Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

She was so broken; the issue became a mess, taken all the way to human resources and finally resolved without hurting anybody. Mary Jo Asmus : October 6, 2010 at 7:32 pm Hi Yathi, The reason so many of my posts are about things that apply to work as well as daily life is that leadership is about being human!

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. The findings came from an analysis of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey that was undertaken by the UK government either side of the 2008 recession.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Companies must focus on nurturing and developing their human resources. Operations are the foundation of every company. Finding and keeping good employees is good.

Organization 84

Organization Agility Ethics Operations 84

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. One small business in Georgia continues to overcome these hurdles.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2011

In 2008, the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) found that 55 percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a self-insured plan. In 2008, the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) found that 55 percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a self-insured plan.

Strategy 67

Strategy Insurance Compliance Management 67

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

In 2008, I started Enclaria to help change agents like you make a positive difference in your organization and for the people who work in it. But otherwise, it can seem like a constant uphill battle. Since then, I have worked with clients in many different roles, projects and organizations.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Companies must focus on nurturing and developing their human resources. Operations are the foundation of every company. Finding and keeping good employees is good.

Organization 40

Organization Agility Ethics Operations 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The end to America being a manufacturing powerhouse began during the recession of 2008. Don’t make this a human resource exercise. Don’t let this become a “check the box to keep human resources happy” exercise. And give it the same time, importance, attention, and resources as you do the strategic operating plan.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. Benoît Gruber joined Sage in 2008 and is the Vice President of Corporate Communication for Sage Enterprise Market and Sage X3. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2018

At the workplace, conflict and misunderstandings are discouraged as they can disrupt operations. In the 2008 CPP Global Human Capital Report , as much as 385-million working days are lost in paid hours every year because of workplace conflict. The Cost Of Conflict In Your Business. It may help to start with a few statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. In addition, they possess two key traits: Deep operational experience. But I've found that it does.

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Human Resources Operations Maturity Compliance 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. 5) Operational Transparency -. 2, Spring 2008. Transparency is organizational honesty. 15 Iss: 4, pp.675 675 – 687.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When Cedric Coco , senior vice president of learning and organizational effectiveness, joined the company in 2008, he quickly moved its learning and development group closer to the firm's internal performance improvement consulting team. And to succeed at that game, HR professionals must make fundamental changes in the way they operate.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Fran Laserson, President of the Moody's Foundation, remembers the overwhelming response to this program, which was launched in 2008. We're a quantitatively focused company," she says. Our culture is not effusive or emotional.

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Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies. Ultimately, though, the best brand councils operate with the goal of making themselves unnecessary.

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Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

For example, Henry and Cantrell conducted a workshop to examine the need for process improvement at a major Houston-based hospital to avoid unnecessary downtime in the main operating rooms They use many advanced facilitation techniques, with the simple tools of cards, like index cards, and a "sticky wall" (actually sticky paper mounted on the wall).

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Participative Learning-by-Doing Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Sometimes strategic shifts are driven by external events, such as the post 9/11 environment or the onset of the Great Recession in 2008.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

What better moment to re-read "Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work," which was originally published in 1994 and reprinted as a "classic" in 2008. Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, and Operations—at least—need to be involved.

Retail 9

Retail Heskett Franchising COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. One of them, Accellent, a supplier of precision components for medical devices, had to close a plant in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2008. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? Most boards underestimate the concept of change management and the science behind human behavioral change. Vice President Human Resources, Bosch North America. Charlie Ackerman, Sr.

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Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. Charles Bendotti: With more than 77000 global employees at PMI, collaboration for us unlocks unprecedented value and it is a necessity to ensure we can operate effectively. That’s the kind of culture that drives employee engagement and motivation.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well. .

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