Stories written by Dan HanyzewskiDan Hanyzewski is Managing Partner of West Shore Partners LLC / Redmitten.com, a niche consulting firm focused on delivering high-end solutions to a range of Human Resources, Procurement, Operational, and Finance clients. He is currently engaged by Sunrise Systems as a principal to aggressively grow that firm and Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB) to assist Kelly’s Outsourcing and Consulting Group build out additional capabilities in employment branding, recruitment strategy, and contingent workforce management.
His clients have included Motorola, Northrop, Kraft, Arthur Anderson, Rockwell International, Beatrice, Farley Industries, and Household International.
Prior to Red Mitten, Dan was Director, Talent Acquisition for Nike, and was responsible for Nike’s Global talent acquisition organization, branding, and program architecture of their Global Contingent Labor Program, Assist!. This program has been benchmarked as a “best practice” program for Contingent Workforce Management and Services Procurement.
In his Nike role, Dan leveraged macro trends in the consumer market space to build brand relevance in the candidate experience across the employment lifecycle. This was supported by specialized staff, digital communications e.g. social networks, interactive websites, blogs, RSS feeds, etc. It was also supported by multimedia investments that exploited the Brand Heritage Story and gave candidates an emotional connection to the brand.
Before joining Nike, he had been the Director of Worldwide Staffing for Lucent’s International Network Services business, and Director of North American Recruitment for iGate (formerly known as Mastech).
He has been integral in the staffing organizational development of several firms including but not limited to, Data General, SHL, Ameritech Information Systems, Motorola, and, in its inception, as a major contributor to Cisco Systems.
Dan has worked extensively with the Executive Branch of these and other organizations and has been regarded as an important resource and thought leader. Dan has demonstrated a consistency and an acute awareness of what is required to add value to the services he is chartered with providing. An internationally sought-after speaker on recruitment, employer branding, and contingent workforce management, he has been a key note speaker at numerous Talent Acquisition, HR and Professional Association Conferences throughout the world.
Business literacy is defined in SHRM’s Business Literacy Glossary as “the knowledge and understanding of the financial, accounting, marketing and operational functions of an organization.” Business Dictionary .com defines it as: Extensive experience in dealing with commercial matters that yields a prompt and appropriate response to issues that typically have a favorable outcome. One of the best characteristics to look for in a senior executive is well developed business acumen that typically comes from the combination of experience and having the innate mental agility needed to deal quickly with business situations as they arise.
April 4, 2012 | Posted in
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In one of his classes, Deepak Chopra, the founder of the Chopra Foundation, talks about what he calls “the soul of leadership” and says “that leaders appear when awareness meets need.” He goes on to suggest that there is a hierarchy of needs that contributes to what roles a leader has to address once that person steps into this void. Even though this premise feels reasonable and pragmatically comforting I am not at all convinced in the practicality of this theory in real terms. Are leaders really made not born? In the midst of chaos and stress can someone who knows what a group needs really prioritize and fill the Leadership Vacuum?
How often have you heard it said, “He or she had the greatest credentials and experience and were perfect for the job,” only to be miserably disappointed that they were a total failure in the environment they were hired into. I would wager to say this happens more than we care to discuss. Most often it relates to the question posed regarding the cultural fit.
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