The leaders of LinkedIn’s People Analytics team, Lorenzo Canlas and Will Gaker, walk through what people analytics is, how it’s growing & evolving, and how you can build your own people analytics function today. Check out their keynote presentation from the Wharton People Analytics Conference in April 2015.
Learn more about people analytics and data-driven recruiting: http://linkd.in/1KJMC8D
People Analytics: Improving the Employee Experience and ProductivityDr Susan Entwisle
It is true today more than any point in history that talent is a company’s greatest asset. To thrive in our hyper competitive global economy, companies need the right talent to deliver exceptional customer experiences efficiently with minimal risk. Traditionally, Human Resource teams have made decisions on hiring, assigning and developing employees using experience, instinct, and basic statistical data. The same advanced analytics and machine learning techniques we use to improve the customer experience are now being used for our people. People analytics provides insights and enables better and faster data-driven decision making across all aspects of people at work.
Topics covered in this presentation include:
How analytics has changed the customer experience.
Current state of employee engagement and its impact.
Limitations of cognitive decision making process.
What is people analytics?
How companies are using people analytics today?
Challenges in adoption of people analytics.
Guidance to get started on people analytics journey.
58 Quotes, Facts, Benchmarks, and Best Practices on People and AnalyticsHarrison Withers
For the last 18 months, the consulting team at Media 1 has read tens of thousands of pages of research, presentations, and white papers on analytics as it relates to people and performance. When we came across especially interesting content, we added it to a master list of resources. The following 58 Quotes, Facts, Benchmarks, and Best Practices on People and Analytics where curated from that list in the hopes that people will use them in support of creating great places to work.
Big Data = Big Headache? Using People Analytics to Fuel ROItalent.imperative
• Interpret trend information to understand the business case for Big Data in HR.
• Examine your fears and assumptions about Big Data.
• Learn from best practice case studies how to demonstrate HR’s contributions to ROI.
• Understand how to engage key stakeholders as part of your organization’s people analytics journey.
The majority of organizations (54%) use people analytics to improve HR effectiveness today. Organizations more frequently rely on people analytics to improve business outcomes, organizational performance and achieve labor cost savings.
People Analytics allows HR to gain a more strategic role in the organization and clearly show its impact.
Advanced organizations use data to analyze the workforce proactively, make predictions, and create and monitor comprehensive workforce plans to achieve financial success.
HR data has become an strategic priority, but it takes efforts in order to enable the usage of it.
The leaders of LinkedIn’s People Analytics team, Lorenzo Canlas and Will Gaker, walk through what people analytics is, how it’s growing & evolving, and how you can build your own people analytics function today. Check out their keynote presentation from the Wharton People Analytics Conference in April 2015.
Learn more about people analytics and data-driven recruiting: http://linkd.in/1KJMC8D
People Analytics: Improving the Employee Experience and ProductivityDr Susan Entwisle
It is true today more than any point in history that talent is a company’s greatest asset. To thrive in our hyper competitive global economy, companies need the right talent to deliver exceptional customer experiences efficiently with minimal risk. Traditionally, Human Resource teams have made decisions on hiring, assigning and developing employees using experience, instinct, and basic statistical data. The same advanced analytics and machine learning techniques we use to improve the customer experience are now being used for our people. People analytics provides insights and enables better and faster data-driven decision making across all aspects of people at work.
Topics covered in this presentation include:
How analytics has changed the customer experience.
Current state of employee engagement and its impact.
Limitations of cognitive decision making process.
What is people analytics?
How companies are using people analytics today?
Challenges in adoption of people analytics.
Guidance to get started on people analytics journey.
58 Quotes, Facts, Benchmarks, and Best Practices on People and AnalyticsHarrison Withers
For the last 18 months, the consulting team at Media 1 has read tens of thousands of pages of research, presentations, and white papers on analytics as it relates to people and performance. When we came across especially interesting content, we added it to a master list of resources. The following 58 Quotes, Facts, Benchmarks, and Best Practices on People and Analytics where curated from that list in the hopes that people will use them in support of creating great places to work.
