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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

Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management. 1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Practice Areas. Capability assessment. Leadership transformation.

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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. BCG recognized that many talented leaders, particularly women, have strong communication skills that differ from the dominant style. Are you retaining more top talent? Prioritize and monitor relationships.

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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces

Harvard Business

Recently the Communications Workers of America – the union that represents T-Mobile employees — contested a T-Mobile Employee Handbook clause on maintaining a positive work environment. I spoke to each of them separately and shared what I saw as the gifts, talents and good intentions of the other.

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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. When I talk to the VP of HR, they tend to either get it in 5 minutes or not.

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Fidelity, compression and culture

Seth Godin Blog

In fact, the script is exactly what the playwright intended, but the director and the actors embellish the script in each production and performance. Nuance disappears as we swap one language for another, which is why a talented translator is so much more valuable than a computer doing the same work. That’s part of their job.

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A Winning Parental Leave Policy Can Be Surprisingly Simple

Harvard Business

An employee handbook update doesn’t usually merit a press release and glossy promotional video — except when there’s a benefits arms race on. The paid-parental-leave arms race is red-hot because employers see a unique opportunity to nab talent and headlines by one-upping their competitors.