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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

We can learn how nonprofits harness the power of volunteers most effectively and use that information to motivate people at work in a similar fashion to achieve great things from even small contributions. Ultimately, the best volunteerism experience comes from a person-centered approach with a focus on job satisfaction (De Clerk et al.,

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Top 3 Strategic Expectations for Leaders

LSA Global

Most companies take it for granted that their top leaders can operationally handle the day-to-day leadership pressures required to meet short-term targets, establish a high performance culture to engage and retain top talent, and simultaneously be masters of their area of expertise.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business

A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. Lisa Hufford, a consultant author of Navigating the Talent Shift , has worked with gig talent for years.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach.

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How to Tell an Employee They Didn’t Get a Promotion

Harvard Business

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Discuss your employee’s growth and development plan in a separate meeting. Deliver the news in a timely fashion.

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Why Great Leaders Are Hard to Find

Cheryl Cran

This requires a plasticity of the brain a rewiring of perspectives and approaches to meet the current reality of multigenerational teams with diverse values and desires. This is an old fashioned approach and one that does not support the current and future reality of a fast changing workplace.