HR Digest

MARCH 16, 2020

Google , Apple , and even small- and mid-sized offices are closing in an effort to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus. The HR Digest recently published a telecommuter’s guide to remote collaboration tools and apps that can help you improve communication with your team, management of tasks and work, and overall project management.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 30, 2021

Research from Harvard Business School highlights how if remote work is to become a more common feature of working life then the housing costs of those people needs to be something taken into account by managers. This may not be the case for low- to mid-level employees living somewhere such as London, however. “In Housing premiums.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 11, 2019

This is a telling sign — you've outgrown your manager. Oh-Oh — either management is not doing their job or the company is ailing. You can't get anything accomplished, projects are never approved (or cancelled mid-term), or your division is distracted by crazy hail-mary launches that never work. You've grown out of your role.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My own personal favorites: Manage the Mid-Space or Your Vision Will Fail Many companies suffer from a huge disconnect between the high level view of vision and strategy and their day-to-day execution. I call the space in-between the “mid-space.” 2011 closes the first year of my blog.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I recently met with a Board Member of a large global institution in Amsterdam, a successful executive in his mid fifties. I am taking a break at Grand Cafe Loos in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. My mind is spinning around as I try to defragment and reorganize the many experiences, images and memories that have made 2016 such a fascinating year.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In an exclusive Q&A session with Paige Ross, Global Head of Human Resources at Blackstone, we gain profound insights into the world of talent management and employee development within one of the world’s leading financial institutions. Next, it’s imperative to follow the data and develop insights accordingly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

N2Growth and Stanford Graduate Graduate School of Business are pleased to congratulate those individuals recognized on the 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO List. These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Leaders25 2020 Top CHRO Awards.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

. “ First Impressions ” leave an indelible mark on everyone – a mark that takes up so much space in the brain that the second, third, fourth, and on into the thousands of impressions can get crowded into the deeper crevasses. Unfortunately, most of the improvement occurs out of sight of his higher level bosses. Ask around.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 22, 2013

By not demonstrating how the vision connects to daily life, what I call “managing the mid-space” – We see her as irrelevant …. Considering the compelling case for the value of vision, it’s strikingly absent these days. Vision helps us feel connected to something larger than ourselves. Three Things You Can Do Right Now.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 19, 2015

This is a telling sign — you’ve outgrown your manager. Oh-Oh — either management is not doing their job or the company is ailing. You can’t get anything accomplished, projects are never approved (or cancelled mid-term), or your division is distracted by crazy hail-mary launches that never work.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I wanted to work with a mature diversity, equity, and inclusion management practice and bring it to the next level. Jon Muñoz: What attracted me to Booz Allen was its ongoing 20+ year commitment, mission-driven senior leadership team, and reputation in the DEI space.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

The key takeaway from these results is that SMEs are neither disadvantaged by their geographical location nor industry space in moving towards future-readiness. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history. Becoming future-ready.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 15, 2023

If day after day of stressful racing around doesn’t manage to actually kill us before our time, it will kill our health, happiness, and effectiveness. I once sat through a scarily high-energy presentation given by a professor specializing in knowledge management. Many came to me wondering if they had ADD.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Watch the full webinar here: Event: Managing in a Disruptive Environment On 18 August, CMI Malaysia hosted our Managing in a Disruptive Environment event. Listen to their discussion here ! Here's to more of such fellowships in future.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Amy has a unique ability to see around corners and figure out what’s coming in the talent development space. Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. A few notes: I read every submission. Not all submissions made the cut. Got a fave?

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Coaching Ourselves

MAY 23, 2023

” Dr. Marilyn Laiken, CoachingOurselves guide “Managing Conflict in Teams” Various defence mechanisms can kick into play here. Team members may collaborate solely through digital means, may be working in different time zones, come from different cultures, and lack the meaningful dimension of body language.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

It’s written by professors from Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and Simmons School of Management. I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Start with a solid research foundation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 20, 2012

Incidentally, Costco employees sell twice as much merchandise per square foot of retail space as their nearest competitor – Sam’s Club! & Doug Lennick: If you’re in a leadership position, you make hundreds of decisions each day – and most of those have the potential to impact the well-being of others. They are moral decisions.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

There is something to be gained by remembering the eyesore websites of the mid-1990s when you are designing a website for the present day. There is something to be gained by remembering the eyesore websites of the mid-1990s when you are designing a website for the present day.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Dave Yarin is a compliance and risk management consultant to senior management and directors of large and mid-size companies, and author of the soon to be published book, Fair Warning – The Information Within. This week, Yarin shared with me insights into compliance and risk management, his forthcoming book, and leadership.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.)

