signs” applied outside healthcare, but in my Leadership and HR circles I’m hearing more people talking about “talent vitals,” so the term appears to have crossed the chasm. I’m all for bridging gaps between your people talent and metrics. Because it has, and because we’d like to know what you all think, talent vitals will be the topic for this week’s World of Work #TChat. If we go with the healthcare root of the term, a vital sign is one that indicates a state of health in

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Open Crowdsourced Innovation Revolution: #TChat Preview

Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is one of the informal definitions of absurdity — and insanity. Yet many businesses and leaders do just that. They repeat what they’ve always done, year after year, even as agile competitors swoop into their markets and blow up old business models. Google, Amazon, Apple — all have turned on their heads the old ways of getting things done, and the search engines, bookstores and computer consumer electronics companies blindsided by the innovation have fallen by the wayside. These aren’t one-trick ponies, either: These are innovative companies in the truest

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The Social Talent Show: Collaboration Will Save the Future of Work

Remember the enthusiasm for our first Social Talent Show? Well, now it’s rolling, and we’re working hard for you guys to prepare an awesome, disruptive and fun conversation this Wednesday. With our guest Bennett Resnik, founder of The Hands We Shake, we’ll chat about mapping the social graph within and outside the enterprise — i.e., retaining your best talent by understanding how they interact with others inside and outside your company. I’m looking forward to our conversation on Wednesday, because the world is changing dramatically, in terms of leadership and workplace. Addressing that will help us build the future of work and make it

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How Talented Is Your Online Community? #TChat Preview

We all live in social communities — not just physical neighborhoods, but online communities where people live and engage. Pick your passion, and there’s a social community for it. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn come to mind at first, but the list includes more interest-specific communities, too — e.g., BeKnown for job seekers, Ravelry for knitters and fiber artists, Orchid for jewelers, or the Steve Hoffman Forum for audiophiles. Pretty exciting, really — it’s why we here at TalentCulture and #TChat have been talking about talent communities for several months. But what about the concept of talent communities — are we really discovering the best talent available in these online communities?

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Yes, Recruiting Is Retention: #TChat Recap

When I talk to other recruiters and ask them what job #1 is, they’ll say it’s recruiting. And when I ask them where talent retention fits in their job descriptions, I often get a blank stare — or a slow head shake. But yesterday, during TalentCulture #TChat, I saw many nods of assent. We really enjoyed the topic, by the way: Putting recruiting and retention together is important to finding and growing outstanding teams of talent for employing organizations. Not everyone will agree with me on this notion, but who is responsible for retaining talent? In talent pro circles, the dynamics

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Recruiting is Retention: Yes or No? #TChat Preview

Hey, folks — by the time you read this I’ll be headed to sunny San Diego for ERE Expo 2012 Spring, a longstanding and educational conference put on by the folks over at ERE. I’ll be shaking hands with, sharing meals with and talking to an awful lot of recruiters. And if there’s one stance sure to get recruiters talking, it’s the one we’ve chosen for this week’s “#TChat, the World of Work“: Is recruiting retention? Of course not, some scoff. Obviously a recruiter’s job is to find the right fit, to place the right candidate in the right position. …right? Recruiting, at

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Community Paradigm: It's All About YOU!

The Fact of the Matter Every community develops their own definition of what matters. For some communities,  it’s motivated by a shared interest or a commitment to a specific change. For others, it’s professional best practices that can create a unified purpose. Some communities are even defined solely by the outcome of their environment stemming from completely circumstantial situations such as geography or an unforeseen event. When it comes to TalentCulture, relevance is not merely the static entity of a group of people who associate themselves with the World of Work.  TalentCulture is a space to recognize and redesign; an evolving

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Let's Get Engaged: #TChat Recap

It seems apt that our subhead for last night’s #TChat was “sticky” employees. …most of the attendees started out talking about the unseasonably warm weather and truthfully, the chat just heated up from there. After all, like so many noticed, getting it wrong is the easy part: A1: Employee recognition and engagement have remained the same in that most companies still do horribly with them both 🙂 #tchat (via Stephen Van Vreede) It’s true, many companies are lacking when it comes to engaging and retaining the employees they worked so hard to source and recruit. But we’re all in the world of

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Want Sticky Employees? Engage! #TChat Preview

When you think of employee engagement as practiced by many hiring leaders and organizations, does your mind flash to zombie movies? Yes? Well, you’re not alone. It turns out many managers can turn their employees into the walking dead — not through malice aforethought, but simply by forgetting that employees need to feel engaged and recognized, part of a team of contributors whose talents truly make a difference. By inspiring and engaging, smart leaders create sticky employees. Some leaders try to slap a Band-Aid on the problem by having lots of staff meetings. Yawn. Invariably, nothing is settled or resolved at

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Crowdsource the Love of Lists with Listly

I’m excited about a new social application that my friend, Nick Kellet, is championing. Nick, who recently joined List.ly as co-founder, is fired up and taking names. An entrepreneur who reminds me always to create value through the organically formed TalentCulture community to date and far beyond, Nick is tuned in to the value of brand awareness. He is all about dreaming BIG. And he’s on a mission: to humanize brands. I’m on the same mission. Despite brands’ desperate forays into social media and creating social community, human context and values are withering everywhere. That’s because most of these attempts have been

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Welcome to the Freelance Nation: #TChat Preview

It’s been a long time coming, but it appears we now live in Freelance Nation, at least according to TIME Magazine, which in February announced we’d seen the end of the full-time job. Fast Company predicted this in 1997, and the New York Times chimed in on the topic in 2000, just in time for the dotcom bust. So it’s an old meme. Or is it? I’m a big fan of Freelance Nation for many reasons. This time, it’s now again, and I may just give the notion a Woot, Woot. Here, in the United States, freelancers now number some 22 million

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It's All In the Relationships: #TChat Recap

I know you. Yes, I do. We’ve never met in person, but we’ve known each other for years. We’ve commiserated, collaborated, agreed to disagree, shared moments of divine glory and debilitating sadness, done business together, referred business to each other, rejected business ideas, self-promoted, self-deprecated — We’ve never met in person, but I know you. Yes, I do. It’s easy to talk about how going to conferences gives us an opportunity to do business, to network, to learn–to relax and have fun and get out of the office. It also gives us the opportunity to meet in person those of whom

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The Social Talent Show: Step Right Up!

Talent shows — as a former choreographer and dancer, I have fond memories of them. No matter what the venue or purpose, putting on a talent show is at once challenging and rewarding. Pulling off a performance that wows the crowd and leaves you on top of the world is an incredible feeling. Everyone’s happy and excited for more. It’s a palpable sense of having served others, of having contributed to their joy. That’s why we can’t wait to launch the Social Talent Show. Teaming with UpMo, TalentCulture (#TChat) is putting on a series of interactive online events, and today, March 6, marks the

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IRL Networking Is Face-to-Face, not F2F: #TChat Preview

I go to conferences because I love people, the buzz of face-to-face and meeting people who inspire me. I’m not one these people that always wants to be the star of the show necessarily. If my role at a conference is to present and deliver you new and exciting information well then I’m in of course. I play this role on a regular basis and enjoy sharing with you very much. People who meet me IRL (in real life) often say I’m more interesting in person than I am “online” – This makes me laugh and it’s likely true. Many of

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