HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Emerging Roles and Technologies Stay attuned to emerging roles and technologies within the industry. Gender is not the only discriminating divide. Adapt to these changing trends and standards accordingly.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The HR Digest: Generational conflict has become a keyword in the current management debate. Never has the topic been as immediately relevant as it is now – particularly when companies with a rich history like Johnson & Johnson’s are managing people from five generations. PHOTO: JOHNSON & JOHNSON.

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Better still, speak in them, volunteer to sit in their program committees, lead sessions or participate in panels. Once there, connect to the right people.

Company 137

Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

Content will supply human service managers, team leaders, and team members with tools and techniques to create effective and energized work teams. Human service administrators, managers, supervisors, team leaders, or team members who want to develop high performance teams that achieve organizational goals. WHO SHOULD APPLY.

Team Building 124

Team Building Team Class Committee 124

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. There are many cases revealing the value and power of design thinking in the corporate world that have been widely published but are primarily focused on teams—especially managers collaborating with designers.

Creativity 61

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 61

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics.

Mission Statement 89

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 89

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Engage a diverse planning committee. There was no explanation for what initiated these changes.

Management 8

Management Diversity Collins Committee 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Thus, when Lay (CEO of Enron) was chairing a charity drive, Lay asked for 100% participation from the client’s firm, and the client reciprocated by edicting donations from his 200+ employees. I thought that demanding participation in one person’s pet cause was too punitive to the company’s employees and told the client so.

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

CIO 8

CIO Committee Technology P&L 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Mentorship (which has seven levels) is a stairstep process of bettering all participants. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Mentorship.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Last week the House Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would expand the reach of wellness programs to include genetic screening of employees and their dependents and increase the financial penalties for those who choose not to participate.

Insurance 8

Insurance Committee Power Cost 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

Resources 55

Resources Industry System Strategy 55

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. Unless you've actually been in the shoes of your clients, I don't think you have a right to advise them. the hard work of being a leader 2.

Blog 333

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. Over 1,400 toilets have been built with people participation under sanitation initiatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. There was this whole world out there of nonprofit management practices."

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Gaps like these are never solved by turning culture over to a Chief Culture Officer or pulling together culture committees. Every employee I have managed would give up their so-called perks for one thing: clear expectations. Does a manager value face-time more than outcomes? Employees also need clarity, but of a different kind.

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. However, Republican directors are more likely to identify the compensation committee as the least effective committee. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In addition to bringing transparency to the care and disproportionate costs associated with a small number of patients, the analysis triggered in-depth case management review, which revealed some waste as well as confirmation of appropriate care. Their expertise is helping to generate uniquely valuable insights.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

There has been a subsequent improvement from 11% to 15% of female Executive Committee members, and 70% of companies in the top 20 now have at least one woman on their senior executive teams – up from 60% last year. And three companies still have men-only executive committees. In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect?

Execution 8

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But during these early steps in my career, I learned a great deal about myself: I found that I really liked doing deals and managing people, rather than drafting regulations and writing articles. I held positions as a law professor, a senior official at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a partner in a law firm.

Career 15

Career Planning Bond Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. And don’t just describe outcomes measurement as a vision – the senior management must have a clear operational plan and show this to their staff, making it real. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. But Intel doesn't just measure the number of participants to gauge success. We saw a gap in the philanthropic space that we could fill.".

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. There could be C-suite participation, but only as peers; the CEO and board members are excluded.

Leadership 8

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Two years after a global technology company started its high potential program, five of the top "graduates" jumped at the opportunity to create a new business within the biggest competitor. Let's say that you take nominations from each department or division, and the executive team or an HR committee makes final decisions.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Two years after a global technology company started its high potential program, five of the top "graduates" jumped at the opportunity to create a new business within the biggest competitor. Let's say that you take nominations from each department or division, and the executive team or an HR committee makes final decisions.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Nick Simon* switched careers in his late 20s and entered a two-year management rotation program at a telecom company. The expectation was that at the end of two years, the program participants would be promoted to the next level. Lisa Su* has worked at a Boston-based technology company for six years. Not his real name.

Committee 11

Committee Case Study Learning-by-Doing Advice 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This means centralizing and systematizing activity throughout your company while still fostering participation and experimentation. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. They perform the essential task of marshaling people with important skills to manage crucial activities.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Lola is a labor and delivery nurse, an administrator and partner in a 65-bed long-term-care facility, president and consultant in a software technology company, director of operations in a long-term-care consulting company, chair of several hospital committees, and volunteer for a women’s fertility organization that travels to Africa.

PR 8

PR Long-term Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. As with the G&A project, a steering committee composed of the facility’s senior leaders was formed.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8