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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

Here are a few that people in jobs ranging from nursing home administrator to mechanical engineer are working on this week: For a client who’s finding their voice – participate in every meeting you attend for one month; for one who finds it hard to focus – document and prioritize a task list, then share it with your boss to become more aligned.

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Job Candidates See Red Flags When Employers Refer to the Workplace as ‘Family’

HR Digest

According to a recent study conducted by People Managing People , a human resources content provider, nearly one in five (18%) job candidates consider it a warning sign when an interviewer refers to the company as a “family” during the interview process.

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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

Diversity and equal opportunity are a compulsory part of any company’s human resource plan. But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Construction industry.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. It was U-shaped. It looked like a cross-section of a bathtub.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

I write, teach and consult across the world on human resource strategy. Author of The Culture Engine & six other books. Former construction manager & church planter. . ~ Be Irresistible. 1 3,674 3,113 555 Max Lucado Leadership i played tuba in the High School marching band. JonesAndRaine band member.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. And do that with over 99.999999 percent reliability. Recall how the U.S.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

This form of learning is called constructionism, and it is premised on the idea that people learn by actively constructing new knowledge, not by having information “poured” into their heads. Instead of programming people to act like robots, why not teach them to become programmers, creative thinkers, architects, and engineers?