People Management
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Not a good fit termination: Steps to follow
Occasionally, employees don’t fit your culture. Here, some leadership experts share their perspectives and advice on how to deal with these employees.
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People Management
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How to identify engaged employees: Key habits and characteristics to look for
Employee engagement is a critical component of talent optimization. Are your employees showing these six signs of highly engaged employees?
People Management
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Cutting edge human resources: trends in talent optimization
Talent optimization is the future of work. Science, technology, analytics, and research will all help you leverage your people. Check out these resources.
People Management
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First time manager tips: how to survive the role
Congratulations! You’ve earned a manager title. Your role is about to get a whole lot different. Here’s a quick survival guide.
People Management
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Guiding clients through the creation of a business strategy
A business strategy determines where you are in the marketplace and where you hope to go. Let’s walk through the process of creating one together.
People Management
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Snapchat, it’s time for a talent optimization triage.
A recent article on Recode explained that in the last 18 months, Snapchat has had massive turnover at the executive level. At least 10 executives who reported directly to CEO Evan Spiegel left the company. High turnover at the top is brutal to a company. It tells the world: “Even these highly-paid people aren’t willing to…
People Management
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How great leaders inspire followership
There is an interesting leadership conundrum that’s common in business settings: informal leaders often have many loyal followers while formal leaders may have few—maybe none! Why? Because leadership isn’t something that can be simply bestowed upon someone by an organization. It’s something that is earned. “The language used for effective followership is ‘exemplary followership,’ coined…
Hiring
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20 management skills for talent optimizers
As a talent optimizer, you need to master diverse leadership and management skills. You might be naturally adept at some of the following skills—but developing competency in others will force you to stretch beyond your comfort level to close gaps. While it won’t be easy, doing that important work will set you up to be…
People Management
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What is talent optimization?
Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on). In spite of your best efforts and your best intentions, you can’t quite…
People Management
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How talent optimization can help you hire and retain
I’m a big fan of industry reports and annual summaries that include survey data. Today I took a look at the 21st HR Metrics and Analytics Summit report: How to Hire and Retain the Right Talent in 2019. Based on the survey responses of more than 150 HR leaders from a wide range of industries,…
People Management
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Self-awareness is a manager’s best friend.
Victor Lipman is a management trainer and author. His online courses on Udemy include “How to Manage Difficult Employees” and his book is “The Type B Manager.” He has more than 20 years of Fortune 500 management experience. He contributes regularly to Forbes and Psychology Today, and his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review. Today,…
People Management
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How to motivate frontline employees
Just because you ask cashiers to collect email addresses from customers doesn’t mean they will. They might not cross-sell products like you ask them to either, or even embody your brand promise of customer service. Motivating your frontline employees— i.e. cashiers and customer service reps—to support your business goals can be a struggle. You might consider…
People Management
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Best books for leaders to kick-start 2019
Luke Thomas is the head of growth at getAbstract, which finds and rates the top business books, articles, and video talks then summarizes them into 10-minute abstracts. Today, the company is the world’s leading provider of compressed knowledge for organizations of all sizes. A new year has begun and many of you are working hard at…
People Management
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3 new talent management trends to kick off 2019
Stacia Sherman Garr is a researcher and thought leader on talent management, leadership, D&I, people analytics, and HR technology. A frequent speaker and writer, her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times. Stacia co-founded RedThread Research in 2018, after leading talent and workforce research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte. Before Bersin, Stacia spent nearly five…