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.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

HR Digest

APRIL 24, 2023

Severance pay is not required by law, but many employers offer it as a gesture of goodwill or to help protect their company’s reputation. It is designed to help employees transition into new employment opportunities by providing them with financial support for a limited period.

How To 52

How To Policies Uncertainty Restructuring 52

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But, they don’t do much to build a leader’s influence, reputation or impact. 5 Mistakes That Can Derail Your Reputation as an Authentic Leader. I once had a client call me and say, “My boss just told me that there is going to be a major restructure and a significant downsizing. What is authentic leadership?

Influence 596

Influence Leadership Self-aware Servant Leader 596

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital. Does the business have an adequate financial structure?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Storytellers often have a reputation for stretching the truth (at least in my family), and dramatic license certainly can make a story more lively. How did that shape their values later on? Let the phrase “say more about that” weave its magic and then follow that thread as far as it goes. Trust but verify.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Document Restructuring Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Even deeper, if you have a reputation for excellence in a domain, it will feed on itself and give you preferential access to new knowledge and information because of your insider status. And if you know a great deal about a given domain, you have a rich base on which to draw. In professional services, experts can write their own ticket.

Skills 13

Skills Morale Ethics System 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). In the early 2000s Aetna was struggling mightily on all fronts.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

” It’s your work product and your reputation that matter. 3D printing will restructure manufacturing. With the rise of social networks (and expectation of NSA-level spying), it’s become more true that “everyone knows you’re a dog, and nobody cares.” grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Diversity Hotels Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

“Your boss should want you to develop your own reputation because that enhances his reputation as well.” Establishing a reputation independent of your boss takes time.” Lose sight of the fact that establishing your own reputation sometimes take longer than you’d like. Be patient.

Reputation 8

Reputation Career Learning-by-Doing Committee 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. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Eventually, the changes that were implemented led to a redefinition of the company’s core strategy and a renewal of its relationships with its customers, without a wrenching restructuring or devastation to morale. The senior team was able to more effectively prioritize the use of their time. Getting tangled up is easy.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The changes in healthcare – consolidation, restructuring, regulation, spending pressures – that are necessitating a transformation at Philips Healthcare are a subset of a series of powerful forces in the business world that have catapulted marketing from an often-isolated support function to a critical capability for driving above-average growth.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Super-investor Warren Buffett’s admonition that “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact” doesn’t apply. Building a car is the least of it.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

What is its reputation? Candidates also look at firm resources likely to help a new executive succeed and deal effectively with clients, notably the brand, the firm’s reputation, and its external relationships. Candidates look at “reputation and brand,” one consultant stressed, “as a wrong choice here can be disastrous.”

Reputation 10

Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

If you’re new to leading the team, ask how they would restructure the team and their own work. Passing a poor performer to another manager will seriously damage your reputation as leader. Ask what they would most like to be doing if they could. Our best advice to you: Focus on your C players early on.

Motivation 8

Motivation Learning-by-Doing Short-term Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Focusing first on clinical excellence and driving his team to measure and improve it, Huland’s center gained a regional, then national, then international reputation and is now the highest volume center for prostate cancer care in the world. See this Harvard Business School case for more.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8