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How Jill Smart, former Accenture CHRO, cultivated an incubator for top HR talent

HR Brew

When Jill Smart was approached by George Shaheen, then CEO of Andersen Consulting—now Accenture—about her taking an HR role with the company in the early 2000s, she already had over 20 years of consulting experience with the firm under her belt. Building a CHRO pipeline. Even so, she added, “It was the best thing I ever did.”

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How You Can Become a Simply Irresistible Organization

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I saw a post titled “ Engagement, Retention and Culture now the #1 Issues in Talent and HR.” On one hand, I wasn’t surprised, talent issues have been keeping CEOs up at night for years. If I were your chief human resources officer (CHRO), what are three professional development activities you would expect of me?

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Finally, a Sympathetic Deconstruction of What HR is Doing Wrong!

HRExecutive

This book is a contrarian’s largely sympathetic view of how many American corporations wrongly recruit, manage, measure, develop and lead their talent–what we’re now calling the “employee experience”–all executed by HR. When was the last HR academic paper you, your boss, your CHRO or your CEO read? They are tough sledding.

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How culture investment can prepare HR ‘for any crisis’

HRExecutive

In 2004, Mary Ruberry surprised her family and friends when she departed her HR manager job at Williams Labadie, a Chicago ad agency owned by Leo Burnett, to take an HR position at The Parking Spot—the nation’s largest provider of near-airport parking and transportation. “I HRE : What were you working on before the pandemic?

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Most Important Developments for 1/22

GetFive

Movement of talented employees across firms is inevitable, but if you’re in a leadership role, there are things you can do when a star employee leaves to prevent their departure from becoming a stampede to the exits. Since 2004, Google engineers get to spend 20% of their time pursuing projects of their own creation.

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Why Accenture is an incubator for top HR talent

HR Brew

After freelance or self-employed roles, a job at Accenture was the most common work experience for this cohort prior to entering the C-suite, with 0.64% of CHROs or CPOs spending time at the firm. Accenture’s former CHRO, Jill Smart, can attest to this. Selling talent. Navigating polycris(es).

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Why Employee Feedback is a Gift

Semos Cloud

This is only realistic, given that everyday experiences and the scope of responsibility are much different. The role of healthy internal communication is to keep the dialogue constantly going so that company leaders have a clear line of sight into employee experiences of every worker and create the best management system they can.