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Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. In today's ever-changing business environment, hiring an all-star work force and keeping it in place is a challenge for any organization. With an overview on topics such as recruiting the right people, cultivating the right culture, avoiding employee burnout, and calculating employee turnover, Hiring and Keeping the Best People...
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Summary of An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, with Matthew Miller, Andy Fleming, Deborah Helsing | Includes Analysis Preview: An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Matthew Miller, Andy Fleming, and Deborah Helsing is an academic description of unconventional employee management systems implemented by three example businesses. Cinema chain ArcLight Cinemas, investment firm Bridgewater Associates, and corporate rewards company...
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Summary of The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni | Includes Analysis Preview: Patrick Lencioni's The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues posits that in order to succeed-especially in a work environment-one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team...
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Trey Taylor advises CEOs to focus on three things — culture, talent, and numbers. All CEOs must develop knowledge of their values and strengths, then embed those values in their organization to shape a culture with an unwavering commitment to core values. They must select personnel who can do the work and align with the culture. Chief executives choose key measures, set goals, track them, and share the results company-wide. Taylor's practical wisdom...
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La Dirección Estratégica de Recursos Humanos (DERH) es un tema de alta relevancia en el mundo de las organizaciones pues se encuentra estrechamente relacionada con resultados de desempeño operacional como la innovación, la productividad y la competitividad. De igual forma, la derh ha demostrado ser un potente predictor De desempeño psicosocial como el compromiso con la organización, el engagement en el trabajo, la motivación y la satisfacción...
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Today's competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan to increase employee productivity.
The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business....
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Master the new world of work.
You want-no, you need-a new job. But not just any job. The job. So, you polish your resume till it shines. You apply for countless openings, tailoring your message to each. You search for the hidden job market, although it remains very well hidden. And the response? Well, it's underwhelming. To top things off, maze-like online application systems appear designed to keep you and the perfect job apart. What's going on?
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Productivity trainer Garrett Miller shows you how to hire great employees by finding candidates with four must-have qualities that have little to do with skill and lots to do with their upbringing, background and attitude. The book's writing style uses almost entirely imagined conversations between a hiring manager and his guru, but Miller's practical advice about interviewing questions and techniques provides excellent guidance.
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This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country's skills development strategies. These are complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased...
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Take the stress out of giving feedback.
To help your employees meet their goals and fulfill their potential, you need to provide them with regular feedback. But the prospect of sharing potentially negative news can be overwhelming. How do you construct your message so that it's not only well received but also expressed in a way that encourages change?
Whether you're commending exemplary work or addressing problem behavior, the HBR Guide to Delivering...
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This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities...
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Calling upon his more than four decades of management and executive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Steven R. Smith presents a clear, intelligent, highly useful manual for all modern managers. Smith covers every area of responsibility — with a focus on hiring — and begins from a compelling position: Most managers who are promoted due to their skills and achievements in various areas of business performance are ill-prepared for management...
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Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips on:
Understanding your manager's priorities and pressures
Setting a positive tone for the relationship
Managing expectations--and egos
Earning trust and respect
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most...
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Award-winning author and international public speaker Pat Duckworth addresses menopause forthrightly and challenges leaders to create a supportive working culture for women in their menopause years. Such a culture begins by recognizing menopausal symptoms, which include hot flashes, but also anxiety, low self-esteem and periods of brain fog. Duckworth provides detailed guidance on how menopause effects productivity, and informs managers and HR professionals...
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Are you looking to step into a leadership role or unsure how to tackle your first few daunting weeks as a new manager? Or maybe you're not sure how to approach a difficult boss? In this clear, practical text, career coach and clinical psychologist Jennifer P. Wisdom offers help with these and other challenges you might encounter as you pursue a management or leadership position. Wisdom wrote her book as a handy reference guide for new managers, so...
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Consultant and author Larry English believes in building a strong virtual culture as workplace norms shift in the wake of the coronavirus. Researchers predict 73% of teams will include remote workers by 2028, but few companies make building and maintaining their culture with all workers — including virtual ones — a priority. Many don't even talk to new hires about culture, says English. He shares applicable tips to help you manage a remote or...
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The challenges of an ever-changing business environment force business leaders to consider how to utilize and improve their current workforce. Business professor David C. Forman contends that to improve the workforce, leaders must improve the workplace. Citing data from more than 150 research studies, Forman provides tools and exercises that help leaders and organizations focus on choices they can make to bring their goals into sharper focus, better...
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Organizations are globalizing at a frenetic rate. The world is becoming more connected each year and each generation of technology speeds up this process. What once took weeks and then days to share now can be done in minutes. This section will help you understand the dynamics of culture and diverse values in a global environment; how to manage across both virtual and physical borders; and how to sustain the performance and engagement of multi-ethnic,...
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Whether you're dealing with a problem employee or praising the good work of a colleague, you need to communicate in a way that promotes positive change in others. Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including:
Choosing the right time to talk
Engaging in productive dialogue
Helping both star and struggling performers
Developing a plan for effective follow-up
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