HR如何通过数字化转型重塑自我?数字转型是各行各业当先面临的迫切问题，HR深入其中，成为必须的一部分。
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作者：
Jason Averbook
根据人力资源思想领袖Jason Averbook的说法，围绕数字人力资源转型的组织内部存在大量混淆，他解释说，许多公司正在努力实施真正有意义的数字化转型，从而推动可持续的竞争性业务优势。
人力资源有两种数字化转型，Averbook表示，在实践中它实际上意味着“仍然存在一大堆混乱”。
“在数字化人力资源转型方面，有一个'大T'和'小T'，”Averbook说，他是咨询公司LeapGen的首席执行官。
“'大T'是关于我们如何将自己重组为人力资源部门，以便在数字世界中工作，而'小T'则是关于我们如何实际采用数字优先心态为员工提供能力。”
Averbook是最近一系列 关于数字化转型和未来工作的ServiceNow活动的一部分 ，他说组织在人力资源数字化转型的“小T”方面通常更为成功，但在成功时却不太成功。重塑HR以在数字世界中成功地工作。
“人们花费数百万，数百万美元将自己重组为不同类型的卓越中心和不同类型的服务中心 - 只是意识到，当他们自己进行重组时，这已经过时了。要去，“Averbook说。
“总的来说，我会说我们处于数字化思维模式的早期采用阶段，我甚至不打算将其称为数字化人力资源转型。
“谈到人们的服务，这个'数字优先思维'空间只会在未来一到五年内爆发。”
“总的来说，我会说我们处于数字化思维模式的早期采用者阶段”
Averbook表示，人力资源数字化转型的变化步伐将会加快，预计未来五年内人们对人力资源技术领域所知的所有事情将在未来五年内发生重大变化。
他给出了员工和经理自助系统的例子，并解释说，不是通过桌面计算机登录系统工作，而是转向SMS聊天，Skype，Chatter或员工可以使用的其他平台和应用程序，无论他们身在何处。
“当我们考虑员工服务体验时，人力资源技术的世界将从专注于交易的领域转变为必须专注于经验而人力资源是静脉注射（IV）饲料的领域，以便为组织提供任何能力。
“所以，如果我想向一名旨在增加参与度的员工提供一些内容，那么它将会经历那个IV，”他说。
“在过去，我们在建立从组织到员工的沟通渠道方面做得很差。
“展望未来，为了提供任何数字化能力，我们将不得不以非常，非常顺利的方式铺平这条道路，以满足员工的需求，并以对他们来说非常自然的方式。”
Averbook解释说，在员工体验方面，战略与执行之间也存在巨大差距。
“人们想出这个想法，他们将创造这种员工体验，但他们不知道如何到达那里，”他说。
“因此，战略与执行之间不仅存在差距，更多的是”鸿沟“，人力资源面临的挑战是将重点放在员工和经理身上，而不是集中在组织之外。
“如果他们能够让员工和管理人员知道人力资源部门正在提供能够使工作场所和员工队伍变得更好的事实，那么人力资源部门将获得的数据将比他们今天获得的数据好10倍，”他说。说过。
“因此，当人力资源开始与我讨论员工的经历时，他们真正谈论的是人们如何获得人力资源的支持或服务或答案”
ServiceNow的人力资源产品销售负责人Mark Souter解释说，员工和经理都希望人力资源能够以快速和可预测的方式获得正确的答案。
“人力资源部正在寻求将客户服务经验的学习应用到内部员工服务体验中，但他们正在使用尚未为此构建的系统来实现这一目标，”他说。
“市场中的核心HCM在人力资源数据，参考记录和关键人力资源基础知识方面做得很好。”
然而，这样的系统并没有满足大多数员工的服务需求，Souter表示这推动了市场对于参与系统以及HCM产生的记录系统的需求。
他解释说，经理和员工正在寻找合适的支持，人员，设备或系统，以快速，可预测的方式获得他们的查询答案。
“当人们谈论员工的经历时，往往被定义为相当迟钝或差劲，或以多方面的方式，”苏特说。
“因此，当人力资源开始与我谈论员工的经历时，他们真正谈论的是人们如何从人力资源部获得支持或服务或答案。”
Souter补充说，这个过程历来以非结构化的方式进行，多个系统包括内部网，对于特定人员的角色以及其他HR和HCM系统具有有限的上下文相关性，导致员工和经理的脱节，有时令人沮丧的体验。
人力资源团队也一直专注于高价值的活动，如人才管理，学习和发展，以及劳动力分析和规划，苏特表示，虽然这些非常重要 - 人力资源部门“可能错过了一步”围绕人们如何以对他们有意义的方式获得问题答案的方向。
“为什么他们在组织之外的经历不是作为消费者反映在内部？”他问道。
“我们之所以这样做，是因为我们一直在与他们讨论HCM系统和参考记录，以及与他们接触并围绕该参考记录建立经验的方式。”
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Jason Averbook on how can HR reinvent itself through digital transformation
There is a significant amount of confusion within organisations around digital HR transformation, according to HR thought leader Jason Averbook, who explained that many companies are struggling with the implementation of real and meaningful digital transformation which drives sustainable, competitive business advantage.
There are two kinds of digital transformation for HR and Averbook said there is a “still a boatload of confusion” as to what it actually means in practice.
“When it comes to digital HR transformation, there is a ‘big T’ and a ‘little T’,” said Averbook, who serves as CEO of consulting firm LeapGen.
“The ‘big T’ is about how we reorganise ourselves as an HR function to work in a digital world, while the ‘little T’ is about how we actually take a digital-first mentality to deliver capabilities to the workforce.”
Averbook, who was speaking as part of a recent series of ServiceNow events on digital transformation and the future of work, said that organisations are generally more successful when it comes to the “little T” of digital transformation for HR, but less successful when it comes to reinventing HR to successfully work in a digital world.
