HR Digest

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

If you want a team bonding session, then after-work drinks are the obvious choice. Brandee Baldwin, Director of Human Resources at Laguna Treatment Hospital, says, “We’ve cultivated a drinking culture. So what are the steps that the Human Resource department of a company can take to promote appropriate habits?

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Chart Your Course

JULY 25, 2017

Enhance connections between co-workers, managers, and the organization. To build stronger bonds between the top management and employees, one corporate office practices something called Employee Scavenger Hunt. Once or twice a year, they give every executive or manager five names of employees. In a study by Linkage, Inc.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 3, 2020

The paper highlights the psychological costs associated with moving away from your hometown or homeland, but also how these costs can be mitigated by sensitive policies and management. Creating a bond. Managers might also benefit from policies designed to foster a greater bond between employees. Global personality.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 22, 2015

So how have these companies fared so well in creating a culture that promotes hard work, an emotional bond with co-workers and product, as well as new and innovative ideas? Sometimes the preparation of a pot of coffee and simple small talk is just what a stuck project manager needs.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 7, 2019

Conflicting personalities can cause tension that even the most accommodating manager can’t deal with, and it isn’t always easy to create a cohesive work environment with a variety of characters. They’re likable people, but their preference for bonds confuses the goal-oriented driver. They value emotional connection and intelligence.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 21, 2019

Leaders can see and do more when they know how to negotiate four key areas of the leadership terrain: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. Stories are also a basic form of social glue, bonding groups and organizations together through historical legends and memorable tales. Insist on clear goals.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But cooking in teams allows for communication, camaraderie, and corporate bonding. If there’s only one team, then management can work together with the team to create the best portfolio for the charity. On the face of it, it may sound crazy – especially if your organization isn’t a culinary concern. Flash Mobbing.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Luckily, good strategists are also stubborn.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

That is not to say that the management is going to implement every suggestion they hear, but there needs to be an acknowledgement of the idea if you want them to keep coming. Research has shown that almost anything that management does for employees will benefit their morale and increase job satisfaction. Boost Morale With Activities.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2019

Leaders need to find a balance between humanizing themselves with personal details and airing dirty laundry. Human resources can help train leaders who struggle to set boundaries.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Combe also markets a line-up of other falling stars the likes of Vagisil, Lectric Shave, Aqua Velva, Sea-Bond and Johnson’s Foot Soap. Human Resources.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Combe also markets a line-up of other falling stars the likes of Vagisil, Lectric Shave, Aqua Velva, Sea-Bond and Johnson’s Foot Soap. Human Resources.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2008

While these B players may not seek the limelight, it’s still critical for managers to recognize, value, and grow these employees. By entering into coaching partnerships, you share your knowledge and experience as a manager to help maximize employees’ potential and help them achieve agreed-upon goals.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 20, 2016

Knowing how to adjust and work with everyone in the team is a start in forming a strong bond. Make sure you know what your teammates are feeling, so you understand them better. This will also prompt you on how to react during your interactions. One way to strengthen communication between group members is to make them feel safe to open up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. It is tied to the bottom line and must be treated accordingly, with the resources and expertise to do it effectively. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Affinity bonds us to people with whom we share some of our likes and dislikes, building emotional communities. But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

He was able to spend time building his lifetime bond with his daughter, and to be present throughout her one and only (and all-too-fleeting) childhood. However, many managers are stuck in thinking that their employees need to be in their offices to be fully productive. Human resources Managing people Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For example, HR consulting firm Mammoth considers its unlimited time-off policy a success not just for what it does but also for the message it sends about company culture: Employees are treated as individuals who can be trusted to responsibly manage their workload regardless of how many days they take off.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. These are managers, concerned with structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision and the effects of management decisions. ’ Management leads in strategically planned companies. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here’s a question that has been touted by human resources consultants and practitioners for the better part of two decades as an important way to measure employee engagement: “Do you have a best friend at work?” No amount of organizational orchestration can foster those more personal bonds.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So how can managers help combat stress and keep both productivity and spirits up during the holiday season? Ben-Saba Hasan connected this thinking back to his team as they bonded over volunteering in their community this season. Based on an analysis by Peakon of more than 15,000 employees across the U.S., And the U.S. Start today.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

Loneliness should be as important to managers, CFOs, and CEOs as it is to therapists. Opening a conversation with a small offering of peer-based praise can be sufficient to forge a lasting social bond. Our survey found that this approach translates into demonstrable improvements on key human resources metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

A Facebook picture of an old friend's kids on the same beaches where we grew up can be enough to spark that vague unease, the feeling that our bond is made of blood and history but no longer of shared habits, context or enterprise. Compared with most managers I teach, I have moved infrequently, and not that far.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

A Facebook picture of an old friend's kids on the same beaches where we grew up can be enough to spark that vague unease, the feeling that our bond is made of blood and history but no longer of shared habits, context or enterprise. Compared with most managers I teach, I have moved infrequently, and not that far.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

The kind of bonding that I inadvertently experienced may be more frequent these days as the byproduct of a corporate mindset reshaped by Great Recession-driven austerity practices — among them requiring employees to share rooms. When senior management walks the talk, a room-sharing policy is more palatable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

People tend to associate Pollyanna-type positivity with inexperienced managers trying to squeeze a little more work out of frontline employees, or with the “keep smiling” wall posters in the call center. If someone were to tell you to focus only on the positive experiences in your day, you might be annoyed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Not so long ago occupying the "corner office" was a sign that managers had reached the pinnacle of status in their organizations. when team members need to give and receive feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Families, after all, are our first “enterprise,” and our parents and siblings are our first “management team.” As you might imagine (and may have already experienced), this can make for bad feelings and underperforming senior management teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s an unexpected source of insight, solutions, and resolve for all working parents grappling with the dual failure-is-not-an-option challenges of managing career and kids — and for every organization struggling to find meaningful, practical ways to support its working-parent employees. That source is the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

First, I partnered with our director of human resources to discuss the most important elements for this policy to include. Before you introduce your plan to your whole company, make sure managers and direct supports understand their roles in implementing the policy. Here’s how my company, Influence & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Yet few organizations offer clear guidelines on the nuts-and-bolts of managing leave. Allison Falender is a technology manager at Shell, who is currently planning a maternity leave for the birth of her third son in September. Case study #1: Continue to help others grow professionally.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 29, 2010

In it, he relates certain descriptions of a ‘subclinical psychopath’ — one who is not overtly violent: “They’re the charming predators who, unable to form real emotional bonds, find and use vulnerable women for sex and money (and inevitably abandon them). Once inside a company, psychopaths can be hard to excise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

There are a lot of informal negotiations that go on with supervisors," agrees Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School and the author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty. Start with your manager. Framing your request as an exception to the policy can make some managers uncomfortable.

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