HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. The HR Digest: What is diversity to you? Can you give a specific example? Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. .

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2021

“To stay focused on their education and career goals, learners need comprehensive wraparound supports, whether they are person-to-person r tech-enabled, to help them overcome hurdles and manage multiple commitments and competing priorities,” she says. ” A number of examples exist to illustrate this kind of support.

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Social Capital Education Class Human Capital 80

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. All leaders should commit to these actions.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

This is very true as it relates to organizations that are working to increase gender diversity at the leadership levels. Advocacy is what makes the “world go round&# so to speak as we observe how individuals rise through their careers. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2021

A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. . As people advance in their industry, they may need to develop leadership, finance, or accounting skills, which they can acquire through these EMBAs or short business courses.

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Short-term Leadership Pipeline Execution Leadership 59

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

If Albert is right about that, then leading by example, although a simple enough concept carries with it a pretty big impact. Or, perhaps it is that some people have mistaken beliefs about what leading by example is really about. For example, a long time ago, I was invited to attend a lunch in the Head office executive dining room.

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Examples Bottom-up Long-term Influence 48

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. We need to look to leadership examples of truly radical, innovative, in-your-face teams like that at Nucor Steel.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nursing is an example of a profession that, while growing in terms of opportunities available, is one that is not traditionally practiced by men. By undertaking these steps, the education sector can strive towards a more balanced and diverse teaching workforce, ultimately benefiting students and the broader society.

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Education Diversity Document Finance 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. Take, for example, the hiring process. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. For example, if an employee is constantly travelling, you might consider assigning them to a desk job until life stabilizes. Julie Bowen is a freelance writer and full-time mom.

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Efficiency Short-term Long-term Stress 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, if you live to 85 (which we believe to be a conservative estimate) and want to retire on 50% of your final income, then with an annual savings rate of 18%, you can plan to retire at 65; with an annual savings rate of 8%, your retirement age is 75. Take savings rates, for example. How to build diverse networks.

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Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. One idea we retained from GE was to celebrate diversity. What did we do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks. But I'll be expressing my admiration and gratitude to them all.

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Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. or China should get the gold medal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Now city and state leaders hope to use summer jobs programs to provide meaningful employment experiences that can improve teens’ job readiness and financial skills and boost their academic and career aspirations. For example, how much did it matter that youth were placed in a private-sector versus a community-based job?

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Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

The study, currently under review at an academic journal, looked at on-campus recruiting data for 39 prestigious finance and consulting firms at 350 universities, finding that a school’s regional rank is an important and undervalued factor in determining how many firms will recruit there.

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Consultative Bottom-up Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. The diversity of this sales ops role cuts across two dimensions. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives. First, they face many decisions.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. For example, they may open their own talent sourcing channel to employ contractors, by writing a unique statement of work (SOW) to engage workers with known performance or reputation.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. They need to be open to different experiences, attuned to cultural differences, and comfortable working with a highly diverse and globally dispersed employee and customer base.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. She backed up these general statements with a specific example of “resolving unexpected issues in a timely manner.”

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

This process is no longer reliable; it has turned income inequality into career opportunity inequality, and recruiters are losing opportunities to tap a wider talent pool. Companies truly interested in hiring people from diverse backgrounds must abandon the conventional practice of filtering by résumé. What can be done about this?

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Diversity Reputation Talent Management Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Like the dead hand reaching up from the grave in a horror movie, a long-severed employment relationship can emerge from your past and trip up your career mobility — particularly if the employer has ever been touched by scandal. Most job-seekers do not conduct enough research on the organizations they join.

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Company Due Diligence Mission Statement How To 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves. It will likewise demand new opportunities and innovations, if we are to help those many millions seeking encore careers.

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Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. Take, for example, Clara, an HR specialist who was promoted a level above her boss to become her company’s director of operations. So we stick with what’s natural and comfortable.

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Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Not only do you need to bring together folks with diversity of thought and experience, but those leaders also need to challenge long-held orthodoxies that can limit progress. For example, there is no agreed-upon way to measure urban revitalization. Reimagine roles.

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Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

While virtually all pharma companies say they encourage risk, in reality the failure of individual drug-development programs frequently results in career damage or even job loss for the research teams involved. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

While some refugees remain hopeful that they will soon return to their home countries, most accept that they are unlikely to do so; the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, for example, will not be resolved quickly. In the UK, for example, the authorities actually terminate financial assistance for people taking up unpaid internships.

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Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

While these examples don't specifically address extreme weather change, they do provide a three-part framework that cities wanting to address the new reality could follow. Knowing the challenges they had in hiring a qualified workforce locally, P&G helped launch a broad effort to fix education, from cradle to career.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I had a lot of success early in my career. This has happened several times in my career. They can quickly become cynical if they don’t have positive examples. Mike Myatt : What’s the best and worst example of leadership you’ve observed in recent times? When I did this, I noticed that others would jump in and follow me.

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Blog Leadership CEO Media 362

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you. Four years ago, Allie Rogovin was managing a new team designed to promote diversity at Teach for America. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances.

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Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It’s not just that certain schools are known for excellence in a given field or offer coursework and training relevant to a specific career path. Some targets, for example, were more selective than cores; some nonlisted schools were more selective than targets. Most decision-makers I spoke with also equated prestige with ability.

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EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. He will layer a women’s sequined top under a men’s leather jacket, for example, or a basketball jersey with maroon faux-fur pants. They also represent varying degrees of fabulousness, from subtle to full-on.

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Fashion Participative Class Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Take the example of lithium-ion batteries. According to a recent study , even when MIT-based hardware startups had access to the skills and financing needed for R&D and proof-of-concept work, they required additional capital, production capabilities, and lead customers that the U.S. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10