“People are spending millions and millions and millions of dollars reorganising themselves into different kinds of centres of excellence and different kinds of service centres – only to realise that by the time they’ve reorganised themselves, this is already dated from where they’re trying to get to,” said Averbook.
“Overall, I would say that we’re in the early adopter phase of a digital-first mindset, and I’m not even going to call it digital HR transformation.
“When it comes to people services, this ‘digital-first mindset’ space is only going to explode in the next one to five years.”
“Overall, I would say that we’re in the early adopter phase of a digital-first mindset”
Averbook said the pace of change in digital transformation for HR is only going to pick up and predicted that everything known about the world of HR technology for the past 20 to 30 years is going to change significantly in the next five years.
He gave the example of employee and manager self-service systems and explained that rather than logging into systems via desktop computers to work, this would shift to SMS chat, Skype, Chatter or other platforms and apps employees can use regardless of where they are located.
“When we think about the employee service experience, the world of HR technology is going to change from one that’s just focused on transactions to one that has to focus on experience and HR being an intravenous (IV) feed to deliver any capability into the organisation.
“So, if I want to deliver some content to an employee which is designed to increase engagement, then it’s going to go through that IV,” he said.
“In the past, we have done a poor job in building that line of communication from the organisation to the employee.
“Moving forward, in order to deliver any digital capability, we’re going to have to pave that road in a way that’s very, very smooth, that meets employees where they are and in a way that is very natural to them.”
Averbook explained that there is also a significant gap between strategy and execution when it comes to the employee experience.
“People come up with this idea that they’re going to create this employee experience but they have no idea how to get there,” he said.
“So, there is not just a gap between strategy and execution, but more of a ‘chasm’ and a challenge for HR in this is focusing inwards on employees and managers, rather than focusing outside of the organisation.
“If they can get employees and managers to buy into the fact that HR is delivering capabilities to make the workplace and workforce better, the data HR will get out of that is going to be 10 times better than the data they get today,” he said.
“So when HR starts talking to me about the employee experience, what they’re really talking about is how are people getting the support or service or answers from HR”
Mark Souter, HR product sales lead for ServiceNow, explained that both employees and managers are looking to HR to get the right answer in a way that is both quick and predictable.
“HR is looking to apply learnings from the customer service experience to the internal employee service experience, but they’re doing it in ways using systems which haven’t been built for this,” he said.
“Core HCMs in the marketplace do a great job with HR data, records of reference and key HR fundamentals.”
However, most employee service needs are not met by such systems, and Souter said this is driving a need in the market for both a system of engagement as well as a system of record produced by an HCM.
Managers and employees are looking for the right support, person, device or system to get the answer to their query in a quick and predictable way, he explained.
“When people talk about the employee experience, it is often defined either fairly obtusely or poorly, or in a multifaceted way,” said Souter.
“So when HR starts talking to me about the employee experience, what they’re really talking about is how are people getting the support or service or answers from HR.”
Souter added that this process has historically been approached in a very unstructured way, with multiple systems including intranets with limited contextual relevance for a specific person’s role as well as other HR and HCM systems, resulting in a disjointed and sometimes frustrating experience for employees and managers.
