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Your Quick Fixes are Exacerbating Your Organizational and Team Problems

Mike Cardus

Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team. Continually I see a ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY to make matters worse.

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Three Steps to Create Optimism in the Workplace

Chart Your Course

The belief that “Excellence is not a skill; it’s an attitude,” said Ralph Marston, or “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty,” said Winston Churchill. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? Remove obstacles. Now this is huge.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The 5 domains of EQ are: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation, 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. Human Resource Champions (1996). The post Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives appeared first on Business Motivational Speaker|Team Building |DISC Training. by Peter Senge.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

It was clear to me then that the Defense Department would need to keep pace with the dramatic changes — many of them technological — reshaping the economy, the labor market, and human resource management. We provided new career counseling as well as professional skill certification for our tradesmen, among other efforts.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

Many American-funded entrepreneurship efforts focus merely on promoting “self-employment and micro and small enterprises,” or helping people “[develop] skills beyond basic literacy and numeracy,” or “identify[ing] work force needs.” There are human resources and procurement challenges to overcome as well.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

First, don’t assume that technical skills and knowledge trump character, especially when hiring on the managerial level. The Society of Human Resource Management found that 53% of companies that checked references uncovered falsities about the length of previous employment, and 51% discovered false claims about past salaries.

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The High Price of Overly Prescriptive HR Policies

Harvard Business Review

When common sense and bureaucracy clash, you see headlines like the one about a longtime Lowe’s employee who was fired for calling 911 on a shoplifter. Prioritize leadership over technical skill. Follow common sense, not policy. Strict policies are often excuses to not think.