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Are We Setting Our Leaders Up For Success?

CoachStation

Maybe you can relate to the following scenario I originally presented in 2012. Effective leadership can have a significant benefit on a team or business culture, personnel satisfaction, attrition, sickness levels and the bottom line. 1) That is only part of the story. You started in a company at a lower level.

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The Peril of Untrained Entry-Level Employees

Harvard Business Review

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. Such attrition represents an unnecessary setback for the employers who will have to go through the expensive process of finding and attracting promising young talent again.

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To Crack the Glass Ceiling, Start with Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. Overall, there is a serious rate of attrition in STEM-related jobs, with 56% of women leaving by mid-career to do something entirely different.

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Nonprofits Need to Compete for Top Talent

Harvard Business Review

Growing the organization helps us to serve more students directly, but it also drives down staff attrition by creating opportunities for advancement that rival the private sector. We regularly survey our staff to identify our cultural and managerial strengths and weaknesses, and we use the results to inform our annual planning process.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. Record growth and profitability, increased rep engagement, and near-zero attrition. The results?

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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

One 2012 CareerBuilder survey found that 41% of the nearly 2,700 employers surveyed estimated that a bad hire could cost $25,000 , while a quarter believed it was much higher—$50,000 or more. and 3) daily performance data. The dataset spanned 11 global companies and 58,542 hourly workers.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir. Before we redid the course, SEAL sniper school had an average attrition rate of about 30 percent.