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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. “This will require the UK to move towards a model where training and re-skilling opportunities are available throughout people’s careers.”

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Stop Treating B2B Customers Like Digital Novices

Harvard Business Review

If you have a problem with your industrial cement mixer, you usually have only two options: read the manual or call your sales rep. 97% of professional buyers believe that user-generated content, such as peer reviews and group discussion, is more credible than content provided by the company itself. Wide topic focus.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. Lead by example.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Worse yet, they’ll sometimes hire different vendors to address different issues – lifestyle coaches, employee assistance counselors, case and disease management vendors, nurse lines, occupational health and safety experts, workers’ compensation specialists, disability managers, organizational development consultants, you name it.

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Strengths-Based Coaching Can Actually Weaken You

Harvard Business Review

This is particularly true in employee and leadership development programs, with strengths having somewhat of a cult-like following among HR and talent management professionals. Furthermore, high-performing leaders tend to get better by developing new strengths , not just enhancing old ones. Further Reading. Managing Yourself Book.