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Competencies – are they dead? Or are we ignoring the true 3 core competencies?

Rapid BI

Are competencies and how HR (and managers/ professional bodies) often relate to them irrelevant in today’s business world? Do we actively ignore true core competencies? I was at a training workshop recently, and the trainer was talking about competencies. The post Competencies – are they dead?

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. Julie Lynch, HRM Today : The Insidious Weed in Your Employ - Have you ever thought about the connection between gardening and management?

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Gloria Chen Pushes for Greater Representation

HR Digest

Seeing mental health emerging as a front and center concern, we provided meditation apps and emotional wellbeing workshops, along with our employee assistance program which offers free counseling support. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

This can provide a useful contrast to blue sky innovation sessions, where ‘no ideas are bad ideas’ and many ideas are so outside of a company’s core competencies that they aren’t remotely actionable. One of the entrepreneurs, Sun, describes it as: “a workshop… turned into a hackathon. And they don’t leave until it is done.