HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

At Moderna, Chief Human Resources Officer Tracey Franklin is leading the charge in building a high-performing, diverse workforce that fuels groundbreaking discoveries. While we’ve grown, we’ve taken steps to provide quality, equitable, and timely resources to our global workforce.

Engineering 52

Engineering Innovation Short-term Long-term 52

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 10, 2016

The project we undertook was successful in that we were able to take a deep, broad look at research to identify the qualities of a leader that engage, align, inspire, and move people to act. Gallup reports only 35% of managers are engaged in their jobs. The first thing we need to do is stop surveying and start supporting managers.

Team 120

Team Quality Survey Learning-by-Doing 120

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Reality check: Great presenters have the mindset of a great Sales Manager. Just ask the Sales Manager. In addition, you may have put together great content for that Human Resources talk, but tomorrow you are talking to the marketing team. Content This umbrella includes everything surrounding the quality of your message.

Self-aware 279

Self-aware Content Audience Tips 279

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The level of energy, exchange of ideas, supportive behaviors, and group celebrations of success are visible to others. David Grossman shares Change Management Communication: 5-Step Plan + Template. David Grossman shares Change Management Communication: 5-Step Plan + Template. What steps are you taking to make that a reality?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 100

Chart Your Course

MARCH 4, 2013

In uncertain economic times, it’s common for businesses to focus their time and energies on ways to cut costs. When a business shortchanges their labor or quality – its products, services, or level of customer service can suffer. Managers need leadership training that equips them to succeed. Quality first.

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Cost Customer Loyalty Loyalty Training 206

Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Rightly or wrongly, this leads to an industry facing constant turnover and managers who find themselves frustrated and in some cases reluctant to make fundamental change to the way they manage people. La Rosa practices the art of leadership and takes the science of quality management to its highest form.

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Quality Bottom-up Maturity Letter 170

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. The problem in many organizations is that getting results is all too often not the real focus and not where most of the energy and time are spent.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The process of talent mapping refers to how businesses develop a deeper understanding of the human resources they currently have at their disposal and make predictions regarding the future needs of the company. You might have heard of “business roadmaps” while planning strategies for your organization but what is talent mapping?

Planning 52

Planning Process Long-term Strategy 52

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager. Have you asked what this person needs to be successful?

Executive Coaching 202

Executive Coaching Greenleaf Maslow Blog 202

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

Houweling’s latest challenge, other than managing increased demand for their tomatoes, is adding a combined heat and power system to both its US and Canadian facility—a cogeneration initiative that will exceed the operation’s power needs and actually feed energy to the grid, eliminating waste. Human Resources. Leadership.

CEO 112

CEO Productivity Products Company 112

QAspire

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

If you are a manager or leader at any level, these tips will help you come out of your comfort zone and improve things around. I almost hate when human beings are referred to as resources. Seven Key Thoughts About Managing Human Resources was the post I wrote for business owners, team leaders and human resources teams.

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Travel Blog Human Resources Directory 82

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Our choices about where to focus our time, talent and energy says much about our ability to think strategically and to create objectives that others will find compelling. The quality of our relationship with those people, that is our ability to influence them, is represented by the northwest axis.

Leadership 230

Leadership Intangible Assets Human Capital Organizational Behavior 230

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Attention paid to writing and graphics quality will enhance the value of multicultural communications. Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement.

Diversity 84

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 84

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. Certain managers tend to churn thru people… even the ones the managers hire themselves.

Company 71

Company Asset Management Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? There is a tendency to assume that, as long as commonly used standards for air quality are met, it won’t be an issue. In the 1970s, efforts to conserve energy in the U.S. Chances are it’s not often.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products PPM Absenteeism 12

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.” I have gone through a great transformation in priorities”, says Aguilera, “and how I measure success and quality of life.”

