HR has a significant role to play in guiding the organisation through digital transformation. The function is under pressure from all corners of the organisation to deliver a people strategy fit for the digital age. Over 60% of HR leaders report pressure from the CEO to ensure employees have the skills they need in the future. In order to meet this challenge and support the organisation in the digital age, HR professionals must develop new, up-to-date skills. In this blog we explore the top skills HR professionals have been developing to become more data driven and business focused, as well training courses you can take to help you get setup for success in 2022.
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To 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.
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In 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.
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Innovation 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.
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The top trend in the Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report for 2019 was the need for organisations to change the way people learn. The report highlighted three broad trends in how learning is evolving; it is becoming more integrated with work, it is becoming more personal, and it is shifting slowly towards lifelong models. Our very own Ian Bailie, Managing Director of myHRfuture recently spoke to John Sumser at the HRExaminer about the changing nature of learning and the role that myHRfuture as a learning experience platform, is playing in the continuous learning space. In this blog we’ve summarised some of the key themes present in this discussion.
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David Green has curated a collection of resources designed to help HR leaders and People Analytics teams navigate their way through the Covid-19 pandemic. More resources will be added as the crisis unfurls.
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Hanadi El Sayyed discusses the impact job crafting can have on self fulfilment, job satisfaction and whether employees feel they’re carrying out meaningful work. For organisations keen on creating workplace environments where employees thrive and perform at their best, job crafting is a powerful tool for employee engagement and wellness if implemented and managed effectively.
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In this video clip and transcript from this week’s Digital HR Leaders podcast, Catalina Schveninger from Vodafone and I discuss the new world of learning and how Vodafone is innovating in the area of Learning and Development. Catalina gives some great examples of how Vodafone is understanding the skills that its employees needs to learn and personalising the learning experience for them. If you’re interested in learning more about new learning models and how a company like Vodafone is leading the way in this space, then I urge you I urge you to watch this video/read this blog with Catalina.
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