Big Data = Big Headache? Using People Analytics to Fuel ROItalent.imperative
• Interpret trend information to understand the business case for Big Data in HR.
• Examine your fears and assumptions about Big Data.
• Learn from best practice case studies how to demonstrate HR’s contributions to ROI.
• Understand how to engage key stakeholders as part of your organization’s people analytics journey.
The majority of organizations (54%) use people analytics to improve HR effectiveness today. Organizations more frequently rely on people analytics to improve business outcomes, organizational performance and achieve labor cost savings.
People Analytics allows HR to gain a more strategic role in the organization and clearly show its impact.
Advanced organizations use data to analyze the workforce proactively, make predictions, and create and monitor comprehensive workforce plans to achieve financial success.
HR data has become an strategic priority, but it takes efforts in order to enable the usage of it.
Building for the future: Why predictive analytics matter nowWilliam Gaker
The field of people analytics is growing rapidly, but the majority of teams have been started within the last 5 years. As the field continues to grow, there is a need for a unified vision across the field for what the end product looks like. It is crucial to build a vision for your team centered around predictive analytics as you lay the foundation in the early days of your team. A unified team vision will give you a greater impact by creating role clarity, prioritizing your efforts, and building you brand within your organization.
Lorenzo Canlas, Head, Talent Analytics, LinkedIn
People analytics helps businesses make evidence-based talent decisions for all phases of the employee lifecycle. The field is new and everyone is getting into it: approximately 5,000 companies have people analytics departments, with more than 50% having been created in the past five years. In this session, Lorenzo will share LinkedIn’s journey with building their own people analytics function, including the evolution of their infrastructure and technology, organization design, and their leapfrog strategy of focusing on delivering business value while building out a data infrastructure. Attendees will learn the values of people analytics to business problems, how to build out a people analytics team and a maturity model for the team.
Check out the best of Talent Connect: http://bit.ly/1MBqz6m
Data Con LA 2020
Description
The People at any organization are one of the most important stakeholders in the business. People Analytics & Research is the broad discipline in which employee data is leveraged to inform organizational decision-making. In current times, data science has found its way into People Analytics and Research with individuals using AI to predict or diagnose important metrics like turnover. However, it is only through ethical, context-driven, and inclusive methods that data science can continue to intelligently augment human resources. This talk will help attendees recognize and describe People Analytical challenges within their organizations and teams. Further, through a discussion of real-world examples, attendees will appreciate the need for inclusive and ethical context-driven best practices for People Analytics. Finally, attendees will be able to explore applications of AI/ML to problem solving for the People Analytics space. This is an interactive session, so please bring your questions, and get ready to put your thinking hats on!
Speaker
Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw Hill, Manager, Global People Research and Analytics
The Role of HR in Reinventing Organisations: Embracing People AnalyticsGlass Bead Consulting
Presentation given at Workforce Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia on 5th May 2016. #WFAS2016
What features will successful organisations have in the future?
What impact will this have on HR and People Management?
What are the main opportunities of the Quantified Workplace?
Why has HR struggled with transforming itself?
What are the main challenges with our current HR Operating
models?
What are challenges of People Analytics and how do we
overcome them?
How can People Analytics help transform HR?
“People analytics” is a frequently used buzzword. But questions remain as to why this is becoming such a prominent challenge for HR. What are leading organizations doing to develop their understanding of how data analytics can drive better people decisions? In this session, learn what you can start doing tomorrow to accelerate and mobilize your people analytics efforts.
Learning Objectives
• Learn the research and trends in data & analytics.
• Learn what is driving the people analytics movement.
• Learn the barriers to entry for companies.
• Learn how to mobilize your efforts in building out your people & analytics capabilities.