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Press Release Discount Entrepreneur PR 157

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The good news is that Big Data is making a difference in places and ways you might not expect, particularly in human resources. A 130-year-old energy conglomerate, Black Hills doubled its workforce to about 2,000 employees after an acquisition. What is the impact of learning programs on company results? Black Hills Corp.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Amidst all this fluidity, it’s difficult for managers to specify the content of jobs, and the skills and specialized knowledge required to perform them; harder still for aspiring job-winners to offer those. This is particularly true when it comes to talent management. Hiring Human resources Managing yourself'

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Self-aware Human Resources Taylorism Taylor 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

How do they understand the need to change and create the energy and urgency around it? Companies in industrial businesses had to drive costs down and execution up and create foolproof processes to ensure quality. Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture'

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 6, 2010

His colleagues spoke about lifelong friendship; told stories of the fun they had together and how they all managed to work hard in spite of their youthful exuberance. Reply Scott Downs June 10, 2010 at 10:21 am This post has great energy for me. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not.

Succession 48

Succession Leadership Altman Blog 48

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

And if we go back to the labor discussion, a company could certainly fill its offices with some bodies “for less,” as Furchtgott-Roth suggests, but is that the right metric for success in human resources? All of this overreaction is not isolated by any stretch. They’re guilty until proven innocent.

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Venture Capitalist Energy CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Traditional hiring processes that revolve around CVs are no longer sufficient – they don’t pinpoint the right qualities demanded of leaders today, and their dated criteria obscures many talented individuals from even hitting the radar. Hiring Talent management'

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Diversity Reputation Talent Management Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Too many companies miss out on enormous opportunities for growth and profitability because they don’t appreciate the impact of excellent talent management. Now, research by Gallup clarifies the relationship between firms’ use of four specific human capital practices and their revenue growth.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Talent Management Human Resources Absenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Too many companies miss out on enormous opportunities for growth and profitability because they don’t appreciate the impact of excellent talent management. Now, research by Gallup clarifies the relationship between firms’ use of four specific human capital practices and their revenue growth.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Talent Management Human Resources Absenteeism 8

HR Digest

MAY 12, 2024

How to Prevent This Hiring Errors To prevent this common hiring mistake, recruiters should collect information from employees in that particular role or talk to the relevant managers before creating the job description. This is a very toxic practice and communicates a disregard for the candidate’s time and energy.

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Reputation Diversity Review Process 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

What these arguments often overlook is the challenge of actually managing that change. Over the past seven years, we have focused on combating these challenges and building a workplace culture optimized for two things: worker behavior change and the delivery of high-quality care.

Health Care 8

Health Care System ROI Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Through trial and error, the algorithms can get better at predicting how things like energy and fundamental frequency impact others—be they people watching a movie, or cancer patients calling a help line.” Hiring Human resource management' Do these questions mean voice profiling is a dead end? Not at all.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Wilde Document 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

That was caused by previous management. Rationalizing poor service or quality: You won’t get it any better elsewhere. Quality is our middle name. Quality is as good as it ever will be. Our human resources department takes care of that. Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy.

Budgeting 72

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 72

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Moreover, since most career transitions take commitment and effort, even sustaining that energy will be questionable for a field in which you have no real interest. Technical support can become marketing; marketing can turn into human resources; back office managers move to the front office and the other way around.

Career 8

Career Cost-Benefit Analysis Analysis Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

Organization 8

Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Only by working together will employers and providers achieve the highest quality outcomes at the lowest cost with the most benefit to individuals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 19, 2015

I was asked to sit in on a large group interview several years ago that a group of managers was conducting. He worked well with his team, had high energy, was adaptable and delivered solid results. This common bias gives preference to a candidate with similar qualities as the interviewer. I distinctly remember two candidates.

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Human Resources eBook Objective Document 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When we asked the chief human resources officers at a number of major companies whether they had a coherent system in place to evaluate and compensate the CEO’s succession performance, most reported that their firm had none. Boards Leadership Talent management' Place the board leader in charge.

CEO 8

CEO Tips Consultative Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results. But we knew all this was just a starting point. ” Learning.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8