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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Miki Saxon presents How to Improve Your Management Skill at MAPping Company Success. Laura Schroeder presents Is Attrition a Key Component of Retention? Managers can’t let fear rule their decision making – Sharlyn Lauby presents Handling Workplace Retaliation posted at HR Bartender. posted at Purposeful Leadership.

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How American Express Transformed Its Call Centers

Harvard Business Review

To attract the right candidates, we changed the job descriptions to make clear that relationship skills are more important than the positions' purely transactional elements. Our service margins are up approximately 10% since we started our reinvention, and between 2006 and 2009, U.S. employee attrition was cut in half.

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Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis

Harvard Business Review

There was no trained manpower available in Hyderabad, unlike traditional hubs of diamond polishing like Surat, Gujarat in western India, where diamond polishing skills are passed down generation to generation. In return, the company got a workforce of loyal employees, with less attrition and higher productivity compared to other firms.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. The web site connects people with needs (NGOs or volunteers driving a social cause) to people who can give (volunteers who can donate their time, skill, or resources).