Speaker: Diego Gomez, Vice President of Human Capital Management Transformation, Oracle
People Analytics: State of the Market - Top Ten ListJosh Bersin
What are the "Top Ten" trends in People Analytics? This presentation reviews the research and discusses how you should prepare for this exciting and fast growing but emerging market.
As the complexity of workforce challenges continues to rise, so has the demand for more quantitative approaches to solving tough people-related challenges in organizations. To better understand the state of affairs in workforce analytics, we spoke with over 40 game changers to discover the problems they are trying to solve, the approaches they are using and the pitfalls they’ve encountered.
The Datafication of HR: Graduating from Metrics to AnalyticsVisier
Datafication is a new term used to describe the process of turning an existing business into a “data business.” In HR it refers to our increasing ability to use Talent Analytics to understand more and more about our people, HR practices and processes, and external demographics.
Global competition for talent, outsourcing labor, compliance legislation, remote workers, aging populations – these are just a few of the daunting challenges faced by HR organizations today. Yet the most commonly monitored workforce metrics do very little to deliver true insight into these topics. Leaders need to graduate from metrics to analytics, surfacing the important connections and patterns in their data to make better workforce decisions.
Learn the difference between metrics and analytics, as well as key analytics and their values in these core areas:
Recruiting Effectiveness
Performance
Talent Retention
Employee Movement
Total Rewards
The challenges in today’s business environment require new approaches to remain competitive in an ever-shrinking world of global competition. By graduating from metrics to analytics, HR professionals and leaders can better understand the contributing factors that are impacting their organization, and take the right actions to implement programs that will provide a true competitive advantage.
View the full webinar recording here:
http://www.visier.com/lp/the-datafication-of-hr-graduating-from-metrics-to-analytics/
Download the companion white paper here:
http://www.visier.com/lp/wp-datafication-of-hr/
Book Preview, Organization Horsepower: Thinking Like a Motorcycle Racing TeamHarrison Withers
Business can be abstract and detached. By comparison, motorcycle racing is primal and visceral, and has an unmistakable goal.
Harrison Withers, expert talent development consultant and amateur motorcycle racer, has cleverly brought those two worlds together, finding unique parallels between concepts of business and those of motorcycle racing. He views the relationship between the two through the lens of technology, people, and performance. It all starts with the motivation to engage why business practitioners and racers alike not only accept the risk, but embrace and ultimately love it.
Analogies abound between business and racing: Where people fit on the team, how performance is measured, how it is improved, and how to put predictive models into practice; competitive class structures, organizational design, the role of simulation in testing and practice, and race-day execution.
Harrison's thoughts bring to light some connections we've never thought of before and in so doing given us a fresh perspective on business. Book foreword by Erik Buell, motorcycling legend and managing member of Erik Buell Racing.
Speech given at HR Congress Amsterdam 29th November 2016
See also HR Transformer Blog Post -> 7 Challenges that People Analytics Must Overcome -> https://goo.gl/BZ3UTf
How to create more impact with People AnalyticsDavid Green
Slides from my presentation at UNLEASH in London on 20 March 2019.
The session brief is below:
People analytics offers tremendous potential to companies to support business strategy, improve productivity and performance, and personalise and enhance the employee experience.
In this session, I will present the key trends in people analytics, its role in helping to shape the future of work and provide examples of how organisations are using people analytics to create impact that drives business performance and a better workforce experience.
I will also outline the Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics model he created together with Jonathan Ferrar to help delegates understand how they can improve the impact, value and focus of their people analytics programs – whichever stage of the journey they are on.
Building Partnership to Tell Great StoriesWilliam Gaker
Building Partnership to Tell Great Stories was a keynote I gave at the Talent Management Alliance Conference in 2013.
The topic covered my training approach for helping HR Business Partners learn to leverage the products and services of new analytics teams in HR.
