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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

The CPO is responsible for aligning the organization’s human capital strategy with its overall strategic goals. The CPO empowers organizations to maximize their human capital potential and achieve long-term success by spearheading these efforts.

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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of media coverage — and companies’ attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. What about the wide swath of employees who are in the middle of their careers? For many managers, the problem is seeing those employees through to the other side.

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Skills Innovations For An Ever Changing World

The Horizons Tracker

.” The Swiss regularly top league tables such as the Global Innovation Index, and the human capital available to the country is a key factor behind that success. Retraining is encouraged via skills competitions that contain personal training accounts that have underpinned considerable growth in adult participation in learning.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

In Conference Board’s 2015 CEO Challenge study , 943 CEOs ranked “human capital” and “innovation” as their top two long-term challenges to driving business growth. Benchmark best practices for each and identify five opportunities that can be implemented immediately within the organization.