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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. For example, here are the 10 stages a client of mine identified in their employee journey: sourcing and recruiting. advancement.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. In 1967 African-American median household income was 55% that of whites; in 2016 that number was 61%. Hayon Thapaliya. representation in non-management professionals.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

recruiting, rewarding, recognizing, and developing innovation champions. Cultures that produce innovation create innovation teams, address the "lack of time" barrier, hold employees accountable, provide persuasive prompts for innovation, and recruit, reward, recognize, and develop innovation champions. Epstein, M., Shelton, R.

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