When you are told to grip your club like you would a tube of toothpaate, you just know that Golf is a sport filled with imagery. The rich visual phrases designed to help everyone from the novice to the expert "see" how to perform is a great learning technique. (Unfortunately I'm just really slow applying the knowledge and not only is my handicap far from acceptable but my toothpaste tubes are looking a little squashed lately).

 

I'm beginning to think Staffing is moving in the same direction...and its probably good thing. 

 

Mike Kannisto's "Bait and Switch" story as well as Maureen Sharib's "Catch and Release" article were both great colorful phrases expanded into ERE articles recently that I thoroughly enjoyed. Both put practices into perspective in a very visual way.

 

And then last Thursday in the midst of a "future trends" panel while sitting between Madeline Tarquino from ERE and Elaine Orler from Knowledge Fusion at Peopleclick's conference (Bill Kutik was a great moderator managing several potential loose cannons on stage with his usual aplomb) one more phrase caught my ear: Hay on the Needle.

 

Elaine came up with it responding to a question about staffing metrics and the extent to which we often overmeasure process rather than results with the former clouding the reading of the latter. I loved reversing the needle-in-a-haystack cliche.