HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies like Apple and Okta were among the first ones to have laid off hiring teams in an attempt to recession-proof their futures. This move makes sense because during the ‘ Great Resignation ’ companies were striving to grow their hiring teams in order to keep up with the demand for new workers. This trend isn’t new.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion. And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. The final of five interviews for my first role at my current company was with the CEO and co-founder.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

“Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right? As with so many policies, for this to be effective, it’s vital that senior managers lead by example. Indeed, recent data suggest that the proportion of female computer science graduates is actually going down.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While the “Internet of Things” and cloud computing have been useful in both internal and external communications and document sharing, solutions like these are task-specific or so complex they create more disorder in an already mixed collection of diverse applications and shared services. As companies profit, they can offer more products.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s a testament to the values that have been established since our company’s founding: that our people are our most important assets, great ideas come from anywhere in the company, and we should treat others the way we would like to be treated. Looking ahead, what does the “future of work” at Adobe look like ?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

Indeed, while examples of full automation are relatively few and far between, those involving augmentation are plentiful. After all, despite the advances in what AI can do, there is a relatively narrow field where it can fully automate what humans are capable of. The market for tasks that can be augmented is much wider.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This theory, practiced by industrialists like Henry Ford, led to unprecedented innovations in human engineering, with the creation of the assembly line, and a formula for optimizing performance in the workplace. A growing number of companies are looking towards VR to train employees safely, effectively and efficiently. Remote Work.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

As a prominent influencer of diversity, the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader at Deloitte US has made a magnificent contribution to paving the way to a culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers. How do you measure the value these programs bring to the company? .

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. Develop a Globalization Strategy Part of the agility for a company to stay strong globally is the makeup of their country investment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2014

Those relationships allow for application of tools of invention – using a facilitator, leveraging diversity, getting the team, place, space and pace just right, changing roles, and improvisation. Prominent examples of Inventive Negotiation come from industry – Boeing/Mitsubishi, GM/Toyota, Apple/Hon Hai, Philips, and Ford.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

For example: Accounting and finance: Around 65,000 job postings in the 12 months previous for accounts payable/receivable clerks, and 55,000 for financial analysts. How companies weather the storm, and how they “walk their talk,” is something candidates will be monitoring closely. Down just 2.6 HR Strategies and Priorities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. But are they effective communicators?

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Mike Cardus

JULY 12, 2012

Personality factors in individuals are something that every company seems to want to assess and change. For example, “Sales people need to be more socialable” we have all met sales people who are all over the spectrum on “socialness” and they can be very successful at their role of sales. You are not a psychologist, you are a manager.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

Most importantly, how can you persuade the best candidates to apply to your company? Your job ad has to subtly communicate the awesomeness of your company to a small pool of coveted, well-qualified candidates. First, you’re writing for the search engines. Next, include a brief summary of your company.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about these programs and how they promote change within the company in practical terms? Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon’s mission of being Earth’s most customer-centric company. How are you going to shake things up next?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Many hesitate to send a job interview follow-up email as they worry it might sound too pushy and discourage the company from considering them further but a well-crafted email can ensure the letter does not ruffle any feathers. If the company is interested in making an offer you might be able to speed up the process by taking initiative.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Every company needs a corporate purpose. want the companies they work for and buy from to have a purpose greater than profit or shareholder value. For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Mission: Why does your company exist? Values: What matters to your company now?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Every company needs a corporate purpose. want the companies they work for and buy from to have a purpose greater than profit or shareholder value. . For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Mission: Why does your company exist? Values: What matters to your company now?

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. In my new book “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation ”, I outline four proven ways to generate the new strategic opportunities that will power your company’s future growth. This is quite understandable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment. For example, Squarespace exists to help people stand out and succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business. At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. Setting diversity goals isn’t enough.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It turns out that companies can have mindsets too – and that these mindsets influence their ability to attract people from underrepresented backgrounds. The fixed-mindset company talked, for example, about hiring employees “who have the intelligence and abilities that we are looking for.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Across the company, 10% of employees are Hispanic and 6% are black.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. Distinguish some of the characteristics of unconventional thinkers.

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HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

The incursion of AI and automation into the workplace is engineering a disruption that employers and employees are handling differently. For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S Make work simple and intuitive.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Runa is a wonderful example of a B-Corp, doing well and doing good. Starting a business, let alone a beverage company, as an undergraduate was not something I had planned on doing. Runa is a now vertically integrated beverage company that creates livelihoods for indigenous Amazonian farmers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

On February 19 former Uber employee Susan Fowler wrote an explosive blog post describing her time as an engineer at Uber. She described severe sexual harassment, a hostile HR department that would not or could not help her, and a toxic work environment that eventually pushed her to leave the company.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

The researchers use the example of a maintenance worker, who is able to show considerable initiative and reliability. To coincide with the research, the company have also provided free access to the courses one can take to brush up on these skills for the remainder of January. The importance of soft skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s an issue that’s been weighing on mind over the past few months in light of the growing number of stories of women encountering sexual harassment and outright misogynistic attitudes on university campuses, as well as in many growing, high-demand sectors like the gaming industry and software engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Women engineers have a visibility problem. In 2014 we interviewed 50 women engineers in three leading FTSE 100 organizations in the UK. All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. Peter Cade/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. We do not see people like us succeeding in those companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. It’s typically assumed these companies are seeking a jolt of hipness. Some companies are aggressively testing both.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2018

Mastering the skills to be effective in all these formats and with a diverse range of people can be a challenge, as they all require a different approach to work well. Tweets, for example, are best posted daily, but you might want to do Facebook posts every other day, or three days a week.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. They do so by building powerful growth engines.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

For example, in a training a sales manager says, “We all know people hate talking to sales people” or “Get out and sell, but don’t be a salesperson!” We see this consistently within companies. Everyone in the company must respect and recognize the work of the sales team. That is an example of emotional detachment.

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