HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Image credit – Freepik Benefits of Having HR as a Strategic Partner HR as a strategic partner can mean many different things for an organization according to the area it invests the resources in. Retaining talent takes active planning, and when it is treated as an administrative task the results of recruitment are often unsatisfactory.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. IBM is one of the leaders in agile adoption and has multiple articles that encourage the early inclusion of agile HR project planning and enterprise agility at all levels of the business.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2014

The intent of the query is not to unleash your frustrations about insufficient budgets, unreasonable customers, cantankerous bosses, or endless project lists – not that these matters are unimportant or should be overlooked. Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 22, 2013

I am headed to Philadelphia PA to coach five managers separately for six months, and thought that sharing the situation summary, objectives and first meeting agenda / plan would prove useful to you. Coaching and development for 5 high potential managers. Currently the managers are struggling with a change in their role.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

The term artificial intelligence first appeared in an article by Stanford professor John McCarthy in 1979. It will be one of the many technologies that comply with Amara’s Law (named after the scientist and futurist Roy Amara): We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. At best, they are managers.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

But a recent Chart Your Course International project led by Greg Smith and Patricio Porras not only achieved success for Riverside Auto Group but outlined a blueprint that virtually every company can follow when trying to change its culture. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Having served as Chairman and CEO of SAP EMEA (Europe, ME, and Africa) and President and CEO for SAP Asia-Pacific, and a member of the SAP Global Board, Les was asked to delay his retirement for two years to take on the role of Global Head of HR, responsible for all of SAP’s Human Resources activities worldwide.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

There is still a propensity to use the word manager verses leader which can have a significant different intend and meaning. Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 6, 2011

As many as 41% of employers have used more independent contractors over the past two years, according to an online survey of 430 senior human resource executives conducted by Right Management. Source: Right Management surveyed 430 individuals on March 15, 2011, in partnership with law firm Littler Mendelson.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

In an interview with The HR Digest, Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. Employee-led resource groups (ERGs) are one of Amazon’s core strengths.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Based on thousands of years of practice, mindfulness techniques enable people to manage their attention, improve their awareness, and sharpen their focus and clarity. Which, of course, negatively impacts performance.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

August 8th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus As an executive coach for the last eight years, I’ve had some phenomenal clients put on a short list of “leaders to discard” even though they shouldn’t have been. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

A traditional employment model may work for some, while a model based on short-term employment may work for others. You can already see this in internet-based labor brokers such as oDesk , which deconstruct projects into small components and match each component to a contractor who will never be employed by the organization.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2018

How do you know when it is time to throw in the towel on your latest project? When we compare ourselves to genius…or even to a perceived “natural”…then we don’t have to feel bad about falling short because our relative disadvantage is out of our control. Skill x Effort = Achievement. Create goal frameworks.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Human Resources Oversees Training. Accept Our Pet Project. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. How do they meet deadlines, initiate projects and offer ideas beyond the obvious?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. They can be called upon to staff high-level projects that were previously too expensive to hire employees to work on full time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

That’s also true for Human Resources (HR) departments, which is where most of a company’s money is spent, and where — we’d like to believe — the real value lies. <span>What the two terms really mean -- and how to effectively use each.</span> </span> Save. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. Usually companies look at their historical data and project them into the future.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 18, 2022

The CV vs resume debate is prevalent among job seekers and hiring managers. Hiring processes have become so streamlined and automated that only companies with significant human resources departments feel obligated to manually sift through hundreds of applications each week looking for talent. Hiring managers aren’t stupid.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

One of the most common ways to reference check a job candidate is to talk with their former managers over the phone. But in today’s dynamic, knowledge-based workplace, where work is often accomplished by teams working closely together, is talking to a manager really the best way to assess a potential employee’s fit?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

And Michelin rehires retirees to help oversee projects, foster community relations, and facilitate intergenerational mentoring. Since B&Q began actively recruiting older workers, its staff turnover has decreased by a factor of six, while short-term absenteeism is down 39%. Human resources Managing people Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? Manage the village. Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Most organizations standardize work for managers by testing it on a small scale in one pilot unit. Standardizing work processes is a concept from lean management.).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The short time horizon topics (e.g., revising projections for the coming month) need to happen frequently. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly. Less urgent topics and can be discussed less frequently.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And yet while teams often are where the real work gets done, most businesses don't value or manage them well. Many businesses aren't skilled in talent management or team nurturing. Team management, in particular, is often a scarcely recognized activity. Clusters Manage Themselves. A New Kind of Team: Clusters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through our research at DXC Technology’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF), we have identified eight breakthrough talent management stratagems that most organizations aren’t doing — so almost none have mastered — but that hold significant promise. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management. But the selection of external talent—project-based consultants, technical advisors, and gigsters—is often challenging. Ask who can do the real job: 1X, 3X or 10X? Define table stakes and differentiators. 1X, 3X or 10X).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. If they find that there is high usage, they can then negotiate terms and agreements. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. In short, even a small green intervention like having more plants in the office could significantly boost employee happiness , and we know that happiness is a powerful predictor of an organization’s success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

High potential is another term for good ass-kissing." High-potential programs that take leaders away from their jobs week after week for classroom experiences, or that create projects unrelated to critical strategic business challenges, cost much more than the training fee.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

High potential is another term for good ass-kissing." High-potential programs that take leaders away from their jobs week after week for classroom experiences, or that create projects unrelated to critical strategic business challenges, cost much more than the training fee.

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