Digital HR Leaders with David Green

Ernest Ng, Vice President of Global Employee Success Strategy and People Analytics at Salesforce, discusses how people analytics drive employee success. He highlights the importance of a data-driven culture in HR and shares insights on Salesforce's innovative success-from-anywhere strategy. Ernest emphasizes the need for stakeholder engagement in analytics and reveals how skills inference enhances internal mobility and career development. The conversation also explores the evolution of people analytics in addressing modern workforce challenges.

This week’s podcast guest is Dr. Jaclyn Lee, Chief Human Resources Officer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, who is talking about the role of data and analytics in the culture transformation program at the university. While technology plays a big part in culture transformation at the university, Jaclyn remained ever cognisant of the people at the heart of the transformation and ensuring that their diverse values were understood and respected. Throughout this episode Jaclyn and I discuss:How to attract a diverse pool of international talent to a brand new universityBridging the practitioner, academia divide to develop a tool to measure culture transformationEstablishing a data-driven workforce planning process at the university and overcoming initial resistance by establishing a task forceUp-skilling HR professionals to become more digitally literate and analytically capableSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Huler, you can learn more by visiting huler.io. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is April Rinne, Change Expert and Author of her fantastic new book, Flux: Eight Superpowers For Thriving in Constant Change. April is on a mission to get us to think differently about our relationship to change. It is not something we can necessarily control, but it is something we need to be very comfortable with.Throughout this episode, April and I discuss:The eight superpowers to help individuals and organisations successfully navigate change, as well as April's number one piece of advice to organisations going through changeThe power of portfolio careers for workforce planning, for the individual to have a meaningful, satisfying work life and on a societal level, to provide unparalleled access to opportunitiesThe shifting relationship between employee and employer and how the concept of a job is swiftly becoming extinctSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Degreed, to learn more visit degreed.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is Tina Kao Mylon, Chief Talent and Diversity Officer at Schneider Electric. In this episode, Tina talks about how Schneider Electric uses their talent marketplace platform to not only match individuals to career opportunities, but also to mentors, striking the right balance between being technology enabled and human centric.Throughout this episode Tina and I also discuss:Schneider Electric’s pragmatic and applied high tech, high touch, approach to culture and leadership transformationHow Schneider Electric is using employee voice to help build a flexible and hybrid work approach that is inclusive of everyoneHow data and analytics ensures the success of Schneider Electric’s unique multi-hub modelThe ways in which Schneider Electric’s talent marketplace model, disrupts manager’s understanding of work and careers and democratises opportunities for the workforce Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is Janice Burns, Chief People Officer at Degreed, who is passionate about the importance of learning and that the impact of learning isn't limited to remaining within the four walls of an organisation. Throughout this episode, Janice and I discuss:Janice’s key strategic roles moving into the Chief People Officer roleThe concept of guided freedom and why learning leaders should think differently about facilitating learningThe role of coaching and mentoring in professional developmentSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Degreed, to learn more visit degreed.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is Joan C. Williams, distinguished Law Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and Director for the Centre of WorkLife Law, and author of a brilliant new book, Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good. Joan is dedicated to propagating an approach to Diversity and Inclusion that delivers real impact for the business and ensures real change is made.Throughout this episode, Joan and I discuss:How to connect D&I initiatives to business metrics that matter, with case studies from companies around the worldThe five patterns of bias that repeatedly emerge across organisations and industriesThe concept of bias interrupters, what they are and how to use them in everyday scenarios, to reduce the impact of biasThe ethical and legal challenges of measuring diversity data and why these challenges are not a good enough excuse for not doing the workSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Degreed, to learn more visit degreed.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is Peter Manniche Riber, Head of Digital Learning and Analytics at Novo Nordisk, speaking about how the shift to remote work and digital ways of working has, in many ways, democratised learning and made it more inclusive. Great learning experiences should deliver value to the individual by opening up new opportunities as well as creating value for the organisation.  
Throughout the episode Peter and I discuss:What a great learning experience looks like and how it delivers value to the businessHow to measure the business impact of learning, using business indicators and data that already exists in the organisationHow to focus on the ethics of analysing learning data, to deliver value, not only to the business, but to the individual employee as wellWhat we mean by data driven learning design and why it is so importantSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Degreed, to learn more visit degreed.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s podcast guest is Maarten van Beek, HR Director for Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg at ING, who I spoke to about the shift from a learn, work, retire approach to careers, to a model of lifelong learning.To encourage lifelong learning and talent fluidity across the organisation, taking an employee centric approach is vital. In Maarten’s opinion. HR should focus more on the employee journey, the employee experience and less on the responsibilities and confines of rigid traditional L&D roles.Throughout the episode Maarten and I discuss:How organisations can promote a lifelong learning approach to work by encouraging and supporting employees to reinvent their skill sets every three to five yearsThe power of using skills data to fuel talent fluidityThe business value and societal value of measuring skills proficiency without depending on traditional qualifications and educational experienceSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Techwolf. To learn more, visit techwolf.ai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the podcast, Ralf Buechsenschuss, Global Head of Org Design, Analytics and Digitalisation at Zurich Insurance Company, speaks about the future of work, which we both agree is most definitely already here, and how it necessitates a skills-based approach to workforce planning. 
The unpredictability and pace of change facing organisations today is, without a doubt a major challenge, a challenge only exacerbated since the start of the pandemic. It is a skills-based approach to workforce planning that has the potential to position the HR function as a strategic partner to the business, by addressing business priorities as they arise.  
Throughout this episode, Ralf and I discuss:Why it is high time to stop viewing workforce planning as a cyclical process, and instead view the starting points of any workforce planning activity as the business strategy and in particular specific business challenges, as they ariseRalph's ingenious use of organisational network analysis and workforce planning to understand the flow of expertise throughout the organisationHow workforce planning and org design can be viewed as two sides of the same coin, and how bringing both under the same umbrella can help HR deliver more value to the businessSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Techwolf. To learn more, visit techwolf.ai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs 2020 report, predicts that by 2025, 50% of all employees will need to be re-skilled as 97 million new jobs emerge and 85 million jobs will be displaced by a shift in labour between humans and machines. In this episode of the podcast, Mikael Wornoo, Founder and COO at TechWolf, speaks about how AI and natural language processing is helping to solve a perennial challenge for organisations, namely the process of gathering skills data automatically, continuously, and objectively to understand the skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in-between. Throughout this episode, Mikael and I discuss these topics and others, including:The biggest challenges facing organisations in gathering and utilising skills dataHow TechWolf helps customers build a single skills taxonomy in just eight weeks and how this can be used to power technologies that drive employee learning and mobilityHow companies are using skills data to solve a myriad of challenges and help the business effectively see around cornersSupport for this podcast is brought to you by Techwolf. To learn more, visit techwolf.ai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.