German HR's of 2013 - Innovators and Influencers

From Ralf Junge's blog entry: Personaler des Jahres 2013 – Innovatoren und Influencer

The start of a nw year is usually a great opportunity to look back at last years important and exciting events and highlights. From me as well, happy new year, I wish you a healthy and successful 2014. And I am looking forward to great topics and discussions.

Behind all achievements of 2013 stood important people and deciders - partially innovators, whom we follow and whose trends we are admire and/ or copy. Here I go, presenting you my personal Top 5 of the HR-Influencer of 2013.

Sirka Laudon (Leader Personnel Development, Axel Springer AG): Right at the beginning of 2013 I received an important impulse regarding Learning in Company. In line with the HRBarCamp in February she held a session about Guerilla Learning – for me, this is an innovative path for spreading knowledge within a company. I wish to see more of these creative and innovative approaches, past the conservative ways. Just dare something  - sounds almost like a great resolution for 2014.

Thomas Sattelberger (former Chief HR Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG): The working world as we know it is changing. With it also the organisation of companies, the leadership of employees and last but not least the recruiting and personnel development as well. Obviously most companies are still ducking this matter, hiding behind blinkers. Doing so they miss the change and will have to live with the consequences eventually. Thomas Sattelberger put the future of HR-work into German words with these central theses. This is why he is one of the leading figures of innovatibe HR-work of 2013.

Robindro Ullah (Head of Employer Branding and HR Communication, Voith GmbH): Work in Human Resources is not always dead serious, actually there is a grand amount of humor with it. And sometimes it is appropriate to  laugh at oneself. Looking at the current HR-scene of Germany one could believe quite easily HR ought to be about a bunch of grimmy, humorless HR's. That this isn't the case at all shows us  Robind together with Maité Jagau and the Human Resources Tumblr, where countless HR-topics are caricatural and encountered with a great portion of humor. 

Jannis Tsalikis (HR Director, VICE Germany GmbH): Speaking about humor - the Golden Mangel Award was definitely one of the Highlights of the HR-year 2013. (even cited and talked about in newspaper. Which is why I count Jannis to one of the distinguishing people of last year. Together with Henner Knabenreich he initiiated the award. Unfortunately, not all companies were able to show the same humor. This being said, I wish for more humor in 2014. 

Thorsten Petry (Professor, Wiesbaden Business School): Thanks to the rather controversial HR-Blog Ranking does Thorsten Petry count to the more critical HR-people of the last year.  But the ranking tightened the Blogger.Community and made us reflecting our blogs more intense, fiying the negatives (faster). 

So what do we take from the HR-year 2013? It is simple: more bravery for unconventional means, more innovating drive, more humor and more reflection of our work - actually quite good achievements. 

Before all shout out and claim incompletion or even feel insulted - these are my personal Top 5. What are yours? I am looking forward to reading about your personal Top 5 HR-people of 2013.

Ralf

My personal review to 2013 and preview to 2014...

From Jannis Tsalikis' blog entry: Mein ganz persönlicher Rückblick auf 2013 und Ausblick auf 2014 ...

Hello dearest readers and friends of employer brand's friend and especially the German version as well "Mein Freund die Arbeitgebermarke". I am back on track. After almost four weeks of Social Media hibernation I am finally and officially back online.

Looking back at 2013 this short hibernation was needed. 2013 was a very moving and exciting year for me. Just to sum up a few highlights, there was the HR BarCamp 2013 at the Ahoy, different events where I was allowed to narrate, such as the HR vs. PR in Leipzig or the 8. HR Lounge in Berlin.  In the book "Innovative Talentstrategien" I was honored to contribute an input to "Die Karrierewebsite - die virtuelle Repräsentanz des Arbeitgebers" (the career website - the virtual represence of employers). And the year was crowned with the Golden Mangel Award on December 4th (picture below). Last but not least, I switched employers and went from the PR-Agency of the year (MSLGroup Germany) to the Magazine of the year (VICE Germany).

2014. The year has just begun and new, exciting events are already in the pipeline. The HR BarCamp 2014 is in march! Now at (an even better) location, within the heart of Berlin. On top of that, there are further events I will be attending and narrate a little or hold a workshop, i.e. the Personalmarketingkongress 2014 in Munich or the Zukunft Personal in Cologne. Well, and after the great success of the Golden Mangel Award 2013, there will most likely be one in 2014.

It is going to be again quite a year of interesting, exciting, controversial and teaching moments. That things (will) happen as they did I owe especially to my friends and contributors! Thank you, Christoph! Thank you, Ralf! Thank you, Henner! Thank you, Stefan Peukert! Thank you, Jo! Thank you, Nina! Thank you, Robindro! Thank you, Jörn! Thank you, Frau Ewers! Thank you, Herr Böttger! Thanks ti the guys from Wollmilchsau! Thank you, softgarden (especially Sibylle)! Thanks to the BPM (especiall Nina)! Thank you, WuV! Thanks to MSL Germany! Thanks to VICE Deutschland! And thanks be to many more colleagues and friends I cannot name right now. Cheers to 2013 and 2014 to be great!

Jannis