HR teams have also been focusing heavily on higher-value activities such as talent management, learning and development, as well as workforce analysis and planning, according to Souter, who observed that while these are very important – HR has “probably missed a step” around the orientation of how people get answers to questions in a way that is meaningful to them.
“Why isn’t their experience outside the organisation as a consumer reflected inside?” he asked.
“The reason for this is that we’ve that, is that we’ve been talking to them about HCM systems and records of reference, versus ways to engage them and build that experience around that record of reference.”
联合利华如何开发新的EVP和雇主品牌以下由AI翻译，仅为传递信息。文后附录英文版本，供参考。不喜勿入。
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Anuradha Razdan是联合利华的人力资源，家庭护理副总裁兼全球人才吸引和雇主品牌负责人。
在这次采访中，她向我们介绍了公司的文化和目的，以及他们最近如何开发和推出新的雇主价值主张（EVP）。
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您如何描述联合利华的文化？
当我加入联合利华时，令人惊讶的是，我对公司了解不多。只是它是我们校园里最有抱负的雇主。每个人都希望成为公司的一部分，当然我知道一些消费者品牌，但不了解业务的复杂性。任何通过联合利华面试程序完成任务的人都会被选中，面试过程本身就是成功的。
为什么我留下来是另一回事。首先，这是一个关心有所作为的企业。当然，我们希望创造成果和利润，但我们也想创造一个更美好的世界，我们希望我们的员工和利益相关者参与这一旅程。源于联合利华所拥有的遗产的价值观和职业道德，这使我们有了更大的目标，它会破坏你。这是一种文化，让你想进来，每天都发挥最大的作用。20年后，我经历了如此多的经历和角色，但却没有疲倦和无聊的感觉，这让我一直在努力。
可持续发展如何成为业务战略的一部分？
联合利华的独特之处在于，商业战略的核心是可持续性。我们建立品牌的方式以及我们在整个业务中制定流程的方式都是可持续的设计。我们在未来四五年内制定了明确的路线图和目标。这是我们所做的一切的核心，每一个加入联合利华的人都参与其中，感觉被这种感觉所吸引，并为此感到自豪。
您面临哪些人才挑战？
今天，我们作为雇主的吸引力处于历史最高水平，因为我们通过校园调查，全世界的大学评分来衡量它。我们是我们雇用的40多个市场中的首选雇主。
但即使我们提高了吸引力的标准，我们的人才环境也会受到干扰，就像我们的客户和渠道被打乱一样。人才画布不再是同质的，我们业务的不同部分的人才需求是不同的，因此没有一个适合所有人。因此，我们需要能够塑造并提供一个在看似悖论的世界中取得成功的人才战略。一方面，随着技术寻求取代人，你就拥有了多余的人才。同样，在你想要提高技能的领域，无论是数字营销还是精准营销，你都有人才短缺 - 这些都是我们为未来培养技能所需要的，但却存在差距。在同一时间存在着太少而不够的二分法。
告诉我们您的雇主品牌战略？
雇主品牌战略来自我们的人才挑战; 在一个日益中断的世界中需要具有吸引力。没有一个雇主品牌活动或消息。当然，除此之外还有核心执行副总裁; 你不可能拥有一个全球雇主品牌，而是依靠它。每一次雇主品牌之争，每一次人才挑战都会在市场上赢得，而这正是真实时刻所在。这是我们雇主品牌战略的核心。
同样地，它正在逐渐远离你想要赢得所有胜利的地方，以赢得重要的地方。从一致的方法到差异化的方法，取决于您想要雇用的特定微细分市场。
它不再是关于公司传达的自上而下的活动和吸引力。这不再是事实的唯一来源。人才无处不在，你周围有关于你无法控制的谈话。因此，雇主品牌战略必须与真实的员工体验非常一致。因此，它不是一个从外到内的，而是一个由内而外的雇主品牌战略。
你是如何开发新的EVP的？
联合利华是一家打造优秀品牌的公司; 我们的雇主品牌必须反映这一点。就像我们制作任何产品品牌一样，我们接触了这个雇主品牌的发展。我们完成了一项详尽的研究，涵盖了300个内部和外部的声音，我们对竞争对手和我们认为有抱负的其他雇主品牌进行了基准测试。我们通过内部，外部，营销领导者，我们不同的目标受众对人才进行了广泛的测试和验证，并且在此过程中，我们了解到，对于雇主品牌产生影响，它必须是可信的，相关的，差异化的和有抱负的。
什么是新的EVP？
联合利华是一家真正关心有所作为的企业，这是我们雇主品牌和执行副总裁的核心。当你加入联合利华时，它不仅仅是一份工作; 你正在加入一个运动，以创造一个更好的企业，一个更美好的世界，一个更好的你。你不仅仅是你的职位，因为你通过自己的工作在世界上创造了更大的影响力。
我们价值主张的核心是我们建立领导者......我们为联合利华培养领导者，联合利华领导人继续成为世界其他地方的领导者。
什么支柱支撑着EVP？
目的力量 - 可持续发展是我们所做一切的核心。目标的力量是我们员工经验的核心，我们通过将您的目标付诸行动，您可以说您有权对世界和我们的业务产生积极影响。这不仅仅是一份工作; 这是一个通过做一些你热爱的事情来改变自己的机会。
成为催化剂 - 你可以成为世界变革的催化剂，你可以释放你的好奇心，你可以扰乱过程，你可以用你的开拓精神来实现目标。
卓越的不同 - 就像我们的产品品牌都不同，但他们在一个联合利华的保护伞下聚集在一起。作为个体，我们都是不同的; 我们可以把真正的自我带到工作中。在联合利华，我们可以结合差异来实现更大的目标。
超越 - 这不仅仅是一个公司，这是一个你可以超越的地方，体验的质量，互动的质量，当你提供更多，你得到更多。
这四大支柱使EVP成为独一无二的联合利华，特别是目的动力。
你如何沟通和激活这个？
我们很容易想出一个声明，一些我们都很兴奋的话。但最终，它必须被翻译，并且必须帮助我们赢得在我们赢得雇主品牌战斗的各个市场中的最佳人才。接下来发生的事情是我们将部署一些全球和本地渠道; 数字化，面对面，以更广泛地覆盖我们的员工价值主张。
我们还创建了一个旨在提升品牌知名度的英雄活动，它被称为“你不仅仅是你的职位”，而且它带出了目标力量这一整体概念，这对我们来说是一个品牌。我们相信这会产生大量的对话，并成为员工倡导的工具。
最后，我们不是建立雇主品牌的人。这是我们的员工，它是我们在50多个市场的雇主品牌经理，他们将与我们一起制定策略和本地激活想法，以实现这一目标。
你能与我们分享哪些艰苦的教训？
人们可以将公司的吸引力，雇主品牌视为理所当然，直到它消失为止。我是一个企业的一部分，总是享有非常有吸引力的地位，并获得最优秀的人才。我们听到了业务中的对话，“这种努力真的值得，我们为什么要把这么多的预算和资源投入雇主品牌？”。
而这就是你真正处于悬崖边缘的地方，这是一个真正值得关注的地方。在那个时候的那个行业中，我们踩下脚踏板，在最初几年没有发生任何事情，因为很明显，雇主品牌的力量不会在一两年内消失。但是慢慢地，我们开始看到人才质量的影响，这些影响会导致面试，接受其他报价的人数以及将其他竞争对手列为梦想雇主的人数。我们看到排名开始下降，比任何排名更重要的是你雇用的人才质量。
这不是立刻出现的东西，但幸运的是，对我们来说，其中一些指标给了我们一个真正的震撼，我们重置并回来了一声巨响。那是一个真正的谦卑时刻，这是一个我不会忘记的真正教训。
您如何衡量雇主品牌的投资回报率？
雇主品牌的投资回报大于通过指标和衡量工具看到的投资回报。这是最大的无形影响。
我怎么知道这个？如果您想衡量一项计划的影响，您必须考虑以下三点：
走廊里的谈话是什么？
什么是外部媒体说这个？
指标有哪些？
我们会考虑一些指标，例如申请人数量和接受报价的数量等。一个非常有趣的衡量标准是雇主品牌指数，它倾听社交媒体和在线发生的对话，从而对雇主的成功有一个综合的看法。品牌是，这是我们可以追踪的东西。
您对雇主品牌经理的三大建议是什么？
如果你感受到真正的激情，并且如果你感觉到它在你的骨头里，那么只能扮演这个角色。因为雇主品牌是一件你不能再做的事情，所以你不仅要感受到真正的热情。有一个明确的理由，说明为什么雇主品牌对您的业务有意义，并坚持这一点，无论内部的挑战或问题是什么。
向您所在行业的营销人员学习。使用相同的技术并围绕雇主品牌建立科学，这不仅仅是蓬松和创造性的东西。
您为员工和业务负责人注册的权利越多，您的工作就越容易，因为您创建的级联影响远大于您必须投入的努力。
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以下为英文内容 ： https://linkhumans.com/unilever/
Unilever is a global company selling fast-moving consumer goods, whose purpose it is to make sustainable living commonplace. You will recognize consumer brands such as Axe/Lynx, Ben & Jerry’s, Dermalogica, Dollar Shave Club, Dove, Hellmann’s, Knorr, Lipton, and Magnum. But what about the employer brand?
