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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

They’re trained to help a broad base of students pursue a broad set of careers. For the same reasons explained above, a resume writer or career site is going to produce a good-looking document, but they’ll miss the target on the key attributes required in a consulting resume. Think these don’t matter? Think again.

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Research: Workplace Injuries Are More Common When Companies Face Earnings Pressure

Harvard Business

companies are facing pressure to meet earnings expectations, and research indicates that meeting analyst forecasts is a more important benchmark than meeting the prior year’s earnings or avoiding losses. We identified three factors that characterized the companies that beat earnings benchmarks. per $100 of payroll.

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10 Phrases that Good Managers Say Regularly

Rick Conlow

It’s documented that genuine praise works, plus it’s the right thing to do. You have to train them to problem-solve and become solution focused. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? It’s hard to get a compliment from other managers. “How’s it going?

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

1 to 1

By looking at the CX lifecycle though granular intents, companies can 1) benchmark where they are strong/blemished, 2) identify where a human touch in a contact center helps/over-indexes the needs of a customer, and 3) solve for customers’ CX needs with surgical precision.”

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

Harvard Business

Training Managers will need the ability to contract with, pay, and manage far-flung but integrated virtual networks of individual contributors they can no longer “manage by walking around.” Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business

Consider that in India in 2016, nearly seven in 10 citizens reported paying a bribe to access basic public services such as public schools, public clinics or hospitals, access to official documents, and utilities, according to Transparency International.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate.

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