What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 8, 2023
GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.
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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MAY 25, 2014
GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Survey research was his passion and he began to apply these procedures to various fields of industry. As a young man, he conducted the first national survey of major magazines to see what ads were successful in attracting the most attention. Selznick, Walt Disney, and Samuel Goldwyn. .
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Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies: Are They Aligned Enough?
LSA Global
DECEMBER 23, 2024
We know from organizational culture assessment data that employee engagement and employee experience (EX) are pivotal to organizational success. These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Build a Healthy and Aligned Culture Organizational health and alignment can be measured.
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When Leaders Are Hired for Talent but Fired for Not Fitting In
Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2017
Although there are many reasons for this bleak state of affairs – including over-reliance on intuition at the expense of scientifically valid selection tools – a common problem is organizations’ inability to predict whether leaders will fit in with their culture.
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Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY
Harvard Business
MARCH 28, 2017
With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Five years ago, compensation (i.e.,
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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI
Harvard Business
AUGUST 28, 2017
Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.
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A Survey of 19 Countries Shows How Generations X, Y, and Z Are — and Aren’t — Different
Harvard Business
AUGUST 25, 2017
In a survey of 18,000 professionals and students across these three generations from 19 countries, we found some important differences in their aspirations and values. Our survey respondents gave varying reasons. Leadership Ambitions. Among Gen Y and Gen Z professionals, it was 63% of male respondents and 61% of women.
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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance
Clarity Consultants
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
L&D initiatives are essential for attracting and retaining top talent. Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation. By prioritizing L&D, companies can ensure they have the right talent to drive long-term success.
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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know
Epicflow
JULY 12, 2022
During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . However, according to the survey by NewVantage Partners [1] conducted in 2021, only 24% of companies have managed to develop into data-driven ones. Cultural challenges.
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187 Survey: Remote Workers Are More Disengaged and More Likely to Quit
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
They believe that it’s the best way to build a strong culture, increase engagement, and fuel work relationships. ” Leaders want their employees to have a similar experience has because it’s good for the culture and business. , Best Buy, HP, Reddit, IBM, and Honeywell.
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Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little
Harvard Business
MARCH 10, 2017
Organizations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on employee engagement programs, yet their scores on engagement surveys remain abysmally low. Based on those conversations, I identified three environments that matter most to employees: cultural, technological, physical. How is that possible? Next, I worked with Serge P.
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195 Hay Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MAY 10, 2015
In 1954, Hay continued its trailblazing ways, started the “Hay Compensation Survey Comparisons”, a tool that allowed companies to remain competitive in terms of the compensation they offered their staff, and continued to see sustained levels of growth. 1. Leadership and talent. Talent management. Practice Areas.
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100 HR Leaders Need Stronger Data Skills
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Only 11% of business leaders trust HR to use data to anticipate and help them fill their talent needs.
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132 Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES
Harvard Business
MARCH 22, 2018
A recent global survey of almost 1,300 IT and business leaders found companies are keenly aware of the importance of agile. However, the report found one group, the Agility Masters, who have been able to leverage agile throughout their company, reporting 60 percent higher revenue and profit growth than the rest of the organizations surveyed.
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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
Employee Surveys. Talent Assessment. Talent Assessment. Talent Management. Out of the massive laundry list of HR and benefits options for any old large global firm to choose from, Towers Watson specializes in the Health and Group Benefits, Insurance Industry Consulting and Talent Management practice areas.
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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Surveys & Experimental Studies. ANALYSIS GROUP CULTURE. Analysis Group’s firm culture is one of its strongest selling points. – always a good hallmark of any culture. The post Analysis Group Interviews and Culture appeared first on Management Consulted. Environment & Natural Resources. Industries.
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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. A gig-based businesses can’t transmit “a culture” in a traditional sense.
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How to attract talent when location is no longer a differentiator
Brimstone Consulting
OCTOBER 21, 2020
With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. A recent survey found that 67% of companies that implemented remote work policies in response to the pandemic expect these policies to remain in place either permanently or for the long-term. Employee Experience.
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53 How to Be an Inspiring Leader
Harvard Business
APRIL 25, 2017
In employer surveys that we conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit, we found that less than half of respondents said they agree or strongly agree that their leaders were inspiring or were unlocking motivation in employees. We asked survey recipients what inspired them about their colleagues. What we found surprised us.
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How Morale Changes as a Startup Grows
Harvard Business
MARCH 24, 2017
When we think about startup cultures, we imagine ping pong tables, kegerators, and Nerf guns. However, this startup cultural utopia invariably hits a rough patch for about 70% of startups in years three to four, regardless of how happy the team was before. We call this the “cultural chasm.”
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Talent Management Strategies for Retaining Key Employees
LSA Global
JUNE 10, 2024
Talent Management Strategies for Retaining Key Employees Retaining key employees matters. Our organizational alignment research found that talent accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing organizations in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.
