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Study: Smaller Teams Perform Better Than Bigger Teams

HR Digest

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. SJTs also reduce attrition rates.

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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. But that familiarity carries a steep cost: slow growth, missed targets, attrition, and unfulfilled potential. I call this obstacle The Disconnect. Sales often have no such contribution.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Innovation in talent management and workforce panning strategies is required to help companies make profits again. Corporate Innovation. Increasing innovation is tied to strategic goals. Quality Hires.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.