Anuradha Razdan is Vice President HR, Home Care and Head of Global Talent Attraction and Employer Brand at Unilever. In this interview, she talks us through the culture and purpose of the company, and about how they recently developed and launched a new employer value proposition (EVP).
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How would you describe the culture at Unilever?
When I joined Unilever, surprisingly, I didn’t know much about the company. Only that it was the most aspirational employer that came to hire at our campus. It was the company that everyone wanted to be a part of, sure I knew some of the consumer brands but not the intricacies of the business. Anyone who made it through the Unilever interview process felt so thoroughly selected, the interview process was a success in itself.
Why I’ve stayed on is another matter. First and foremost, this is a business that cares about making a difference. Of course, we want to create results and profits, but we also want to create a better world, and we want our employees and stakeholders to be part of this journey. The values and professional ethics that stem from the legacy that Unilever has, and that has kept us with the larger purpose, it spoils you. It’s a culture that makes you want to come in and give your best every day. 20 years down the line, I’ve been through so many experiences and roles, and yet there has been no sense of fatigue & boredom, and that has kept me going.
How is sustainability part of the business strategy?
What is unique with Unilever is that the business strategy has sustainability at its heart. The way we build our brands and the way we craft processes across the business are all sustainable by design. We have a clear roadmap and goals that we have set across the next four or five years. It’s at the heart of everything we do, and everyone who is a part of Unilever is enrolled in this, feels bought into this and feels proud of this.
What talent challenges are you faced with?
Today our attractiveness as an employer is at an all-time high, as we measure it through campus surveys, university scores across the world. We’re the #1 employer of choice in more than 40 markets where we hire.
But even as we raise the bar on our attractiveness, our talent context is being disrupted, just like our customers and channels are being disrupted. The talent canvas is no longer homogenous, and the talent needs in different parts of our business are different, and therefore there is no one-size-fits-all. Hence, there is a need for us to be able to shape and deliver a talent strategy that can be successful in a world of seeming paradoxes. On the one hand, you have surplus talent as technology seeks to replace people. Equally, you have talent shortages in areas where you want to ramp up skills, whether it’s digital or precision marketing – these are where we need to build skills for the future, but yet there are gaps. There is a dichotomy of too little and not enough at the same time.
Tell us about your employer brand strategy?
The employer brand strategy draws from our talent challenges; the need to be attractive in a world that is increasingly disrupted. There is no one employer brand campaign or message. Of course, there is a core EVP but other than that; you can’t have one global employer brand and rest on that. Every employer brand battle, every talent challenge is won in the market, that’s where the moment of truth is. That’s at the heart of our employer brand strategy.
Equally, it’s moving away from a view where you want to win everywhere to winning where it matters. From a consistent approach to a differentiated approach depending on what the specific micro-segments you want to hire are.
It’s no longer about one top-down campaign and attractiveness that is communicated by the company. That is no longer the single source of truth. Talent is everywhere, and there are conversations about you, around you that you don’t control. Therefore the employer brand strategy has to be something which is very consistent with the real employee experience. And thus it’s not an outside-in, but an inside-out employer brand strategy.
How did you develop the new EVP?
Unilever is a company that builds excellent brands; our employer brand has to be a reflection of this. We approached this employer brand development just like we craft any of our product brands. We completed an exhaustive piece of research, covering 300 internal and external voices, we benchmarked our competitors, and other employer brands we think are aspirational. And we extensively tested and validated this with talent internally, externally, marketing leaders, our different target audiences, and in that process, we learned that for an employer brand to make an impact, it has to be credible, relevant, differentiating and aspirational.
What is the new EVP?
Unilever is a business that genuinely cares about making a difference, and this is at the core of our employer brand and EVP. When you join Unilever, it is not just a job; you are joining a movement to create a better business, a better world, and a better you. You are more than your job title because you create a much bigger impact in the world through the work that you do.
At the heart of our value proposition is that we build leaders… we develop leaders for Unilever, and Unilever leaders go on to be leaders elsewhere in the world.
What pillars underpin the EVP?
Purpose Power – sustainability is at the core of everything we do. The power of purpose is at the heart of our employee experience, where we say that you are empowered to make a positive impact on the world and our business, by bringing your purpose into action. This is more than a job; this is an opportunity to make a difference by doing something you’re passionate about.
Be the Catalyst – you can be a catalyst for change in the world, you can unleash your curiosity, you can disrupt processes, you can use your pioneering spirit to make things happen.
Brilliantly Different Together – like our product brands are all different, and yet they come together under one Unilever umbrella. As individuals, we are all different and yet; we can bring our real selves to work. In Unilever, we can combine our differences to achieve greater things.
Go Beyond – this is not just a company, this a place where you can go beyond, with the quality of experiences, the quality of interactions and when you give more, and you get more.
