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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

Chart Your Course

2) Operating margins increase: According to the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study, companies with the highest sustainable engagement scores had an average one-year operating margin of 27% (vs. 14% for companies with traditional engagement and 10% for those with low engagement).

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Self Awareness Through Coaching

Coaching Tip

According to a survey done by the International Coach Federation (ICF) , as of 2012, there were more than 15,000 life coaches operating in the U.S. Books Self-coaching guides for Career Women: Anne-Marie Slaughter: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family. Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home .

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Make Sure Your Dream Company Can Find You

Harvard Business Review

Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud. Since early 2012, Sodexo, the 20th largest employer in the world, has turned its recruiting focus from job boards to mobile applications. Career planning Social media' Mobile Recruiting Apps. How an Auction Can Identify Your Best Talent. Is that Good?

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New Research: The State of Work for Indian Women

Harvard Business Review

with its expanding array of opportunities, and "Old India," whose traditions persist in shaping — and sometimes limiting — women's career ambitions. A little over one-third (36%) of the 775 college-educated women surveyed off-ramped, that is, voluntarily quit their jobs for a period of time. This is on par with the U.S.,

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. In our survey, we also asked about specific skills. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries. But attaining one is far from easy. We wanted to know which were the strongest skills represented on boards and which were missing. Methodology.

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How to Manage Biased People

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, in a stunning display of large-scale, bounded rationality , more than 4600 of JC Penney’s head office staff used nearly 35% of the company’s broadband for streaming Youtube during office hours in 2012. Let’s be realistic: Having a mission statement too often means very little to low-seniority staff in many organizations.