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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development. TDIndustries: TDIndustries is a construction and facilities services company that has embraced servant leadership. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership.

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LSA Global Delivers People Team Prioritization Session to Combat Massive Change

LSA Global

This technology and consumer packaged goods company client wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches.

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3 Talent Management Consulting Tips to Keep Top Talent Performing

LSA Global

Unfortunately, too many organizations focus so much of their energy on competing for talent that they neglect to develop that talent once those new employees have been hired. Provide targeted development opportunities. Be selective about the learning and development opportunities you offer. Stay connected.

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3 Talent Management Consulting Tips to Keep Top Talent Performing

LSA Global

Unfortunately, too many organizations focus so much of their energy on competing for talent that they neglect to develop that talent once those new employees have been hired. Provide targeted development opportunities. Be selective about the learning and development opportunities you offer. Stay connected.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO. Political savvy. Proactive advocacy.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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