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MAY 2, 2013

More importantly, if we consistently apply a standard model over several cycles, we can begin to see trends in the data. These trends can allow for even better decision making.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Coaching Tip: Start documenting the type of urgent issues that are derailing the important work and look for trends. Once the trends have been identified determine who and how you can offload the urgent. Time Management is the next critical skill to stay out of the trap of being stuck in the urgent.

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JULY 17, 2014

Leaders must study and see trends of usage within e-mail and observe what''s happening through instant messaging habits. Step 2: Determine What''s Lurking Within Your Digital Culture Your company already has a digital culture. The most powerful digital tools for most organizations are e-mail and texting.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

For two years (2016 and 2017) Deloitte’s Global Human Capital trends survey has positioned organizational redesign as the number one concern for businesses. Guest post from Simon Mac Rory: If you work in an organization today as a leader you will lead a team.

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JUNE 25, 2019

We’ve never spent more on innovation, yet as many CEOs are starting to notice, the returns are diminishing, and the trend is down, not up.

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MARCH 16, 2017

A trend at many companies including Zappos, Google, Procter & Gamble, Hubspot, and Facebook is napping rooms. They are also winning the war on talent: SAS receives 200 applications for every opening and have the lowest employee turnover in the software industry at two percent per year.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

In its 2019 trends report , Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) stated that workplace soft skills are important for the future or recruiting talent and exceedingly valuable for competitive organizations. Ninety-one percent of HR professionals surveyed by LinkedIn believe soft skills are very important for the future of recruiting.

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APRIL 23, 2020

But, the fact is, Boomers are the ones that started this trend, way back in the Sixties. Generation X’ers are also changing careers as often as necessary to find fulfillment and grow. Boomers see this as a lack of stability and commitment in Millennials. Maybe they’ve forgotten and that’s understandable. It’s been a while.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

About the author: Anna Carroll, MSSW, is an author, speaker, and organization consultant who specializes in workplace trends and leadership excellence. Your fear will transform into enthusiasm for great feedback conversations!

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AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. I admire them all and am pleased to say none succumbed to the pressures by cutting corners or losing sight of their mission to help and to heal. Increasingly, the pressures were taking a toll.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

When you’re a busy leader and you hear about the latest trend like mindfulness, you may immediately think, “ Yeah, right, I don’t have the time or space for that. You know a topic is hot when it makes the cover of Time. That’s what happened with mindfulness last year when the magazine ran a cover story called The Mindful Revolution.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Each year, the trend seems to continue to shift to “more” is better when it comes to how much you tell people. Are they learning how to develop specific leadership competencies through targeted assignments and projects, and getting creative in the way they do it? How transparent is your process?

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Workforce Management of Time Tracking Software Time and attendance systems help employers to keep track of the hours worked by each employee and also monitor attendance trends. There are several approaches which can be applied to these situations.

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JULY 19, 2012

Situation 2: Sales have been trending down in recent months. Questions: • If you could change one thing that can improve customer service, what would you do? What complaints have you been hearing recently from customers? What service policy is getting in the way of improved customer service?

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MAY 28, 2014

I network with others that do the same, and keep up with the latest succession planning current practices, trends, and challenges. This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : I’ve managed formal succession planning systems for a number of large companies and consulted with quite a few smaller companies.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For that reason, the selection process for managers must be rigorous and ensure the full alignment of organizational values, management competencies and performance management to protect the cultural core from trending negatively over time.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

The message seems to be fast at all costs: that you must be proactive and anticipate future trends to generate better, faster solutions, or risk being relegated to the back of the pack, or even eliminated.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

It’s a trend that’s been emphasized repeatedly in media headlines: as businesses continue to do “more with less,” employees are experiencing less job satisfaction and engagement as their employers focus solely on company analytics instead of developing their people.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Many of them will be experienced but will not have the strength, vitality, resourcefulness and most importantly, practical knowledge of current business trends to create sustainable production models. This is dangerous for organizations that have plans to expand and which will only have baby boomers and retirees to rely on during that time.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Sean Pillot de Chenecey , author of The Post-Truth Business: How to Rebuild Brand Authenticity in a Distrusting World, has over 20 years’ experience as a brand expert, combining marketing consultancy with ethnographic activity and trend research around the world.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

