How Setting Goals impacts your Learning Journey

Goals are an important and effective way to spark motivation. They serve to energise the goal setter into action, either through intrinsic motivation (e.g., the feeling of satisfaction you get when you achieve a goal and subsequent increased confidence or self-esteem) or through extrinsic motivation (e.g., an end of year bonus is dependent on achieving your goals). Goal setting therefore leads to increased performance and outcomes as effort increases in line with enhanced motivation. Many of the goals being set by our community of learners at the myHRfuture Academy focus on upskilling to become an experience led, business focused and data driven HR professionals. We’ve been looking at the most popular HR skills and HR resources from 2021 and shifting 2022 HR predictions into practice over on the myHRfuture blog to help shape these goals.

Future of Work, People AnalyticsCaroline StyrJanuary 17, 2022Learning and Development, Lifelong Learning, LearningComment

Why Content Curation is a must-have Skill for Lifelong Learners in HR

It has been reported that the average employee spends about nine and a half hours a week searching for information. We can all agree that time is precious, in fact ‘not having enough time’ is often cited as the number one reason why employees are struggling to engage with learning activities. This challenge only increases as, with each passing day, more and more content becomes available. In this blog we explore who is responsible for finding useful learning resources – employees or employers, which resources employees spend the most time learning from and why is curated content valuable.

Caroline StyrJanuary 10, 2022Comment

Six Ways to put HR Trends and Predictions in 2022 into Practice

The myriad of 2022 predictions are supremely useful for giving HR leaders a sense check, to ensure that their investments are targeting the most important elements for their function to thrive in the digital age. Similarly, HR professionals can use predictions to target their learning and development goals for the coming year, enabling them to keep a pulse on “what’s hot” in the field. In this blog, we take a look at a handful of HR’s 2022 prediction blogs and convert these insights into action, by guiding HR leaders to insights and models that can help inform their strategy in 2022, and HR professionals to resources to upskill in these areas.

What are the Top Skills that HR Professionals have Learnt in 2021

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.

The Most Popular HR & People Analytics Resources of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of the most popular HR and People Analytics resources that the myHRfuture readers and the Digital HR Leaders podcast listeners have engaged with this year. There have certainly been some trending topics: Focusing on employee mental health, wellbeing and psychological safety, Preparing the organisation for the future of work with skills-based workforce planning, Upskilling HR professionals with the capabilities they need for the digital age and developing a data driven culture for HR to embed evidence-based decision making across the organisation. Read on to explore each topic in more detail and use the further reading lists at the end of each section to dive even deeper into these themes.

What Can We learn from Leading Companies in People Analytics?

Leading Companies are those companies or organisations that have demonstrated that they have a people analytics function that is considered a leader in the field. In these companies, analytics has enabled Human Resources to unlock value for employees and the business. We have segmented the findings of our Insight222 People Analytics Trends 2021 research by Leading Companies who are paving the way for the field of people analytics. In this blog, we share more about what makes those companies great, and what every people analytics team can learn from their work.

Using Precision Insights to Improve the Productivity of Knowledge Workers Part 3

In the part one and two of this three part blog series Ashish Parulekar, Head of People Analytics at Capital One, explored the role of the cartesian method and systems thinking in taking a structured approach to solving the complex and ambiguous problem of improving the productivity of knowledge workers. Having used the cartesian method to break down the underlying components and then used systems thinking to understand the order in which these components should be optimised. In this third and final article he focuses on the role of precision insights in figuring out which actions have the highest leverage.

People AnalyticsAshish ParulekarDecember 9, 2021Advanced Analytics, productivityComment

The Role of Psychological Safety in Creating High Performing Teams

To create highly effective teams, organisations have to enable two things: One is psychological safety and the second is High performance standards. Many studies have shown that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, creativity, innovation and a level of openness that allows you share how you feel — it’s these types of behaviours that lead to market breakthroughs. In this Expert Interview David Green speaks to Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr to hear more about how his company is helping organisations driver greater business value by creating high performing teams.

Employee ExperienceDavid Green & Tom MarsdenDecember 7, 2021Psychological SafetyComment

How are Leading Companies Investing in the People Analytics Operating Model?

Investment in people analytics has accelerated in 2021, as the function continues to deliver value to the business and support the C-Suite. 61% of companies grew their people analytics teams between June 2020 - 2021 and a further quarter stayed the same size. When we look at the next 12 months to June 2022, 75% of people analytics leaders predict they will receive even more investment for their teams. Increasing investment in people analytics teams often leaves leaders pondering “where should I invest?” or “which role or skills should I hire for next?”. Sharing insights from the People Analytics Trends 2021 Report we explore some of these questions.

Future of Work, People AnalyticsCaroline StyrDecember 3, 2021People Analytics, Leading CompaniesComment

Using Systems Thinking to Improve the Productivity of Knowledge Workers Part 2

In his last blog, Ashish Parulekar, Head of People Analytics at Capital One, discussed how the cartesian method can be applied to take a structured approach to solving the complex and ambiguous problem of improving the productivity of knowledge workers. He also discussed the challenge of getting overwhelmed as we go deeper in the cartesian tree in search of precise and actionable insights. In part two of this three part series, he discusses how Systems Thinking can be used to help determine where to start and where to end, in the quest to solve the challenge of improving the productivity of knowledge workers.

People Analytics, Future of WorkAshish ParulekarDecember 2, 2021People AnalyticsComment

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