A slide deck from a keynote at:
The Talent Management Alliance Conference
Las Vegas, NV
May 2013
The robots are near. But they are at a disadvantage when it comes to interpersonal sensitivity. As long as there are humans involved in Talent Acquisition, it remains a highly relationship-driven process. Whether it be candidates themselves, hiring managers, hiring teams, vendor partners or senior leadership, you need to know how each of these groups is thinking about how you are engaging with them, how to earn their trust, and how to get what you need from each relationship you create.
This presentation examines the evolving recruiting relationship ecosystem, encourages you to identify your own blind spots, and leaves you with actionable steps to create effective collaboration across key stakeholder groups. In this discussion you will:
• Better understand the evolving recruiting relationship ecosystem
• Discover your own relationship blind spots
• Learn how to take action to more effectively collaborate with various recruiting stakeholder groups
Crafting a talent analytics function and building strategic partnershipWilliam Gaker
Talent analytics is quickly becoming a core HR function for many companies, but many are still just getting started building their own analytics teams. While there are many promising technologies and research methods available, many HR leaders are wondering where to get started, where to focus, and how to impact the business with insight from analytics. What does success look like? How do we build credibility while also improving our ability to answer complex, strategic questions? How do we realize our vision of using analytics to make HR a strategic business partner? Two years ago at LinkedIn, we were asking ourselves these same questions and have a learned a great deal along the way. The focus of this webinar is to share our journey in building a talent analytics function, discuss the purpose of the field, and communicate some guiding principles for building a talent analytics function at your company.
Do numbers speak louder than words? The rapidly growing industry of ‘People Analytics’ suggests as much. But, there are big risks in failing to maintain a healthy scepticism in the face of the ‘facts’.
Building for the future: Why predictive analytics matter nowWilliam Gaker
The field of people analytics is growing rapidly, but the majority of teams have been started within the last 5 years. As the field continues to grow, there is a need for a unified vision across the field for what the end product looks like. It is crucial to build a vision for your team centered around predictive analytics as you lay the foundation in the early days of your team. A unified team vision will give you a greater impact by creating role clarity, prioritizing your efforts, and building you brand within your organization.
Lorenzo Canlas, Head, Talent Analytics, LinkedIn
People analytics helps businesses make evidence-based talent decisions for all phases of the employee lifecycle. The field is new and everyone is getting into it: approximately 5,000 companies have people analytics departments, with more than 50% having been created in the past five years. In this session, Lorenzo will share LinkedIn’s journey with building their own people analytics function, including the evolution of their infrastructure and technology, organization design, and their leapfrog strategy of focusing on delivering business value while building out a data infrastructure. Attendees will learn the values of people analytics to business problems, how to build out a people analytics team and a maturity model for the team.
Check out the best of Talent Connect: http://bit.ly/1MBqz6m
Data Con LA 2020
Description
The People at any organization are one of the most important stakeholders in the business. People Analytics & Research is the broad discipline in which employee data is leveraged to inform organizational decision-making. In current times, data science has found its way into People Analytics and Research with individuals using AI to predict or diagnose important metrics like turnover. However, it is only through ethical, context-driven, and inclusive methods that data science can continue to intelligently augment human resources. This talk will help attendees recognize and describe People Analytical challenges within their organizations and teams. Further, through a discussion of real-world examples, attendees will appreciate the need for inclusive and ethical context-driven best practices for People Analytics. Finally, attendees will be able to explore applications of AI/ML to problem solving for the People Analytics space. This is an interactive session, so please bring your questions, and get ready to put your thinking hats on!
Speaker
Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw Hill, Manager, Global People Research and Analytics
The Role of HR in Reinventing Organisations: Embracing People AnalyticsGlass Bead Consulting
Presentation given at Workforce Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia on 5th May 2016. #WFAS2016
What features will successful organisations have in the future?
What impact will this have on HR and People Management?
What are the main opportunities of the Quantified Workplace?
Why has HR struggled with transforming itself?
What are the main challenges with our current HR Operating
models?
