Digital HR Leaders with David Green

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the changes to the Future of Work. Many of the trends we expected to develop over the next year have come to pass quicker than expected. CHROs, as a recent article in the economist highlights, are at the fulcrum of an organisation's response to the crisis just as the CFO was in the global financial crisis.Indeed, this crisis makes the main topic of this week's episode with Ravin Jesuthasan on the role of HR in the Future of Work even more important. Ravin is one of the lead authors of a fascinating recent study called HR 4.0, shaping people's strategies in the fourth industrial revolution, which is a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, Unilever, Saudi Aramco, and Willis Towers Watson, where Ravin is Managing Director.In our conversation, Ravin and I discuss: The six imperatives that comprise HR 4.0 which include building an agile learning culture, developing new leadership capabilities, and enhancing the employee experience Examples of organisations who are already experiencing benefits from an advanced approach to managing and developing people The key skills required by the Chief People Officer and how these are changing Why HR decision science or people analytics is the key underpin of the future HR functionThis episode is a must listen for CHROs and other HR leaders as well as those working in people analytics, workforce planning and employee experience roles.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Insight222. To learn more, visit https://www.insight222.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to a special episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast. It features a panel discussion, which took place at the PAFOW conference in San Francisco. One of the bitter sweet aspects of the COVID-19 crises is that People Analytics has become even more important. In a recent article in the Economist, which compared the role of the Chief People Officer in this crisis to the role of the CFO in the global financial crisis, one of the conclusions drawn is that the pandemic makes People Analytics even more relevant. As such, there is much interest about the future of People Analytics, where it's headed and why. This was the topic of the panel I moderated at PAFOW, which featured two of the most renowned and prominent leaders in our field, Dawn Klinghoffer and Amit Mohindra.In our conversation, Dawn, Amit and I discuss: Highlights of the work Dawn and her team have undertaken at Microsoft and Amit has delivered in People Analytics leadership roles at McKesson, Apple, and now Wayfair Where the future of People Analytics lies, the opportunities and the threats The role of People Analytics in helping their organisations identify the link between employee wellbeing and company financial performance The key challenges that need to be overcome for People Analytics to realise its tremendous potential Tips to practitioners on where they can focus as they seek to develop People Analytics within their companiesThis episode is a must listen for CHROs and those working in a workforce planning or people analytics role, and indeed anyone interested in the role people data plays in helping drive better outcomes for the business, managers and their workforces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unicorn startups are brilliant, but let's be honest, very few of us will become, found or work for one. Many people listening today will work for large companies struggling to keep themselves relevant for the ever changing customer. A handful of these companies are very good at reinvention.My guest on this week’s podcast is Peter Hinssen, and he calls these companies Phoenix companies. They are able to rethink themselves in cycles time and again, they rise from the ashes of the old and they come out stronger than ever before. How do they do this? What is the cultural leadership that drives this and what is the role of HR?Peter is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, keynote speaker and author of a fascinating new book, The Phoenix and The Unicorn. He is one of the most sought after thought leaders on radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business.In our conversation, Peter and I discuss: Why organisations need to become better at focusing on the day after tomorrow The role of HR in enabling and driving innovation in their organisation What HR can learn from marketing when it comes to delivering on the employee experience and understanding its customers, in this case, employees Whether AI and automation is a threat or an opportunity for HRThis episode is a must listen for anyone, frankly, but HR and business leaders looking to develop their organisations, looking to develop their culture, enhance their leadership models and also to understand the role that HR can play in driving innovation within an organisation.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Crunchr. To learn more, visit https://www.crunchrapps.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do business leaders want from HR? How is this changing as the fourth industrial revolution unfurls? How can business leaders and HR work together to create the right culture that drives business success as well as a highly engaged and motivated workforce? Who better to ask than a successful business leader themselves? Our guest on The Digital HR Leaders Podcast this week is Bruce Daisley, who for eight years led Twitter's business in the EMEA region.Bruce is also the host of the brilliant top business podcast Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat. His first book about improving work and work culture was a Sunday Times number one best seller. I know you will enjoy listening as Bruce is an engaging speaker with a unique and fascinating perspective on how to make work better.In our conversation Bruce and I discuss: Why making work better for everyone is so important The role of HR in helping to create the right culture to help make work better The key skills that HR needs to develop to have more impact with business leaders What business leaders really want from HR? How you can fall in love with your job again Whether AI and automation is a threat or an opportunity for HRThis episode is a must listen for HR and business leaders looking to develop a healthy culture within their organisations, improve the employee experience and create more impact from their workforce.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Crunchr. To learn more, visit https://www.crunchrapps.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The field of people analytics has made significant progress in the last five years and was recently recognised by LinkedIn in its global talent trend report as one of four key trends reshaping the way organisations recruit and retain its people. Whilst people analytics has travelled far it still has a long way to go. Challenges abound on topics like ethics, upskilling HR and scaling people analytics across the organisation.My guest on this week's show agrees, as founder and CEO of Crunchr, Dirk Jonker has been working in the people analytics field for more than a decade and has helped numerous clients to build, operationalise and scale people analytics in their companies.In our conversation Dirk and I will discuss: Why people analytics needs to behave more like a startup How to bring people analytics to scale Some of the key considerations for organisations that are looking to build their own technology to aggregate and visualise people data Why many organisation's approach to up-skilling HR is doomed to failure Whether AI and automation is a threat or an opportunity for HRThis episode is a must listen for anyone in a workforce or people analytics role, those involved in buying or developing HR technology in their organisations and any HR or business professional seeking to understand more about the people analytics field.