Digital HR Leaders with David Green

Alicia Roach is a global thought leader in Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics, and Founder and CEO of eQ8. Her passion lies in helping organisations execute their purpose by understanding their current and future workforce capability, and in this episode, she is going to be sharing how organisations can take their Strategic Workforce Planning to the next level.   In this podcast, Alicia reveals the best practices and common pitfalls HR can avoid, to setting up Strategic Workforce Planning for success. The conversation also covers the common misconceptions of Strategic Workforce Planning, the importance of focusing on your organisation's unique challenges, and the role of technology to help upgrade your analysis.   Support from this podcast comes from eQ8. You can learn more by visiting:  https://www.eq8.ai/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin Wheeler is a globally known futurist in the world of HR. He is also Founder of Future Talent Institute, helping organisations create leading edge talent acquisition, employee development, and HR management strategies. With a focus on the future of recruitment, in this episode, Kevin will be sharing his ideas on a new model for talent acquisition.  The conversation will also cover: Kevin’s views into why using RPO’s can be key to gaining access to wider talent intelligence, the role of technology and marketing in talent attraction, how technology can help prevent human bias during the candidate selection stage, and going beyond traditional reporting metrics and pivoting towards predictive recruitment analytics.  Support from this podcast comes from eQ8. You can learn more by visiting: https://www.eq8.ai/      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jennifer Moss is an award-winning author, public speaker and expert in workplace well-being. Having recently published a book called ‘The Burnout Epidemic’, Jennifer and I will explore her top tips into recognising and tackling burnout to improve wellbeing at the employee, team and organisation level.  Our conversation will cover interesting data insights the pandemic has triggered on employee burnout. We will also discuss strategies that people leaders can take to keep employees happy and healthy such as: building burnout proof reward and recognition strategies, as well as implementing hiring initiatives that create a culture of burnout prevention. Support from this podcast comes from eQ8. You can learn more by visiting:  https://www.eq8.ai/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Ampie Swanepoel and Werner Merbold from Standard Bank Group as they delve into the transformative power of workforce insights. With their expertise in data-driven strategies, they discuss moving beyond traditional reporting to embrace predictive analytics. Learn how empowering people leaders with actionable data enhances decision-making and employee experience. They share secrets on balancing data access with privacy regulations and reveal how analytics can tackle important issues like vaccination compliance—all while driving workforce efficiency.

Shlomit Gruman-Navot is Chief People Officer at OLX Group, one of the largest and fastest-growing global trading platforms. With over 20 years of building organisational strength for global organisations, in this podcast, Shlomit will be providing her invaluable insight into successfully leading hybrid teams during challenging and unprecedented times.  Redefining the term VUCA as Vision, Understanding, Clarity and Agility, Shlomit shares why this is key for people leaders to successfully tackle what she currently coins a ‘human-centric crisis’. The conversation also covers: how to maintain focus on long-term business goals when ‘Black Swan’ events such as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine can radically shift priorities overnight; using data as a driver for meaningful conversations and decision making, and much more.  Support from this podcast comes from Visier. You can learn more by visiting: https://www.visier.com/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian Cook is VP of People Analytics Solutions at Visier. He’s a man with a real passion for the people side of business and the subtle arts of bringing the right people together for optimum results. He’s spent the last 15 years evangelising about how data can turn that art into science. In this episode, Ian has insights, and plenty of case studies, on how best to approach data and real-life humans in separate but complementary ways.   The conversation also covers the dramatic rise in people analytics over the past few years and what it now means to be in a phase of mass adoption, the shift in what business leaders expect from HR when it comes to people analytics, how to get employees onboard with your data-driven ambitions, how to help partners become more data literate, the concept of “turmoil contagion” and much more.  Support from this podcast comes from Visier. You can learn more by visiting https://www.visier.com/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a lively discussion, Jordan Pettman, Head of Organisation Analytics and Insight at LSEG, and Tertia Wiedenhof, Head of People Analytics at Rabobank, share insights on the evolving landscape of people analytics. They explore the pandemic's impact on HR, the shifting role of Chief People Officers, and the importance of data-driven decision-making. They also discuss adapting to hybrid work and individual employee preferences, emphasizing the need for collaboration in HR and analytics to enhance employee well-being and productivity.

Whitney Johnson is CEO at Disruption Advisors and author of “Smart Growth – How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company”. It’s full of advice about how individuals and organisations can realise their potential by charting where they are on Whitney’s reimagined version of the “S curve” model.  Whitney has insights that speak to all of us, regardless of where we are on our professional journey. She’s got examples from companies – big and small – who have helped retain key talent by keeping them learning, developing and remaining firmly engaged.  Whitney’s also got advice for recruiters on when – and how – they can identify people at the right stage of their career path, thoughts on juggling multiple S-curves at the same time, and tips on how to navigate professional development as we continue to build a new world of work, post-pandemic.   Support from this podcast comes from Visier. You can learn more by visiting https://www.visier.com/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the show today, I am talking to RJ Milnor, Head of People Analytics at Uber, about the work he and his team have been doing around employee listening, hybrid working and productivity. Throughout our conversation, RJ, talks about the journey that Uber embarked on to use people analytics to better understand employee sentiment, during the pandemic, and how that work has shaped Uber's approach to hybrid working and employees returning to the office. 
In this episode, we discuss:How Uber conducts employee listening and how it's approach to surveys and continuous listening has changed throughout the pandemicSome of the insights that RJ’s team has gathered on employee productivity, focus time, and collaboration, while everyone has been based at home 
How Uber has shared data and insights with the rest of the organisation, to help the business and employees make better decisions. How people analytics greatly influenced Uber’s return to office strategy and how both the CHRO and CEO, use the insights in their communications to the rest of the companyRJ’s thoughts on how HR can add business value, as we start to come out of the pandemicSupport for this podcast comes from orgvue. You can learn more by visiting https://www.orgvue.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the show today, I am talking to Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management and the Professor of Education and Director for The Centre for HR, at The Wharton School. Throughout the conversation Peter shares his extensive knowledge and research on the world of work, HR, and leadership and we cover a number of different topics that Peter, has unique insights on.These include:The impact of hybrid working on employees and employers and the effect this could have on people in their careers, now that we are coming out of the pandemicHow employers are approaching bringing employees back to the office and what that means for employee productivity and engagementThe rise in employee activism and how organisations should respond to this and why, in Peter’s view, companies just aren't getting better at workforce planningPeter’s thoughts on how HR can add business value, as we start to come out of the pandemicSupport for this podcast comes from orgvue. You can learn more by visiting https://www.orgvue.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.