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Mentoring Still Not Happening for Women in the Workplace

Great Leadership By Dan

A Global Study of Businesswomen and Mentoring. Women want to share their experience and provide career guidance, but other women are not seeking them out. Since women often have difficulty building social capital at work, mentoring is even more critical to their success. And this is not for the reasons one would expect.

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November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Active listening has become even more vital during the global pandemic, as many organizations work in a remote environment. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference shared Social Entrepreneurs Are the New Social Capital Builders.

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. That’s one-fifth of the global workforce. The world of work faces a paradigmatic transition.

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Unilever to adopt “hybrid model” of remote and office for staff post-pandemic

HR Digest

Unilever has a staff of 150,000 global employees, 7,000 of whom are in the UK.“We Jope also emphasized that the company was keen to pursue its office model too as working from home resulted in a “slow erosion of social capital” as it prevents colleagues from meeting in person. . That seems very old-fashioned now.”

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

In fact, his inventions in three-phase electric power and alternating current eventually enabled the global distribution of electricity as we know it. 1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Steve Jobs; Elon Musk). v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

information about work and jobs is relatively hard to come by for someone seeking employment,” says James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Acquaintances, in short, represent a source of social capital, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. . Apparently not. “We

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Position Yourself for a Stretch Assignment

Harvard Business Review

I could see he was motivated, and still eager to grow, so I pushed him to instead think about what larger global roles he could perform for his current employer. You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail. Challenge yourself just enough.