HR Digest

APRIL 12, 2023

However, despite the importance of employee engagement, many organizations struggle to develop effective engagement programs that truly resonate with their employees. In this article, we’ll explore key strategies and best practices for developing employee engagement programs that work.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The need to successfully transition from career to career is likely to be just as important at an individual level as the ability to successfully pivot is for organizations attempting to ride the winds of change. ” Views from the frontline. This resulted in confidence in the new ways of working being undermined.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of people everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. If we want to foster a culture of feedback, do we want to focus on giving or on soliciting feedback? When and how?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Tags: Culture Building , improvement , Quality Improvement & Development , Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay October 25, 2010 No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post.

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HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2022

By allowing (and encouraging) employees to share additional information with each of their responses, you might learn that many employees feel unappreciated at work and unsure of what career opportunities they have at your company. Focus Groups. 5 Ways to Collect Qualitative Data for Employee Engagement.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 1, 2020

New research tries to understand this situation in more detail, and to especially understand how young people feel about their career prospects in such an environment. There are concerns that what has often been a relatively minor part of the labor market is becoming increasingly mainstream, especially among younger, less-skilled individuals.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 18, 2022

An HR professional, professionally trained coach, or trusted mentor can help you interpret the results and build a strengths-based personal development plan. When an organization is growing, many people’s roles and careers grow because they are in the right place at the right time. A legend in your own mind?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2022

By helping your employees achieve these career goals, you can have them working for you more productively. Instead of having them disengage with the work, encourage them in the work they are doing, and help them get to the next stage of their career. This can be done by conducting focus group interviews, or by online forms and surveys.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of – people – everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. If we want to foster a culture of feedback, do we want to focus on giving or on soliciting feedback? When and how?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We have identified several key priorities that policymakers and support organizations can focus on in order to work more effectively with them.” ” The authors investigated the concerns of disadvantaged entrepreneurs through six focus groups involving participants from the Urban Poverty and Business Initiative program.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. Our people love to make a positive impact and go the extra mile, and we apply that same attitude when it comes to sustainability.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

These include external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, external assessments, informal networking, and so on. There are many ways you can get feedback on your personal, team, or organizational effectiveness without formal surveys.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To start with, companies need to develop a clear sense of purpose in all that they do. Image Credit – Pexels What Is a Strong Company Culture? How Do We Create It? A strong company culture cannot be built in a day—it’s established and pursued over time.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

At CMI we've been digging into the content that’s been speaking most to the CMI community over the past six months – and there are definitely some themes that stand out: resilience, personal development and inclusion, in particular. If you would like to join a virtual focus group on 7 June from 11am–12pm, contact Ariana Carrano.

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HR Digest

APRIL 20, 2023

Provide professional development opportunities Employees want to know that their employer is invested in their professional growth and development. Providing opportunities for training, coaching, and mentorship can help employees develop new skills, increase their job satisfaction, and, in turn, decrease staff turnover rates.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. We conduct focus groups and surveys to gain insight into the key decision drivers as well as candid feedback on product and pricing. What would you do or advice to give someone starting their career?

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

This is why my team and I have developed a comprehensive listening strategy to understand where our employees are in their lives and work journeys. As a result, we continue to develop global initiatives within our company designed to reduce stigma and increase access to mental health resources for all employees.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. ’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As someone in a focus group quipped, “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” In another organization, I was facilitating a development workshop with a few “prisoners” as participants. You’ll get trampled.” So, I was sick a lot.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dedicate manpower and resources to look for patterns or trends that may indicate inequities, especially within specific job roles or demographic groups. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But, he adds, "they've fallen short when it comes to understanding how to develop a corporate culture where all employees feel included, respected, comfortable, and able to do their best work.". Notes a focus group participant, "You start to be less of who you are. My style is direct," says one senior executive. "In

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Hold your own focus group. In my book Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future , I profile a woman named Mary Skelton Roberts who — searching for more clarity in her professional life — held a focus group with a mix of her friends and colleagues. What three words would they use to describe you?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Today's garota de Ipanema , however, is more likely to be carving out a career than prowling the playa. When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

According to the 2014 FWI study, employers have slashed options that involve employees spending significant amounts of time away from full-time work, including sharing jobs (down from 29% to 18%), sabbaticals (from 38% to 28%), and career breaks for personal or family responsibilities (from 64% to 52%). Yet, in all cases, barely half succeed.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

An employee survey is the ONLY method of collecting numerical data in this area, of doing so confidentially, of giving everyone a chance to participate (100% “census&# ) and of giving an organization a chance to compare to previous results or to look at quantitative diferences between groups. and you dont have any of this.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Indeed, senior managers in CWLP focus groups admit that, after years spent clawing their way up the ladder, they didn't want the top job after all. "I Intel's Extending Our Reach program takes a novel approach by developing female vice presidents into a strong cohort of sponsors. "We

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas. How did they do it? Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored. Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Message development" is a process I''m certainly familiar with. One strategy I developed in the course of writing my book, Reinventing You , is for executives to block out time to write down their "war stories" — the anecdotes that best capture their experience, successes, failures, and views of the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We held monthly town hall meetings where we could discuss these issues in large groups, and we created an anonymous “Ask Margaret” question box that gave every employee a direct line to me. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up. What words evoked the passion they felt about the organization? What values drove them?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. Women are far more likely than men to leave the industry or to reduce their level of ambition just at the point in their careers when they need to make the effort to push on to the top. financial firms are women.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

These women often are less satisfied with their careers , perceive that they are unlikely to advance at their current organizations, or believe they must change jobs in order to reach the next level. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Except when it’s harmful to your career. ” Putting aside a worst-case scenario, being seen as just your boss’s right-hand man can also be “detrimental to your career in the long run because nobody but your boss appreciates what you can do,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

It’s a good practice to develop mentoring relationships with a few trusted advisors. Prior to the meeting, develop a list of questions you’d like to have answered. This is perhaps the most valuable type of feedback, because it alerts you to new opportunities — the lifeblood of your freelance career.

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