These four pillars make the EVP uniquely Unilever, especially Purpose Power.
How do you communicate and activate this?
It’s very easy to come up with a statement, a few words which we all get excited about. But at the end of the day, it has to be translated and has to help us win the best talent in the various markets where we win the employer brand battles. What’s happening next is that we will deploy a number of global and local channels; digital, face-to-face to give a wider reach to our employee value proposition.
We also created a hero campaign which is designed to boost brand awareness, it’s called “You’re more than your job title,” and it brings out this whole notion of purpose power which is so core to us as a brand. And we believe this will generate a lot of conversations and serve as a vehicle for employee advocacy.
Finally, we’re not the people who build the employer brand. It’s our employees, it’s our employer brand managers in over 50 markets, and they will work with us to tailor strategies and local activation ideas to bring this to life.
What hard lessons can you share with us?
One can take attractiveness of a company, of an employer brand for granted until it goes away. I was part of a business which always enjoyed the position of being very attractive and getting the best of the best talent. We heard conversations in the business along the lines of “is this effort really worth it, why should we put so much budget and resource into employer brand?”.
And that is the point where you’re really at the edge of the cliff, and that’s a real watch out. In that business at that point in time, we took our foot off the pedal, and nothing happened in the first few years because obviously, the power of an employer brand is not something that fades in a year or two. But slowly and slowly we started seeing the impact in the quality of talent that would turn up for interviews, in the number of people who would accept other offers and who would list other competitors as dream employers. We saw rankings beginning to dip, and more important than any ranking is the quality of talent that you hire.
This is not something that shows up immediately, but luckily for us, some of these indicators gave us a real jolt, and we reset and came back with a bang. That was a real moment of humility, and it’s a real lesson I will not forget.
How do you measure ROI on employer brand?
The return on investment of an employer brand is bigger than what one might see through metrics and measurement tools. It’s the intangible impact which is the biggest.
How would I know this? If you want to measure the impact of an initiative you have to look at three things:
What are the conversations in the hallways?
What is the external press saying about this?
What are the metrics saying?
We look at metrics such as the volume of applicants and how many accept offers etc. One very interesting measurement is the Employer Brand Index which listens to social media and conversations taking place online, to come to a compositive view of what the success of the employer brand is, and this is something we can track over time.
What are your top 3 tips to employer brand managers?
Only take this role on if you feel real passion and if you feel it in your bones. Because employer brand is a thing you cannot do as one more thing, it’s not just a job you have to feel true passion for this. Have a clear rationale as to why employer brand makes sense to your business and stick to that no matter what the challenges or questions might be internally.
Learn from the marketers in your business. Use the same techniques and build a science around employer brand, it’s not just a thing that’s fluffy and creative.
The more you enroll employees and business leaders to take ownership of this, the easier your work becomes because then you create a cascading impact which is far greater than the effort you have to put in.
Check out the Unilever Career site.
Future of Work
2018年08月21日
Future of Work
如何为人力分析专业人士创造职业道路-How to create career paths for people analytics professionals（续）文/David Green
文章导读
往期回顾：
Geetanjali在2017年9月在费城举行的人力分析与未来工作会议上发言要点回顾：
MERCK&CO.的人力分析团队
这个团队由三支柱组成：咨询、高级分析、报告和数据可视化
创建一个数据驱动的文化：高层领导的支持对于人员分析功能的成功至关重要
在人力分析中创造职业道路：一个能够提供发展和职业发展的组织和领导者，可以成为吸引和留住人才的关键因素。
三“C”模式：Capability-Capacity-Connectivity
今日导读：
领导人员分析团队
问7、在谈到你作为一个人分析领导者的角色时，你会对这个角色的新手或者将来想成为一个人分析负责人的人提出什么建议呢?
分享五个我认为普遍适用的特性，并且对于成为这个领域的有效领导者很重要。
优先考虑：对于人员分析领导者来说，学习如何无情地优先考虑团队将花费时间和精力的项目是至关重要的。
位置: 一个好的领导者知道如何找到合适的机会去重新定位、结合和展示这项工作。这不仅对获得声望和对人员分析的认可很重要，而且对提升团队的士气也很重要。
连接: 当你建立起新的职业联系时，你也开始建立友谊，这是一个支持网络，可以帮助你在这个相当模糊的、新的人力分析空间中导航。
与时俱进：作为一个优秀的人员分析领导者，重要的一点是要跟上外部变化的步伐，并将这种学习带回您的业务中
发展:一个有效的领导者需要投入时间和精力来建立自己的内部和外部网络，并与他们的团队分享他们的进
问8、我观察到的一个挑战是，作为一个人分析的领导者，你必须平衡在内部构建能力的重大挑战，同时关注在外部快速发展的领域。作为一名分析人士的领导者，你如何平衡这两个优先事项，以及你如何了解公司外部发生的事情?
尽可能多地阅读各种不同的出版物(博客、文章、白皮书、书籍)，这些内容让我与人力分析的各个方面：从社会科学到人工智能都保持联系。
此外，与来自不同行业的其他从业者建立联系很有帮助，我通过非正式的和正式的对等网络进行联系。
最后，我试着每年参加一些活动来学习新的东西和认识新的人。
人力分析的未来
问9、你认为人力分析的主要趋势是什么?
