HR Digest

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Close-up of unrecognizable woman sitting at table and cutting eye on pumpkin while making jack-o-lantern in workshop. Only 58% of Americans said they expect to celebrate Halloween this year, down from 68% last year, according to a National Retail Federation poll of more than 7,600 U.S.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Workshop Retail Morale 52

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas. We have 7 core values and they are all important.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. The director oversees training and education, helps teams on group problem solving and team building, and oversees employee engagement.

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? And this brings us back to the question of whether the people required to do this internally have the time and resources to pull it off.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9