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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. 1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Damion Sanders – Director, Talent/Executive Development at UnitedHealth Group.

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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. ” Training around leveraging strengths has contributed to an 18-percentage-point drop in the number of senior managers who think that feedback centers excessively on development areas. Are you retaining more top talent?

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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. What kind of training or supervision or mentorship would the women receive? And when I say smaller, I don’t mean dinky.

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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.

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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. This tried and true perspective on leadership was reinforced for us during the past year as we researched and wrote the HBR Leader’s Handbook.