HR Digest

AUGUST 13, 2023

Organizations can enhance the onboarding experience by: Implementing a buddy system or assigning internal mentors to guide new employees through their initial days and weeks. Establishing guidelines for respectful and constructive communication to ensure that discussions remain productive and inclusive.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Cultural fit To add further weight to this argument, research from Columbia Business School found that systems designed to measure cultural fit can help when it comes to instilling company values as well as retaining employees and supporting productivity. Open and shut So, it seems like a pretty open and shut case, right?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2019

College graduates often get the same career advice: be yourself, disrupt the status quo. But as a society, we are more diverse than ever. In our workplaces we have fooled ourselves into thinking we have welcomed diversity of thought (a phrase we love to throw around) – when in actuality we have built shrines to conformity.

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Efficiency Diversity System Construction 57

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2020

Firstly, one option to consider is CCTV training, which is designed for people who want to have a career as a CCTV operator. Once you have this licence, you will have the ability to monitor and work with CCTV camera systems that oversee any public spaces. This includes businesses like universities, banks, and construction sites.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Diversity means different things to different people. Demographic diversity is tied to our identities of origin — characteristics that classify us at birth and that we will carry around for the rest of our lives. Experiential diversity is based on life experiences that shape our emotional universe. Diversity is dynamic.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. We refer to this as the “corporate immune system” and it can kick in whenever the status quo is threatened.

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How To Innovation Creativity Entrepreneur 105

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

The beauty of a well-constructed paragraph. As we shape our careers and lives, making decisions that enhance our success and happiness will call upon us to peel and strip away the clutter, chatter, and excesses that are getting in our ways. Feeling of reliability and constructiveness. A contented smile. More than we need.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

6) Insights, Beliefs, Systems of Thought. (7) By their nature, HR departments are designed to uphold processes and systems. Training is about change, which contradicts the basic construction of HR. Understand and celebrate diversity. This step is detailed in my monograph, "7 Layers of Wisdom": (1) Glimmer of An Idea. (2)

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A recipe for success for anyone in any position, Soup delivers the powerful message that the quality of your career, business, and team is determined by the quality of your relationships. DO: Respond constructively when someone offers up an idea. People are hungry for positive change and a fresh sense of purpose and passion.

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Gordon Energy Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. Same Game, Different Benefits.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

In order for us to empathize, we must listen so that we understand what others are dealing with, what’s happening in their careers and in their lives. That requires the humility to remain open to learning from others and to seek diverse opinions. Please DO NOT reward those who do a great job simply with more work!!!!! Stay human.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The key is to identify the stakeholders and influencers who can help you achieve your job and career goals. Construct a scaffolding. ” Start your scaffolding with a small, manageable number of diverse advocates and build it up over time. Are systemic barriers still stacked against us? Think bigger.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Our report also found increased bias against women who are mothers, gender bias in workplace systems such as compensation and performance evaluations, and bias against people of color and older engineers. And endless sensitivity and diversity trainings clearly aren’t helping.

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Engineering Company Report Career 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Reply Gwyn Teatro July 17, 2009 at 7:12 pm It’s not hard to find people who agree that the present system is painful. What has to be present for a PR system to actually work? Does anything at all work in the current system? However, very few people enjoy or respond well to “constructive feedback”. So many questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity, and it’s hard to address these kinds of challenges if you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts.”. You get what you envision.

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Diversity CEO Skills Training 9

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

The Ugly Truth about Some Employees is that: In general, criticism is a hard pill to swallow , even the constructive kind. The Ugly Truth about Performance Review Systems is that: In an effort to get more specific about what is being measured, Performance Review systems have this tendency to become very cumbersome and complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2011

A few even say that it was the most important growth and development experience in their careers. That being said, being involved in putting two companies or units together is not easy: Processes need to be aligned , systems updated, structures shifted, and responsibilities redefined.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Case Study Execution 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

It reviews the Addictive System, the company way and the organization as an addict. Addictive organizations are predicated upon maintaining a closed system. The addictive system views everything as ‘the company way.’ The addictive system does not encourage managers to develop thinking and reasoning processes.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The big difference with True North Groups is that they provide forums for diverse sets of people to share highly personal issues and beliefs without requiring any specific affinity like chemical dependency or religious belief. My 13 years with Medtronic became the most important of my career.

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We’ve recently seen this imbalance wreak havoc in the entertainment and media industries, where it’s long been understood that major players like movie producer Harvey Weinstein and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes could easily make or break women’s careers. Why the Most Common Diversity Programs Don't Work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We know having a sponsor who supports your career can help level the playing field for women. How do they use their power to create diverse, inclusive organizations? Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity were found to be 15% more likely to outperform those in the bottom quartile.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the evidence on diversity in the workplace is conclusive: There are lots of people held back by bias. ” By believing success is due only to hard work and personal talent, individuals don’t see how systems convey advantages to them. Nick, another CEO, has initiated a system of reverse mentoring in his organization.

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360-Degree Feedback Mentor System Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. He’d always pushed Mark to advance in his career, and this was an internal promotion, on a three-year contract, so they’d still be working for the same company.

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

As recent research from MIT reminds us, older entrepreneurs are often better equipped to handle the rigors of startup life, not least because they have well developed networks from their career to date that can be tapped into when growing the business. These are what the World Economic Forum refers to as the glue of innovation systems.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. It represents the enormous influence of the past on the future.

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Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. It represents the enormous influence of the past on the future.

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Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 11