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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Four-hour meetings?

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

You get what you plan for when it comes to supply chain management. For too long, organizations have approached talent management with ad-hoc talent strategies. What if you developed a verbund talent strategy? These closely bundled partnerships each have a specific focus and competency to support the supply chain. Michalko, M.

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Does Your Team Hoard Information?

Harmonious Workplaces

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals. Why allow stinginess?

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

Human Resource Planning, 2006. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Many HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade.

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1 Strategy to Avoid Tolerating Poor Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

You can't escape difficult performance management decisions. Benefits of Effective Performance Management. The benefits of effective performance management are well documented beyond the obvious benefit of increasing revenue. Also known as discretionary effort, OCB is performance management's "Holy Grail."

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How to Keep Your Pulse on the People Side of Organizational Change

Organizational Talent Consulting

Too often, organizational change management is simply a series of communications where executives or project managers inform the business that change is coming. Adopting an organizational change framework helps you and others manage the people side of change and create organizational inertia. References Hiatt, J. Leading Change.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita High School, where I learned to develop group and individualized training toward specific goals — namely, competing in band competitions or performing in concerts. In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college.

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