我认为人力分析中的一些“热点领域”将在未来继续变得“更热”。
我还认为，随着研究的增长和越来越多的组织对这一领域的投资，网络的力量将得到充分的挖掘和释放。
最后，要实现所有这些类型的分析，最重要的领域之一将是关于数据使用、隐私和人员分析领域的安全性的伦理研究。
问10、我们如何平衡我们能做什么以及我们应该做什么？ 谈谈你对道德和隐私等方面的关注。
过度反应或倾向于采用过于保守的方法，这可能会妨碍人员分析领域的一些重要工作。
话虽如此，与适当的实践专家密切合作，就业法律、隐私法律、伦理、通信、业务合作，和工人委员会合作是一个很好的方式,以确保除了工作的合法性。
另一种从道德角度是预先与内部客户分享你分析的可能结果，并向他们清楚地说明在每个场景中他们将采取什么行动。
在人力分析领域工作类型需要把伦理放在最重要的日程上
英文原文：
LEADING THE PEOPLE ANALYTICS TEAM
7. Turning towards your role as a People Analytics Leader, what would your advice be to someone who is new to this role or who aspires to be a Head of People Analytics in the future?
I think everyone has different strengths and experiences, which means their approach will vary with regards to them proving successful as a people analytics leader. But based on my personal experiences and observations of others, I can share five attributes that I think apply universally and are important to being an effective leader in this space.
Prioritise: Whether you have a small or large people analytics team, it will never be big enough to meet all the demands of your clients, particularly as awareness of the team’s capabilities grow. So, it is critical for the people analytics leader to learn (and teach!) how to relentlessly prioritise the projects on which the team will spend its time and effort. A good rule of thumb is to think about the magnitude of business impact that an analysis has the potential to deliver, or a key relationship that it can help build in the business for future collaborations and sponsorship. Many teams even use formal prioritisation grids to help the process, but ultimately the leader needs to ensure that the criteria used to allocate resources to projects aligns with the vision and mission of the people analytics team (which in turn, should align with the objectives of the enterprise).
It is critical for the people analytics leader to learn (and teach!) how to relentlessly prioritise the projects on which the team will spend its time and effort.
Position: A critical skill for a people analytics leader is the ability to effectively position analyses before the right decision-makers at the right time to maximise positive outcomes and build a strong people analytics brand. This is probably one of, if not the most, important part of being a people analytics leader. On many occasions, brilliant workforce analyses have been underutilised in their original scope, but a good leader knows how to find the right opportunities to repurpose, combine and present this work. This is not only important in gaining prestige and recognition for people analytics, but also for boosting the morale of the team.
Connect: There is a small, but growing, community of people analytics leaders globally who collectively have a spectacular amount of experience and knowledge. Fortunately, this community is inclusive and generous, in terms of sharing their knowledge and connections with others in the field. The group is a great resource to learn about new technologies, techniques, vendors, and also receive tips and tricks that can help a new leader to avoid mistakes and grab the right opportunities. Most importantly, as you build new professional connections you also begin building friendships that are a support network to help you navigate this fairly ambiguous, new(ish) space of people analytics.
Evolve: Since a people analytics leader needs to have some depth in analytical methods, it is always a good idea to read, listen and learn. Thanks to social media there are amazing resources available, many of them free, that any analytics leader can and should leverage to keep oneself updated and evolving. There are some extremely prolific writers (like David Green!) who share both original and curated content on various forums including LinkedIn. Whether you are looking for detailed tutorials on advanced data science methods or want to learn about the latest technological breakthrough and its application to people data, there is a publication, podcast, or video out there on it. Another reason why this mind set of curiosity and awareness is important is because the people analytics space is sensitive primarily due to ethics and privacy reasons; and keeping a handle on that also demands a leader who keeps their eyes and ears open. An important part of being a strong people analytics leader is to keep up with the pace of change externally and bring that learning back to your business.
An important part of being a strong people analytics leader is to keep up with the pace of change externally and bring that learning back to your business
Develop: Last, but certainly not the least, a critical part of being a good people analytics leader is simply being a good leader. This implies being someone who invests in the development of their team. It is of particular importance because it is a space that has attracted a lot of exceptional talent, but still has somewhat limited opportunities for advancement. Therefore, an effective leader needs to invest time and effort in building their own internal and external network; and share it with their teams for their advancement. They should also be committed to actively finding or creating opportunities for their team members to learn new skills and develop themselves as multi-faceted professionals.
An effective leader needs to invest time and effort in building their own internal and external network; and share it with their teams for their advancement
8. One of the challenges I’ve observed in being a people analytics leader is that you have to balance the significant challenge of building capability internally whilst keeping an eye externally on what is a fast-developing field. As a people analytics leader, how do you juggle these two priorities, and how do you keep abreast of what is happening outside the organisation?
I strive to practice the same behaviours that I would advise new people analytics leaders to try. For example, I follow and subscribe to content by certain thought leaders in people analytics and read as many varied publications as possible (blogs, articles, whitepapers, books) which keep me connected to the different aspects of people analytics; from social science to artificial intelligence.
In addition, it really helps to connect with other practitioners in the field from different industries, which I do via both informal and formal peer networks. This helps to broaden one’s worldview, spark new ideas, and offers a forum to ask questions of your peers. Most likely, if you are facing a people analytics quandary, there is a leader out there who has faced it too and would be willing to share their experience.
Finally, there are a plethora of great conference events out there, and the quality and number of these keeps rising every year. I try to participate in at least a few such events every year to learn new things and meet new people.
THE FUTURE OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS
9. What do you believe will be the main trends moving forward in people analytics?
I think that a number of “hot areas” in people analytics will continue to get “hotter” in the future. The idea of employee experience will grow even wider with focus on the end-to-end experience all the way from being a prospective candidate stage to becoming an alumni of the company. This is likely to grow simultaneously with the focus on managing and optimising a new, fluid workforce that may at any one time be full-time and freelance, human and robotic.
I also think that the power of networks will be fully explored and unleashed as research grows and more organisations invest in this space. The applications of network analysis are so varied and relevant, that it should continue to gather steam in the future.
Finally, from my perspective to enable all these types of analyses, one of the most critical areas that will grow in importance will be the study of ethics relating to data use, privacy and security in the space of people analytics.
