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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

In fact, if you take a close look at the data, it’s amazing how bad many of us in business are at utilizing our time and staying focused on our goals. The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. But as it turns out, being busy doesn’t necessarily equate to being effective.

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Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program

Harvard Business Review

Some organizations actively attempt to raise awareness of potentially harmful gender biases through training programs and policies that favor gender equality in the workplace. Diversity training may be a good first step in raising awareness of gender and other biases. Diversity Gender Human resources'

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Cross-disciplinary training: On a regular basis have members of different departments lead instructional discussions on their particular specialty. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. Most HR groups sit back and wait for requests from the business for administrative people transactions. But not at IBM.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business Review

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. Right now, there are no national guidelines on “best practices” for hiring, training, and integrating locum tenens.