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A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait

HR Digest

We continue to seek new ways to foster that culture, from Ignite Sessions between teams to share best practices and key learnings, to building a culture of recognition that encourages team members to recognize their peers for living our behaviors and delivering on our business objectives. How are you going to shake things up next?

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

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Managing People from 5 Generations

Harvard Business Review

As people work longer and delay retirement, internal career paths have changed. Organizational careers don’t look the way they did before,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School and coauthor of Managing the Older Worker. It’s a low cost way to get a pulse on generational career issues,” says Meister.