HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2021

1] Organizations that are able to build a sustainable and differentiated worker-employer relationship will be able to stem attrition, traverse shifts in marketplace conditions, and thrive not just through the pandemic, but future disruptions as well. For example, traditional diversity metrics (e.g.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization. Is there leading by example? A group that lacks trust for their leader will experience high attrition, increased tension, low productivity and low morale. Is it inclusive?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Consider for example this brand statement by the UK fruit and vegetable drink company “Innocent Drinks” which Coca-Cola recently purchased a minority share in -. Instead, it’s because they personally identify with an organization’s purpose, and the values and goals found therein. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Sales leaders have a deep-seated belief in using stretch goals to challenge a sales force. Stretch goals are correctly credited with guiding effort, promoting innovative thinking, energizing salespeople, and boosting persistence. What masquerades as a stretch goal is really wishful thinking or misguided sales goal padding.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a teacher/instructor and public speaker, David has been conducting seminars on followership, leadership, goal-setting, creating vision, and mission and motto statements. Servant Leaders, in the process of achieving organizational goals and objectives, recognize the value of all employees, who themselves are leaders in their organization.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Set an aspirational stretch goal that is within reach, but only if things change. Without disclosing the source, take this question as an example: “What must we all start working on now and over the next 18 months to realize year-over-year double-digit growth by 2021 without jeopardizing profitability or employee satisfaction?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

At Microsoft, where we hire thousands of people every year, we lacked a good way to measure the perceptions of our onboarding experience, aside from trying to draw conclusions from attrition numbers. Every member of the team contributed to the shared goal, and as a result all the organizational barriers were broken down.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

to understand the relationship between how organizations talk about diversity and the rates of attrition of associate-level women and racial minority attorneys at these firms. We first studied the public diversity statements of 151 big law firms in the U.S. We call this the “value in difference” approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One of the costs of a weak or negative culture is voluntary attrition, or employees choosing leave. By investing in culture early on, one would expect that voluntary attrition would be lower, and our research corroborates that. For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In July, for example, voluntary turnover reached a level not seen since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Companies are planning for attrition rather than training for retention. Avoid excess attrition by getting smart about identifying flight risk. Companies like Mars Inc.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

During the design phase you will also establish the goals and objectives of your program. An example of a goal for a mentoring program could be that mentees will be more confident and knowledgeable when interacting with clients. This increases your chance of meeting the goals and objectives you noted during the design phase.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

For example, McDonald’s has an online FAQ about how the company’s food products are made, while Southwest’s Transfarency initiative aims to give customers a clearer picture of the total fare they will pay, with no unexpected fees. a record low, creates the perfect storm for employee attrition. Juj Winn/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

First, let’s clarify that we’re talking about a certain kind of alignment – i.e. congruence around a clear vision or goal for a product. Call this “alignment-attrition” – as the time window between our interactions increases, our alignment decreases. How can this misalignment be avoided or corrected?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Without a clear, measurable, value-creating goal, companies risk expending huge amounts of human and capital resources without delivering any real financial return. Their stated goal is typically to improve customer satisfaction at each step of the customer journey. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Take for example a UK food delivery service that I’ve studied. By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their people, leaders are making it more difficult to achieve their own desired outcomes. For example, one of the Shanghai branches was inside of a shopping mall. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When I tried to get to the bottom of it, HR not only couldn't tell me the voluntary attrition rate, they couldn't even give me an employee headcount. The attrition rate turned out to be 45%. For example, couriers who pick up samples for testing from physicians' offices need to understand the importance of each and every specimen.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 11, 2020

conflicting goals. For example, a lesson in sports can be applied to business. When people leave an organization, either through retirement or attrition, they take valuable experience with them. For example, what are 10 things you’ve learned that should never be forgotten? avoidance or denial. poor planning. ego or greed.

