HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2023

This article aims to provide a guide on how to fire an employee effectively, who to fire, some common firing mistakes you should avoid, and some work mistakes that will get you fired as an employee. How to Fire an Employee Firing an employee should always be handled with care and sensitivity.

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How To Document Policies Restructuring 52

HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Sincerely, Grace OPTION 2: LAYOFF DUE TO RESTRUCTING A sample layoff email to communicate a restructuring layoff with empathy and clarity. Layoff due to economic downturn.

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Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Demonstrating Technological Savvy. High-potential leaders from around the world were consistent in expressing the view that technological savvy will be a key competency for the global leader of the future. One trend on this issue was clear—the younger the participant, the greater their emphasis in the importance of technological savvy.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Exit interviews are a key way to identify why an employee wasn’t able to settle into an organization so it can be addressed in the next round of hiring Ensuring a job description accurately represents a role can help ensure candidates know what they are signing up for Explain company policies, probation criteria, salaries, etc.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. They outline the four key elements of this model and offer suggestions for whether, and how, to implement elements of it.

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Innovation Technology Operations Article 27

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Bioinformatics - Seriously, perfect for young people who know how to use computers and love looking at a screen all day. New technology all the time. See different sites every day.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Five Trends .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 3, 2013

My technology services company The Walker Group, was strong and growing. I turned my traditional technology services firm into a social enterprise. To ensure that my technology company’s social enterprise structure would be protected in perpetuity, I donated preferred shares to reSET.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. When more responsibility is added to what you already do , you have an opportunity to restructure your work and present your plan. Ask for help reducing your low-value work from your company’s productivity unit or information technology gurus. Overwhelmed is the new normal.

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Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Hence, our new research , which focuses on understanding how to encourage more frequent (and more profitable) digital reinvention.

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Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We believe that there is no longer any doubt about how to increase the value of care. Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. The question is whether providers can make the necessary changes.

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Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

My colleagues and I recently conducted a study that shows how to talk about negative events in a way that buffers your employees from the disempowering effects of negative news while also fueling their ability to solve problems. How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work. And now I have new research to back that up. Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Fenne even records short podcasts containing advice on how to lead effective sales force or how to achieve success in their private life.

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Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Take this brief assessment for feedback on how to improve strategic alignment in eight key areas. As Company B’s leaders turn their attention to operations, they make sure all the elements — processes, people, capital and organizational structure, and technology — are in lockstep with what the strategy demands.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

These models are intended to provide leaders with additional insight into what motivates followers and how to improve individual and team performance. It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

“The old adage that it’s not about you is nonsense,” says John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love. ” Lees suggests saying something like: “My former company went through an extensive restructuring. We can manage without you.’ ’ It feels personal.”

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Some won’t mind taking a trip, just not in the direction you’re headed. Others will resist getting in the car at all. For most people, change is a big deal.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 124

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. cities integrate smart technologies into municipal buildings. Smarter Buildings: The Foundation for Smart Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. Alan Copson/Getty Images. Employees around the world are reporting that big organizational changes are affecting their jobs. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S.

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Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For instance, when my colleagues and I crafted a corporate narrative for a life science firm, we gathered anecdotes from R&D and sales leaders about how their company’s technology had been used by health care firms across the country. Tell the whole truth. Don’t allow them to be reduced to meaningless, jargon-filled platitudes.

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Storytelling Document Restructuring Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves. They sponsor one-off presentations of "megatrends" or "potential discontinuities" but rarely discuss how to adapt their business model to the future.

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Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. While most organizations have more people working remotely and virtually, it does require more thought and creativity in how to train this segment of your workforce.

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Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. It simply means that Western governments need to engage in substantive negotiations over the restructuring of the global economic agenda at a minimum, and possibly agree to significant reform of institutions as well.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two factors making global thinking a key variable for the future are the dramatic projected increases in global trade and integrated global technology, such as e-commerce. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Demonstrating technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Why is P&G making this move, now? Why switch horses midstream? The absence wasn''t so brief.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Many articles have been written about why employees resist change and how to overcome that fear and defensiveness. Most refer to organizational changes such as restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing or moving locations, all of which may result in abrupt shifts in reporting lines, job responsibilities, or the physical environment.

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Company Resistance CEO Restructuring 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

“Any business leader who wants to succeed in a changing economy must become an expert at talent mobility – how to define it, support their workers and leverage it for strategic advantage.” What are a few of these trends and how are they already showing up? How should organizations restructure and change in light of it?

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Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? Operations Organizational culture'

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

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Technology Company Content Business Model 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

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Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

To start, we don’t really know what happiness is, or how to measure it. And just because we have more advanced technology today doesn’t mean we’re any closer to pinning down a definition, as Will Davies reminds us in his new book The Happiness Industry. As Darrin M. Happiness could make you selfish.

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