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UKG Workforce Institute Welcomes City of Memphis CHRO Alex Smith to Its Advisory Board

UKG

Named an HRO Today magazine CHRO of the Year in 2020, Smith has been highly praised for positioning the City of Memphis as a 21st-century model for city governments. In her role at The Workforce Institute, Smith will provide firsthand perspectives from the CHRO of a city with more than one million residents.

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This game developer CHRO has found a winning talent strategy

HRExecutive

While the organization, founded in 2007 and known for developing such games as Words with Friends and FarmVille, has long had a standout culture—rooted in collaboration and innovation—it had gone through a “rough patch,” Ryan says, with a downturn in morale and business outcomes, making it harder to both recruit and retain top talent.

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#HRCongress18 Dave Ulrich on Digital HR at the CHRO Virtual Summit

Strategic HCM

I was working on client and other things at home last week but did manage to catch the HR Congress' virtual CHRO summit.

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GetFive Names Its 2021 HR Heroes

GetFive

Paraphrasing the Economist, boardrooms turned to their corporate finance chiefs when the financial crisis rocked the business world in 2007-09. Monique Jefferson, CHRO, New York Public Radio. Mark Rankin, CHRO, BeyondTrust. But, this year is surely in a league of its own! ” — Rama Kondru, CTO & CIO of Medidata.

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How to Elevate HR (And Keep the C-Suite Happy)

WorkHuman

million quits (now higher than the first month of the recession, December 2007). John Boudreau shares a telling story from a CHRO in their first leadership meeting, chaired by the CEO. Instead, he said, “Why don’t I ask our new CHRO to say a few words about how HR will contribute to our strategic success?”. million in December.

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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. The faculty for CHRO Academy primarily consists of NAHR Fellows.).

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New Honors for Six Leaders in HR

HRExecutive

Conaty, a former senior vice president of HR at General Electric who himself was named a distinguished fellow in 2007. Michael D’Ambrose, senior vice president and CHRO of Archer Daniels Midland Co. Graddick-Weir is executive vice president of human resources at the Kenilworth, N.J.-based