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Becoming More Self-Aware To Improve How We Communicate

Tanveer Naseer

However, what’s equally important is understanding how to be an effective communicator when it comes to giving presentations – whether it’s those large presentations like giving the annual company report to employees and/or shareholders, or something on a smaller scale like presenting a proposal to your team or department.

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Possibility Maximizer: The Happiness Project

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Why You Should Check it Out:   I choose to recommend this resource today because I feel everyone could use a little more happiness in their lives. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Change Reboot: How to Recover When Your Project Gets Off to a False Start

Change Starts Here

A college within a large public university had moved the processing of its fiscal and human resources transactions from dozens of individual departments to a centralized Business Service Center. The teams shared the proposed changes with each of the departments for feedback.

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Morning Advantage: When Google Employees Die

Harvard Business Review

An organization called Strike Debt, which describes itself as "a coalition of Occupy groups," has proposed something radical that just might work: debt forgiveness. Prepare for a Scarcity of Resources and a Fight for Survival (Quartz). The Occupy Movement Wants to Buy and Forgive Your Debt (Rolling Jubilee).

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The Business Investments That Freak People Out

Harvard Business Review

And if we go back to the labor discussion, a company could certainly fill its offices with some bodies “for less,” as Furchtgott-Roth suggests, but is that the right metric for success in human resources? There are some intense biases that lead many to suspect that social or green investments don’t actually pay off.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. It came from a leader within the practice. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.”