Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation. Whew, I thought I was alone, but I'm not" is comforting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There’s power in benchmarking, and many a company has met their demise by a sudden competitive surprise. How to Outsmart The Competition. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning confident humility competition competitors outsmarting the competition stop watching the competition' Get there early.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Workout Wisdom: what are at least three different baselines that would be good benchmarks for improvement? If cold calls make your skin crawl, then learn how to ask for referrals from people whom you already know. Just as these are qualities of a good workout program, so too are they critical for effective career development.

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Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Quality Execution 176

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this comprehensive guide, we tell you all you need to know about SQF certification, including how to get certified. Below are some suggestions: Take an online training course on how to implement SQF systems. Level 2 is a fully certified HACCP food safety scheme that is benchmarked by GFSI. Read on to learn more. What Is SQF?

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). But as veterans of the U.S.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is crazy — start benchmarking other successful behaviors and you’ll slowly become successful. So, to make your life a little bit better, figure out how to expand your options and make more educated and informed decisions. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Moreover they know how to leverage information and resources to achieve their objectives. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Want to find out?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 18, 2019

This alone is some way below the benchmark that defines poverty and the ability to meet basic needs. Of course, retaining older people in the workforce has numerous advantages as well, with the prospect of keeping hold of the explicit and tacit skills they’ve accumulated during their careers.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Without knowing their individual employee and corporate strengths, many leaders have tried to replicate innovations as best practices (read: benchmarking ) throughout an organization without success; because one-size-doesn't-fit-all. My career or life signature is bringing order to opportunity.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 1, 2021

The only thing to learn from the Jets is how to torpedo a team. Many former players spoke of his ability to connect with his players, to engage them in ways that spoke to their identity as athletes and their aspirations for their careers, qualities that tenure can erode in professional athletes and corporate employees alike.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 1, 2021

The only thing to learn from the Jets is how to torpedo a team. Many former players spoke of his ability to connect with his players, to engage them in ways that spoke to their identity as athletes and their aspirations for their careers, qualities that tenure can erode in professional athletes and corporate employees alike.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test. If so, How to Drive ROI on Direct Mail Guest post by Elizabeth Lombard, manager of postal carrier education, Pitney.

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QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2010

We work in teams and knowing how to get along well with others is extremely crucial. So how do you get along well with others and establish required comfort? Be the benchmark : People take more clues from your conduct, than from words. Be the benchmark when it comes to quality of outcomes. Be generous when praising.

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Team Benchmarking Open-book Directory 167

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here’s why and how.” ” Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You’re Not the Boss of Me. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. I think so. Mike Henry Sr.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Here's why and how.". Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You're Not the Boss of Me. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Utpal Vaishnav presents Know how to walk first, running comes later.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. No company exists in a vacuum and understanding how to create an equitable compensation system depends on what stands as fair.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This is the time to start thinking about who could be your mentor when you need to make career decisions. Be prepared to discuss the highlights of your academic career – Your GPA and even your SAT scores matter. Big-Name Firm or Hands-on Experience: How to Get the Most out of Your Internship.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break. We look at an individual’s job being done, benchmarking their compensation regularly throughout the year. Key for Audible is the granularity with which we review compensation.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break. We look at an individual’s job being done, benchmarking their compensation regularly throughout the year. Key for Audible is the granularity with which we review compensation.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The second meaning has to do with the need for all of us to stand out in a crowded job market and do what is necessary to stay relevant in careers that keep getting longer. Question : How can employees discover the true demands or “double reality” of their job? Question : How can managers help employees achieve this?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The second meaning has to do with the need for all of us to stand out in a crowded job market and do what is necessary to stay relevant in careers that keep getting longer. Question : How can employees discover the true demands or “double reality” of their job? Question : How can managers help employees achieve this?

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Books Goal Sports Commitment 70

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 15, 2013

The second meaning has to do with the need for all of us to stand out in a crowded job market and do what is necessary to stay relevant in careers that keep getting longer. Question : How can employees discover the true demands or “double reality” of their job? Question : How can managers help employees achieve this?

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Goal Sports Commitment Career 56

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. Insight offered about own life-career. Progress is visioned, contextualized, seeded, benchmarked. The mentor stands for mentees throughout careers, celebrates successes. As an integrated process of life skills, a career has its important place.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 92

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

When an employer extends a job offer to you, he has, in essence, “fallen in love with you,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. ” After all, money is only one component of career satisfaction. Andrea was eager to make a career change and excited about the job.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Perhaps it’s a matter of New Year’s resolutions, or a reaction to seeing their friends and colleagues make big career changes each January. For example, I could spend weeks watching videos on how to set up a distributed computing system. Set a golden benchmark. Of course, that benchmark will change as you develop.

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Skills Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. In essence, the women worked harder and longer to get to the same place.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. Goal: Take that hill – Objectives: taking out the bunkers, machine gun nests, and other fortified positions that stand in your way of taking the hill.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. Famed guitarist Greg Allman has said that he suffered from stage fright throughout his career. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. HBR staff/Bettmann Collection/Getty Images. It accounts for about 2.5% of all book sales in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

It’s also going to be a lot harder to benchmark the offer they give you against salaries at other firms. Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again. And benefits? You and Your Team Series. Andy Molinsky.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Have you ever sat in a meeting where all parties sit around the table with a deer in the headlights look trying to figure out how to dance around an issue rather than address it head-on?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. For those times when you need an iron hand, then you also need the wisdom to know when and how to use it. It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period. This plan will help you get through the year.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As Here are 4 challenges and how to manage them.". Maybe this year will be different.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

After researching over 100 early stage ventures, we began to understand why startups hit a cultural chasm and how to navigate it. This time, the firm ranked in the top quartile of all companies and handily beat our benchmark. Two distinct sets emerged. Afterward, management re-asked the staff to rate the company’s transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

As a career strategist, I find it's often easier to work with people who have no preconceptions about how to look for a job. I have a personal benchmark for success in the hidden job market. Use the standard electronic tools; use them thoughtfully, and frequently enough to maintain your visibility.

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