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10 Shocking Statistics About Employee Engagement

Chart Your Course

Predictions for 2014 – Building a Strong Talent Pipeline Josh Bersin, December 2013. Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace Report June 2013. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Summary. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Research Paper February 2013. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Summary.

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3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Program

Chart Your Course

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 2 – Standing Out Among Professional Peers, part 2 of 3

Strategy Driven

what professionals should do to ‘get to know themselves again’ importance of performing a personal SWOT analysis for each position being applied for. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan.

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Top 10 Sales Trends for 2013

Harvard Business Review

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013 the number of customers who expect a response through social media has doubled, according to research from Sprout Social , yet seven out of eight messages to companies go unanswered for 72 hours. Ask legal and human resources to provide a list of do’s and don’ts for real-time consumer engagement.

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Why Women Aren’t Making It to the Top of Financial Services Firms

Harvard Business Review

An analysis that we conducted of disclosures made by 50 American financial services companies revealed that women occupy only 20% of executive committee roles and 22% of board positions. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. financial firms are women.