What are challenges of People Analytics and how do we
overcome them?
How can People Analytics help transform HR?
“People analytics” is a frequently used buzzword. But questions remain as to why this is becoming such a prominent challenge for HR. What are leading organizations doing to develop their understanding of how data analytics can drive better people decisions? In this session, learn what you can start doing tomorrow to accelerate and mobilize your people analytics efforts.
Learning Objectives
• Learn the research and trends in data & analytics.
• Learn what is driving the people analytics movement.
• Learn the barriers to entry for companies.
• Learn how to mobilize your efforts in building out your people & analytics capabilities.
Speaker: Diego Gomez, Vice President of Human Capital Management Transformation, Oracle
People Analytics: State of the Market - Top Ten ListJosh Bersin
What are the "Top Ten" trends in People Analytics? This presentation reviews the research and discusses how you should prepare for this exciting and fast growing but emerging market.
As the complexity of workforce challenges continues to rise, so has the demand for more quantitative approaches to solving tough people-related challenges in organizations. To better understand the state of affairs in workforce analytics, we spoke with over 40 game changers to discover the problems they are trying to solve, the approaches they are using and the pitfalls they’ve encountered.
The Datafication of HR: Graduating from Metrics to AnalyticsVisier
Datafication is a new term used to describe the process of turning an existing business into a “data business.” In HR it refers to our increasing ability to use Talent Analytics to understand more and more about our people, HR practices and processes, and external demographics.
Global competition for talent, outsourcing labor, compliance legislation, remote workers, aging populations – these are just a few of the daunting challenges faced by HR organizations today. Yet the most commonly monitored workforce metrics do very little to deliver true insight into these topics. Leaders need to graduate from metrics to analytics, surfacing the important connections and patterns in their data to make better workforce decisions.
Learn the difference between metrics and analytics, as well as key analytics and their values in these core areas:
Recruiting Effectiveness
Performance
Talent Retention
Employee Movement
Total Rewards
The challenges in today’s business environment require new approaches to remain competitive in an ever-shrinking world of global competition. By graduating from metrics to analytics, HR professionals and leaders can better understand the contributing factors that are impacting their organization, and take the right actions to implement programs that will provide a true competitive advantage.
View the full webinar recording here:
http://www.visier.com/lp/the-datafication-of-hr-graduating-from-metrics-to-analytics/
Download the companion white paper here:
http://www.visier.com/lp/wp-datafication-of-hr/
Book Preview, Organization Horsepower: Thinking Like a Motorcycle Racing TeamHarrison Withers
Business can be abstract and detached. By comparison, motorcycle racing is primal and visceral, and has an unmistakable goal.
Harrison Withers, expert talent development consultant and amateur motorcycle racer, has cleverly brought those two worlds together, finding unique parallels between concepts of business and those of motorcycle racing. He views the relationship between the two through the lens of technology, people, and performance. It all starts with the motivation to engage why business practitioners and racers alike not only accept the risk, but embrace and ultimately love it.
Analogies abound between business and racing: Where people fit on the team, how performance is measured, how it is improved, and how to put predictive models into practice; competitive class structures, organizational design, the role of simulation in testing and practice, and race-day execution.
Harrison's thoughts bring to light some connections we've never thought of before and in so doing given us a fresh perspective on business. Book foreword by Erik Buell, motorcycling legend and managing member of Erik Buell Racing.
Speech given at HR Congress Amsterdam 29th November 2016
See also HR Transformer Blog Post -> 7 Challenges that People Analytics Must Overcome -> https://goo.gl/BZ3UTf
How to create more impact with People AnalyticsDavid Green
Slides from my presentation at UNLEASH in London on 20 March 2019.
The session brief is below:
People analytics offers tremendous potential to companies to support business strategy, improve productivity and performance, and personalise and enhance the employee experience.
In this session, I will present the key trends in people analytics, its role in helping to shape the future of work and provide examples of how organisations are using people analytics to create impact that drives business performance and a better workforce experience.
