The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 13, 2025

Trust is vital to a healthy workplace and breeds innovation, productivity and engagement while decreasing attrition and stress. MIT Sloan Management Review. The post CLS Releases Two New Performance Curriculum Courses appeared first on Situational Leadership Management and Leadership Training. 1 Reichheld A, Dunlop A.

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HR Digest

APRIL 16, 2025

The job market is neither welcoming, nor is there space for more job seekers to find the employer of their dreams, making voluntary attrition harder to see. In January, over 1,300 Google employees signed a petition for the company to consider other strategies before it committed to laying off chunks of its workforce.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 26, 2022

Either way, culture issues will eventually affect employees in their day-to-day work experience, upping the risk of attrition. To remedy this, a team workshopped the following solutions to turn that lip service into a reality: Each employee should commit to taking one “well day” per month. Why Are Employees Leaving?

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HR Digest

JUNE 30, 2023

As HR leaders, managing budgets and finding ways to cut costs without compromising employee satisfaction and productivity can be a daunting task. By implementing these strategies, you can effectively manage your budget while maintaining a high-performing and satisfied workforce.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 24, 2024

How To Engage Your Workforce & Reduce Employee Attrition Each of us wants to know we are valued and bring value. In a world filled with turmoil and rampant change, we find hope and stability when our employer—to whom we commit one third of our time—says, “You have a fulfilling future here. Let’s make it happen.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

It requires the courage to change the operating culture that management has grown used to, and a parallel willingness to make and follow through on decisions that challenge the familiar ways of setting company strategy. But that familiarity carries a steep cost: slow growth, missed targets, attrition, and unfulfilled potential.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Establish Effective Recruitment Strategies and Onboarding A big reason for high attrition rates is the hiring of candidates who are not suited for the organization. From the leadership’s attitude to the overall company culture, every element has to be designed to appeal to an employee’s desire to stay right where they are.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.” They are: Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In so doing it will distinguish burnout from cyclical job or task-related regression, and will also provide strategies for employees and managers to consider for enhancing workplace health. Managers and employees need to commit to work together to both recognize and effectively respond. What Is Workplace Burnout?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Brandon Hall Group found that establishing a strategy on how to improve the onboarding process at your company can boost employee retention by 82 percent and Bamboo HR determined that employees who have a good onboarding experience are 18 times more committed to their employers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One of the costs of a weak or negative culture is voluntary attrition, or employees choosing leave. By investing in culture early on, one would expect that voluntary attrition would be lower, and our research corroborates that. For founders who are committed to focusing on their culture early on, where should they start?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Hiring managers don’t feel that internal candidates have the right skills. This can shake out in a couple ways: Hiring managers think existing employees lack the exact skill match they’re hoping to find, or hiring managers are looking for newer skills that aren’t in evidence yet at their organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In partnership with Linda Hill, also of HBS, we are helping organizations and their management teams to update their leadership models. Productivity, engagement, innovation and job satisfaction remain high, and we benefit from the lowest attrition levels in our profession. ” How can we change this dynamic?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. Some managers might even believe the best test of talent is to put people into unfamiliar settings and see if they can figure things out for themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

This blending of internal and external talent can have huge benefits to the organization — cost savings, access to new capabilities, speed and flexibility — but having a blended workforce creates special challenges that most managers aren’t prepared to deal with. Will I be replaced?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

To do so, enterprises need to have a strong culture, excellent managers, and continued plans for growth. Growing the organization helps us to serve more students directly, but it also drives down staff attrition by creating opportunities for advancement that rival the private sector. Focus on culture and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

When Gitanjali Gems won the best employer award in the nation for hiring disabled employees in 2009, its Chairman Choksi said: "Since the gems and jewelry manufacturing process offers scope for employment of persons with disabilities, we have responsibility to the society at large and are proud to commit in helping." VP of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. Some were employees who moved into a new role but stayed at the same employer — for example, a junior accountant who switched into a job as accounting manager. Related Video. Culture Matters.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

That’s why my collaborators — Nicole Stephens at the Kellogg School of Management and Ray Reagans at MIT Sloan — and I decided to study what organizations can do to increase traditionally stigmatized groups’ performance and persistence, and curb the disproportionately high rates at which they leave jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

When I was pregnant, I told my manager at 11 weeks. Pervasive: 66% said it impacts all aspects of their engagement, morale, motivation, commitment, and desire to advance in the organization. performance ratings, internal promotions, compensation, and attrition. For example: “I’m the only woman in a team of ten men.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Where EHRs required billions of dollars in investment and multi-year commitments from health systems, AI is more about targeted solutions. Large hospitals typically employ teams of 50 or more bed managers who spend the bulk of their day making calls and sending faxes to various departments vying for their share of the beds available.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Its managers are committed to transparency and allow employees to constantly scout for new business opportunities. Some argue that uncertainty demotivates employees, leading to increased attrition and corrosion of market value. Change management Leadership' See the rest of the series here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Its managers are committed to transparency and allow employees to constantly scout for new business opportunities. Some argue that uncertainty demotivates employees, leading to increased attrition and corrosion of market value. Change management Leadership' See the rest of the series here.

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Competitive Advantage Attrition Bottom-up Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. However, numbers remained persistently low, and in all three organizations attrition was high, especially among junior women. What can managers do to change this dynamic? Can organizations step in?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Picture, for example, a Muslim who prays in his car because he doesn’t want to advertise his religion, a mother who doesn’t put up pictures of her children so that coworkers won’t question her commitment to the job, or a gay executive who is unsure whether he can bring his partner to company functions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Recruits love that they won’t be just a cog in the machine, that our company and its managers — Sudhir included — will listen to them. We should put our money where our mouth is with the People Support function, show that we’re 100% committed to our culture of inclusion. Who would manage it? Come on,” Vikram said.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call does e-discovery, contract review and abstraction, and other managed services , Raymond Law Group specializes in “price-sensitive commodity (litigation) work”).

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Yet, too often managers see them as negotiable. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement across business units. Unfortunately, these criteria miss a crucial element: the right talent to succeed as a manager and leader. None of these points are theories. You have options.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

That’s important, not because I think MBAs should be more like SEALS—I don’t—but because real-world excellence requires more than commitment to educational achievement. Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. This was a precarious time.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 27, 2024

.” The authors conclude, “Introducing return-to-office mandates that seem at odds with a human-centric corporate purpose can lead to tremendous organizational damage, including an erosion of already-frayed employee trust and connection to the organization, as well as an increase in attrition.”

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) , an organization’s culture directly contributes to employee behavior. Some cultural issues that may contribute to quiet quitting, include: Lack of engagement by and between management and employees fosters weak relationships. How to Combat Quiet Quiet.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0 So what does a Management 3.0 As a Management 3.0 Figure 2 – a management 3.0 You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Attrition declined, saving on retraining.

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