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Managing Remote Teams: Tips and Strategies for Success

HR Digest

Fortunately, there are several tips and strategies that managers can use to improve the engagement and productivity of remote workers. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best practices for managing remote teams. This includes tools for video conferencing, instant messaging, project management, and document sharing.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Integration is hard.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.