I will also outline the Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics model he created together with Jonathan Ferrar to help delegates understand how they can improve the impact, value and focus of their people analytics programs – whichever stage of the journey they are on.
Building Partnership to Tell Great StoriesWilliam Gaker
Building Partnership to Tell Great Stories was a keynote I gave at the Talent Management Alliance Conference in 2013.
The topic covered my training approach for helping HR Business Partners learn to leverage the products and services of new analytics teams in HR.
A slide deck from a keynote at:
The Talent Management Alliance Conference
Las Vegas, NV
May 2013
The robots are near. But they are at a disadvantage when it comes to interpersonal sensitivity. As long as there are humans involved in Talent Acquisition, it remains a highly relationship-driven process. Whether it be candidates themselves, hiring managers, hiring teams, vendor partners or senior leadership, you need to know how each of these groups is thinking about how you are engaging with them, how to earn their trust, and how to get what you need from each relationship you create.
This presentation examines the evolving recruiting relationship ecosystem, encourages you to identify your own blind spots, and leaves you with actionable steps to create effective collaboration across key stakeholder groups. In this discussion you will:
• Better understand the evolving recruiting relationship ecosystem
• Discover your own relationship blind spots
• Learn how to take action to more effectively collaborate with various recruiting stakeholder groups
Crafting a talent analytics function and building strategic partnershipWilliam Gaker
Talent analytics is quickly becoming a core HR function for many companies, but many are still just getting started building their own analytics teams. While there are many promising technologies and research methods available, many HR leaders are wondering where to get started, where to focus, and how to impact the business with insight from analytics. What does success look like? How do we build credibility while also improving our ability to answer complex, strategic questions? How do we realize our vision of using analytics to make HR a strategic business partner? Two years ago at LinkedIn, we were asking ourselves these same questions and have a learned a great deal along the way. The focus of this webinar is to share our journey in building a talent analytics function, discuss the purpose of the field, and communicate some guiding principles for building a talent analytics function at your company.
Do numbers speak louder than words? The rapidly growing industry of ‘People Analytics’ suggests as much. But, there are big risks in failing to maintain a healthy scepticism in the face of the ‘facts’.
People Analytics: Creating The Ultimate WorkforceCenterfor HCI
If you are a leader or manager in a large organization, you are probably familiar with these terms. But you may be unaware how your organization can benefit from people analytics and what it will take.
What is People Analytics - PPT | SplashHRSwati Gupta
People Analytics is a process in which the company’s data is transformed into insights. People analytics, also known as HR or talent analytics, uses analysis to help decision-makers interpret business and people data to improve the impact on business goal – and assess human resources initiatives’ effectiveness.
Get the latest on the data trends impacting the HR space. With this deck, you can:
- Understand what’s driving the rise of analytics in HR
- Learn how early adopters are leveraging the power of data & insights
- Discover how to build a data-driven culture
- See how you can apply analytics to answer critical talent questions
Creating a Data-Driven Organization, Crunchconf, October 2015Carl Anderson
What does it mean for an organization to be data-driven? How does an organization get there? Many organizations think that they are data-driven but the reality is that few genuinely are and that we could all do better. In this talk, I cover what it truly means to be data driven. The answer, it turns out, is not to do with the latest tools and technologies (although they can help) but having an appropriate data culture than spans the whole organization, where data is accessible broadly, embedded into operations and processes, and enables effective decision making. In this presentation, I dissect what an effective data-driven culture entails, covering facets such as data leadership, data literacy, and A/B testing, illustrating concepts with examples from different industries as well as personal experience.
A powerful data-driven narrative opens up new perspectives and concepts within the minds of those who read it by strategically utilizing narrative, data analysis, data visualization, and storytelling techniques.
HR Analytics is a topic that's become extremely popular in the last year. What is it, why does it matter, and how does it change the way we think about HR functions and what they do?
