HR Digest

JUNE 12, 2023

There are different search methods or ways to consider when applying for jobs that can help you stand out from other candidates with similar educational or professional experiences. Approaches vary depending on the type of job you’re after, and the industry and competitiveness of the job.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A recent study from Lancaster University Management School explores how job sharing can help improve the number of women working in senior leadership roles. The paper describes how just 27% of Chairs of Governing bodies in UK higher education are women, with the number of female Vice-Chancellors the same number. . ” .

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In MHO, when it comes to leadership development, the Center for Creative Leadership is second to none. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Innovation is important in any profession, and leadership development is no exception. Makes sense, right? So where can we start?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is extremely important at a time in which the Aspen Digital Tech Policy hub reveals that just 9% of the cybersecurity industry consists of Black professionals, with Hispanic and Asian professionals making up just 4% and 8% respectively. New talent. Organizations should also consider the qualities they’re looking for in candidates.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

We also are looking beyond our organization and engaging with cross-section private and public sector leaders to discuss the prevalence of the mental health crisis within our communities. Looking back on your career, what educational influence was the most important in enabling you to become a leader ?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Do the folks that lift you up embrace similar values or work in a particular industry? BCC, is Leadership Coach and Educator with fifteen years of professional experience serving the nonprofit, corporate and higher education sectors. After a few days of reflection, begin looking for emerging themes.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Approximately one third (34 percent) of workers aspire to leadership positions , with only 7 percent aiming for senior or C-level management. . By an 11 percentage point margin, men (40 percent) are more likely than women (29 percent) to desire a leadership role. Seventeen percent say they do not have the necessary education.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Evidence from around the world shows that countries with more highly trained public-sector managers also have better public services.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

We grouped the 25 skills into five categories: physical and manual (which is the largest category today), basic cognitive, higher cognitive, social and emotional, and technological skills (today’s smallest category). These are often seen as “soft” skills that schools and education systems in general are not set up to impart.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We fear rejection. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

” It suggested that collaboration in research, education, and clinical practice too often remain unexplored in many developed countries across the world. A case study for what such collaboration can look like is the healthcare sector in Qatar. Education Doesn’t End With Graduation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America. — for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. executive leadership. As of 2009, U.S.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Even non-profit and public sector organizations must utilize quality approaches for staff and volunteer councils/boards. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. Higher sales. Higher return on investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. I have also become more skeptical of the assumed linear relationship between conventional research and educational change.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. An old client became well known and rather notorious through this technique: he liked to predict the future in his industry, always outrageous. Adapt ideas from other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

workforce, and it’s increasingly concentrated in the public sector — only 6.7% of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. workers are now unionized, and Rosenfeld shows that unions’ ability to affect wages for nonunion workers in the same region or industry sector — which used to be significant — is now negligible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

These are areas with 90% of the world’s population, higher birth rates, more young people, and lower education standards. With the highest median wage among newly industrialized Asian nations, the city-state also ranks first globally in worker productivity and attitude. With the right leadership, I think so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

For instance, some smart companies in the tech sector are re-skilling workers. Veterans bring to the table transferrable skills, but on paper, a lot of hiring managers haven't seen how they translate to the private sector — in fact, two in five employers say it's their biggest challenge when recruiting this group.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. To account for this shift, we believe a more holistic approach is needed to identify the highest-value, most strategically important industries that will drive U.S. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In this view, management thinking obsesses over the latest fad, and represents a kind of leadership version of the Pokémon craze. Every 10% increase in a plant’s management index was associated with an impressive 14% increase in labor productivity, meaning the higher value added per worker. We found several major factors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later. dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. Women are far more likely than men to leave the industry or to reduce their level of ambition just at the point in their careers when they need to make the effort to push on to the top.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

In a global marketplace there has been a number of innovative solutions emerging that provide telling glimpses into the future of education, and a recent report from the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and WorldSkills UK uncovers a handful of the most innovative ones from Switzerland, Shanghai, Russia and Singapore.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates surveys more than 2,000 C-level executives on the impact, structure, barriers, and enablers of digital technologies across 15 industries. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. They are less affected, but not immune.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Of the thousands surveyed, only about one-third of workers (34%) said they aspire to leadership positions – and just 7% strive for C-level management (the rest said they aspire to middle-management or department-head roles). About one-fifth said they didn’t have the necessary degree or skills. People were able to choose more than one.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We had it all — strong capital markets, rich natural resources, unparalleled higher education, and geographic separation from two devastating wars. The United States has a massive consumer population and many of the world's most specialized industrial clusters, but those advantages are diminishing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This answer is premised on the notion that the most objective test of a CEO's leadership ought to be how the company does during his or her full tenure at the helm, rather than the latest quarterly earnings of the company or the CEO's power, family pedigree or positive media coverage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

ghSMART has assembled a data set of assessments of over 18,000 C-suite executives across all major industry sectors and company sizes. Each executive assessment includes detailed career and educational histories; performance appraisals; and information on patterns of behavior, decisions, and business results.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Though data unavailability and informal economic activity make estimates difficult, youth unemployment rates in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to hover around 30-50% (and even higher in parts of North Africa). In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Women-owned businesses are disproportionately in industries where the median receipts are less than $225,000 (and businesses with receipts less than $100,000 are more likely to fail). Yes, women are graduating from college in higher numbers than men and permeating the workforce — at least at the entry and middle management levels.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Working experience and educational background are still important, but not as important as whether you come across as a team player, people person, someone who can be empathetic and bring the team together. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Even for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is bound to be an education. They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. PE multiple, a 15% premium over the aerospace and defense industry, which averaged 18.9.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. But it takes too long for new work skills to become codified and for the education system to deliver them.

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