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Values Based Hiring | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I was casually reading the results of a survey on the topic of hiring methodologies last weekend when one particular survey question really caught my attention: “When considering a new hire, what is the one characteristic or attribute of the candidate that would most influence your hiring decision?

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7 Strategies for Reducing Operational Management Risk

Strategy Driven

Deploying an operational risk management program that does the intended job remains a challenge for many businesses today. The industrial sector and others have witnessed rapid changes that significantly altered the way businesses operate. They need to train all employees to make risk-based thinking part of everyday operations.

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Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Discrimination When Seeking Finance

The Horizons Tracker

Equipped with business profiles that exceeded the criteria for loan qualification, the Black testers were furnished with even stronger profiles (including higher business income, longer operational history, greater funds in their accounts, and superior credit scores).

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Immediate Survey response average was 4.88 (out of 5).

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Are you Ready for the Next Level?

Great Leadership By Dan

We rarely discussed the kind of functional skills (marketing, operations, and finance) that are taught in typical MBA programs – those were considered table stakes for this level of management. It was always the “soft” stuff that was considered important, and those capabilities were usually in short supply. So why should we care?

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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Recently a survey was conducted that asked preteens about their long term career aspirations - the top three were sports star, pop star and actor.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I wonder if there’s a good survey out there I could use to get feedback from my team. As far as a survey goes you have several options available to you. In fact, many of the online survey companies (e.g. surveymonkey) allow you to design/customize your survey with specific questions.