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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

The consensus among these individuals is that when you focus on taking care of your own emotional health, the resulting positivity has a contagious effect, especially when it comes to relationships between leaders and employees.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The report consists of responses from an unparalleled participant pool of 13,124 global leaders and 1,528 human resource executives within 2,031 participating organizations. Forty-eight countries and 32 major industries are represented, as well as multinationals and local corporations.

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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me. In my current position at Newell Rubbermaid, we have gained consensus among our senior leaders that the primary role of HR is to build organizational capability to support the execution of business strategy.

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The Future of Talent is In Clusters

Harvard Business Review

What's more, most employees don't work in high-performing teams for long periods — team members move on, projects finish, and other pressing needs come to the fore. The main difference is that clusters will typically be hired permanently by a business with a mutual intention to commit for the long term.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business Review

A young gun (let’s call him Sam) wanted to join the partner’s team, which was helping a client with a difficult human resources problem. The exclusive, one-on-one relationship of mentor and mentee, long the norm, was ideal for a time when both parties stayed put in one institution or devoted to a single mission.

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