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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. Work with the sales team; understand how they sell your products. A key to giving clear direction is for product managers to project their confidence and full support to the work engineering is doing. Earn their trust.

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Hire your replacement

Lead on Purpose

Give your team members new opportunities even if it means letting go of your pet project. Do not hold on to the most important tasks yourself. One of the key side effects of focusing time and effort on your replacement is your own growth. When you help others learn, you learn more. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Three steps to the next big opportunity

Lead on Purpose

’ Be the person at your company who is willing to do new things, like taking on the project that nobody wants. love your site and marketing strategy. Don’t balk when things don’t go the way you want them to go. Get out of your comfort zone: Face it, progress never comes without some level of discomfort.

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What matters in 2010?

Lead on Purpose

Seth Godin , marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy “big thinkers&# to write the ebook What Matters Now. What matters in 2010? His purpose: “Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around.&#

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Five ways to make yourself more valuable

Lead on Purpose

Think in terms of projects: each one has a beginning and an end. You plan what you are going to do, work at it and when it’s finished you move on to the next project. When your project is successful, it’s easier to land the next project. The idea is to work effectively and close the loop on what you are doing.

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Book Review: Trust Agents

Lead on Purpose

Making connections and gaining people’s trust is the premise of the book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust. They connect people together and use their influence to find resources and complete projects faster. Agent Zero : Trust agents are at the center of their networks.

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