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50 How the Social Sector Can Attract More Young Talent
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Making the competition for talent even more concerning for leaders in the social sector is the hotly debated “skills gap.” ” How can social sector leaders not only pursue the talent they need, but also convince those people to stay with their organizations? .”
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70 How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 23, 2018
We surveyed high-potential women and men in the U.S. Traditional engagement surveys do not go deep enough to show whether either point is actually true. Not surprisingly, the surveys showed, neither is based in reality. We engaged an outside firm to conduct the study to ensure independence and anonymity. Insight Center.
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PR Agencies Need to Be More Diverse and Inclusive. Here’s How to Start.
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2018
.” A lack of inclusion can sometimes be seen in employee surveys. One survey conducted by the E3 Taskforce, a group made up of U.S.- Another survey of minority PR professionals in the U.S. The CEOs also told me that retention of diverse talent was particularly challenging.
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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market
Harvard Business
APRIL 7, 2016
If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.
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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 6, 2016
How talent management is changing. We surveyed and interviewed executives from more than 2,000 companies, asking extensive questions about how they develop leaders, how their companies are managed, how they coordinate their work, and what their organizational culture looks like. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.
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134 Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously
Harvard Business
AUGUST 30, 2017
A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas. The second common problem of fast-growing companies is revenue growing faster than talent.
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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things
Harvard Business
MARCH 14, 2017
After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.
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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
However, a new survey by my HR advisory firm Future Workplace called “The Employee Experience” reveals the reality is that employees crave something far more fundamental and essential to human needs. The notion that the creation of the workplace environment is solely a real estate concern is an outdated concept.
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Research: Millennials Can’t Afford to Job Hop
Harvard Business
AUGUST 31, 2016
A new study on Misunderstood Millennial Talent: The Other 91 Percent by the Center for Talent Innovation shatters the stereotype that all Millennials are entitled whiners just waiting to jump ship. ” challenged the global talent head of a multinational consultancy. In short, a human resources nightmare , right?
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The Most Desirable Employee Benefits
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
In today’s hiring market, a generous benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining top talent. According to Glassdoor’s 2015 Employment Confidence Survey, about 60% of people report that benefits and perks are a major factor in considering whether to accept a job offer.
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How to Strengthen Your Reputation as an Employer
Harvard Business
MAY 16, 2018
A new study by my firm, Weber Shandwick, in partnership with KRC Research, found that only 19% of the nearly 2,000 global employees we surveyed feel strongly that the work experience their employer promotes publicly is matched by reality. The timing couldn’t be worse. The combination of weak employee engagement rates globally and the 3.9%
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5 Practical Ways to Engage a Geographically Distributed Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DATASTAX
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent. We’ve come to realize that much of that talent is located outside of Silicon Valley, and even outside of the typical urban areas where a company might naturally look for new talent.
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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics.
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7 Factors of Great Office Design
Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2016
An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. But while they valued more openness, the survey results indicated that they didn’t want the work environment to feel like a start-up.
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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability
Organizational Talent Consulting
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. Here are five psychological levers for creating workplace accountability and making it a part of your company culture. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.
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2024 Employee Engagement Trends
LSA Global
OCTOBER 28, 2024
2024 Employee Engagement Trends Based upon one million voices from the Best Places to Work contest, this 2024 employee engagement trends report comes from our employee engagement survey experts and highlights what currently matters most to employee and organizational success. Are you doing enough to identify and retain top talent ?
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65 What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 10, 2018
We surveyed 60 finance professionals —ranging from partners in top investment banks and senior members of VC firms, to junior traders and entry-level financial consultants—and interviewed 30 in more detail. When pressed further, they identified two reasons: a masculine culture and long working hours.
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When Workplace Cultures Support Paternity Leave, All Employees Benefit
Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2018
In our research on family leave policies and parenting culture in Scotland, we heard repeatedly that fathers felt worried and even embarrassed to use offered leave and flexible working entitlements. Workplace culture has to be such that fathers feel that they can use their benefits without harming their career prospects.
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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise
Harvard Business
MAY 30, 2018
The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% MirageC/Getty Images.
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132 Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants
Harvard Business
MARCH 28, 2018
Does cultural background affect a leader’s decision making? There’s a lot of research on how leaders living in different cultures behave, but little on how cultural heritage shapes leaders — even though this would seem to be just as meaningful for business performance as other factors like experience and education.
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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.
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52 How Companies Can Ensure Maternity Leave Doesn’t Hurt Women’s Careers
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Diane’s experience represents the experience of so many talented women in our research on the return to work after parental leave. Our research suggests that many firms are failing to support female talent making this return and that women are often left feeling frustrated and disappointed by it. Takeaways for Organizations.
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132 How Women of Color Get to Senior Management
Harvard Business
AUGUST 31, 2018
Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture. I had a very diverse team with a very different and strong culture. It was a huge lesson for me in that, as a leader, [I had to] to learn the culture. They confidently seize opportunities.
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