A data-driven culture is essential for the people analytics function to deliver value at scale for their organisation. Only through a partnership with data-literate HR colleagues can the people analytics team ensure it is working on the most important business challenges and scale solutions across the enterprise.
Read MoreA data-driven culture is essential for the people analytics function to deliver value at scale for their organisation. Only through a partnership with data-literate HR colleagues can the people analytics team ensure it is working on the most important business challenges and scale solutions across the enterprise.
Read MoreUnderstanding the principles of data storytelling is key to ensuring that any analysis or insights you generate are communicated effectively to your audience or stakeholders, so that they understand your recommendations and take action. In this article Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic outlines three important tips to really help you create compelling stories that drive actionable outcomes.
Read MoreYou can understand what the key business challenges in the organisation are. You can prioritise your work effectively, ensuring you’re working on the most pressing business challenge. You can do great analysis and generate fantastic insights. You can even come up with some great recommendations for action to be taken that will deliver business value… but if you can’t communicate the insights and recommendations effectively to your audience, all of this great work will be wasted, and you won’t get the action that you need. In this blog we explore why data storytelling is an important skill for all HR business partners to master.
Read MoreResearch suggests that curiosity is linked to better job performance, communication and creativity just to name a few, however despite it’s clear positive impacts, it is often discouraged in organisations for fear of slowing down decision-making processes, people becoming harder to manage and disrupting the status quo. In this article, we’re going to beat the drum once again for more curiosity! And amongst people analytics professionals in particular, by looking at three aspects of curiosity that will ensure your people analytics projects deliver clear business value.
Read MoreHR needs to tell better data-driven stories because the human brain is wired for stories. The concept of storytelling with data is about finding the tension, guiding the audience through that rising tension, through the narrative arc, and then ultimately to resolution. If there is no compelling story behind the data that the audience will resonate with, the chances of them taking action as a result of your presentation are minimal. HR has not previously been a function driven by data, however, with the rise of people analytics, HR is becoming increasingly data-focused. If we are going to make that data work for us, we have to become better at telling data-driven stories.
Read MoreThere are a number of myths and misconceptions associated with using statistics in HR that often prevent us from harnessing the value that they possess, such as “advanced statistics are better than basic statistics” or that “a negative correlation is bad”. Well we’re here to bust those myths and misconceptions and show you that actually using statistics in HR and your People Analytics projects can be quite powerful. In this blog Heather Whiteman, a lecturer at UC Berkeley shares seven tips to help you build more confidence when using statistics and harnessing the power they possess, to produce excellent analysis and effectively communicate using your HR data.
Read MorePresenting 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.
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