HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2021

Your resume can be a door opener, or a career stopper depending on how you write it. Here are some action verb examples to go with various job descriptions: Managerial Skills: Supervised an energetic team of 5 engineers rather than “worked with.” Powerful action verbs and short impact sentences gather more attention.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In my native land (the UK), for instance, statistics suggest that the country has the lowest number of female engineers in Europe. Take time to create a fair, transparent salary range with the rest of your leadership team and implement it as soon as possible. It appears to be worse in certain industries, too.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

GREAT bosses spur TEAMWORK. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading At A Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

Most of the senior leadership teams I work with are teams in name only. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. This is not only frustrating for team members but can cost real money. They do not have a common purpose or shared values and goals.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

In their book, Maximum Success: Changing the Twelve Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead , James Waldroop and Timothy Butler identify twelve behavior patterns--what they call "Achilles' heels" — that can harm, or seriously hinder, a person's career development. Behaviors That Can Hold You Back.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We asked Roxi Hewertson about the 8 overarching leadership insights that kick off her new book Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does hitting the stores in just a few weeks. Insight #3: Leadership Is a Discipline, Not an Accident. The exception is teamwork within or outside your family. This is Part 2 of 4. About the Author.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. Mary Barra is good for GM first and foremost because she’s an engineer who cares about cars. Auto industry Gender Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Collaboration is not a style.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Stereotypes about women’s care-giving abilities may cause reviewers to more frequently attribute women’s accomplishments to teamwork rather than team leadership. Out of the 17 women who participated the first year, six were promoted into a leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. For major collaboration projects, Dana-Farber assigned coleaders who shouldered the administrative burdens while the superstar researcher provided the thought leadership.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

.” One of the more interesting challenges currently live on the platform is the Base 11 Space Challenge, sponsored by Base11, who are a non-profit organization that tries to encourage and support young people in developing and deploying skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Coding for success.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We've realized a 10% CAGR over the past five years, and corporate expects this division to continue to be a growth engine. You're thinking like a lone-gun account executive when you should be focusing on regional strategy development, teamwork, and clear communications up and down the chain of command.

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