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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. And in another survey, 87% said they cannot calculate quantifiable returns on their learning investments.

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A Survey of 19 Countries Shows How Generations X, Y, and Z Are — and Aren’t — Different

Harvard Business

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. Companies may want to consider virtual reality as a tool for recruiting these cohorts. Leadership Ambitions.

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Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies: Are They Aligned Enough?

LSA Global

Employee Experience encompasses the entirety of an employees journey with the organization from recruitment, to interviews , to new employee orientation all the way to exit interviews and offboarding. Equip them with training and resources to effectively lead, manage, and coach their teams.

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3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem

Harvard Business

RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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. One of Dr. Gallup’s most ambitious projects was a global survey he conducted in 1976.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. aren’t taught management skills in medical school.

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