3 Tips for a New People Analytics Leader

What are the three tips that Piyush Mathur, the Global Head of Workforce Analytics, Data Strategy and Governance at Johnson & Johnson has for People Analytics leaders when building their People Analytics function? In this blog, we look at the advice that Piyush has for People Analytics leaders based on a conversation he had on the Digital HR Leaders podcast with David Green. Having built a People Analytics function at Johnson & Johnson and Nielsen, Piyush draws on his own experience and provides some invaluable advice for any People Analytics leader.

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Four Emerging Strategic Workforce Planning Trends

The human capital residing within an organisation is arguably the most important factor impacting an organisations ability to sustain long-term growth and success. Strategic workforce planning is one of the key components of effective human capital management and a topic widely discussed as having an ever-growing importance on the future of work and an area that is seeing considerable evolution. As more emphasis is placed on workforce planning across organisations, we’re seeing new trends emerging that are really evolving the way that workforce planning is carried out and shaping what ‘good’ strategic workforce planning looks like.

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The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of February 2020

February’s collection of articles proves to be one of David’s strongest collections since he began curating articles almost five years ago, which highlights what an exciting juncture this is for data-driven HR. There are two absolute gems from two people analytics teams sharing some of their insights and methodologies that have helped make them successful. This months collection is a must read!

How Does HR Prepare for the Future of Work?

A little under a year ago we launched the Digital HR Leaders podcast, in which David Green speaks to a wide range of senior HR leaders who are all breaking boundaries and really pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda. As we near the launch of our seventh series we decided to take a step back and have a look at how these pioneers see the HR function evolving and what HR needs to do to prepare for the future to ensure we’re delivering on our digital agenda?

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How do you Design Work to be More Engaging?

As we continue to discuss and debate the opportunities that technology poses in regards to automation and what this means for the future of work, the question arises as to whether we’re building adaptive jobs that are not only future-focused but can also engage employees and drive job satisfaction? In this blog post, we review the 5 key elements required to design jobs that really engage your employees.

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How can “Customer Perceived Value” (CPV) Inform the Customer Experience of HR?

Net Promoter Score (NPS) has established itself as a leading measure of the customer experience and is one that has been adopted by many companies. The concept suggested by NPS of customers as ‘promoters’ or ‘detractors’ is initially appealing, and one can see why a generation of business executives picked NPS as their engagement tool of choice. After all, who wouldn’t want a customer eagerly promoting your product for you? In this article Mark Hayton and Phil Mercy examine Nokia’s customer experience metric “Customer Perceived Value” and how it can be used to inform the customer experience of HR.

What is the Difference Between Active and Passive ONA?

In our practical online training course How to Use Python for Organisational Network Analysis Bennet Voohees outlines the basics of organisational network analysis, what it is and why you should do one. He takes you through the necessary steps of how to use Python to understand collaboration, networks and key influencers within your organisation as well as how to build network graphs and to visualise relationships. In this short bitesized learning video, taken from the course, Bennet helps us understand the difference between active and passive ONA.

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The best HR & People Analytics articles of January 2020

In his first monthly selection of the new decade, David Green highlights new research from LinkedIn, Sierra-Cedar, Willis Towers Watson/SHRM and RedThread Research, which all point to the rapid growth, quantifiable impact and huge still unrealised potential of evidence-based HR. Enjoy and share some data-driven love with your network!

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What is the Value Chain of Employee Experience Framework?

Previously, in part 1 of 4 of this series, Hanadi El Sayyed highlighted that the real success to improve the Employee Experience (EX) in an organisation lies in giving this mission a vision and then following a framework that will systematically help deliver results. She then anchored the purpose in Employee Advocacy (EA), defined what it is, in parts 2 and 3 explained why EA is essential and its advantages, and then explored how to institutionalise it. In part 4, Hanadi describes the second element to improve your employee experience – the value chain of Employee Experience Framework - that will help you deliver on your vision successfully.

People Analytics in 2020: Growth, Leading Practices, Case Studies and Ethics

David reflects on LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2020 report as well as research by Insight222 to examine the state of People Analytics. David examines the accelerating growth of People Analytics, the successful practices of leading organisations, case studies from the likes of Microsoft, HSBC, Nestlé and Unilever and how ethics is the foundation of delivering value from workforce data.

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