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How One Insurance Firm Learned to Create an Innovation Culture

Harvard Business

One company that’s making headway on that goal is CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), one of the insurance companies affiliated with the 55 million-member American Automobile Association (AAA). To help employees spot these opportunities, CSAA IG delivers innovation training to all employees.

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Examples of Organizations Who Have Top Business Training Programs

Clarity Consultants

There is a real war for talent occurring today. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Employees describe the environment as an excellent training ground to learn business fundamentals and gain exposure to multiple industries.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business

With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are turning to an overlooked pool of entry-level talent: the 5.5 Sourcing eager talent is just part of the new equation. Across the U.S., For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%. Sourcing for Commitment.

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

The consultant has talent but not much experience. Was it at a big firm with formal training (for example Deloitte, Bain & Company) or did you learn on the job as an internal resource with a company? If the latter, was it a company that provided access to training like General Electric, or a small to midsize firm?

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Although rate information is a closely guarded secret, based on my 20 years in the industry here are very rough ballpark numbers for “management consulting” (not IT consulting, project management, training development, etc.).

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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail

Harvard Business

These are areas in which recently available, off-the-shelf AI tools, such as Google’s Cloud Speech API and Nuance’s speech recognition API, can be used, and they don’t require massive investment in training and hiring. Disclosure: One of us is an executive at Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google.)

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