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Accelerate Transformation with Organizational Decision Analytics – Part II

“Whether you are responsible for the talent engagement and development of a large multi-national or a mid-size organization, Harrison Assessment’s Organizational Analytics offers best-in-class solutions to advance your business, cultural, and talent goals for 2021 and beyond.”

The new worker/employer value proposition is mutual affection

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Outplacement Is an Investment in Recruiting & Retention

Part 3: The new worker/employer value proposition is mutual affection

Video Scene from Fiddler on the Roof: A Revolutionary’s Question

Video Scene from Fiddler on the Roof: A Revolutionary’s Question

The new worker/employer contract is the ultimate rationale for offering effective outplacement services.
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Ex-employees are alumni … a reservoir of goodwill

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Part 2: Ex-employees are alumni … a reservoir of goodwill

The outplacement industry has consolidated and created innovative, enabling technologies to deliver services more efficiently and globally, however, like other talent management technological enablers, these innovations cannot replace the need for effective coaching and mentoring support.
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Employee treatment during layoffs is just one text away from going viral!

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Outplacement Is an Investment in Recruiting & Retention

Part 1: Employee treatment during layoffs is just one text away from going viral!

goingViral Since the 1960s, outplacement has benefited millions of transitioning employees. By providing effective outplacement services their former organizations reaped tangible economic benefits. Those same benefits, both for employees and organizations, are needed today. In fact, the business case for providing outplacement is actually stronger today than in those early years of the fledgling career transition industry. To put it succinctly, whether recruiting or seeking to engage and retain those all-observant millennials, how you treat their friends in a layoff is only a text away from going viral! Given that reality, it is counter-productive that at best only 30% of companies offer outplacement and with declining program budgets and services. What gives?
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It’s the Economy, Stupid!

Organizational change is often driven by the economy

Economic downturns, mergers, reorganizations, natural disasters, war, disruptive global and workforce trends, technological change, and industry upheavals impact organizations and their employees at the visceral level. (View Economic Drivers Video)

Wall-Street-Crash-2008Organizations like to focus on the positive when developing strategic plans based on the best business and economic scenarios, yet it is often the negative economic surprises that drive organizational change. After over 30 years in business, I recently developed a retrospective of the primary global, national and regional economic drivers covering over 50 decades. It is gripping to review the succession of economic downturns, mergers, reorganizations, natural disasters, war, disruptive global and workforce trends, technological change, and industry upheavals which impact organizations and their employees at the visceral level. (View Economic Drivers Video)
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