HR Digest

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Having these plans set up is not just beneficial for an employee who needs help improving their performance — it can be beneficial for everyone involved. Asking employees to participate in one allows managers to keep track of their progress over time and ensure they are meeting goals set out in the plan. And why is it important?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Executive educator Goldsmith gets to the bottom of why some of us don’t meet our goals – and gives some free advice. At the end of my sessions, I ask leaders (who have received 360-degree feedback) to follow up with their co-workers and ask for ongoing ideas about how they can continue to become more effective.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. You identify leaders by their actions and their performance.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Significantly, and to the surprise of many, they found that positive emotions actually spread further — from person to person to person to person — up to three degrees of separation, even among people who are not acquainted. Throughout his career, he has been recruited from the outside to turn around poor performance in difficult times.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Keeps others informed and up-to-date on relevant information. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. And if you’re an employee, don’t underestimate the value of leadership skills in your career. Shows up to work on time every day, ready to contribute.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. Would you agree that a variety of ways to express that voice might work well?

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. Linds gave up the studio and spent his remaining days walking Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, taking pictures, drawing, making music and writing about living and dying.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

While I don’t think a business will perish if it does not blog, I wholeheartedly believe a business will clearly fail to maximize its full potential without leveraging the significant benefits that blogging affords to those who do choose to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

We’re focusing today on how new challenges and new technologies are changing human capital management, and how to ensure that this key resource becomes a sustained competitive advantage for your company. That keeps on driving more and more impact on the bottom line. Michael and Jody, thanks so much for joining us today.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

And yes, we began to see a trend develop from the lens of professionals who work in the trenches every day on finding and developing talent; the bottom line seems to be, it is all centered around understanding the power of people-centric leading. One crucial trait for a high performing organization is understanding and embracing resilience.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. So understanding what constitutes effective followership and then exhibiting those behaviors can help improve a person’s career prospects. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

employees had to start showing up at the Internet giant''s offices every day. Again and again, we saw people writing about how refreshing it was to be freed from office distractions and to have the opportunity to catch up on work. Of particular interest to us, participants felt that they made more progress when they worked from home.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

In school too, I was encouraged, along with my classmates, to work together to complete projects and participate in sports events. Technology, too, has brought us closer together and the opportunities we have to develop relationships and work with others on-line are many and varied. Like this: The bottom line is this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. In many countries they make up an equal or greater share of tertiary graduates and the professional and technical labor force. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Are there sufficient resources devoted to solving issues that occur with scale-up? Is anyone responsible for ensuring these projects don’t fall through the cracks, or drop to the bottom of the sales force’s priority list? Freedom to explore long-term ideas and emerging technologies is important.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Up to 85% of women report that they have been sexually harassed at work, according to a 2016 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” Ali Douglass/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Tanya Clemons, senior vice president and chief talent officer at Pfizer, sums it up like this: "In the era of the knowledge worker, it's just a totally new game now in terms of how work gets done and even what constitutes work these days.". But to reap these benefits, it takes more than technology. They're spreading far and wide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A popular way of bringing physicians up to speed is to elevate them into management roles and team them with business executives. Creating a pipeline like this can help health care organizations recruit early-career physicians, develop their skills, and move them over time into key leadership positions.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. This time-consuming effort is critical, because it embeds the participants’ collective voice in our heads. It celebrates people rather than technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The ripple effects of these bottom-up efforts have important benefits for cities.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

If you're told you aren't going to advance, you can't let the disappointment stunt your performance or your career. Instead, let yourself feel the emotions that come up, the whole range of them. If you were passed up because you lack substantive expertise, look for ways to get the expertise through training or a lateral job move.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

In this test, participants play the part of factory workers who are attempting to fit red beads into 50 indentations on a paddle. Deming offered up 14 principles that stood in stark contrast to the sorts of practices he thought were eroding the performance of top corporations in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. Bottom line…good advisors make things happen and get things done at the behest of their clients for the purpose of enabling the accomplishment of anything ranging from a single task to a lifelong goal.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. They make up by increasing rates of advertisers…offering cause-related marketing packages as incentives. At the bottom of the totem pole sits coverage of community activities…unless they can sell advertising around it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

While individual leadership approaches will be as different as night and day, and some will clearly be more effective than others, there is something to be learned from them all…There are leaders that we look up to by virtue of their street-smarts, wisdom, and experience; or by virtue of their expertise and contribution to a given field.

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Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bottom line: I’m not sure that the collective body of those who have uttered the mantra of “Culture Trumps Strategy&# actually disagree with me on anything other than how we choose to express our views. Of course, strategy without a good culture is like pushing a rock up hill. Very little in life is either/or.

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