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Does Your Leadership Suffer From Proximity Bias?

Rich Gee Group

You know who they are — the individuals working on long, never-ending projects, the low-exposure work, or their proximity to your office is immense (on the other side of the globe). That’s a prescription for attrition — and your prescription is for more cowbell. 
 Give more focus to the orphans on your team.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2021

Leading Blog

So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. You will learn strategies to increase alignment, overcome attrition, and get absolutely clear on executing your top priorities. Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it.

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Three Ways to Improve Retention on Your Team

Great Leadership By Dan

For organizations, attrition is an expensive issue that takes money away from impactful progress, innovation, employee benefits, and enjoyable team activities. The most engaging form of learning and development happens through special projects. Is there a project you have been putting on the back burner for a while?

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How effectively do the leaders in your organization manage change?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

If you’re not carefully planning for how to help your people deal with the change, you run the risk of attrition, project failure, and lower performance across the. Just because you implement a new system, launch the new product, or move to the new office, that doesn’t mean the change is done. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing HR

HR Digest

For example, AI algorithms can track employee attrition rates, pinpoint factors contributing to turnover, and help develop initiatives to reduce employee churn. Start small: Rather than attempting to implement AI across the entire HR department all at once, begin with small-scale projects.

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Wall Street banks opt for greater automation for grunt work to retain talent

HR Digest

An internal survey by Goldman Sachs junior employees detailing the crushing workload and the accompanying stress due to demanding bosses has led to some stocktaking about the working conditions in the industry and the high attrition rates. Goldman Sachs had initiated around 100 automation and efficiency projects.

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“I Quit”: Why Employees Quit and How to Retain Them

HR Digest

A high attrition rate is a costly challenge for any business. The gig economy has given talented young men and women once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue their passion projects outside of office hours. If you pay attention to these reasons why employees quit, you’ll reduce high attrition and retain highly valuable staffers.