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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

Employees are less likely to leave a position where they feel competent and valued, leading to lower recruitment and training costs. Organizations must remain agile, continuously updating their understanding of role requirements and employee capabilities. Lower Turnover Rates : High fit to role reduces turnover rates.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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The Focus of Every Agile Coach: Support How the Business Creates Value

Johanna Rothman

How should agile coaches work? I've heard several questions and problems around what agile coaches should and should not do. Should agile coaches focus on: How well the teams use their pre-determined agile framework. Enroll (or somehow persuade) the managers in an agile mindset. (As I offered questions there.

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When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First

Harvard Business

As such, employers should be aware of the impact hiring higher-paid external talent can have on their teams, conduct regular pay equity analyses to ensure that any disparities are fully explainable, and develop the agility necessary to adjust wages as soon as any inequities are identified.

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Reflecting on Agile Thinking with Roy Osherove

Johanna Rothman

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. After a nudge from one of my recruiter friends/colleagues (Recruiting Animal, @animal ), Roy and I recorded another interview. See Johanna Rothman Interview – Agile, a Decade Later. We had a great conversation.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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