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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions. Functional leaders cannot ignore the lower ranked leadership competencies.

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How Can HR Contribute to Business Growth and Help Envision Future Success?

HR Digest

We are slowly witnessing the resurgence of Human Resource Management, with companies actively investigating how HR teams can contribute to business growth. Even if big gestures are beyond a company’s budget, verbal and social recognition can work wonders.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? Marti Konstant . Hard skills require frequent updates.

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2018 Workforce Forecast | Herman Group

Chart Your Course

In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR. Agile career: a series of jobs, working in temporary, contract, consultant, or freelance capacities.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. It’s as much about mindset as it is about skillset – with a focus on honing curiosity, flexibility and agility.

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The Big Factors That Attract the Best Freelancers

Harvard Business Review

In our new book Agile Talent , Norm Smallwood and I focus directly on this latter question: What must organizations do to be attractive to top creatives or other external experts? Our data suggests an even higher percentage in the future — over 50% of global companies surveyed plan to increase their use of agile talent.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.