HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Melissa Howell talked with The HR Digest about the various Diversity & Inclusion programs which have put Kellogg on the global map as one of the top companies for veterans, LGBT employees, and executive women. People are at the core of this strategy. for seven years.

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Diversity Human Resources Globalization Automotive 81

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. We host focus groups with employees to understand their thoughts and concerns and actively listen to their feedback on how and where we can improve our efforts. What DE&I strategies have helped C.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

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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Energy Crisis Leadership Absenteeism 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Their reasoning: Five years from now, successful companies will increasingly employ innovative business models that no one currently thinks are feasible.

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Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Without inclusion, however, the crucial connections that attract diverse talent, encourage their participation, foster innovation, and lead to business growth won’t happen. At the Center for Talent Innovation , we have constructed a unique, robust framework for measuring the things that matter. Clear career paths.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), we call this “flex around the edges.” In our Off-Ramps/On-Ramps research , the vast majority of employees who left work for a period of time to focus on these personal commitments want to return to their career track: 89% of off-ramped women in the U.S. Meanwhile, some 69% in the U.S.

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Flextime Human Resources Career Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

People of color too often feel that they have to hide their true selves at work, according to "Vaulting the Color Bar: How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership," a new research report from the Center for Talent Innovation. Notes a focus group participant, "You start to be less of who you are.

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Pharmaceuticals Diversity Uncertainty Focus Group 17

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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Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Specifically, you need to be able to identify a problem or gap, and come up with an innovative solution. (Of The suspense is no doubt killing you, so I''ll go ahead and tell you the secret to recognizing opportunities: promotion focus. So how, exactly, does one become good at spotting opportunities? Tumasjan and Braun asked 254 U.K.

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Entrepreneur How To Open-book Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress.

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Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

In other words, what employees saw on a careers site or on their company’s social channels, or what they heard from recruiters, was often inconsistent with what they experienced when they joined the company. Imagine, for example, being promised a culture of innovation only to have every new idea you put forward dismissed.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate. Government jobs are luring experienced workers with the qualifications to succeed at multinational corporations. What's going on?

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Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

According to the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) , money is not the major motivator among college-educated workers. One such dad commented in a CTI focus group, "I'm the primary breadwinner, so I can't take time off now. But in looking for a new job, a role with flexibility will be my top choice.".

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Chief Financial Officer Motivation Loyalty Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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Advice Management CAPEX Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to a new study published by the Center for Talent Innovation, Latinos at Work: Unleashing the Power of Culture , most Latinos in the U.S. As one Latino focus group participant said, “I look up, see no one like myself, and have to wonder if there is a future here for me.”

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EPS Banking Diversity Bottom-up 8