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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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Leaders Should Sweat the Small Stuff

Strategy Driven

Valuable time is wasted discussing mundane and pointless subjects that don’t impact the overall success of the project. Performance reviews become routine instead of being used to improve performance and reward truly exceptional execution. If metrics are used, they drive the wrong behaviors.

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Stop Complaining About Your Colleagues Behind Their Backs

Harvard Business Review

While leaders and teams might consider this behavior to be innocent “blowing off steam” or the more strategic “confirming performance data,” I consider it a form of workplace gossip. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Why We Fight at Work.

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To Succeed in Tech, Women Need More Visibility

Harvard Business Review

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. How talent management is changing. But pipeline factors are not the only reason for the low numbers of women: Companies are failing to retain the female employees they have. Insight Center.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

According to a 2013 study by American Express , EQ is one of the biggest predictors of performance in the workplace and a strong driver of leadership and personal excellence. How talent management is changing. So in order to be successful you will need to be self-aware, flexible, and open to new ideas, projects, and people.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. One 2013 study illustrates this well. Insight Center.