10. Finally, how do we balance what we can do with what we should do? How concerned are you about areas such as ethics and privacy?
This is a great question, and a difficult one to answer. The frontiers of what is possible are being pushed at a break-neck speed thanks to ever larger datasets being at our disposal faster, and at cheaper cost. And that pace makes it tough to process the implications in real time. In fact, this often leads to an overreaction or the inclination to adopt an overly conservative approach that can hamper some great work in the people analytics space.
That being said, I believe that an extremely important fact to understand about the space we work in is that we should not do something just because it is possible. Besides being legally compliant, the type of work being undertaken in this field needs to put ethics at the very top of the agenda even before beginning work on an analysis. Working closely with the appropriate experts in the practices of employment law, privacy law, ethics, communications, business partners and workers councils is a good way to ensure that besides the legality of the work, its potential impact on people is also being considered through the lens of ethics, privacy, and empathy. Most established organisations have extensive reviews involving these types of stakeholders already in place.
Another way to pressure test the approach from an ethics lens is to share possible outcomes of an analysis with the internal clients beforehand and ask them to articulate what actions they would take in each scenario. Obviously, this method is not possible in every situation, but when applicable it can be a useful “stop and reflect” moment.
The type of work being undertaken in the people analytics field needs to put ethics at the very top of the agenda
Future of Work
2018年07月31日
Future of Work
如何为人力分析专业人士创造职业道路-How to create career paths for people analytics professionals文/David Green
文章导读
根据德勤于2017年11月发布的“高影响力人力分析研究”(High-Impact People Analytics study), 69%的大型机构(10,000多名员工)现在拥有一个“人力分析团队”。
Geetanjali Gamel在旧金山举行的“人民分析与未来工作会议”(People Analytics & Future of Work Conference)上的演讲这个话题。Geetanjali是默克公司劳动力分析的全球领导者。在2017年9月在费城举行的人民分析与未来工作会议上发言。
为什么要人力分析?
问1、你好，Geetanjali，请解释一下吸引你到人力分析领域的原因。
我工作中最有趣的部分是理解、测量和预测人类行为及其对销售和收入等业务结果的影响。因此，我很自然地被这个机会所吸引，这个机会将科学的方法引入到人们的数据中，并帮助塑造一个组织如何为其投资者带来价值，同时为其员工带来更丰富的经验。
MERCK & CO.的人力分析团队
问2、请您描述一下默克公司的劳动力分析团队的规模和结构，以及它是如何与业务联系起来的。
默克的劳动力分析团队(WFA)拥有15名成员，在全球80多个市场，69000名员工。
这个团队由三个主要支柱组成：咨询、高级分析、报告和数据可视化。
咨询——每个咨询师都与我们的业务部门(如制造、研究、销售等)保持一致。他们与领导者紧密合作，以理解和预见棘手的业务问题，并运用正确的方法解决问题，将分析转化为可操作的观点。
高级分析——高级分析团队是一群灵活的数据科学家和专业人士，他们主要专注于需要高级技术技能或很有意义的项目。它们围绕业务问题进行组织。
报告和数据可视化——他们直接与来自业务各个部门的内部客户合作，以确保合适的人在合适的时间拥有合适的数据。驱动了内部客户满意度。
三个WFA团队紧密合作，以确保识别和利用业务活动之间的协同作用。
创建一个数据驱动的文化
问3、德勤(Deloitte)的“高影响力人物分析”(High-Impact People Analytics)研究发现，在创造高级能力方面，最重要的因素是需要创建数据驱动的文化。你在默克公司是如何做到这一点的?
我们首先在人力资源社区中推广数据，推出了一个基于云的劳动力分析平台。我们还开发和部署了一个能力构建程序，其中的模块主要集中在度量选择、假设测试、数据可视化、推荐开发等方面。
此外，我们一直在利用的另一个渠道，加速人力资源数据驱动文化，是让我们更广泛的人力资源社区的成员成为分析“冠军”。
最后，我们还建立了一个人力资源领导团队，在人力资源中传达建筑数据和分析能力的信息。
高层领导的支持对于人员分析功能的成功至关重要
在人力分析中创造职业道路
问4、您对为人力分析专业人员创建职业发展道路充满热情。 为什么你认为这是如此重要？
我热衷于为那些使人力分析成为可能的人们建立更好的工作体验！ 我发现这个团队能够为职业道路，继任计划和大型员工的人才流动等领域做出决策，但经常陷入无处可扩展的境地。
此外，大多数人分析团队都是人力资源部门的一员，而且往往被贴上高度专业化的“人力资源精英”卓越中心(CoE)的标签，这限制了横向或向上进入CoEs或业务部门的其他人力资源角色的机会。
最后，一个能够提供发展和职业发展的组织和领导者，可以成为吸引和留住优秀人才的关键因素。
如果我们能让更多人力分析人才流动起来，就会为人力资源和企业的其他部门增加技能、方法和拓宽视角，为企业创造额外的价值。
一个能够提供发展和职业发展的组织和领导者，可以成为吸引和留住优秀人才的关键因素
问5、关于人才分析团队的职业发展，你在默克制定了什么计划?关于人才分析团队的职业发展，你在默克制定了什么计划?
从我在默克公司工作的第一天起，我的首要任务之一就是了解我的团队的力量和抱负，并将他们的发展与他们的职业目标结合起来。我得出了一个Capability-Capacity-Connectivity模型，为我们的人员分析团队提供一个可持续发展项目。这种模式成功的一个关键驱动力是你的领导的支持和与其他团队的合作。
问6、职业发展计划的主要好处和收获是什么?
