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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leaders face an unprecedented talent challenge with no immediately obvious solution. Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. It is easy to logically think of the talent challenge as attracting and retaining the right people.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

His mantra formed the foundation for Hay Group’s new attitude towards leadership. In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press.

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. So relationships are where employees develop critical skills and leadership capabilities. BCG recognized that many talented leaders, particularly women, have strong communication skills that differ from the dominant style.

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

Linda’s company, Talent Reconnect, offers returnships that are aimed mostly at women who have graduated from top business schools but who had 2 to 5 years of post-MBA experience before opting out. And when I say smaller, I don’t mean dinky. That will cover the basics.

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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed

Harvard Business

Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. Explicit in our HR officer’s question was her assumption that the newest thinking on leadership development must contain something essential.

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The High Price of Overly Prescriptive HR Policies

Harvard Business

If your employee handbook or HR policy manual is large and prescriptive, consider the following: Don’t play “gotcha” — make positive assumptions about employees. If you believe employees require need strict rules and enforcement to be productive, hiring and retaining high-performance people will be a challenge for you.