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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. Achieving this is certainly easier said than done. the easiest way….the and on and on.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

However, many cannot see their way through existing HR policies and short-term business imperatives to know how to respond to such requests — let alone be proactive in suggesting possibilities to their people. In the short-term, this maintains and even enhances their job performance.

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Casual Conversation in the Workplace…Something to Talk About | You.

You're Not the Boss of Me

After all, as a leader it is your job to know what you have to work with in terms of resources. And that goes for the human kind as well. Having said all that, I think it important to say too, that casual conversations can go from being constructive and helpful to divisive and destructive if you’re not careful.

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Make Your Career a Success by Your Own Measure

Harvard Business Review

I posed this question to my human resource management students recently. The context was that we’d just been considering some evidence that “Gen Y” employees are likely to head for the doors if they don’t see short-term prospects for career advancement.)

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How to Conduct an Effective Job Interview

Harvard Business Review

How are they resourceful? Those answers will help you create criteria and enable you to construct relevant questions. Your goal is to “make them comfortable” so that you have a productive, professional conversation. Is he a long-term planner or a short-term thinker? What roles did they hold?

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

One reason is many bundled-payment contracts use artificially short time horizons, not a complete cycle of care, which cause the contract to be similar to a traditional fee-for-service model. The team’s goal was to be as inclusive as possible in specifying the patient population while incorporating the appropriate risk adjustments.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business Review

After all, she says, the goal with any reference check is to “go beyond simply verifying facts” on a resume. It’s also important to set the stage for a “constructive conversation,” says Fernández-Aráoz. ” Instead, your goal is to ask a series of open-ended questions.