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2025 Professional Services Benchmarks: What We Learned and What’s Next?

Replicon

While the decline is seemingly marginal, it indicates a more significant tightening in the market as clients seek to exercise greater caution. Leveraging AI can help firms develop and implement new strategies to optimize resource management, enhance client engagement, and drive efficiency. from 31.3%

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Build a Team of Personalities: One Consultant’s Approach to Improving Employee Engagement

Everwise

We still go on retreats to do team building exercises. We did a lot of team-building exercises and those can be kind of trite and silly sometimes, but in that case they felt very genuine. What’s the secret to team building exercises that don’t feel cheesy or formulaic? We’ve built it into our calendar.

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The Importance of Skills Mapping in Your Company

OneDirectory

  Well, besides the fact that you're sitting on an untapped goldmine of talent and upskilling opportunities, there are some key benefits: Improved workforce agility and deployment:  With skills mapping, you can quickly identify and deploy the right people for projects, initiatives, and roles as needs shift.

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How to Develop a Staffing Planning (With Staffing Plan Example)  

AIHR

It also encompasses elements like succession planning , talent development, diversity and inclusion , and organizational culture. How to develop a staffing planning Conducting staffing planning is a strategic exercise that gives you the insights and data you need to create an effective staffing plan.

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Best Employee Engagement Podcasts To Listen In 2025

HR Lineup

The Talent Development Hot Seat Hosted by Andy Storch, this podcast is perfect for leaders and talent development professionals looking to deepen their understanding of employee engagement. Current Trends: Stay updated on the latest trends in talent development and employee engagement.

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The Best Way to Advocate For Growing Your Team

Everwise

Bill says he would continue the discussion with a classic 3-bucket exercise. Bill Bonney suggests going in with a presentation that clearly illustrates this, “In the first slide, I would show what your team can do that has the greatest impact on growing the top line. For Bucket 1, say what you will stop doing.

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Essential Human Skills For Managers To Lead Great Teams

Cloverleaf

Talent develop leaders have a solid grasp on why these skills matter—now it’s time to dive deeper and explore how to embed them so deeply in your team’s DNA that they become the bedrock of your organization’s success. Managers constantly juggle a multitude of tasks, leaving little time for focused development efforts.