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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. In today’s dynamic business environment, the CPO plays a pivotal role in talent management, recruitment, and retention.

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Executive Managerial Leadership Coaching: Case Study

Mike Cardus

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Set-up plus facilitation of monthly internal customer focus group meetings.

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Call Length Is the Worst Way to Measure Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In focus groups we’ve run, customers report that one of their biggest sources of frustration is the feeling that they’re being treated in a generic, robotic fashion and that the rep is trying to rush them off the phone rather than taking the time required to make sure their issue is resolved. And customers can tell.

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Leading the Charge for Sustainable and Inclusive Supply Chains

HR Digest

We host focus groups with employees to understand their thoughts and concerns and actively listen to their feedback on how and where we can improve our efforts. How are you planning to manage these challenges? We approach new and existing processes at C.H. In speaking with my peers over the years, C.H.

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How to Get Feedback as a Freelancer

Harvard Business Review

Over the past decade, my colleagues and I at Emergent Research have interviewed more than 1,500 freelancers/independent workers both one-on-one and in focus groups, during which we often discussed the role that feedback plays for them — mostly as it pertains to developing a new business.

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To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist

Harvard Business Review

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. They frame listening as a descriptive exercise rather than the high-potential strategic project it should become.

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