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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. How well do your leaders perform in these critically important areas?

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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. The learning landscape is ripe for innovation. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast?

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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. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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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. Shortage of data scientists encourages innovative solution.

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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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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. To do so, the Pentagon proposed some important and innovative improvements, but although the U.S.