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Research Reveals That Apprenticeships Offer A Bright Future To Participants

The Horizons Tracker

Alternative routes That is supported by a recent report from Harvard Business School that explores the role apprenticeships can play. Employers see a real benefit, and participants end up pursuing an option that is correlated with different pathways to success,” the researchers explain. Even among 18-year-olds, this figure is just 40%.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

As a 2017 World Bank report noted: “the WMS initiated by Bloom and Van Reenen … has permitted a quantum leap in the comparative quantitative analysis of management practices and their implications for productivity and innovation.” As of October 31st, 2021, a mere 810 firms had enrolled, a long way off from the goal of 30,000 participants.

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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

HR Digest

“ CFOs are leaning into the ‘digital mandate’ and are investing heavily in next-generation technologies,” said Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance practice. Another survey by Sage that polled 1,900 finance leaders across industries and countries revealed that CFOs are seen as key drivers of change and profit.

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Research Reveals The Extent Of Bias Among Managers

The Horizons Tracker

Explicit attitudes were also measured using a tool called the Feeling Thermometer, which asks participants to respond to particular items by measuring their attitudes toward different groups. They scored lower than people working in more traditionally blue-collar jobs, like transportation.

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Close to 2,500 Carvana Employees Get Laid Off Over Zoom

HR Digest

The layoffs will mainly be for Carvana employees in operational groups as the company seeks to “better align staffing and expense levels with sales volumes.”. Apart from Carvana employees layoffs, the company will also be taking other measures to streamline its operational activities. Carvana Employees Layoffs.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Are you Ready for the Next Level?

Great Leadership By Dan

We rarely discussed the kind of functional skills (marketing, operations, and finance) that are taught in typical MBA programs – those were considered table stakes for this level of management. Scott will teach the first day, and each participant will receive their own Next Level 360 assessment feedback report and autographed book.

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