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Brooks: Want better managers? You need to develop better employees

HRExecutive

In order to make better managers, we must have employees meet them halfway. Early on in my career, the CHRO of my management consulting firm, Oliver Wyman, used to say, “The psychological contract between a manager and employee must be that, if the employee takes care of the manager, the manager will take care of them.”

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In-depth: 7 big lessons from Spring HR Tech

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That point was reiterated by Maxine Carrington , deputy CHRO at Northwell Health, New York state’s largest healthcare provider and private employer, who said the health, safety and wellbeing of the company’s employees are paramount. “We have to understand our people and what they have gone through in the last year.

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2020 Employee Engagement Trends

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Looking at the employee journey, organizations should ask: What solutions are we providing to individuals, not only for the work that they’re doing at the company today, but that will help them become more marketable throughout their careers? Career development isn’t a one-way street, however. Interested in ACE 2020?

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How one company passed the ‘cultural stress test’ of 2020

HRExecutive

This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself. For DJ Casto, executive vice president and CHRO at financial services company Synchrony, it’s all about people and culture.