Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

According to The Society for Human Resource Management, only 33 percent of businesses track employee turnover, which means 67 percent of businesses are missing out on a huge source of savings and growth. The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. million nationwide) has risen from 1.8 percent in October 2009 to 3.1

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Conflict Management: Addressing and resolving conflict constructively. Sample question: “Describe the most difficult conflict you’ve ever had to manage.”. Self-Management: Demonstrating self-control and an ability to manage time and priorities. Leadership: Achieving extraordinary business results through people.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 6, 2020

There are grammar rules to construct a sentence, rules to play a sport, and even rules to tell you which side of the street to drive on. Benchmark against the best. Rules essentially tell you what you can or can’t do in a given situation. In essence, they provide structure, stability, and predictability in life.

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My Own Coach

AUGUST 5, 2013

Recently, whilst clearing out some old files from my online library, I came across a piece of work on leadership behaviour that I had carried out over eight years ago that still appeared to be current. The senior team went on to use these in their organisation as a benchmark to assess leadership and how people measured up.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Learn how effective the changes you make to the hiring process really are by benchmarking this number. Your cost per hire may be more useful if you calculate it for type of positions, e.g., you expect to spend more to hire a mid-level manager than you would an entry-level employee. Conduct initial interviews by text. Not anymore.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Learn how effective the changes you make to the hiring process really are by benchmarking this number. Your cost per hire may be more useful if you calculate it for type of positions, e.g., you expect to spend more to hire a mid-level manager than you would an entry-level employee. You Need to Reduce Your Time-to-Hire. Not anymore.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. Learns constructively from trial and error. A 90 percent success rate for a person with a good attitude and responsible behavior is unbeatable. There is no such thing as perfection.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see “band-aid surgery” as the only remedy for problems… but only when problems are so evident as to require action.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Monitoring and measuring along the way provides performance benchmarks that allow people to see how they are doing at any given point. There is a personal accountability there that the manager has given to the employee. It is part of the leader’s job to create working environments that invite participation and interest. A conversation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see ‘band-aid surgery’ as the only remedy for problems… but only when problems are so evident as to require action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

That's my management tip for today. Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. Komatsu, a globally prominent construction equipment manufacturer, drove excellence by fearing Caterpillar, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

But judging from what I hear from managers of companies that visit us to benchmark our system, the difference between our approach and theirs does not lie in forms, rankings, tools, or technologies. Most employees spend over 1,800 hours a year working for the manager and the company. Here is what I’ve learned.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? We need a much broader and deeper understanding of the role of board and senior management in a large, complex corporation.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What can make the difference is superior process backed by practical skill-building and supportive leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Some reform measures — such as mandatory disclosure of pay arrangements on an individualized basis and benchmarking pay against "peers" — have actually worsened the problem. One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms. In the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Whether or not you hold the purse strings for your team or organization, this is a tough situation for managers. Most managers do, says Dick Grote, performance management consultant and author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. Managers are struggling to figure this out.” How should you respond?

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