Measuring and Improving Business Performance
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How to Reach Your Professional Tipping Point
Why are certificates on the rise, and degrees in decline?
The proliferation of professional certificate programs is easily explained: As compared to postsecondary degree programs, online certificate programs are more cost-effective, convenient, and take less time to complete. A certificate program …
Developing Employee Talent with Programs from Globally Recognized Universities
As corporations continue to maintain leaner workforces—choosing to carry larger cash balances over expanding employment—there’s a renewed focus on selecting, retaining and developing talent internally. More attention is being paid to competencies that drive innovation, revenue growth and strategic agility …
Think it Through: Technical Considerations of Corporate Partnerships
University-corporate partnerships can offer higher education institutions many benefits, including exposure to new revenue channels, networking relationships with corporate partners, and continuing educational programming for professionals. However, before engaging in a corporate strategy, there are several technical considerations (and decisions) …
What you need to know about new media right now
This article, written by eCornell CEO Christopher Proulx, was originally published in HotelsMag.com.
As the marketing landscape explodes with new media channels, hospitality marketers have an increased number of methods by which to raise the visibility of their brands. Gone are …
5 Tips on How to Look [And Act] Like a Leader
You have the education, the skills, the experience, the courage and insight to lead. But leadership is about many things, and a big part of what makes a leader is appearance. It might sound superficial, but leadership is an …
Mentorship Redux
Think of the classic mentor/protege relationship. Your mind may conjure up images of the benevolent, caring tutor and the eager, receptive student in a perfect give and take. A friendly, healthy exchange of ideas and wisdom. Sounds idyllic…
But the truth …
The Best Way to Handle Variable Pricing?
Broadway-style. In hospitality, a huge part of successfully managing revenue lies in striking that perfect balance between price, inventory/availability, demand–and, of course, anticipating buying behaviors. Here Felix Salmon heads down Broadway to see how variable pricing in ticket vending has …
Analytics: more than you bargained for
Stumbled upon this great article today about the role of analytics in business and it got me thinking about the ways we use them to make all facets of business more successful. According to Chris Petersen, a strategic consultant who …
8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses
All my working life, I have found that I railed against the office “Stalin”, the dictator-micromanager boss. General misery aside, my belief that this management style leads to more problems than solutions has only been a theory… until now. In …
Actual Human Beings Now Booking Travel
How do you explain a 10% bump in leisure and business travel booked through traditional agencies that are staffed by real people? Two reasons:
1. Emerging from the wreckage of the global recession, the travel industry is picking up steam. In …
Does Pinterest Work for Hospitality?
The jury’s still out on whether Pinterest is the new Facebook. But note that in a mere 9 months, Pinterest went from 50,000 users to 17 million, where it took Facebook 16 months to get there. Whether or not the …
“He scares me to death. That’s why I’ve asked him to be my mentor”
Think of the classic mentor/protege relationship. Your mind may conjure up images of the benevolent, caring tutor and the eager, receptive student in a perfect give and take. A friendly, healthy exchange of ideas and wisdom. Sounds idyllic…
But if you’re …
Awesome 32-page HR report condensed to 8 bullet points
Here’s a time-saving hack for HR pros: read this 8-point synopsis before you fully commit to reading the entire Deloitte survey: Transformative Technologies Driving Human Resource Organizations to ‘Leap Ahead’ in 2012.
This report focuses on 8 human capital trends you …
A recruiter will spend 6 seconds on your resume. If you’re lucky.
From Flowing Data: During evaluations, eye tracking software was employed, and they found that the recruiters spent about six seconds on a resume looking for six main things: name, current company and title, previous company and title, previous position start …
Timely Ascent: The Upsurge in Human Resources
What’s the outlook for HR jobs in 2012? Not bad at all, in fact.
Check out April 2012’s ELearning! Magazine.
Building a Global Talent Management Strategy
If you missed the eCornell webinar titled Building a Global Talent Management Strategy and would like to view it, or would like to share with colleagues, the archive is available at ecornell.cornell.edu/mar14archive. The presentation slides are at ecornell.cornell.edu/mar14ppt.
In today’s marketplace, …
High Performance Leadership with Prof. Sam Bacharach
Cornell Prof. Sam Bacharach on the High Performance Leadership Certificate at eCornell.
Techies, Talent Management and the Soft Skills of Leadership
Cornell Professor Sam Bacharach is a faculty author for numerous eCornell courses, including Change Leadership, Managing for Execution and High Performance Leadership. In this post from the Bacharach Blog, Leadership for Entrepreneurial Techies, Prof. Bacharach discusses how to develop high-potential …
Learn How to Build a Global Talent Management Strategy
In today’s marketplace, going global is more necessity than luxury, as businesses regularly find customers, suppliers and partners from all over the map. That broader focus for business requires a global talent management strategy to properly support a global initiative.
We’ll …