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How to Use Corporate Training Metrics to Drive Value

LSA Global

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts).

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Getting Smart About Change Management

BCG

One industry that has been a huge beneficiary of all this turbulence is the change management industry. The traditional approach to change management is itself in need of change. Over the past few years, the change management industry has been logging an average annual growth rate of 5%. It has not lived up to its promise.

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Pay attention to metrics that matter and provide regular updates. Organization design.

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Research: Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough to Overcome Gender Bias

Harvard Business

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). Therefore, managers should be tasked with evaluating smaller subsets of a larger candidate pool. Tooga/Getty Images.

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Five Housing Headwinds; Mortgage Originations Lowest Since 2010; Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses; Payment Shock

MishTalk

Key Highlights Mortgage originations are at the lowest levels in almost four years Prepayment/refi activity indicates another drop coming Higher interest rates slow refinance activity Quality of the loans originated in 2013 have made it are the best performing vintage on on record. Click on any chart for sharper image.

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Build Team Resilience: Work “Anywhere” and “Anytime” (Part 3)

Johanna Rothman

This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. I understand managers' desires to manage expenses. That's fine.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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