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

StrategyDriven is launching a Personal Business Advisor Program ; uniquely providing affordable cutting edge tools and expert advice that until now was typically available to only large company executives and senior managers. Over time, we learned it wasn’t enough to simply deliver a traditional consulting program economically. And why not?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2016

All too often within society, conversations have become one-sided monologues with witnesses or even worse, people gathered together in one space while all looking at their devices. These days, it seems that the art of communication is being lost. When people stop talking in the workplace, morale drops followed by productivity.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2012

But even with unions, executives and managers do ultimately control who works in the company. Educate managers: Help them understand the definitions of A, B, and C players. Jointly gauge employee performance: at specific meetings, managers should jointly assess employee performance. Teams that are high performance teams.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From virtual offices to hot-desking and leased floor space, it’s getting more difficult to be sure you’ve chosen the optimal solution for your needs, especially if your business is growing fast. Leased Office Space. For example, to ensure you avoid IT disasters, look into customized managed IT. Virtual Office.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2014

The answer to preventing and/or resolving delicate employee or business issues begins with creating the culture you want within your business, hiring well in the first place, leading people effectively, and finally managing performance consistently. In a small or even mid-sized office, everyone can smell trouble. There is no hiding it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

I met with the top HR managers of the largest 100 companies in the world, and even they said that 75% of their hires turn out to be disappointments… … except for the Topgraders in the room. It doesn’t matter if you are a manager with one employee, an entrepreneur with 30 employees, or General Electric with hundreds of thousands!

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 16, 2010

Our dynamic group of mid-level execs were sharing the challenges of balancing working demands with life demands in the advent of the “instant results/what have you done for me lately” environment we have created. But we all have our personal tipping points. Many of the clients I see and work with are running at a hundred miles an hour.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It might be that you hire a lot of people that work better in the mid-afternoon and evening. Your staff are the heart and soul of your business, and if you want your business to run in the best way possible, then you need to look after them. Looking after staff is more than just money, although offering an excellent salary is a good start.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Why is the failure rate so high? Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. Their sense of normal is disrupted.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

Management consulting is a challenging environment in which to cultivate apprenticeship, because staff regularly jump from project to project and manager to manager. We have identified a very different explanation, which is just as critical: the quality of the day-to-day apprenticeship experience.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Our respondents ranged in age from mid-20s to mid-50s, and were evenly divided between early, middle, and later career. Like women in other ultra-masculine sectors, they are often excessively visible as women, but overlooked when it comes to their technical expertise. We wanted to know how women deal with this.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 17, 2010

Slater made global headlines after pulling the ultimate employee hissy fit after a passenger gave him a hard time. After hurling obscenities at the passenger through the intercom, Slater grabbed a couple of beers and leapt out of the plane by deploying the emergency slide. On the upside, a reality tv show is being talked about.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

“They advised us to retain that as a strong part of who we are,” said Paul Choquette, a fifth-generation Gilbane who runs the Mid-Atlantic operation. “There’s a feel to a family business that clients in our space like. . “There’s a feel to a family business that clients in our space like.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

The manager trapped in the middle turned to me for help: how could he protect his employee – who was good at his job – from a CEO who now saw him as a naysayer? So how can you balance the requirements of managing both your subordinate’s performance and your boss’s expectations? cintascotch/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

After some encouragement, she decided to check her email once mid-week and once at the tail end of her vacation. Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 vacation days in 2016, up 0.6

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. increase after Amazon announced that it was buying Whole Foods this past June. Another is that too many customers simply don’t like them.

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