Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. Human Resources'

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2014

However, when you’re facing longstanding, highly resistant habits, you’re typically up against many – if not all six – sources of influence. Her diverse background in human resources, corporate communications, and marketing provides a blend of creativity and practicality that delivers results.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

From ensuring DEI initiatives in the workplace to helping the rest of the workforce with change management to keep up with the changing times, the presence of a Human Resources team is essential for the entire organization to thrive. Image: Freepik What Are Some of the HR Trends in 2024 That Guarantee The Need For HR?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. Jason Richmond. 6 Culture Myths.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   That said how can I resist featuring a post like this from HR Capitalist Kris Dunn.  Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Episode 1 – Standing Out Among Professional Peers, part 1 of 3 focuses on the need to stand out among professional peers and challengers both within your organization and when applying for external positions. how to communicate a desire to be considered for an open position to the hiring manager.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Skill Set Development. While some businesses still resist this trend, modern technology has leveled the playing field for telecommuters and in-office staff. Along with a clear career path and ongoing skill development, employees value the ability to advance their skills through further education. Support for Continued Education.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2011

Welcome to the January edition of the Leadership Development Carnival , New Year’s Edition! Jennifer Miller offers us her most popular post of the year, and asks if people really care about leadership development, or if they just can’t resist a free offer. Simmons – Positive Organizational Behavior.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority? That is the good news.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Episode 42 – Acquiring Management Experience focuses on how to gain management experience even if one does not currently hold a management position. Next, we’ll explore how to convey this experience such that it opens the doors to a management position within one’s organization. Additional Information.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While our power base is growing it is vital to have our wisdom keep up with our positions of authority. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. This beginning part is about the women who have come before us, paved the way so we could move faster and with more assurance.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s easy to get stuck, wondering why what you’re doing isn’t working, lamenting all the resistance you face, and not knowing for sure what to do next. In 2008, I started Enclaria to help change agents like you make a positive difference in your organization and for the people who work in it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in which people think analytically? Analytically Resistant — This group tends to be skeptical and dismissive of the value of a data-based approach, preferring instead to rely on intuition. Developing analytical capability. Analytically resistant. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Managers got more-frequent, positive reinforcement, which is key to behavior change. After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth. Like many companies, Lear is trying to move HR from a tactical department that manages transactions to a strategic function that develops people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

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. Human resources'

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2009

So, if you are a leader positioned somewhere in the middle of the organizational pack or an individual who wants to make a tangible difference in your organization, how do you do it? What specific positive outcomes do I expect from it? What objections or resistance might there be to this change? How might I address them?

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HR Digest

JUNE 23, 2023

Strengthened Company Reputation Organizations that prioritize diversity and inclusion are viewed positively by employees, customers, and the broader community. Demonstrating a commitment to diversity and inclusion can enhance a company’s reputation, attract top talent, and foster positive relationships with stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Organizations and workers conceive and design their work to optimize rather than resist this interface. ” Your professional staff and software development work might optimally reflect “work reimagined.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Given consistent research indicating CEOs’ disappointment with Human Resources, the call for change on the cover of last month’s issue of HBR ( It’s Time to Blow Up HR and Build Something New. One of our favorites: “A leader will develop faster by focusing on their strengths rather than their weaker areas.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

For example, just 3% of leadership positions were held by women in Pakistan, but numbers stood at 38% in Ukraine. Consider gender egalitarianism measures, such as equal pay and encouragement to attain a higher education and participate in professional development. Diversity Gender Human resources Leadership Managing people'

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. These are just a few examples.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Let go So by now you’ve made a heavy investment in someone’s development to the extent that s/he is now a top performer. Letting go is hard but it’s also an important part of organizational, and personal, development. Maybe then, more would be willing to develop these soft, yet hard, skills. To me, your comment says it all.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. ” But the interaction can yield positive outcomes if you do it the right way. ” Talk about development separately.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Lana was the head of Human Resources for Bedia, a company in the media industry that felt, at times, like an old boy's network. A study of 829 companies over 31 years showed that diversity training had "no positive effects in the average workplace." Teach them how to develop the skills of their various employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Second, we rank-ordered 49 leadership behaviors for all those in HR from the most negative to the most positive behaviors. Developing and coaching others. One of the most positive areas for HR leaders in general was that they were truly concerned about developing others. Practices self-development. Develops others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Their number one answer: employee resistance. And in Sialkot, the unintended positive consequences seem to be at least as important. We asked owners why not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. After two years in this position, I had an epiphany. And my favorite, “I’m not in sales, I’m in business development.” It even has management in the title.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Japanese multinational, Ricoh , for example, has invested in building a highly networked internal design function within its 105,000 strong workforce operating across 200 countries, referred to as the Future Business Development Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Should you quit right away, or try to make the position work for you? A good job will have many positive things and a few things that bother you,” says Clark. Look for development elsewhere. Developing a personal network within the company is one of the smartest things you can do if you want to stay but in a new role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Particularly if we are new to a job, low on the totem pole, highly dependent on the position, or wishing to make a good impression, we face a tough choice. Do we go along to get along or do we resist? This is now active noncooperation, which may very well backfire unless a full strategy has been developed and is implemented carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. Get external validation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

On the positive side, Greece has tidied up its balance sheet (at least the privately held debt), and nearly balanced its budget, excluding interest payments. More serious was the effect on public service employees; any future effort to rationalize public services will now face very stiff resistance.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Encouraging the development of relationships among people who work together on a daily basis can build strength and a sense of common purpose. Resist, at all costs, any temptation to participate in idle gossip or rumour mongering. Keep your exchanges short yet friendly and I suspect that everyone will appreciate it. Reply Rich G.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

When I was CEO of ThedaCare in Wisconsin, we chose a medical-surgical unit at our Appleton Medical Center in 2007 as the place to develop an innovative process for caring for inpatients we dubbed Collaborative Care. Then, they developed a dyad huddle. Positive competition among clinics helps maintain momentum.

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