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Putting your Employees First in the Hybrid World

Decker Communication

I’ve been lucky enough to manage people for most of my career. While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible. Did we set norms on how our team would operate?

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Putting your Employees First in the Hybrid World

Decker Communication

I’ve been lucky enough to manage people for most of my career. While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible. Did we set norms on how our team would operate?

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Even “bad” cultures get some things right

Surviving Leadership

This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career.

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Building Trust Develops Team Cohesiveness

Strategy Driven

Army Infantry, and later in my career as a Drill Sergeant. Instead of having an odd man out, I kept an old, beat up call center chair and my team got the good chairs until mine could be replaced. Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal courage. We didn’t get enough delivered though.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. The women in my sample were asked to think back on two defining career moments that best prepared them to advance. How People Get Ahead.

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Make Sure Your Dream Company Can Find You

Harvard Business Review

Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud. Sodexo developed both a mobile-optimized career site and an app to pull together information about the company’s recruiting efforts into one easy-for-Millennials-to-access place. Career planning Social media' Mobile Recruiting Apps. Is that Good?

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Work in the Future Will Fall into These 4 Categories

Harvard Business Review

All-inclusive global talent market. Boundary-less work partnerships and networks augment capabilities and redefine careers, learning and workplace fairness and attractiveness. This quadrant might include work where employees are colocated and the operations and workers are easily accessible through physical connections.