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Managing Remote Teams: Tips and Strategies for Success

HR Digest

New era of work has forced many companies to move their employees to remote work, and this shift has created some new challenges for managers. Fortunately, there are several tips and strategies that managers can use to improve the engagement and productivity of remote workers.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

The CoE has worked with IT and purchasing to procure a global set of tools for social media management, which are also integrated with our CRM systems. Keep it simple. In the end, there is no quick way to incorporate connectivity into current business processes and become a truly customer-focused company.

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