Peter Fader and Jessica Zwaan joined The Modern People Leader to explore how customer-based audit principles can be applied to employees.

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(07:53) Marketing Concepts Crossing into HR

(11:18) Employee Lifetime Value and the Marketing–HR Crossover

(13:01) Customer-Based Audit Explained in Plain Language

(16:23) What Actually Goes Into a Customer-Based Audit

(18:07) Cross-Sectional vs. Cohort Analysis: How Customers (and Employees) Change

(21:21) Bad Revenue, Bad Customers, and Growth Tradeoffs

(23:04) The Limits of Surveys and Why Context Matters

(26:54) Cohort Analysis and Why Averages Mislead Decision-Making

(30:39) Data Challenges in HR and What You Need to Start an Employee Audit

(34:20) Translating Customer Metrics to Employee Performance

(37:42) Incentive-Compatible Peer Feedback and Performance Signal

(40:06) What an Employee-Based Audit Actually Produces

(44:25) Turning Audit Insights into Actionable HR Decisions

(47:39) What an Employee-Based Audit Book Would Cover

(49:19) The Future of Work if Employee Audits Become Standard

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