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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. This article provides three practical steps to help you develop your character strengths and pass your next character test. Everyone I know strives for good habits.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. The best organizations are made up of the best leaders. Kouzes, J., &

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. While current devices can capture important vital signs and other fitness metrics, their ability to diagnose and treat chronic conditions is currently limited. Potential Benefits.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. 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. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Given these systemic issues, it’s unlikely a training program would have had a productive, or sustainable outcome. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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Bringing Selfless Love Into The Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] How you can love those you lead The answer for bringing selfless love into the workplace is not hiding in metrics or data within the business- but in your routine practices, you perform automatically in your daily life. Also, like competency development, developing selfless love can have various positive consequences for businesses.

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