Creating a Digital, Agile and Business Focused HR Function

To navigate the increasingly complex world of talent, HR needs to grow more quickly into a strategic advisor. More companies will need CHROs and they will need to have an equal voice alongside CEOs and CFOs in the most critical business decisions. In the coming decades of disruption, the management of talent will become the main differentiator of high-performing organisations, this requires HR 3.0. In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders David Green speaks to Keith McNulty, Head of People Analytics and Measurement team at McKinsey, about what HR 3.0 is and what it means for HR as a function.

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The Best Articles on HR, People Analytics & the Future of Work of September 2019

In his regular monthly round-up of the top articles for September, David features a diverse selection of articles covering topics such as the evolution of Strategic Workforce Planning, how analytics can reduce collaborative overload, examples of how companies have enabled their HR Business Partners with analytics and case studies from the likes of McDonalds, McKinsey, LEGO, Merck Group and Lloyds Banking Group. Featured authors include Lexy Martin, Rob Cross, Anna Tavis, Keith McNulty and Peter Cappelli.

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Why HR Technology is becoming Work Technology

The HR technology space continues to attract a lot of attention as well as a growing level of investment, with over 40,000 applications being tracked and a current value amounting to $400 billion, it begs the question, how do you navigate what is a complex and at times confusing market and should it even be called HR Tech anyway? In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Jason Corsello, founder and CEO at the Acadian company and previously Head of Strategy and Corporate Development at Cornerstone, about the shift from HR Tech to work Tech.

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What are the Four Expectations for Measuring Employee Experience?

The finance tech transformation makes people a critical success factor for the financial services industry: Engaging critical talent while building a more agile organisation has become essential to competing and innovating in the new world of financial services. Managing the employee experience is the most actionable way to drive retention, attraction and work productivity during the biggest talent shift, the industry has ever been facing. In this article Volker Jacobs, founder of the TI-People, outlines the expectations for measuring Employee Experience.

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What are the Skills HR Professionals Need to Develop?

The Human Resources profession needs to change. It must become more digital and analytical to deliver greater business value. The digital age has brought with it sweeping changes to the way that employees and workers interact with each other, the way that work itself gets done. In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Jill Larsen, the CHRO of Medidata. In this extract taken from their conversation, Jill and David discuss a topic dear to all of our hearts and that’s the changing nature of HR skills and in particular the skills and capabilities that as a Chief People Officer she looks for in her HR function to support the changing landscape of HR.

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Why HR Needs to Have More Data-Driven Conversations

In a recent discussion with Archana Ramesh & Amy Lavoie of Glint’s People Science Team, Al Adamsen examines how improved communication and data driven conversations can create more impactful experiences for both people leaders and those they support. It was decided inter-personal, workplace conversations need to be safe, focused, and purposeful. While this seems logical it is often easier said than done, throughout this article Al, Amy and Archana detail how as a people leader you can fill the ‘knowing-doing gap’ to drive more impactful interactions to truly drive organisational change.

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How can AI be used to Reduce Bias in Recruitment?

Unconscious bias is a huge problem in the workplace, especially in areas like recruitment, promotion, and performance management as well as being a major barrier in efforts to improve diversity and inclusion. Whilst training and awareness can help, as humans we have inherent unconscious biases. So how can technology, data and science help? In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast we spoke to Frida Polli the CEO and founder of Pymetrics, In this extract taken from their conversation Frida talks about the ways that AI and machine learning can help reduce bias in recruitment.

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How to Successfully Implement Strategic Workforce Planning

Previously, Alicia Roach has examined the “what” of workforce planning and the “why” you should care about it. In this article she begins to unpack the “how” you successfully implement strategic workforce planning within your organisation. Strategic workforce planning is recognised as “the most complex analysis effort undertaken by HR functions” and throughout this blog she details some of the key concepts that are critical and have been found to be differentiators of successfully implementing workforce planning versus strategic workforce planning going off the rails.

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How Can Advanced People Analytics Be Used In Recruiting?

Our guest on this week’s episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast is Ian O’Keefe, Global Head of Workforce Analytics at JPMorgan Chase. Ian is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced and insightful leaders in the people analytics space. In this extract taken from their conversation on the Digital HR Leaders podcast, Ian shares how, at JPMorgan Chase, they’ve taken a recruiting challenge and turned it into an opportunity leveraging advanced people analytics.

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The Best Articles on HR, People Analytics & the Future of Work of August 2019

In his monthly round-up of the top articles for August, David features a diverse selection of articles covering topics such as the link between Employee and Customer Experience, the importance of governance in People Analytics, ethics in the design AI infused HR Tech and the business benefits of Agile HR. There are specials on skills and the state of people analytics. Featured authors include Lexy Martin, Bernard Marr, Sarah O’Brien and Volker Jacobs.

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