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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. In today’s dynamic business environment, the CPO plays a pivotal role in talent management, recruitment, and retention.

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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

This can be done through individual interviews or focus group discussions, where the facilitator encourages open and honest conversations. Understanding how well the board balances competing priorities, manages risk and ensures accountability in decision-making is essential to determining its effectiveness in this critical area.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations.

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June 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Through our quantitative research of more than 750,000 leaders and employees inside some of the world’s leading organizations, and in the many focus groups we conduct every year, we’ve identified these 11 attributes that matter most.” John Hunter of Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog submitted Good Project Management Practices.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

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X or Y: Are You Patronizing or Partnering?

The Practical Leader

The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. They seemed to be Theory X leaders (employees will take advantage, need to be “snoopervised,” and managed like kids with rules, policies, and punishment). They see it loud and clear.