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Crunchr. To learn more, visit https://www.crunchrapps.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The guest on this week's podcast is Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. Cole honed her skills in Google's fabled people analytics team and now helps people and organisations become better at storytelling with data, making sense of data, and weaving them into compelling stories that drive action.Many people I speak to in our field tell me that storytelling is the last mile problem in people analytics. If you don't tell the story in a compelling way that resonates with your audience, then it is highly likely that no action will be taken. That means all your hard work in collecting, cleaning, and analysing data will be a waste of time.In our conversation Cole and I discuss: Why good storytelling is so important when it comes to data visualisation Three tips to improve your storytelling with data skills How to adapt your story depending on the audience Whether AI and Automation is a threat or an opportunity for HRThis episode is a must listen for anyone in a workforce or people analytics role, HR business partners and indeed any HR or business professional who has to communicate data as part of their role.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Crunchr. To learn more, visit https://www.crunchrapps.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If the main purpose of people analytics is to improve business outcomes through improved decisions about people, who better to lead people analytics than someone who spent most of their career as a business leader? My guest on this week's podcast is just such a person. He is Piyush Mathur, the Global Head of Workforce Analytics, Data Strategy and Governance at Johnson & Johnson, where his team are helping to drive business outcomes at the same time as improving the employee experience of J&J's 140,000 employees.In our conversation Piyush and I discuss: How to set up people analytics and engage stakeholders in the business Why insight without outcome is simply overhead Examples of people analytics case studies at Johnson and Johnson, including one link to the business value of J&J's employee wellness program Whether AI and Automation is a threat or an opportunity for HRThis episode is a must listen for anyone in a workforce or people analytics role, HR and business professionals interested in how people data can drive business outcomes and CHROs looking to build or scale their people analytics capabilities.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Crunchr. To learn more, visit https://www.crunchrapps.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HR doesn't just need to do digital, it needs to be digital, it simply has to. Put another way, HR must become more digital and analytical to deliver greater business value. This episode is a break from our usual format. It features a panel discussion which took place at the recent People Analytics and Future of Work conference in San Francisco.The discussion was titled HR skills of the future and how to develop them. It features Heather Whiteman, who lectures on people analytics at UC Berkeley, having spent six years previously as Global Head of People Strategy, Analytics, Learning and Operations at GE Digital. RJ Milnor who is the Global Head of People Analytics at Uber and is a previous guest on the show, and Ian Bailie, Managing Director of myHRfuture who previously held various roles at Cisco around Workforce Planning, People Analytics and Talent Acquisition operations, and David Green is the moderator.The topics the panel and David talk about are: The skills business leaders and CHRO’s are increasingly needing from their HR professionals The evolution in learning and how it has been delivered to HR The ways to help HR professionals feel more comfortable and confident having data-driven conversations How HR professionals can strike a balance in developing both soft and hard skillsThis episode is a must listen for CHRO’s, Chief Learning Officers, Heads of Organisational Design, those working in a workforce planning or people analytics role, and indeed anyone interested in the skills HR professionals require now and in the future.A huge thank you goes out to Al Adamsen and the team at PAFOW for allowing us to create this podcast from the panel discussion. People Analytics and the Future of Work, which is affectionately known as PAFOW, is a conference taking place in four cities in 2020: San Francisco, Sydney, London on the 29th to 30th of April and New York on the 17th to 18th of November. I will be co-chairing the conference with Al. If you would like to come along, to find out more please head over to pafow.net. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace is compelling not just because it is the right thing to do, but because numerous studies suggest it can drive better business performance too. An increasing number of territories are also introducing legislation that requires companies to publish diversity statistics, but how do you shift from a mindset of compliance to using these types of analysis as a catalyst to drive behavioural change.Our guest on today's episode is Katy Gray, who looks after Reward at Arup and who has been at the forefront of gender pay gap reporting at the company. She is using these insights to help shift what was a data centric to a people centric exercise.In our conversation Katy and I discuss: The role of reward in a people focused organisation  The intricacies and challenges involved in gender pay gap reporting Examples of how the insights from gender pay gap reporting has helped drive behavioural change at Arup We also look into the crystal ball and ponder what the future of HR will be in 2025This episode is a must listen for anyone in an HR leadership or people analytics role as well as HR and business professionals interested in how people data can drive business outcomes and support initiatives around gender and equal pay, as well as the wider diversity and inclusion area.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Gapsquare, to learn more visit www.gapsquare.com/accelerate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The perennial challenge organisations face of matching the right people with the right roles is becoming even more complex in the age of AI, analytics and automation. In parallel an increasing number of companies are turning to a new generation of assessment tools, harnessing AI, gamification and data science. Not just for hiring but to support areas such as coaching and development as well. My guest on today's episode of the podcast is Uri Ort, who is the co-founder of behavioural insights company Deeper Signals and is an adjunct instructor at NYU.In our conversation Uri and I discuss: The key trends and evolutions in the assessment space We talk about personalisation, algorithms and ethics and how technology is making assessments more precise and less biased We look at how to measure the business impacts and outcomes of assessments We delve into some of the latest research findings on personality and talent signals As with all our guests, we look into the crystal ball and ponder what the role of HR will be in 2025This episode is a must listen for anyone interested in how assessments can support talent identification and development as well as HR and business professionals who are interested in how technology is being used to improve hiring and reduce bias.Support for this podcast is brought to you by Gapsquare, to learn more visit www.gapsquare.com/accelerate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.