Connecting People to Purpose – The Ultimate HR Mission

Connecting people to your organisation’s purpose does not happen by chance. It requires conscious thought, planning, work. While your employees can be committed personally, believe in your vision and be your #1 biggest fan ever. However, to truly ensure that your workforce is enabling the achievement of your purpose, it must must must have the right capacity and capability to do so. In this fascinating blog Alicia Roach examines how you can connect your people to your purpose through strategic workforce planning.

Workforce PlanningAlicia RoachNovember 20, 2020Strategic Workforce Planning, HR Data, HR StrategyComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of October 2020

We are now nine months into a crisis that looks set to last for some time yet. October saw the release of several research studies that dig into the impact of the crisis and the future role of HR. Common themes that emerge include: trust, humanity, skills, wellbeing, collaboration, personalisation and learning. Whatever the future holds, it seems clear that HR and People Analytics teams will be at the forefront of reshaping work – for the better. This months collection of articles includes new research studies from IBM, Accenture, Mercer, RedThread Research and the World Economic Forum, contributions from senior HR leaders at global companies like Unilever, Novartis, Ericsson, McKinsey and Mastercard. If that wasn’t enough, there are also contributions from some of the leading thinkers in our field including Dave Ulrich, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy Edmondson.

David GreenNovember 9, 2020Comment

What Skills do HR professionals need to support Business Transformation?

To achieve this new, more human, understanding of the workforce requires excellence in people analytics and employee experience – two key areas that will help organisations understand people more deeply, and at scale, and translate that understanding into better, more personalised experiences for the employee. In their latest report, ‘Accelerating the Journey to HR 3.0,’ IBM describe this new era of people management as ‘HR 3.0’. According to their research, only 10% of HR executives are operating in HR 3.0 today. We spoke with Amy Wright, co-author of the paper, to understand more about how to upskill HR for the future of work.

How to Prioritise your People Analytics Projects

Figuring out how to prioritise projects is a crucial step towards successful people analytics. A common concern from people analytics professionals is, how can I possibly manage the concerns of - and bombardment of requests from - multiple business stakeholders? In this blog Caroline Styr outlines the steps you can take to prioritise your People Analytics Projects.

The Role of Learning and Development in 2030: Four Emerging Trends

In the latest series of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, we spoke with five leading thinkers in the Learning and Development (L&D) space. From academics and thought leaders to practitioners and vendors, four recurring themes emerged about the future of learning over the next 10 years: 1. Learning will be central to redefining the nature of work, ensuring talent agility above all else. 2. The business impact of learning is better understood as learning and work become firmly intertwined. 3. Learning breaks out of a vertical silo and instead has impact across the business. 4. To sustain remote learning, new technologies like VR will increase in popularity.

Digital HR, Future of WorkCaroline StyrOctober 28, 2020Lifelong Learning, Learning and Development, Learning, Continuous LearningComment

Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics

The Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics will highlight the things that need to be focused upon in people analytics to improve your impact. The model is built from years of experience by Jonathan Ferrar and David Green.

How to Run a Successful People Analytics Project

All People Analytics projects should aim to support the business make better decisions and ultimately drive real business value. The challenge, then, for many People Analytics teams is to keep up with the pace of the business and changing business priorities. Without truly getting to the heart of the business problem and prioritising the projects that will drive the most change, people analytics teams regularly set themselves up for failure by not providing measurable impact on the work that they’re carrying out.

People AnalyticsJonathan FerrarOctober 14, 2020People Analytics, Power of People, Purposeful AnalyticsComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of September 2020

Presenting quite possibly the strongest monthly collection of the best HR and People Analytics articles yet for September, which looks at some of the latest research on remote working, the development of talent marketplaces, the increased focus on the disclosure of human capital metrics, the shifting role of HR and plenty of examples of how companies are developing new capabilities in people analytics. Contributors this month inc: Dave Ulrich, Tanuj Kapilashrami, Michael Arena, Andrew Marritt, Stacia Sherman Garr, Lynda Gratton, Diane Gherson, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Amit Mohindra, Volker Jacobs, Richard Florida, Ethan Bernstein, Stefan Seiler and many more.

What are the Skills needed to Create a Culture of Lifelong Learning?

Innovation does not just change our behaviour, but also what we need to master to be relevant in the economy. Simply put, the faster we innovate, the faster jobs are redesigned to incorporate new technologies. The data on this issue suggests that there is a general trend towards more relationship-based and expertise-driven work. However, it also suggests that the type of expertise deployed is also changing more quickly. This results in a shrinking shelf life of technical skills. This is why concepts like ‘growth mindset’ and ‘agile mindset’ have caught the attention of business and HR leaders. In this blog Lewis Garrad outlines the critical core skills necessary to create a culture of lifelong learning within an organisation.

How does IBM use AI and Analytics to Measure Employee Skillsets?

Your people are the key to remaining competitive in an unpredictable marketplace. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Diane Gherson CHRO at IBM about the transformation that the HR function at IBM have undergone during Diane’s tenure and here, in this blog, we’re going to dive deeper into one area of their conversation: skills-centric career management and the talent marketplace approach at the tech giant.

Digital HR, People AnalyticsGuest UserSeptember 18, 2020Talent Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence, HR Skills of the FutureComment