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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Soft skills are increasingly important in creating successful leaders Guest post from Gary S. In turn, we adapted our culture to meet their needs — casual dress codes, flextime, healthy lifestyle options, community involvement, challenging work, more defined advancement. Many are generally minor performers.

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How to negotiate a higher salary

HR Digest

It shows how much your organization values your skills and knowledge and appreciates your work. And so, it is a reflection of how your company supports your work-life balance, flextime, opportunities for growth and promotion, perks, and so forth. Your salary is more than a figure that gets deposited in the bank account.

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

Especially in the more subjective realms of knowledge work, they default to false indicators of performance such as “chair time” or interpersonal skills. Managing employees is not easy, and for the most part, human resource policies in large organizations are designed to simplify things.