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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. The HR trends of 2020 will see the talent market evolving with recruitment going hi-tech , companies going for upskilling and reskilling. They will have to combine the role of sourcing, marketing, and strategizing.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

We can seek out great leadership and be mentored or go to work for them. Other times we learn what not to do by our own bad experiences with poor leadership. Still, we don’t have to accept what’s presented to us.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A growing problem (or opportunity) for learning and development professionals is the finding in HBR’s 2018 study that while 67% of boomers describe current L&D offerings as excellent, only 40% of millennials do. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons.

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Employee Retention Strategies Go Beyond Competitive Salaries

HR Digest

Then, over time, with increasing developments in every industry, helping employees stay at the top of their game benefits them and the company’s market performance. A LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report from 2018 stated that 94 percent of employees would remain at a company that invested in their career development.

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5 Challenges of Starting a New Business From a First Time Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Finding advisors and mentors. I wouldn’t be where I am now without a supportive startup community, mentors and advisors, and other founders. Find a person who excels at sales, find a whiz marketer, find a tough-as-nails lawyer to advise you on all things legal. Again, you are the company you keep. “Diversify.”

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From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobson

How early in life should someone find a mentor? MacDonald has served as non-executive chairman of the board of Medifast, a weight-loss products company, since January 2018. He also spent thirty-three years in sales, marketing, and general management at Xerox Corporation prior to joining OfficeMax.

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Are We Still Attracted By The Bright Lights?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The bright lights. On the move. This is transforming the way organizations approach recruitment and talent management.

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