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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

Mary’s mission is to create work cultures where organizations and human beings can both thrive. in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has always been fascinated by the human dynamic at work. She went into HR so people could have at least one person in HR they could expect to be “human.”

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

It helps the stakeholders act as “fellow travelers” who are trying to improve, not “judges” who are pointing their fingers at my client. 1 For a study on the effectiveness of this process with internal coaches in GE Financial Services, see “Leveraging HR: How to Develop Leaders in ‘Real Time’, in Human Resources in the 21st Century, M.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Later, Brent Nakamura and I coded and analyzed a follow-up representative sample of 164 court decisions at five-year intervals after 1999: 2004, 2009, and 2014. The Birth of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policies.