HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

We track progress through standardized metrics and measurement. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands. Flexibility is an equally important part of our people experience.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. Service providers must establish key satisfaction metrics and present them to the producer on every job. These services include providing equipment and supplies for various purposes, including drilling and fracking.

Short-term 79

Short-term Industry Technology Long-term 79

HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

– offices will be empty and likely impact staffing options, especially in terms of female representation. Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market.

Leadership 109

Leadership Diversity CPO Career 109

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

The HR Digest: Can you tell our readers about ERGs (employee resource groups) at BoA and how they promote change within the company in practical terms? Our approach is to invest in our employees, so they can build a career with us. This includes a move back to in-person onboarding events in many of our local markets.

Banking 78

Banking Diversity Human Resources Resources 78

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

CEO 305

CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 305

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With the Age Discrimination in Employment Act coming into force back in 1967, the notion of age discrimination has a long history. The report highlights the numerous ways experienced workers bring tremendous value to the workplace, with these virtues often sitting beyond traditional performance management metrics. Lifelong learning.

Entrepreneur 136

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Innovation 136

Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A Race to the Bottom If this scenario ever came to pass, the term “work ethic” would be cancelled and parents would stop telling kids to try their best, because fair-to-average would be good enough for them. How long could a company remain in business if they excused lazy, incompetent, uncaring, apathetic employees? Stay in shape?

Ethics 108

Ethics Bottom-up Morale Metrics 108

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

Price 371

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2011

I believe that successful CEOs will be judged on long-term sustainable performance and the stewardship of their organization’s mission, rather than on short-term performance and results. As One’s diagnostic provides specific metrics that leaders and organizations can assess, and the insight from this can be extremely valuable.

Leadership 407

Leadership CEO Long-term Consultative 407

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While that’s understandable, if you wait too long to identify your destination, you’ll never really know if you’re heading off course. Strike a balance between the point at which you review a situation versus waiting so long that you forget the details. Small wins will keep you motivated as you pursue your long-term goals.

Morale 116

Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 116

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

Blog 366

Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

Blog 418

Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback . Four times more likely to have built a strong pipeline of ready-now leaders to fill available critical roles. Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Ask the Coach . Related articles.

Human Capital 103

Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Ask yourself this question…Who is more loyal; an employee who has been with the company a long time but is an under-performer, or a less tenured employee who always goes the extra mile and consistently exceeds expectations? or implying that it is unlikely to have high performance if most people stick around for a long time?

Loyalty 419

Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things.

Blog 419

Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. Debating the utility of specific metrics might seem like a minor thing.

Metrics 10

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 10

HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

Learning and Development : Providing training and development opportunities to enhance skills and career growth. Succession Planning : Preparing for future leadership needs to ensure long-term stability. What is human capital management if not a way for engage with the “human” component of the term.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Management Technology Efficiency 52

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the concept of what HR analytics is, the benefits of HR analytics, HR analytics metrics and how it can transform businesses. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” The effectiveness of this approach is limited, since other information about a candidate may signal gender, such as slower upward career mobility for a female candidate.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 12

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The idea that corporations need a single purpose is based not in law, but in economists' arguments that unless we have a single, objective, easily-observed metric to judge how well directors and executives are running firms, corporate "agents" will run amok. There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. What would these things look like in practice?

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Modeling Scientist Who consumes the output? Decision scientist: Humans. Modeling scientist: Machines. What is the output? Who to hire.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. Their GPA may have suffered under long work hours. Your compliance reporting likely already contains information about how your hiring metrics compare with the general population for your area.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To tackle the challenge, companies should emphasize cross-functional collaboration, evaluate and prioritize data product opportunities with an eye to the long-term, and start simple. Too much focus on near-term performance can yield underinvestment in promising medium- or long-term opportunities.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products How To Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Whyte described the American worker — in particular the white-collar worker — as an "organization man" out to build his career and his life around a single corporation. Yet one thing is similar: Americans seem to again be looking for the security of long-term corporate jobs. In 1956, journalist William H.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

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.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Something very real is happening here: as it becomes cheaper and easier for startups to upend existing businesses with new offerings, big companies are realizing that they can’t continue to rely on their time-worn methods for cultivating and developing new products, and lumbering into new markets. It’s the art of playing the long game.”.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Chief Information Officer Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions. Cross-cultural differences.

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

When an employer extends a job offer to you, he has, in essence, “fallen in love with you,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” What the Experts Say.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence How To Travel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it.

Christensen 14

Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

. “A lot of people want to hide because they weren’t particularly quantitative in school or school was a long time ago, but given the number of executives that want to use data-driven insights to propel their decision-making, you can only hide for so long,” says Thomas H. Form relationships. That’s too many.

How To 8

How To Metrics Analysis Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Indeed, as we mature, it seems that fewer and fewer things actually make a long-term difference in our lives. They create a survey that requires just 15 to 20 minutes to complete, to avoid the survey fatigue that tortuously long instruments cause. Will the number of leads generated by a marketing campaign predict sales?

360-Degree Feedback 15

360-Degree Feedback Review Participative Survey 15