Employees play a significant role in driving businesses forward. And why? Because it is your employees that are delivering customer support, producing products, overseeing operations, and coming up with innovative ways of doing business. So, when considering new means of enhancing trade and employee engagement, looking at employees' skills and talent development makes sense.
Read MoreIn today’s tight labour market, companies strive to stay competitive by improving their recruitment strategies, enhancing employee engagement, or expanding their diversity and inclusion. As difficult as these challenges are, some companies have found an edge over their competitors by including behavioural science insights when developing best Human Resources practices. It has been discovered that businesses see higher results from their efforts by understanding how behavioural science can assist in the company’s approach to everything from organisational culture to the employee experience.
Read MoreBusinesses large and small can utilise people analytics to immensely drive their business forward while remaining competitive in the tight labour market everyone is experiencing today. The key here is understanding the real value of people analytics delivered by watching the current and new trends, developing an operating model for people analytics, and taking action. In this blog we explore the business value that you drive within your organisation leveraging people analytics and exploring some of the key trends we’ve identified through the People Analytics Trends 2021.
Read MoreData is one of the biggest assets available to a HR function - not only does it allow us improve the decisions we make but it also enables us to improve the employee experience, optimise processes and generally drive greater business value. While many CHRO’s believe data is integral to their HR strategy only 42% of HR Business Partners believe that they are capable of having data driven conversations. If HR wants to continue driving greater business value we must embrace and build a data driven culture across all of HR. In this blog we explore how we can support HR professionals build the confidence they need to effectively use HR data to communicate with the business, enabling them to not only frame the right business questions but also build hypotheses that can be used in their people analytics projects.
Read MorePsychological safety is becoming widely known as a large benefit to companies. But the question comes as to whether your company has psychological safety - If it does, what level of psychological safety exists within the organisation and how effectively is it working for the company? To discover the answers to those questions, it is important to understand the means of measuring psychological safety This way, if you were looking to continue building or improving the level of psychological safety within your company you’ll know where to invest your time and effort. In this blog we explore how organisations can begin measuring psychological safety within their organisation and the steps they can take to build more psychologically safe environments that drive greater innovation and productivity.
Read MorePeople Analytics needs a solid foundation. This is routed in having strong governance with clear purpose, standards, privacy, ethics and security. Governance is the underpinning element of all analytics. It ensures the right people provide direction for work, that the structure and stewardship for managing data are appropriate and applicable to your organisation and that you are managing the risks associated with people analytics in a clear and proper manner.
Read MoreWhile diversity and inclusion initiatives have made great strides in terms of gender, race, sexuality, creed, nationality, and more, there is one population that is still conspicuously absent from most D&I strategies: neurodivergent workers. And yet, 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent. Which means you are likely managing and/or working with neurodivergent colleagues, whether you realise it or not. Despite the prevalence of neurodiversity, most companies don’t include it in their broader D&I agendas. In this blog Sonia Allinson-Penny shares ideas to help you build a workforce strategy that accommodates neurodiversity.
Read MoreOrganisational culture is more important than ever. Continuous digitisation, scarcity in talent and skills are a fact that organisations are increasingly dealing with, so for a People Analytics team and/or other relevant practitioners’ organisational culture should be addressed as a matter of importance. Organisations often are well equipped to report on ‘hard’ organisational outcomes such as safety or risk indicators. However, gaining a grasp on ‘soft’ culture indicators and their relationship to these outcomes is more difficult. In this article five steps are shared to enable people analytics teams, organisational researchers and other relevant practitioners to start with quantifying this big concept and provide organisations with tools for working on organisational culture.
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 MoreData democratisation is the process of making data and insights accessible to a much wider group of people across an organisation who will benefit from its usage. A question that is top of mind for many people analytics leaders is, “what is the first solution at scale I should deliver to democratise data?”. This article will explore eight steps that are important for success when democratising people data with analytics dashboards.
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