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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training.

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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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Employee Retention Ideas

Chart Your Course

Cisco CEO John Chambers said, “A world-class engineer with five peers can out produce 200 regular engineers.” Workshop at my location. Public workshop. Research shows those organizations that spend more time recruiting high-caliber people earn 22% higher return to shareholders than their industry peers.

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HR Management Can Help Develop Your Team

Strategy Driven

Human resource management requires a wide range of qualities such as: leadership, proper time management, ability to motivate employees and assertiveness. In this section you will find a variety of tools that will help you upgrade your recruitment system, human resource management, management team development, tips and skills.

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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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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Ever the engineer at heart, Tom has come up with a series of "equations" to follow that will help implement these strategies regardless of what industry or line of business you work in. . License. .

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

This concept of service that [Outward Bound founder] Kurt Hahn felt was so important,” said Laura Kohler, senior vice president of human resources, stewardship, and sustainability for Kohler Co. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable.