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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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The New Age of Operations: Modern COO Search Strategies by N2Growth

N2Growth Blog

This multi-faceted nature of the COO’s responsibilities requires an individual equipped with various skills, including strategic visioning, change management capabilities, team leadership qualities, and a deep understanding of contemporary business trends.

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Complimentary Resource – Referral Madness | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

This eBook is for the employer who is interested in building a robust and successful employee referral program.

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Set the Stage for Engagement | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Managers and their staffs were unhappy and could be easily tempted to check out other job possibilities if they surfaced. New recruits heard stories that made them question their decision to join the company ranks. Clearly, after as much as five years, employees still suffered from the “survivor-blaming phenomenon,” as Noer called it.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3.

Strategy Driven

Community Marketing is not only a sales strategy, it is also a recruiting strategy. Personally, I believe in spending a lot of time up front in the recruiting process and being sure to enable the potential employee to see what the company is all about. Concomitantly, hiring the right people is a critical success factor.

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Lock in and Engage Top Talent | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

They need a solution that also addresses the bad reputation that the recession has wrought on many companies and that identifies cultural changes that will attract new employees. Evidence has shown a high correlation between employee job satisfaction and engagement and employee retention and recruitment.

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Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Strategy Driven

With better data, we could more readily compare the impact of various programs – such as dedicated management training for women and minorities, diverse employee resource groups, and recruitment and outreach initiatives – and recommend best practices.”

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