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Soft Skills Training in the Digital Age: Strategies and Best Practices

Clarity Consultants

Without clear metrics, it’s impossible to know whether your soft skills training programs are driving change or just checking a box. Journals, check-ins, or short surveys can help employees reflect on how they’re applying what they’ve learned and where they still struggle. Are they managing meetings more effectively?

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

Research 133
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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business

A Journal of Brand Management paper shows that four in 10 employees struggle to describe their organization’s brand or how they think customers feel their organization is different from competitors. .” This kind of engagement is missing at most organizations. H for hear their story. O for own the experience.

Company 161
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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

This type of leadership creates a culture of trust, respect, and open communication within the organization. 10 Cultural Principles of Servant Leadership Embrace the ten key principles of servant leadership. Servant leaders prioritize the team, creating a culture of trust and respect that leads to increased employee engagement.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

Numerous studies support this — for example, the Journal of Consumer Research has published research showing that Americans associate busyness and stress with prestige and status. But it’s important to see how this ancient tradition is being commodified by our culture as a tool for improvement.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

In our recently published work in the Journal of Business Research , we tested the theory that downsizing could lead to a host of problems that eventually increases the likelihood of bankruptcy. Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics.

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