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How Jill Smart, former Accenture CHRO, cultivated an incubator for top HR talent

HR Brew

After spending two years as Accenture’s CLO, Smart was tapped for the CHRO position, which she held for a decade, from 2004 to 2014. She said she believes this prepared her employees to take on top HR roles elsewhere, as many went on to serve as CHRO or CPO at companies including Ubisoft, PepsiCo, and McKesson.

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What’s the secret to Marriott’s 26-time Best Companies to Work For award?

HRExecutive

Ask Ty Breland, executive vice president and CHRO at Marriott International, how his organization has made Fortune ’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 26 years in a row, and his answer is simple. Advertisement - It starts, Breland says, with a “ people-first culture ” that includes investing in employees and, as co-founder J.W.

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How You Can Become a Simply Irresistible Organization

HR Bartender

Josh Bersin founded Bersin & Associates (now Bersin by Deloitte) in 2004 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning, leadership, talent management and HR technology. If I were your chief human resources officer (CHRO), what are three professional development activities you would expect of me?

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Assessing Values in Online Technology Part 4

HR Examiner

The breakdown of participants looks like: CHRO and Vice President of HR: 30%. Over the course of a 90 day period (Ending on 5 September 2019), we collected survey responses from 542 individuals. We used email lists to target HR executives. We did not purchase any responses. Director Talent Acquisition: 12%. Recruiting: 17%. L&D: 9%.

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Finally, a Sympathetic Deconstruction of What HR is Doing Wrong!

HRExecutive

When was the last HR academic paper you, your boss, your CHRO or your CEO read? Full disclosure: I have been a big Marcus fan since first hearing him keynote Debbie McGrath’s first big HR.com conference in 2004. They are tough sledding. And you probably will, too. That was soon after he left Gallup as a senior vice president at age 37.

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How culture investment can prepare HR ‘for any crisis’

HRExecutive

In 2004, Mary Ruberry surprised her family and friends when she departed her HR manager job at Williams Labadie, a Chicago ad agency owned by Leo Burnett, to take an HR position at The Parking Spot—the nation’s largest provider of near-airport parking and transportation. “I HRE : What were you working on before the pandemic?

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Do You Have What It Takes?

HRExecutive

This past Tuesday, I had a chance to hear Bill Conaty , HRE ’s 2004 HR Executive of the Year , share his insights on how chief HR officers can be more effective leaders during the National Academy of Human Resources’ 13 th CHRO Academy, held at the Yale Club in New York. As the CHRO, Conaty said, “you have to work the whole 360.”.

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