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Norway’s Wealthiest Sovereign Fund Pushes For Gender Equality on Company Boards

HR Digest

“The board (of a company) should have a diversity of competencies and backgrounds,” read a new policy document from the fund. The Norwegian fund published a white paper on “board diversity” on Monday, saying directors should have a “diversity of competences and backgrounds.”. The fund owns the equivalent of 1.4

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Blocked Personal Learners Don’t See Value in Self-Development

Workplace Psychology

Interference is anything that keeps us from high performance (InsideOut Development, 2019); anything that gets in the way of higher performance (InsideOut Development, 2018); or anything that blocks progress (InsideOut Development, 2019). Gladwell (2008) reminds us that, “success follows a predictable course. Korn Ferry.

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How Businesses Can Thrive Despite the Skilled Labor Shortage

Workforce Opportunity Services

According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 45 percent of HR managers can’t find qualified talent for their available positions. This article was originally published on Recruiter.com on Oct 11, 2018. That, coupled with a low unemployment rate and rapid job growth, leaves companies struggling to fill all their open roles.

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How Recognition Programs Affect Employee Wellbeing

Semos Cloud

Strengthening workplace relationships through peer-to-peer recognition functions like a glue that keeps people together, making strong teams who work together instead of competing with one another. . Even though this is troubling, the comparison to the data from 2008 shows improvement. Improved workplace relationships .

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Global Trends Impact Higher Education, Business and Working Learners

Edcor

To compete with workers from across the globe workers must be able to solve problems and accept new responsibilities if part of their job is automated. percent more on higher education in 2018-19 than they did the previous year. However funding is still lower than it was in 2008 before the Great Recession. States spent 3.7

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Juan Sanchez of the USA Martial Arts Fitness Academy Speaks About Martial Arts, Positive Lifestyle Choices, and Healthy Habits

Thrive Global

This, along with his years of training, provided the background he needed to open his own martial arts school, USA Martial Arts Academy, in 2008. Sanchez returned to school in 2016 and completed his MA in business administration and management in 2018. Also, in 2018, he won gold in the WKC World Championships in Ireland.

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Marc Julien of RAAM 21: “Calculated risk has no emotion”

Thrive Global

After beating stage four cancer in 2018, Marc launched a non-profit to help fund childhood cancer treatment research, RAAM 21 , and assembled a team to compete with him in the Race Across America, all while overcoming great odds and proving cancer is a calling to achieve more in life. What I learned during that time is invaluable.