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Making “Coworker Care” a Valued Organizational Competency

15Five

In her article for Higher Ed HR Magazine , Sarah Lobb discusses how weaving self-care and coworker care into the fabric of your company culture can make an impact. She even recommends creating an organizational competency for knowing how to take care of one other. Put coworker care in the job description.

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4 ways to answer competency-based questions

Workable

Common competency interview questions. Here are a few examples of competency-based questions and answers. He wasn’t confident at first but I did my best to encourage him and we ended up shooting images that made it to the cover of our December magazine issue.”. Don’t leave out any details!

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Outsourcing: A powerful tool for growing businesses

Rehmann

For example, a company whose core competency is manufacturing might outsource product design. And while technology is a core competency for a software developer or other technology company, it’s merely an administrative function for many other types of businesses.

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How to Practice Purposeful Productivity

Thrive Global

Would you like to be more productive? Of course, you want to be more productive! But we want to find a better way to be more productive — and that’s called Purposeful Productivity, and likely why you’re currently reading this article. However, even the best productivity advice won’t matter if you don’t know your purpose.

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Competing for Tricky STEM Talent and What Performance Management Has to do With It

Achievers

It seems like nearly every company I’ve worked with is struggling to attract and retain strong technical resources, whether their organization competes in the technology space or not. A strong technical competency/capability model will do this. It will also help to have the technical career path agenda mentioned above.

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Recruiter magazine: Emotional AI

Strategic HCM

I'm quoted in this article in Recruiter magazine on Emotional AI. They should also want to see the results of previous validation studies showing that the systems do identify people who could be seen as high performers against particular attributes or competencies. My inputs: 1.

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Mandatory vacation time for employees: 6 pros and 6 cons

Insperity

Many forward-thinking organizations impose minimum time off for their employees to curb burnout, while improving productivity, quality of work and employee retention. This encourages cross-training , which also supports productivity. This can impact morale and certainly decrease productivity. Helps with recruiting.