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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 Career Conversation Revolution: Redefining Internal Mobility for Today’s Workforce
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Jun 06, 2019
From Replaceable to Renewable: Building a Future-Proof Workforce
The economics of traditional restructuring no longer make sense. Hiring and firing workers simultaneously is expensive, wasteful, destroys engagement and morale, and inflicts fatal wounds to the employer brand.
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Jan 02, 2020
Lessons from the Front Lines of Crisis Leadership
The first thing Janet Yellen would like you to know about leading in a crisis is that if you wait until a crisis arrives to prepare, you’re already too late.
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Apr 02, 2020
Looking Ahead: Take that First Step Towards a Concrete Future
Unconsciously or subconsciously, a number of unproductive attitudes and behaviors commonly surface after a job loss. Here's what to do to avoid getting stuck in negativity.
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May 04, 2020
What Lies Ahead: Three Fundamental Changes to How We'll Work Post-Pandemic
The future of work requires that we change our mindset, the way we view work, our relationships with our employees and employers, and our careers.
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Sep 29, 2020
Is Your Company’s Resilience Battery on Empty? Five Steps to Recharge
Resilience is like a battery; to maintain a full charge, it must be properly maintained and periodically recharged. Run the resilience battery too long in an environment that is harsh and unwelcoming, and it will eventually be drained and lose power.
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Jan 21, 2021
Keith Ferrazzi, Mary-Clare Race and Alex Vincent share 7 Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team in this HBR.org article
The coronavirus pandemic revealed the necessity of resilient teams — as well as which teams didn’t have the necessary skills. Resilience requires a level of self-awareness and empathy that may not come naturally to all team members. Leaders must assess the state of their teams, identify weak spots and then deliver strategies that will help team members break down barriers and build foundations of trust, transparency and self-awareness. The article offers seven practices to help foster team resiliency.
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Mar 03, 2021
How Alaska Airlines Delivers Consistently Great Customer Service
Charu Jain SVP, Merchandising and Innovation, and Vikram Baskaran, VP of Information Technology, with Alaska Airlines, talk about why being able to offer enhanced customer service at a time when the whole notion of customer service has been completely disrupted by the pandemic is a testament to the strong cultural foundation that existed at Alaska Airlines before COVID-19 arrived.
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Jul 27, 2021
Life After Competitive Sports: Why It’s Never Too Soon for Athletes to Start Planning
Very few athletes in either professional or top-level amateur sport earn enough money to set them up for the remainder of their post sporting lives. That requires sports organizations – governing bodies, national committees, leagues, and individual clubs – to look at formal transition support to help athletes find a career after sports.
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Apr 08, 2022
Retirement Reimagined
There was a time when the word “retirement” conjured up images of gold watches, golf clubs, gardening, and grandchildren. From the perspective of businesses, it was a defined event, often occurring when employees hit a certain age. For individuals, it was a rite of passage, generally signaling the culmination of one’s career. Embarking upon a life of leisure was the well-earned reward for decades of service. Not anymore.
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May 23, 2023
7 Best Practices for a Defensible Legal Hold Process
COVID-19 and the shift to remote work (and remote life) has caused professional networking to become completely virtual. Here are our top five tips for successful networking while remote.
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Jul 21, 2023
Executive Conversations: Carolyn Homberger’s Story
In this executive conversation, Carolyn shares how she turned an intended career pivot on its head, resulting in her purchasing and managing a new Athletic Republic franchise with her husband and young children alongside signing up to be President of Americas at Featurespace.
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Sep 11, 2023
Thriving in change
A conversation with Reuben Cohen and Robin Macgillivray: The art of building your career on the things you do best.