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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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Leadership: It’s the Softer Side That Counts

Great Leadership By Dan

As I have found in my own career, and in discussions with global leaders, from well-respected CEOs and board members, to heads of state, leading is less about analytics and decisions, and much more about aligning, motivating, and empowering others to make those decisions. I visited one of our large operations.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

Strategy Driven

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Mid-Manager. Career Worker. Career Manager. Career Professional.

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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. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. But attaining one is far from easy. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are turning to an overlooked pool of entry-level talent: the 5.5 Across the U.S.,

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Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, we (in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles) surveyed more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe and broke out the FOB boards from the non-FOB boards. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. respectively) and were currently serving on the same number of boards (3.1).

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