2020 has been one for the history books. As we near the end of the year we thought we’d share some of the most popular HR and People Analytics resources being leveraged to support HR professions build their data-driven skills. We’ve curated the most popular blogs, people analytics certifications and Digital HR Leaders podcast episodes of 2020 to help you kick 2021 off with a bang and press PLAY on your Career®.
Read MoreIn November’s collection of the best resources in People Analytics and HR, David Green includes research published at Insight222 into how people analytics can deliver value at scale by taking an outside-in approach focused on business challenges. This is complemented by articles from practitioners like Robert Kruzel (Uber), Dawn Klinghoffer (Microsoft), Ben Teusch (Facebook), Adam McKinnon (QBE), Isabel Naidoo (FIS), Katarina Berg and Gary Munro (both Spotify).
Read MoreA common problem among companies of all sizes is that most organisations are unaware of the skills residing within their employee population. The notion of employee skill data has garnered considerable interest of late, with interested parties ranging all the way from tech-savvy vendors looking to apply rapidly advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Chief Learning Officers (CLO’s) looking to provide a tailored learning offerings to employees. In this article Adam McKinnon & Mikaël explore the two fundamental considerations when it comes to skills management. First, how do you acquire your employees’ relevant skill data? Second, what practical value can you then generate from this wealth of information?.
Read MoreTo achieve this new, more human, understanding of the workforce requires excellence in people analytics and employee experience – two key areas that will help organisations understand people more deeply, and at scale, and translate that understanding into better, more personalised experiences for the employee. In their latest report, ‘Accelerating the Journey to HR 3.0,’ IBM describe this new era of people management as ‘HR 3.0’. According to their research, only 10% of HR executives are operating in HR 3.0 today. We spoke with Amy Wright, co-author of the paper, to understand more about how to upskill HR for the future of work.
Read MoreIn the latest series of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, we spoke with five leading thinkers in the Learning and Development (L&D) space. From academics and thought leaders to practitioners and vendors, four recurring themes emerged about the future of learning over the next 10 years: 1. Learning will be central to redefining the nature of work, ensuring talent agility above all else. 2. The business impact of learning is better understood as learning and work become firmly intertwined. 3. Learning breaks out of a vertical silo and instead has impact across the business. 4. To sustain remote learning, new technologies like VR will increase in popularity.
Read MorePresenting quite possibly the strongest monthly collection of the best HR and People Analytics articles yet for September, which looks at some of the latest research on remote working, the development of talent marketplaces, the increased focus on the disclosure of human capital metrics, the shifting role of HR and plenty of examples of how companies are developing new capabilities in people analytics. Contributors this month inc: Dave Ulrich, Tanuj Kapilashrami, Michael Arena, Andrew Marritt, Stacia Sherman Garr, Lynda Gratton, Diane Gherson, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Amit Mohindra, Volker Jacobs, Richard Florida, Ethan Bernstein, Stefan Seiler and many more.
Read MoreInnovation does not just change our behaviour, but also what we need to master to be relevant in the economy. Simply put, the faster we innovate, the faster jobs are redesigned to incorporate new technologies. The data on this issue suggests that there is a general trend towards more relationship-based and expertise-driven work. However, it also suggests that the type of expertise deployed is also changing more quickly. This results in a shrinking shelf life of technical skills. This is why concepts like ‘growth mindset’ and ‘agile mindset’ have caught the attention of business and HR leaders. In this blog Lewis Garrad outlines the critical core skills necessary to create a culture of lifelong learning within an organisation.
Read MorePresenting David Green’s selection of the best HR and People Analytics article of August, which shines a light on how HR has stepped up during the crisis. There are over 20 resources covering the impact of remote working, productivity, learning, people analytics in responsive organisations, employee segmentation, network analysis on open data and much, much more. It’s a must read!
Read MoreDavid Green presents a ‘bumper’ addition of the best People Analytics & HR articles for July, with over 30 articles, podcasts and videos. As with June’s collection, the crises of 2020 continues to produce a slew of high-quality writing with a data driven theme. This months collection of articles focus on topics such as how HR drives value, the role of People Analytics in M&A and leadership and culture and features the likes of Michael Arena, Serena Huang, Dave Ulrich and Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic to name a few.
Read MoreOrganisational Network Analysis (ONA) has received considerable attention in recent years within People Analytics circles globally, ONA traditionally denotes the analysis of social interactions internally to inform organisational decision making. However there have been some exceptional examples of the insights that can be derived when ONA is applied to open source (publicly available data). There is great value in moving from a purely internal network view (a potential limitation of Organisational Network Analysis) to a view that includes external network analysis and when applied to a variety of datasets network analysis can generate unique people analytics insights for organisations. In this article Adam McKinnon and André Vermeij focus on how HR can inform decision making by applying network analysis to open data, sharing practical use cases and examples.
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