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How Resource Analysis Can Optimize Your Next HR Project

AIHR

Let’s say you are tasked with a new project that has a set of deliverables – such as developing training and development programs, managing workplace operations or optimizing virtual onboarding for dispersed teams. Think of how you will optimize or reorganize available resources in order to maximize them.

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Why Accountability Is So Muddled, and How to Un-Muddle It

Harvard Business Review

To avoid career-limiting consequences, managers go through all sorts of gyrations to diffuse or re-direct accountability, such as: blaming others, referring to circumstances outside their control, shifting resources to other areas, reorganizing, changing measurements mid-stream, or any number of other creative deflections.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

In those instances, your challenge as a manager is to reorganize roles or rethink strategies to best achieve the goals at hand. Our first week back, we were meeting deliverables in about half the time that it took us before the retreat,” says Nate. Keep your door open. The team-building efforts had immediate benefits. “We

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

The resulting deliverable could then be turned into a presentation or even a database for delivery back to the requester. Last year, when Microsoft Lync 2010 was released, he was asked to reorganize his division so that the testing of the next generation product could begin.

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How Working Parents Can Feel Less Overwhelmed and More in Control

Harvard Business Review

Get Tommy ready for math test tomorrow… If you’re a working parent, chances are excellent that at any given time, your to-do list looks like the one above — and that it stretches on, and on, and on — an endless, and eternally growing, list of deliverables.

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Employee Attrition: Meaning, Impact & Attrition Rate Calculation

AIHR

This most commonly happens during reorganization or layoffs. This directly impacts team performance and the quality of their deliverables.” During mergers, acquisitions, or other reorganizations, employees will feel uncertain about future employment and may jump ship during the process.

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Spotting Ideas with the Potential for Scale | Ward Kampf

Peter Winick

It’s about building the relationship, building trust and again, back to deliverability. You see a lot of people midway through or, you know, in two instances we’ve had to reorganize the team just because we can see people get burned out. So it’s not always about the immediate sell. And then ultimately it comes down.

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