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How To Attrition Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy 126

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

For example, if I saw someone exemplifying the value of “teamwork,” what would she be doing? And then we wonder why we have an attrition problem. Strategy and goal setting. Given your organizational values, which behaviors consistently get rewarded? Which behaviors lead to promotion? What would she not be doing?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. For example, in the U.S. For example, out of 30 activities that a nurse assistant may do in their day, only seven are truly breakdown activities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

demographic — more highly educated, for example, and with higher median incomes than any other racial group. As one example, Goldman Sachs reported that 27% of its U.S. This example provides the key steps that corporations can take to address the Asian glass ceiling. of the U.S. population.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 24, 2020

A global manufacturing company knew they needed to make progress on their diversity and inclusion goals. Should it be on reducing attrition for people of color? They can help business and HR leaders measure their progress, assess the impact of their diversity goals, and gain insight into what’s working (and what’s not).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Will this impede our ability to achieve our goals? For example, some years ago UBS Americas increased its use of IT freelancers, and it produced a worrisome level of attrition until the IT leaders recognized and addressed the communications gap. Will they get to do all the new, interesting work?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

JetBlue, for example, has five core values – safety, caring, integrity, passion, and fun – so its Lift peer-review program encourages its 16,000 crewmembers to recognize each other for achievement in those areas. Ensure that the metrics on which people are recognized are aligned with your company’s mission.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Let’s look at the Americas Field Marketing organization for Cisco Systems, as an example of this three-step process. For example, one project was to consolidate similar types of marketing support across several sales groups. This allowed them to redeploy time to new initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

SSoM''s data shows that professional identity drives behaviors — as well as attrition — when the demands of a 65 hour workweek lead to a high rate of dissatisfaction with work-life integration and create significant work-work conflict as a result of the many demands on a faculty member''s time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Take, for example, a large media company we work with that invested in an internal social-networking platform for the commercial organization. The goal was to help sales reps exchange information about complex accounts. Record growth and profitability, increased rep engagement, and near-zero attrition. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For example, one sales office had the lowest score in the engagement survey for all of North America. A new leader was named whose number one goal was to improve the office’s culture. Interestingly, Trane has observed a very strong correlation between a healthy and effective culture along these basic lines, and better business results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

Female promotion rates have increased nationwide across all cohorts, with a 22-percentage-point rise among senior managers, while the attrition of senior women has slowed by five percentage points. Nonetheless, our experimentation offers a rare example of long-term progress on diversity goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

However, when it comes to change, few track performance from project to project beyond knowing which ones met their goals. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations. Which stakeholders are involved?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

In a customer service center, for example, you would create scripts for every possible interaction. To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Leaders kept a tight rein on costs, with goals for reducing average call time, improving customer satisfaction levels, and driving more service volume to the Web.

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Call Center Attrition Cost Center Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

As a result, the company increased its new customer acquisition threefold over the prior year and reduced its customer attrition by a healthy margin. For example, an IT services company uses DiscoverOrg to mine organizational data that might indicate intent to purchase, such as job postings for a vice president of network.

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Instead of relying on intuition or anecdotal evidence, HR professionals can use data to make informed choices that align with organizational goals. By leveraging predictive analytics, organizations can forecast employee attrition, determine training needs, and predict future talent demands.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups. Without such a link, it's hard to justify differences in compensation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Big, strategic goals evolve into score improvements and incrementalism instead of gleaning useful insights that allow change with confidence. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. So where does it all go wrong? They move slowly and without purpose. What are the kinds of things you might want to consider?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Reducing customer attrition, or “churn” in marketing parlance, often involves offering incentives such as discounts to individuals identified as likely to defect. Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. The First Cut.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Take these examples: A client assumes you are in a subordinate role because of your age. The soil’s goal is to become a place where diverse seeds can contribute and succeed. For example: “I was dining with my co-workers when two gay men walked by. For example: “I’m the only woman in a team of ten men.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A focus on solutions might mean they figure out how to help you reach your goal weight. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.

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