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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. The CPO is responsible for aligning the organization’s human capital strategy with its overall strategic goals.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology.

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Employee Engagement Depends on What Happens Outside of the Office

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps human resources leaders are spending their money in the wrong places. Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. What’s wrong here? Or the modern workforce is demanding more. The answer?

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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

Businesses gain their strategic focus from understanding the “customer” ? To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work. Pursue scientific innovation. in this case, that’s the mother-to-be herself.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? To answer these questions, the analytics team created focus groups of senior Sprint executives and managers, who reviewed the feedback and made informed decisions based on the data. Are employees fully engaged and motivated? Take Sprint.

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Getting Employees Excited About a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. The crisis provides compelling reason for change and, if companies can weather it, they can emerge stronger.

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