Career, learning & development
At Microsoft, career, learning & development are essential to employee growth and wellbeing.
Tell employees what you want them to strive for
Microsoft revamped its comprehensive leadership priorities into a six-word phrase: Create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success. This HBR piece discusses the advantages of developing a memorable, pithy set of guidelines, arguing that the more concise your leadership principles, the more effectively your people can put them into action.
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Fast Company
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Forbes
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SHRM
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HBR
Why your mentoring program should be mandatory
HBR
Why Microsoft measures employee thriving, not engagement
By Dawn Klinghoffer and Elizabeth McCune
Wall Street Journal
The do’s and don’ts of onboarding ‘buddies’
By Joann S. Lublin
Wall Street Journal
5 execs share how they conquered professional fears
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The Information
Stemming employee departures through ‘career check-ins’
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HR Executive
The future of L&D with Microsoft’s learning leader
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Harvard Business Review
Flexible work, the metaverse, and the power of empathy
By Adi Ignatius with Satya Nadella
Microsoft WorkLab
Flexibility, autonomy, and managing through hybrid
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