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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

These policies outline the company’s commitment to fair employment practices and guide employees and managers. By prioritizing compliance with employment laws and regulations, the CPO creates a legal and ethical framework that safeguards the rights and well-being of employees while mitigating potential legal risks for the organization.

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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

This accountability not only enhances the organization’s overall governance but also ensures that board members continuously strive for excellence and remain committed to their fiduciary duties. This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

We launched a new culture framework in 2019 to articulate what our culture is – and what we aspire it to be – with a focus on building on our strengths and committing to stretch ourselves into the future. We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

And because of its ongoing commitment to culture, Zappos continues to perform well, even weathering an acquisition by Amazon—without doubt an extraordinarily different corporate culture. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. Zappos is one example. Talk to customers.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. I’d need to conduct a dozen customer and employee focus groups to fill in the gaps if I wasn’t having regular check-ins with the shoeshine guy.”

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants. Network members readily participated in focus groups and collaborated with Gilbert’s group to develop new programs and store designs. Participants tend to belong for individualistic reasons.

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