HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We are slowly witnessing the resurgence of Human Resource Management, with companies actively investigating how HR teams can contribute to business growth. For years, HR teams have largely been delegated to admin tasks and rote hiring activities, but there are innumerable ways by which HR can contribute to business success.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. “The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. Take your team offsite at least once per year to reflect and refocus.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. Not every person in an office can be led the same way.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Home / Human Resources / How to Build a Development Library for Your Organization. In Human Resources , Leadership , Learning , Organizational Effectiveness , Personal Effectiveness. Then for senior-level management, developmental support usually comes from senior-level folks in the HR function. Delegation (1).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: A Meaningful Enterprise » A Good Bye with Humanity August 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus How often as a leader do you have someone in your circle of influence (manager, peer, direct report, maybe even a customer or consultant) that leaves your organization? Fairly often, I’ll bet.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Another way I’ve managed to deal with the loss of this letter is to type a word and then select the command for an automatic spell review. Delegating Work Successfully Through Assertive Communication Hello there! Ctrl V has now become the magic command for pasting my MIA character. Otherwise, I have to revert to Ctrl V.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager. Have you asked what this person needs to be successful?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

This year the World Economic Forum are requiring their strategic partners to include one woman among their five delegates to the meeting at the end of January. Yet, we still need to use our innate power to keep moving forward. Thus, women will become approximately 20 percent of the 2500 participants.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2011

Here’s something for all managers to think about… what’s the best way to “help&# your employees? Business leaders and management writers bemoan the lack of execution but there’s no problem getting executives to conduct planning sessions and planning reviews. posted at The People Equation.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

She was so broken; the issue became a mess, taken all the way to human resources and finally resolved without hurting anybody. Mary Jo Asmus : October 6, 2010 at 7:32 pm Hi Yathi, The reason so many of my posts are about things that apply to work as well as daily life is that leadership is about being human!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Have you ever noticed how ambivalent line managers are about the Human Resources function? Managers often rely on their HR partners to help them build an effective team, but then chafe at them for forcing them to “follow the process.” the manager of an HR call center is basically focusing on the administrative role).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

There’s growing evidence that conventional performance reviews are not working. According to a CEB analysis, organizations can only improve employee performance 3% to 5% using standard performance management approaches. As a result of findings like these, some companies are doing away with annual performance reviews altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

When most people think about humans and robots working together, they tend to assume that it’s the human giving the instructions. Robots, after all, are good at following commands or rote tasks, not the messy world of management, right? But the system could also delegate in a “smart” way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her. After all, they’re delivering results and exceeding targets.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Review of material, taking notes, seeking supplementary materials and questing to learn additionally must occur. Periodically, the material is reviewed.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 18, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate Office Politics – The Bad, The Ugly & The Good → May 19, 2009 · 4:29 am ↓ Jump to Comments Tackling Problems – How big is your “O”? O” stands for observation. Here’s how it works.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. Delegate, Coach, and Let Your People Earn Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Too often, managers are left relying on a change in tone – or even a pause — during a phone check, which hardly seems like the best way to gather information about a potential employee. All told, our research yielded 44,941 words or short phrases across all the feedback we reviewed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Managers were not expected to be particularly involved in the coachee’s exploration or journey. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Managers were not expected to be particularly involved in the coachee’s exploration or journey. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

At most companies, the human resources department "owns" and measures engagement. And instead of delegating the effort to HR, you'd make employee engagement a top priority for frontline managers and employees themselves, with built-in procedures for closed-loop learning. Apple surveys its employees every few months.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Our employees clearly told us that our organization had to shift its culture — that we had to become more decentralized and simpler to do business with, and had to delegate power to where the action is. Reviewing the people and organizational-capability equations is also more continuous.

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HR Digest

JULY 20, 2020

To make things easier for you, we’ve split up this HR compliance checklist into key human resources functions so it’s easier to delegate tasks to the right departments and people. Conduct an annual review of your company policies and procedures to ensure your employee handbook manual is compliant with existing and new laws.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Most job-seekers aren't just looking for the right work — they're looking for the right manager , too. To a large extent a manager will control your assignments and your work environment , so it makes sense to try to learn more about her long before you're hired. You can expect that manager to be pretty self-focused.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. In short, employers disconnect from managing one of the most important and costly expenditures for their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

These include perfectionism; preoccupation with details, rules, orders, lists, organizations or schedules; excess devotion to work; inflexibility about matters of morality, ethics or values; reluctance to delegate tasks unless others submit to exactly his way of doing things; and rigidity and stubbornness. I don''t know.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

It's human to feel bad when people criticize and no matter how senior you become, you're still human," Hill says. Ask for feedback on a regular basis, not just at review time. When someone tells you, "You run our team meetings really well," or "You don't delegate enough," follow up by asking for an example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” As you might imagine (and may have already experienced), this can make for bad feelings and underperforming senior management teams. His team felt disconnected and unhappy, and its performance suffered.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. But thriving as a working parent involves unlearning this trait — and delegating and finding shortcuts whenever possible. Bring workplace efficiency home.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

There are many pieces of a business that get outsourced, and the most common are IT, marketing and human resources. Taking steps toward outsourcing can be a long process while you decide how to manage your business. Business management is all about knowing where your strengths lie and capitalising on those.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

With institutional investor prodding, boards have thus become far more effective monitors of management than they were a decade ago. Chief executives still run the corporation, but directors at many are now increasingly stepping forward to lead the corporation in partnership with management. a working partnership with top management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

” So when you feel snowed under, you really should let your manager know. Having a candid conversation with your manager about your workload requires the right mindset, says Morgenstern. Your goal is to identify “projects that can be delayed, delegated, deleted, or diminished.” Cut yourself some slack.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Yet few organizations offer clear guidelines on the nuts-and-bolts of managing leave. Prepare a list of your core responsibilities, dividing them into the tasks that can be assumed by others and those that aren’t so easy to delegate, such as client relationships, expertise-related functions, and mentorship of direct reports.

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