To create highly effective teams, organisations have to enable two things: 1. High performance standards: through training, coaching, clarity about goals etc. 2. Psychological safety: so that people don’t hold back and instead drive innovation. In this blog we explore how to create an environment that promotes psychological safety and team effectiveness building on the work of Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.
Read MoreWe have all been there - feeling overwhelmed at work, drowning in demands from all directions. The endless to-do list that keeps accumulating because of the back-to-back meetings and notifications from emails or Slack messages, or the colleague whose stress-filled aura lingers around the office and affects everyone around them. All these symptoms point to one thing: microstress.
Read MoreWith the growing awareness of people analytics and how it delivers actionable value to their organisations, business leaders are turning their attention to implementing it into the most profitable sectors of their company. Understandably, there is a desire to gain the most return on investment from the performance. To accomplish this, it is essential to know where people analytics contributes the highest value and focus energy in that direction.
Read MorePsychological safety is becoming widely known as a large benefit to companies. But the question comes as to whether your company has psychological safety - If it does, what level of psychological safety exists within the organisation and how effectively is it working for the company? To discover the answers to those questions, it is important to understand the means of measuring psychological safety This way, if you were looking to continue building or improving the level of psychological safety within your company you’ll know where to invest your time and effort. In this blog we explore how organisations can begin measuring psychological safety within their organisation and the steps they can take to build more psychologically safe environments that drive greater innovation and productivity.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreRecently, on the Digital HR Leaders podcast, we were fortunate enough to be joined by two fantastic leaders – Arianna Huffington, Global Founder and CEO of Thrive Global and Donna Morris, CHRO at Walmart. In this blog, we’re going to take a closer look at one topic that was top of mind throughout the episode: employee wellbeing. In particular we examine why wellbeing should be a company priority, problematic corporate cultures that promote hard work over health as well as technology’s emerging role in understanding workplace wellbeing.
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