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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, if these barriers aren’t overcome, it’s likely that this group will suffer most from any technological disruption. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that just 13% of workers without a college degree manage to transition into a better-paid job within ten years. Social capital.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Source: Wayne E. John Agno: Ask the Coach .

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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of Achieving Success Through Social Capital (Jossey-Bass, 2000).

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. Certainly technology plays a growing role. But online social networking may not always be separate from traditional networking since one so often leads to the other. Therese Marie Boldt: Yes!

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also widened job opportunities. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually. Coronavirus has changed the way Americans work. What should companies do now?

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Says Adam Cobb, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: “The best way to get a job now is the same as in the ’70s and the ’80s—word of mouth.”. Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords.

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