How do you Build an Effective Workforce Planning Capability?

Strategic workforce planning presents a huge opportunity for HR as a function to deliver real value and insight to the business – by providing them with a holistic view of their workforce including the skills present within the organisation and an understanding of how the talent strategy aligns to the business strategy. When done well, strategic workforce planning has the power to drive greater innovation, talent generation and process improvement within an organisation, allowing more informed, data-driven talent decisions to be made, that are aligned to strategic priorities and underpinned by advanced and predictive analytics.

Workforce PlanningManpreet RandhawaDecember 7, 2020People Analytics, Strategic Workforce PlanningComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of November 2020

In November’s collection of the best resources in People Analytics and HR, David Green includes research published at Insight222 into how people analytics can deliver value at scale by taking an outside-in approach focused on business challenges. This is complemented by articles from practitioners like Robert Kruzel (Uber), Dawn Klinghoffer (Microsoft), Ben Teusch (Facebook), Adam McKinnon (QBE), Isabel Naidoo (FIS), Katarina Berg and Gary Munro (both Spotify).

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 July 2020

David Green presents a ‘bumper’ addition of the best People Analytics & HR articles for July, with over 30 articles, podcasts and videos. As with June’s collection, the crises of 2020 continues to produce a slew of high-quality writing with a data driven theme. This months collection of articles focus on topics such as how HR drives value, the role of People Analytics in M&A and leadership and culture and features the likes of Michael Arena, Serena Huang, Dave Ulrich and Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic to name a few.

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of June 2020

David Green’s selection of articles of the month for June is unsurprisingly dominated by Covid-19 and #BlackLivesMatter, but also features some fascinating pieces on D&I, the future of the workplace, ethics, how people analytics drives business value, employee segmentation, the curse of analytics maturity models, machine learning in HR and HR Tech.

Using Organisational Design to Navigate the Impact of Covid-19

Organisational Design has a significant role to play in effective cost reduction strategies in response to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis. In this blog, Julian Holmes and Kostas Nikolaras review Organisation Design in more detail and discuss three approaches to Organisation Design that can help companies manage costs as they navigate the impact of Covid-19

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of April 2020

Presenting David Green’s selection of articles of the month for April - not surprisingly dominated by Covid-19, but also featuring some ingenious pieces about ONA, Text Analytics, Data Driven Culture, Continuous Listening and Trust. Contributors this month include: Dave Ulrich Adam Grant Al Adamsen Sally Smith Thomas Hedegaard Rasmussen Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Heather E. McGowan Alicia Roach Ravin Jesuthasan to name a few.

Resources for HR and People Analytics - COVID19

David Green has curated a collection of resources designed to help HR leaders and People Analytics teams navigate their way through the Covid-19 pandemic. More resources will be added as the crisis unfurls.

Workforce PlanningDavid GreenApril 15, 2020Collaboration, Leadership, Learning and DevelopmentComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of March 2020

With the month of March being largely dominated by Covid-19, David’s collection of the best articles for this month feature a number of prodigiously good pieces on the pandemic and the role of HR and People Analytics. He has also provided some respite from the crisis, with majority of articles not directly focusing on the pandemic. This months selection of articles includes contributions from several people analytics leaders including: Patrick Coolen, Thomas Hedegaard Rasmussen, Serena H. Huang, Ph.D. Piyush Mathur, Richard Rosenow and Andrew Marritt. Enjoy!

How can Workforce Planning help in times of Uncertainty?

As we are all facing this unprecedented crisis – changing weekly, daily, hourly or more – it is undoubtedly incredibly challenging both personally and professionally. What can we do to increase our ability to emerge effectively? What is it even going to look like when we do emerge? How do you integrate all of the different impacts across your entire workforce in the most holistic way, now and into the future? How do we balance our organisations survival and social responsibility to our people? In this article Alicia Roach examines the impact scenario planning can have on organisations in times of uncertainty.

Workforce PlanningAlicia RoachApril 2, 2020Strategic Workforce Planning, Scenario PlanningComment

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