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Jul 05, 2024
Adapting Your Hiring Strategy for a Down Economy
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Jul 02, 2024
How to Conduct Layoff Meetings Compassionately
Discover the key steps to conducting layoff meetings with compassion and professionalism, ensuring that employees feel respected and supported during this challenging transition.
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Jul 02, 2024
The Disruption Era: Skills-Based Hiring and Development for a Future-Proof Workforce
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Oct 07, 2019
Why the Next Recession Will Be Different
The last recession was all about getting as lean as possible, as quickly as possible. However, in the next recession, assessment, redeployment and career development strategies need to be in place before making any decision on headcount.
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Apr 03, 2020
Surviving COVID-19 and Coming Out Strong
An essential guide for the world’s employers from the International Organization of Employers and the HR Policy Association
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Apr 06, 2020
8 Practical Strategies to Help Teams Succeed in the New Virtual World of Work
In this engaging discussion, Keith Ferrazzi talks about recontracting with your teams, a process of gathering team members together to scrutinize and reflect on the issues that are holding them back.
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Sep 09, 2020
How do your severance and separation practices stack up?
In the eighth edition of the Lee Hecht Harrison Severance & Separation Benefits Benchmark Study, we look at the reasons why severance is offered, how severance is typically calculated at various levels of employment, and what common severance and separation benefits, such as outplacement and redeployment, are offered.
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Oct 21, 2020
Outplacement: How to Separate the Experts from the Opportunists
At a time of extraordinary economic uncertainty, contracting with a human capital firm with no prior experience in outplacement is simply not a well-advised option for an organization undergoing massive change.
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Nov 09, 2020
There Isn’t a Better Time to Build a True Coaching Culture
When building a coaching culture, leaders must keep these three must-know qualities in mind to successfully create the conditions to generate new ideas while keeping employees confident and engaged.
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Nov 09, 2020
If You Must Downsize, Ask This Key Question First
For organizations struggling to find their way in a world reshaped forever by COVID-19, three practices can help companies more effectively manage downsizing, minimize layoffs, and enhance their talent strategy with reskilling, upskilling and redeployment.
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Nov 18, 2020
Top Four Takeaways to Advance the Convergence of Learning and Work
It’s time to change the way we think about and deploy learning within organizations. We need this shift not only to meet future skills needs, but also to start mining the maximum value possible from human capital, the real engine of growth and success.
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Nov 23, 2020
Reinventing Today’s Workforce: Welcome to the Skills Economy
Michael Priddis, CEO of Faethm, shares the opportunities for companies that adopt a data-enabled and human-first approach to workforce transformation, in response to automation, COVID and recession, to rapidly upskill and reskill their workforces to transition to the jobs of tomorrow.
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Jan 20, 2021
Help Your Employees Shift to a Continuous Learning Mindset with Practices that Support Lifelong Employability
People who embrace lifelong learning and bring a growth mindset to their careers are more likely to take on new challenges and are typically better able to cope with disruption and adapt to change. These attributes will serve them well, enhancing their employability both now, and throughout their journey.
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Feb 26, 2021
Preventive vs. Corrective Career Management: Tactics to Improve Organizational Performance
Far too many organizations are ignoring an impending talent crisis, ready to apply corrective re/upskilling measures to career management problems that could have been prevented with advanced planning.
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Mar 31, 2021
Fresh Start, Fresh Tactics: How a New Approach to Upskilling & Reskilling Is Redefining the Workplace
Organizations are waking up to the fact that investing in reskilling and upskilling to prepare employees for the future is ultimately good for their people and their business.