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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Reskilling refers to learning new skills for a job switch or career pivot. Business development.

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Josh Bersin’s Perspective on Inspiring Transformation

HR Digest

In this captivating interview with The HR Digest , Josh Bersin opens up about the transformative milestones that have defined his remarkable career. The HR Digest: Can you share key milestones in your career journey, and how they shaped your perspective on the global talent market?

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Leveraging Military Leadership for Civilian Success

Strategy Driven

The transition from a military career to a civilian career is difficult and challenging. The fact is that military professionals have built capabilities during their careers in essential and in-demand competencies, such as planning, problem-solving, team building, crisis management, and managing diversity.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. A practical framework for mentoring is based on the career stages work of Gene Dalton and Paul Thompson, former professors at HBS.

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Is Anyone In Your Company Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment?

Harvard Business Review

For instance, to become more innovative, many companies are attempting to redesign themselves as agile, highly connected and open networks of teams and partners in which knowledge is highly dispersed. The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

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Why Your Team Needs Rookies

Harvard Business Review

For example, at Reputation.com, CEO Michael Fertik never tells new business development staff how to start the sales process or size deals. “In They’re cautious at first as they gather data and study a situation, but once they jump in, they move quickly, making them perfectly suited for lean and agile development projects.

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