HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

reported that 63 percent of global workers would begin looking for a new job if they were not allowed to work remotely. Not only do companies need to put out job postings and hire correctly, but they also need to ensure that employee productivity is maintained and any roadblocks to their work are addressed immediately.

Succession 105

Succession Metrics Strategy Trends 105

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI's The Everyone Economy report covered by the Asian Times In case you didn’t see already, CMI’s Everyone Economy report was covered by the Asian Times – have a read here ! It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. Event details here.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, there will be 758,000 unfilled jobs across all industries by 2021. If you want to build strong teams, encourage good leadership qualities and boost productivity, HR pros must recognize the traits and skills each member brings to the table. Employee self-care is critical to success.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources How To Resources Performance Review 105

Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Preliminary results from a Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) survey at the 2014 ASTD Conference and Expo point to a big gap between what e-learners want and what they’re getting. A key question going forward is whether organizations that use short-form modules report greater manager involvement than those using long-form modules.

Competitive Advantage 115

Competitive Advantage Survey Sample Reference 115

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Usually, adding a little detail to an existing product (such as changing the colour of something) is not enough to start a business, so try more than you think you need. Determine the Cost of the Operation. Are they willing to pay to buy your product or use your service? Provide a Report. Part 2 Create a Business Plan.

Venture Capitalist 103

Venture Capitalist Budgeting Finance Advertising 103

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

Blog 392

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 392

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? But there’s still a big question for a lot of people.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

At the end of the game, a reporter asked Babe Ruth what he was thinking about at that moment when he hit that ball out into the end zone. And yet, when the next pitch came, Ruth not only hit the ball, but he hit it with such force that it became one of the longest home runs ever made at Wrigley Field.

How To 100

How To Audience Learning-by-Doing Succession 100

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

System 167

System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.” TXRH operates on four core values: partnership, passion, integrity and fun.

Taylorism 70

Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

Company 140

Company Human Resources Welch Emotional Intelligence 140

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

Management 133

Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

Blog 124

Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

Blog 124

Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) But, in an organization, our actions are always connected to others.

Deming 28

Deming Welch System Open-book 28

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Blog Emotional Intelligence Welch 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Gesture-based productivity apps. By materializing thought in physical gesture, we create a stable physical presence that… productively impacts the neural elements of thought and reason,” observes one study. In what situations (one-on-ones, conferences, or team meetings) am I learning new and challenging things, according to the data?

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. . 

Blog 100

Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

To date, business leaders have lacked two key pieces of information they need in order to act on the finding that meaning drives productivity. The magnitude of this number supports one of the findings from Shawn’s recent study on the Conference for Women. Employers must respond or lose talent and productivity.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

When Liz was offered a job as a product manager at a growing biotech firm, she was ecstatic. A senior director of marketing reports to an executive with broader responsibilities, who in turn reports to the global VP of marketing. Pgiam/Getty Images. Lateral relationships will vary by industry, but let’s take one example.

Learning Curve 13

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. You should take full advantage of empty conference rooms, semi-private cubicles, and quiet alcoves, says Burkus. Can you help?” ” Leave the office (temporarily). Suffer in silence.

Open-book 13

Open-book Conference Brainstorming Public Relations 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. alone, according to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (note: the full report requires membership, but this number is mentioned about 9 minutes into the video at the CSCMP site).

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Inside the newsroom, we had families living in the cafeteria, conference rooms, training centers etc.; We had to put in a daycare center, a catering center, provide cash because there was no way for people to take money out of the bank, provide cars for people, especially reporters, to get around. And that was just for our employees.

Media 10

Media Company Call Center Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore.

Brainstorming 14

Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. That’s precisely what we found.

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Mercadona’s store employees are empowered to order products and present them in a way that satisfies their customers and improves company performance.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. One in every few hundred was hurt, and one in every few thousand was killed by medical misadventures.

Health Care 14

Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent. No industry is immune.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Some excerpts from our conversation: In the course of your reporting, what did you observe about Bezos’s decision-making style? Ordinarily when tech companies do this, they hold a big press conference. Instead, Jeff brought about two dozen reporters in to see him in small groups. He did all the product demos himself.

Decentralization 11

Decentralization CEO Operations Leadership Styles 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

While companies are increasingly using detailed analytics to fine-tune pricing, packaging, and product performance, analytics have their limits when it comes to finding the next big idea. Consumers don't do a good job reporting what they currently want or do, let along what they might want or will do in the future.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In 2007, while SVP of Operations for Bresnan Communications, a cable TV company with 300,000 customers in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I was searching for a solution to a problem that had been eluding me for many years – a simple way to connect the 1,100 employees I was responsible for around a higher cause that went beyond profit.

Leadership 150

Leadership Operations Policies Hotels 150