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Reskilling: What is it and why is it important?

Insperity

For example, a retailer might reskill its in-store salespeople to work as remote customer service agents to support a change in focus from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce sales. A subset of reskilling, called upskilling , can help prepare your people for major changes in their current roles.

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Are Annual Employee Performance Reviews Really Dead?

Insperity

Companies should also consider investing in a way for managers and employees to share feedback easily, such as an online program, an app or another outlet that is easy, quick and enhances the ability to give real time feedback when conversations may not be logistically feasible. Keep goals broad, realistic and focused on company objectives.

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Doing Quiet Acts of Kindness at Work Could Be the Key to a More Fulfilling Life

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I appreciated the HR employee’s initiative because our HR typically handles standard onboarding and paperwork, not personal relocation logistics. Instead of just referring them to customer service, she spent an extra hour explaining every detail, ensuring they felt comfortable and informed.

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Ep 222: Chynna Clayton – Former Special Assistant to Michelle Obama

Go Burrows

Chynna is the founder and CEO of Matriarch Made Development, a consulting firm that helps organizations develop high performing administrative teams and identify and address overall operating structure and events logistics inefficiencies.

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The leaders of IKEA, ServiceNow, Coursera, and Publicis Sapient offer different visions of how AI will impact their companies

Work Life

For us, we’ve been using AI but more in technical ways of [automating] customer service and improving our logistic positions. JESPER BRODIN, CEO OF INGKA GROUP, THE HOLDING COMPANY THAT OWNS AND OPERATES IKEA STORES “It’s deeply inspiring, deeply [filled with] potential, and deeply dangerous at the same time.

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Will AI become your assistant or your boss? An ethicist explains

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These systems integrate with large language models (LLMs) to provide tools for innovation, logistics, and risk management. But now, AI is also taking over more “intellectual” tasks like data analysis and customer service. Algorithm-driven customer service often lacks human nuance and understanding, depersonalizing solutions.

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4 Ways To Invest in Women in the Workplace This International Women’s Day

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On a global level, the supply-chain and logistics company had 26.6% To help support women with caregiving responsibilities in its China operations, DHL Express runs a re-boarding program in its Shanghai customer services department to help women ease back into work after being away on maternity leave. in December of 2020.

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