Five Steps to Making Organisational Culture Tangible

Organisational culture is more important than ever. Continuous digitisation, scarcity in talent and skills are a fact that organisations are increasingly dealing with, so for a People Analytics team and/or other relevant practitioners’ organisational culture should be addressed as a matter of importance. Organisations often are well equipped to report on ‘hard’ organisational outcomes such as safety or risk indicators. However, gaining a grasp on ‘soft’ culture indicators and their relationship to these outcomes is more difficult. In this article five steps are shared to enable people analytics teams, organisational researchers and other relevant practitioners to start with quantifying this big concept and provide organisations with tools for working on organisational culture.

Employee Experience, People AnalyticsMartijn WiertzApril 20, 2022Culture, Organisational Culture, Culture ChangeComment

What is the Future of Employee Experience in 2022?

The Great Resignation has led many businesses to really stop and consider their employee experience. Many that have resigned over the last year have stated that their reason for doing so was to seek better pay, better opportunities and the more importantly the desire to have the freedom to work remotely and embrace flexibility. In our most recent series of the Digital HR Leaders podcast asked 5 thought leaders, how they believe employee experience will evolve over the next 12 months and beyond and what organisations can do to continue to build and measure the employee experience in their organisation.

Employee ExperienceManpreet RandhawaMarch 11, 2022Employee Wellbeing, Employee Engagement, People AnalyticsComment

How ING Uses Skills Data To Support Workforce Planning And Employee Experience

There is an increasing shift towards a focus on skills, which is arguably leading to a radical transformation of HR. Perhaps this isn’t a surprise given that 74% of CEOs are concerned about the availability of key skills, and worried that the shortage of talent will constrain growth. In this expert interview David Green speaks to Luigi Maria Fierro, Head of HR Strategy and People Analytics at ING to hear more about how ING is using people data to derive insights into the skills and capabilities required across the bank and how these insights can be used to inform their future workforce strategy.

People Analytics, Employee ExperienceLuigi M Fierro & David GreenFebruary 23, 2022Skill Management, Advanced AnalyticsComment

3 Common Myths about using Employee Surveys to Improve Employee Experience

Organisations have significantly increased their focus on employee experience since the start of the pandemic. Recent research from Insight222 and TI People investigating the business impact of employee experience revealed that 70% of survey respondents agree that business leaders have shown more interest in employee experience since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The importance of frictionless and frustration-free employee experience (EX) is attracting more attention than ever before. In this article, we look at three common myths that companies get wrong about using employee surveys to improve employee experience, and how to address these.

Six Ways to put HR Trends and Predictions in 2022 into Practice

The myriad of 2022 predictions are supremely useful for giving HR leaders a sense check, to ensure that their investments are targeting the most important elements for their function to thrive in the digital age. Similarly, HR professionals can use predictions to target their learning and development goals for the coming year, enabling them to keep a pulse on “what’s hot” in the field. In this blog, we take a look at a handful of HR’s 2022 prediction blogs and convert these insights into action, by guiding HR leaders to insights and models that can help inform their strategy in 2022, and HR professionals to resources to upskill in these areas.

What are the Top Skills that HR Professionals have Learnt in 2021

HR has a significant role to play in guiding the organisation through digital transformation. The function is under pressure from all corners of the organisation to deliver a people strategy fit for the digital age. Over 60% of HR leaders report pressure from the CEO to ensure employees have the skills they need in the future. In order to meet this challenge and support the organisation in the digital age, HR professionals must develop new, up-to-date skills. In this blog we explore the top skills HR professionals have been developing to become more data driven and business focused, as well training courses you can take to help you get setup for success in 2022.

The Most Popular HR & People Analytics Resources of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of the most popular HR and People Analytics resources that the myHRfuture readers and the Digital HR Leaders podcast listeners have engaged with this year. There have certainly been some trending topics: Focusing on employee mental health, wellbeing and psychological safety, Preparing the organisation for the future of work with skills-based workforce planning, Upskilling HR professionals with the capabilities they need for the digital age and developing a data driven culture for HR to embed evidence-based decision making across the organisation. Read on to explore each topic in more detail and use the further reading lists at the end of each section to dive even deeper into these themes.

The Role of Psychological Safety in Creating High Performing Teams

To create highly effective teams, organisations have to enable two things: One is psychological safety and the second is High performance standards. Many studies have shown that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, creativity, innovation and a level of openness that allows you share how you feel — it’s these types of behaviours that lead to market breakthroughs. In this Expert Interview David Green speaks to Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr to hear more about how his company is helping organisations driver greater business value by creating high performing teams.

Employee ExperienceDavid Green & Tom MarsdenDecember 7, 2021Psychological SafetyComment

How to Measure Culture in a Hybrid World of Work

Organisational culture is typically understood as comprising of the following elements, which are important measures of culture: signs and symbols, shared practices and underlying assumptions of an organisation. The pandemic has had a significant and indisputable impact on these basic elements of culture, and as organisations now look to adapt to new hybrid models of work, understanding how company culture has changed and how to develop effective culture change programmes is increasingly important. In this blog we share four top tips to measure culture in a hybrid workplace as well as examples of how organisations are putting these into practice.

Employee ExperienceCaroline StyrNovember 17, 2021Culture, Organisational Culture, Culture ChangeComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of October 2021

In this month’s collection of the best People Analytics and HR articles David Green features four powerful new research studies are included: i) RedThread Research and Degreed team up to analyse what a skills-based approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging looks like, ii) Jason Corsello looks at the macro trends impacting the future of work, iii) McKinsey and LeanIn.Org present the seventh edition of their Women in the Workplace study, and iv) the team at Insight222 present our People Analytics Trends 2021 study and much more!

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