Succession Planning
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A hiring freeze can be an opportunity to evaluate and refine current hiring processes to improve the candidate experience.
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Avoid the slow growth that comes after the founder of a family-owned business steps down by realigning leaders' vision for the company's future.
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Learn why taking over a family business requires a leadership development framework specific to the emotional dynamics and challenges involved.
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Learn the most important things to do to retain a good relationship with employees who leave your organization.
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Learn about the business case for fair hiring assessments and why even the best managers have hiring biases.
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The Microsoft performance review, development and succession planning process, called Talent Talks, embodies a growth mindset to reinvent the present and build the future.
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Learn why cognitive bias is hurting your promotion and succession decisions and how to create a plan that relies on data, not perception.
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Learn how to create an exit interview that reveals why your best people are leaving and how you can use the data to keep your other star employees.
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Learn four practical steps for turning succession planning from an imprecise art into an exact science.
When employees leave a company, many often take valuable attributes like knowledge and experience with them. But departing employees might also walk off with something more intangible: a piece of the company's established corporate culture.
35% of U.S. Managers Are Engaged in Their Jobs