HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

HR strategies for business growth focus on the hiring and retention of the right talent, but they can also involve active participation in key business decisions by bringing in a grounded angle to the discussion. According to Indeed , the average HR staff-to-employee ratio is usually around 2.57 In addition, Remote.co

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Diverse workplaces are valuable in all manner of ways, so it’s perhaps no surprise that MIT research finds that the more diverse a workplace is, the more profitable it is. Although most organizations now embrace diversity and inclusion practices tailored toward salient individual differences (e.g., Diversity dissonance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

This article explores the multifaceted benefits of professional development and how it can revolutionize your career or business. Professional development offers a diverse range of opportunities to expand knowledge, acquire new competencies, and stay up to date with industry trends.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

Participants must manage through complex situations and team dynamics. The learning that results helps improve the problem-solving process as well as the solutions the team develops. Participants get REALLY excited about their project, and pour their heart, soul, and many long hours into making it happen. Real work gets done.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

Participants must manage through complex situations and team dynamics. The learning that results helps improve the problem-solving process as well as the solutions the team develops. Participants get REALLY excited about their project, and pour their heart, soul, and many long hours into making it happen. Real work gets done.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Listing out the characteristics of an inclusive workplace can get repetitive after a while because we keep repeating the word diversity as the end-all catchphrase for being inclusive. 60 percent of respondents in a LinkedIn study reported diversity within their sales team to be a major contributor to their team’s success.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

“What truly informs and drives DE&I at Johnson & Johnson is our enterprise-wide, evidence-based strategy,” says Wanda Hope, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office at Johnson & Johnson. And we know that in our rapidly changing world, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion matters more than ever.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Sonia Cargan, Senior Vice President, Chief Colleague Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Talent Officer at American Express, talks exclusively to The HR Digest about how people-focused strategies have been the key to the giant’s success.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Hidden Talent Pool: Embracing Second Chance Employment Opening Doors to a Diverse Workforce Historically, HR responsibilities often included screening out job applicants with criminal records. Second chance employment presents an opportunity to embrace a diverse and talented workforce. However, it’s time for a paradigm shift.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Instead of the unilateral appraisal systems that allow the supervisor’s perspective to shape an employee’s career, the 360-degree performance appraisal system accounts for other individuals the employee works with , ensuring a well-rounded, data-based evaluation instead. What Are the Benefits of 360-Degree Feedback?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Class in elite institutions Cambridge Judge Business School’s Sandra Ool focused on such elite institutions in a recent paper that examines how the financial careers of working-class individuals progressed in the City of London.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

There’s a “Diversity” strategy driven from one office, and a succession planning and development strategy driven by another. At the risk of oversimplifying, here’s a 9 step process to improve gender balance through succession planning and development: 1. Engage high potentials in career and development discussions.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In total, the studies covered over 138,000 participants, and all examined leadership aspirations across a wide range of disciplines. “It may have to do with the process of ‘self-stereotyping,’ where individuals internalize their respective gender stereotypes and voluntarily conform to gender norms,” they explain.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Tips to Radiate Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching writes Pay Equity: Why it’s Critical to Diversity and Inclusion Efforts. Read the explanation and 5 examples of coaxing vs. challenging so you inspire instead of push people to change.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For instance, last year I wrote about the Ocean Discovery XPrize, which had attracted a number of young participants to develop unmanned technologies that are capable of providing high-resolution and rapid mapping of the oceans. The value of entrepreneurship.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form. According to Julie Winkle Giulioni of DesignArounds , effective leaders leverage the very human need for mutual respect and in the process build productive relationships, enhance employee engagement and deliver powerful business outcomes.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the diverse range of work trends we witnessed in the last few years, companies have realized the importance of their employee’s mental health , however, their wellness plans have been quite slow to address the full range of problems that affect workers’ experience on the job.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Dawn Frazier-Bohnert, Liberty Mutual Insurance, EVP, Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Officer, on laying the foundations for a successful global future where intersectionality is celebrated. The HR Digest: What is your vision of diversity at Liberty Mutual? Diversity is about all of us and equity is for all of us.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 23, 2021

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. Michael : I was inspired to write the book as I neared retirement and looked back at my life and career.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

As a result of this, businesses, industries and careers are disrupted faster than ever before. The vibrant and thriving community members of #IndiaHRChat from all across the globe jumped into this conversation and added nuggets of their wisdom to enrich the collective lessons of all participants. You have to craft your own career.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 30, 2019

The rapid pace of technological change has rendered skills development more important than ever before, and therefore an ability to learn throughout our careers is vital. When I spoke to the company last year, 77 employees had already taken 177 courses across areas such as deep learning, neural networks and natural language processing.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The event was a success, as the participants had a great time learning from each other and building networks professionally. Learn more here.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. By emphasizing communication skills in the performance evaluation process, employers can also encourage their employees to develop their own unique communication styles. But it’s not just about being a superhero.

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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

But in today’s global workforce, the task of managing virtual teams complicates the management process and throws additional challenges into the mix. According to a 2010 Virtual Teams Survey Report, respondents identified lack of clear leadership as a major obstacle for virtual teams and cited the need for an improved management process.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The very first thing we did was deploy multiple listening channels to bring the voices of our employees all over the world into the process of defining our aspirational culture. We crowdsourced globally, and received more than 200,000 ideas and reactions. What is your personal approach to decision-making?

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LDRLB

APRIL 6, 2020

I’m now at the final stages of the interview process with my dream company and I need to take a personality test. Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies subject their people to some form of personality testing at some point in their career. Or we think that we need a diversity of personality types on our team.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an insightful interview with The HR Digest, Lisa Esparza, EVP and CHRO of Autonation, delves into the fundamental aspects of cultivating a collaborative work environment and integrating diversity and inclusion into organizational values at AutoNation. At AutoNation, our approach to attracting and retaining talent is driven by innovation.

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LDRLB

APRIL 6, 2020

I’m now at the final stages of the interview process with my dream company and I need to take a personality test. Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies subject their people to some form of personality testing at some point in their career. Or we think that we need a diversity of personality types on our team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Likewise, Rosalind Brewer, an African-American woman and Sam’s Club CEO, was called racist for advocating for diversity. We defined diversity-valuing behavior as that which promotes demographic balance within organizations. We collected these ratings from their 360-degree feedback surveys.) So why does this happen?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

In a word, “difference”: Employees are different: By design, people from widely diverse backgrounds are hired by organizations to achieve meaningful outcomes. The task that a Situational Leader uses as the first step in that process can be thought of as the “lowest common denominator” of a performance goal.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Armed Forces look for employment after their military careers, many industries don’t immediately recognize the great potential that leaders from the U.S. Participative management. In short, the data showed that “leaders are leaders,” regardless of the industry they work in. But as veterans of the U.S. Leading employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 21, 2015

No doubt this is largely due to the disconnect between where most of their efforts are being placed and what’s really required to engage, inspire, and empower employees to become fully committed participants in the shared purpose that defines their organization’s collective efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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