John Mattone is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on the Future Trends of Leadership Development & Talent Management. If an employee is on pace to perform below a goal standard, work with your employees to determine the causes of poor performance, examine solutions, and agree on appropriate actions.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

DDI’s most recent trend research, Global Selection Forecast 2012 , tells us that only 51% of newly hired employees are confident that they’ve made the right decision to come work for you. What is the real risk of having a sandwich instead of pasta for dinner, really? Or are they? That means their productivity is suffering, and so is yours.

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MARCH 18, 2014

A Global Study of Businesswomen and Mentoring. And this is not for the reasons one would expect.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

I’m sorry, but this trend is just plain weird. Bring your dogs to work day. Hey, I love dogs – but not everyone does. How about being inclusive and opening up the office to all pets? Farm animals? Hiring a masseuse. Watching your co-workers get a rub-down? But then again, I admit, I’m not really into the whole spa thing.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Please, spare me the fads, but by all means, let’s stay open to emerging best practices and promising looking trends. Innovation is important in any profession, and leadership development is no exception.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

As organizations, they don’t see the opportunities and challenges that are coming at them (in their industries or via trends at large) and, if they do, they often aren’t able to do anything about it fast enough. Tragically, however, the majority of companies don’t handle change well. And there’s a pretty logical reason for that.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Furthermore, he was firmly against the use of corporate resources for promoting the common good: “There is only one social responsibility of business—to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game…Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a (..)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Use trade publications, business magazines, and other information sources to stay on top of important trends affecting your industry, customers, suppliers, and employees. What would I see as my group’s strengths and weaknesses?” Stay informed.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Correspondingly, 90 percent of the Top 20 companies reported that senior leaders communicate that the firm’s survival depends on adapting to evolving market trends, compared to 70 percent at all other companies. “In

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MAY 6, 2012

Carol Morrison from i4cp’s Productivity Blog presents Executive Leadership: Trending Toward Trouble. They've found a terrific approach that honors the hectic, 24/7 pace of a startup and combines the realities of work/life balance – team members share the load, demonstrate trust & respect of each other, and don't miss a trick.

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MAY 7, 2019

(ABSORB) Some of those people may also absorb the implications of what they’re seeing, and there are also likely others whose job it is to explicitly look for trends like this and consider what they might mean.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Harnessing Trends: Spotting patterns of change that could substantially change the rules of the game. Innovation leaders pay close attention to nascent trends and discontinuities that have the potential to profoundly impact the future of an industry – changes that others often ignore until it’s too late.

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MAY 29, 2018

We may field these questions at a time when we are in the middle of something else that we don’t like doing very much … like staring at spreadsheet numbers and looking for some magic trend. So when the person with the question comes in, we are happy to put that down and move into “rescue” mode.

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JUNE 7, 2018

In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.” Within a year, the entire organization's energy toward the Ford brand had been reinvigorated and executives throughout the company had begun to adopt Mulally’s focused and data- driven approach. And the company posted annual profits of $6.6

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Examine past data to establish a performance trend or baseline. For example In-bound Sales answering each call within 3 rings. Set aspirational targets for “Break-throughs”. For example, reducing cost or time by 20% in a key business process. Then, determine the extent to which the baseline must be altered to meet overall business targets.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The Boss is technologically challenged but he stays current on all the latest business trends, even though he rarely understands them. Of absolutely no concern to him is the professional or personal well-being of his employees.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Guest post from Alexandra Levit: As a futurist, it’s my job to track the evolution of the 21st century organization, and as of late we’ve come upon new challenges in reputation management, intellectual property, and digital transformation and disruption. Your challenge as a leader?

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