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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

The battle of the world against the pandemic shook up the workplace, requiring swift accommodation and responses to skills gaps and skill shifts. Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. The Skills Dilemma. And what skills will matter to you and your organization in the future? . “If

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10 Shocking Statistics About Employee Engagement

Chart Your Course

Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Summary. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Research Paper February 2013. Aon’s 2009 Benefit and Talent Survey Aon, 2009. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Summary. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Research Paper February 2013. Aon’s 2009 Benefit and Talent Survey Aon, 2009.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills. What would happen if no decision is made?

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How To Persuade When Compensation Isn’t Offered

The Horizons Tracker

This remarkable ability to solicit support without a traditional transactional exchange is an invaluable skill, particularly in today’s digital era characterized by a barrage of written appeals vying for attention in our email inboxes and social media feeds on a daily basis.

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If We Know HOW To Be Happy, How Come We Still Can?t BE Happy?

Terry Starbucker

Back in 2009 I read a piece in the New York Times by David Brooks about Vaillant and the study , in response to a longer piece published in the Atlantic about the same time entitled “ What Makes Us Happy ” written by Joshua Wolf . Well, not exactly. It doesn’t always work that way.

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Older Workers Are Just As Keen On Learning As Younger Workers

The Horizons Tracker

The study finds that people who are close to retiring are just as interested in learning new skills as their younger peers, even if there is no strict need for them to do so. In 2009, which was the final year of the program, there were around 320,000 workers enrolled, or roughly 8% of the population in this age group.

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High School Educated Black Men Earn Half Their White Equivalents

The Horizons Tracker

This is a problem as the labor market increasingly requires advanced skills to even earn an average salary. The researchers examined data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 and were able to track earnings disparities among men and women across racial and ethnic lines.