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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Another common strategy we’ve seen is firms rushing to train internal talent.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture Change Strategy #6: How leaders recruit, promote, and fire Who gets hired, promoted , and fired, and for what both creates and reinforces your organization's culture. Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Gregory, B.

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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

Harvard Business

We started with her team because, in my work as a communication consultant, I’ve observed the same thing time and time again: how information is communicated to employees during a change matters more than what information is communicated. But the truth is that most leaders don’t actually know how to do it.

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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program

Harvard Business

In STEM fields, both the private and public sectors continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color. Many workplace diversity trainings tend to target only managers.

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How to Get Men Involved with Gender Parity Initiatives

Harvard Business

They find it difficult to systematically hold managers accountable for gender-parity goals, to implement unbiased performance management systems, and to modify the way in which talent is sourced. Research on organizational change suggests that the success of any change effort requires the involvement of employees.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business

The solution is probably not easy, but it comes down to four radical changes: Manage talent differently. Executives must actively recruit and promote on tolerance of ambiguity mindsets where the unexpected builds perspectives. Study personal use of intelligence. Use competitive intelligence differently.

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Leading Effectively When You Inherit a Mess

Harvard Business

Recruited from outside the organization, she faced multiple problems: The business was losing money, costs were bloated, customer loyalty was fading, and key talent was defecting. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. An executive I work with recently stepped into the biggest challenge of her career.

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