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Study: Smaller Teams Perform Better Than Bigger Teams

HR Digest

“In simple terms, we presented employees with situations that ask them to make judgments—often using ambiguous and incomplete information, to best simulate the real-life conditions of decision making,” said Dr. Ian Stewart, Executive Director Learning and Design at to Kaplan Leadership & Professional Development.

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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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Recommended Resource – The No Asshole Rule

Strategy Driven

We believe workplace hostility is a leading contributor of diminished moral, reduced productivity, and elevated attrition; all of which poison an organization’s culture and hurt its bottom line. Management and LeadershipLeadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy: 3 Minute Rule.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Quantitative measures, such as attrition data, employee performance data, and program attendance rates give you the numbers you may need to defend your program to executives. Evaluation: Managers who skip the evaluation phase may discover their program loses relevance if they don’t check in from time to time. Petersburg, Florida.

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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. For instance, by designing an effective recruitment and reward system, HR can directly decrease attrition and increase the revenue of the company by saving the cost of training new hires. Talent Management. Hiring Efficiency.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups. Without such a link, it's hard to justify differences in compensation.