Strategic Workforce Planning: Key Principles and Objectives, Paul TurnerThe HR Observer
Making sure that we have the right people in the right place with the right level of skills at the right time to deliver both short and long term objectives requires information and insight. This need has sparked a growing interest in workforce planning. Organisations have identified a compelling need to be able to ‘shape’ and skill themselves to deal with both expected and unexpected events: as well as to control costs without damaging competitiveness. Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) supports these objectives in the quest to become flexible and agile. SWP is a core process of human resource management. It helps HR Professionals to provide insight to an organisation’s competitive advantage through people. This session will cover some of the objectives, principles and models used in SWP, together with case studies of best practice.
This presentation was used at HR Summit and Expo 2013 www.hrsummitexpo.com
Creating a Data-Driven Organization, Data Day Texas, January 2016Carl Anderson
What does it mean for an organization to be data-driven? How does an organization get there? Many organizations think that they are data-driven but the reality is that few genuinely are and that we could all do better. In this talk, I cover what it truly means to be data driven. The answer, it turns out, is not to do with the latest tools and technologies (although they can help) but having an appropriate data culture than spans the whole organization, where data is accessible broadly, embedded into operations and processes, and enables effective decision making. In this presentation, I dissect what an effective data-driven culture entails, covering facets such as data leadership, data literacy, and A/B testing, illustrating concepts with examples from different industries as well as personal experience.
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Shane James: Creating impact with People Analytics, lessons learned from the Australian People Analytics Survey
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Website: https://pacamp.org
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHtPZ_ZLZ-nHFMUCXY81RQ
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pacamporg
I presented this at ICT Spring Europe 2015 in Luxembourg. The presentation highlights the way in which big data investments are not always delivering on their promise and why brands should consider taking a 'human-centred' approach to big data analytics.
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you can think of… but without
a story, data is just data
You’re drowning in data
Ask the right questions
...and you get the right answers.
Collecting data is the tip of the
iceberg, so go back to basics and
start by identifying your people
problems.
# 4
14. If decision-makers don’t value
people analytics you’ll lack the
support to deliver, as 29% of HR
leaders have discovered. (6)
You lack support
Prove ROI
Build credibility by delivering small
successes, and prove relevance by
framing your findings in terms of
the bottom line. Buy-in will come.
# 5
15. 47% of HR leaders say lack of
analytic acumen is their biggest
people analytics challenge. (7)
You don’t have the
right people
Rebuild your hiring profile
People analytics demands different
skills, including storytelling,
strategic understanding and
gravitas. (8) Break the mould.
# 6
16. You want your insights to be
actionable so you can drive real
change, but you won’t see results
if you’re acting on the wrong
conclusions.
You’re just not
seeing results
Be rigorous, not rushed
Don’t be hasty in drawing conclusions.
Conduct multiple experiments until
many bits of evidence point the same
way. Then act.
# 7
17. The Moral of
the Story?
No mountain is
insurmountable…
…and there’s never been a
better time to embrace
people analytics. It’s time
to seize the opportunity.
18. To find out more about people analytics visit:
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Sources
1) Steven Toft, Tucuna People Analytics Conference, July 2016.
2) Deloitte, “2015 Global Capital Human Trends” (https://dupress.deloitte.com/dupusen/focus/humancapital
trends/2016/peopleanalyticsinhranalyticsteams.html)
3) Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, “HighImpact Talent Analytics: Building a WorldClass HR
Measurement and Analytics Function
4) Chartered Management Institute, “Getting Inside Intuition in Human Resources Practice”
5) Tazio, “How to Use People Analytics Effectively: A Methodology”
6) Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, ‘HR Joins The Analytics Revolution’, p6
7) Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, ‘HR Joins The Analytics Revolution’, p6
8) Tazio, “8 Essential Skills and Qualities to Overcome the People Analytics Skills Gap”
www.tazio.co.uk/resources