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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. wages) into a variable cost (i.e.

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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. link] Key #1: High-Quality Relationships Partnering with followers begins with developing high-quality relationships. European Journal of Training and Development, 41(3), 241-260. Zigarmi, D., &

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Do You Need to Become a More Compassionate Leader?

LSA Global

A More Compassionate Leader Of all the traits that you want to develop as a leader, where does compassion fit in? When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Everyone likes to talk about being “customer-centric.”

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. ” Managers should be trained on managing scope, launching teams, and providing feedback and coaching to individuals they do not formally control.

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