“3C”方法是围绕解决障碍和为人学分析团队创建促进职业发展的桥梁而构建的。
第一个“C”：能力，能力必须在两个级别上处理。
能力级别1：构建数据、技术和分析精明的客户
能力级别2：提升人员分析团队
第二个“C”：Capacity容纳度
如果没有时间远离日常的活动，就不可能专注于一个人职业生涯的下一步
第三个“C”：连接
将人员分析团队与其他人力资源，数据科学，技术和业务专业人员联系起来，建立对双方不同类型工作的认识和相互欣赏。
英文原文：
According to Bersin by Deloitte’s High-Impact People Analytics study, which was published in November 2017, 69% of large organisations (10,000+ employees) now have a people analytics team.
It is a surprise then that many organisations overlook the need to develop the careers of their people analytics team. Given the pace of evolution of the field and the high-demand for talent in the space, this is an oversight that needs correction.
As such, it was refreshing that the main focus of Geetanjali Gamel’s presentation earlier this year at the People Analytics & Future of Work Conference in San Francisco (see key learnings here) was on this very topic.
Geetanjali is the global leader of workforce analytics at Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada). I caught up with Geetanjali recently to ask how she has created career development paths for her team as well as discuss other related topics in the people analytics field.
Geetanjali Gamel speaking at the People Analytics & Future of Work Conference in Philadelphia in September 2017
WHY PEOPLE ANALYTICS?
1. Hi Geetanjali, please can you introduce yourself, describe your background and explain what attracted you to the people analytics space.
Like many of my colleagues in people analytics, I’ve had a non-linear path to my current role. I am a trained economist and began my career in research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis studying topics like macroeconomic forecasting, unemployment and inflation. With this foundation in social science methodology and research, I soon transitioned to business forecasting, predictive analysis and scenario-planning to drive customer growth and revenue projections in corporate planning and finance departments in the energy sector. The most intriguing part of my work was in understanding, measuring and predicting human behaviour and its impact on business outcomes such as sales and revenue. So, I was naturally attracted by the opportunity to bring scientific methodology to people data and help shape how an organisation can drive value for its investors along with enhanced experience for its employees. I began by building a predictive analytics function from scratch in HR in my previous role at Mastercard and since 2016 I have led the advanced workforce analytics, consulting and reporting organisation in Merck HR.
THE PEOPLE ANALYTICS TEAM AT MERCK & CO.
2. Please can you describe the size and structure of the workforce analytics team at Merck and how it aligns to the business
Merck’s workforce analytics team (WFA) has 15 members who support 69,000 employees in over 80 markets worldwide through a rich portfolio of people analytics products.
The team consists of three primary pillars; Consulting, Advanced Analytics, and Reporting & Data Visualisation (see Figure 1 below).
Figure 1: The Workforce Analytics team at Merck & Co (Source: Geetanjali Gamel)
Consulting - Each consultant is aligned to one of our business divisions like manufacturing, research, sales, etc. They work closely with leaders to understand and anticipate burning business questions, utilise the right methodology to find the answers; and convert the analyses into actionable insights.
Advanced Analytics - The advanced analytics team is a nimble group of data scientists and specialised professionals who focus mainly on ad hoc projects requiring advanced technical skills and/or initiatives of enterprise level significance. They are organised around business questions and may support several divisions at a time, in contrast to the end-to-end approach that the consultants take with each initiative.
Reporting & Data Visualisation – This team forms the backbone of all the amazing work we are able to do, as well as the internal customer satisfaction we drive. They work directly with internal clients from all parts of the business to ensure that the right people have the right data at the right time.
The three WFA teams work closely with each other to ensure that any synergies between business initiatives are identified and leveraged.
CREATING A DATA-DRIVEN CULTURE
3. The recent Bersin by Deloitte High-Impact People Analytics study found that the single biggest predictor in creating advanced capability is the need to create a data-driven culture. How have you achieved this at Merck particularly with regards to HR Business Partners and the wider HR function?
I agree that culture can be the strongest catalyst or impediment for people analytics. It is also ridiculously difficult to identify and alter, particularly because organisations at any given time tend to be collections of sub-cultures. But there are some patterns of behaviours, decision-making, and incentive-rewards, which distinguish data driven cultures from others. These behaviours can be purposefully incubated through a combination of upskilling, training and mind-set building.
At Merck, we believe that a leading HR function is one where analytics capability is not only for the analytics team, but the whole HR team. This does not imply that every role requires equal depth in analytics, but a new baseline of data interpretation and communication skills is critical to being effective partners to the business. To this end, we started out by democratising data within our HR community by rolling out a cloud based workforce analytics platform. This is helping us drive greater familiarity and reliance on data among our HR users. We have also developed and deployed a capability-building program with modules focused on metric selection, hypothesis testing, data visualisation, recommendation development, and more.
Another channel that we have been leveraging to accelerate a data driven culture in HR has been to engage members of our wider HR community as analytics “Champions”. These superheroes are critical to spreading the adoption of data informed insights, since they live and breathe the daily challenges of their colleagues; and can share relatable examples with their counterparts on how data can unlock value.
Finally, we also have an HR leadership team that is aligned and strong advocates in relaying the message of building data and analytics capability in HR. Needless to say, sponsorship of senior leaders is imperative to the success of a people analytics function.
Sponsorship of senior leaders is imperative to the success of a people analytics function
CREATING CAREER PATHS IN PEOPLE ANALYTICS
4. You are passionate on the need to create career paths for people analytics professionals. Why do you believe this is so important?
I firmly believe that the goal of people analytics is to drive value for the business as well as provide a better experience of work for employees. So naturally, I am equally passionate about building a better work experience for the people who make people analytics possible! I find a sad irony in the fact that the team which enables decision-making on areas like career pathing, succession planning, and talent movement for the larger workforce, is often stuck in a position of having nowhere to grow. From my discussions with many colleagues in this field, I have learned that the typical people analytics team usually tends to have a group of individual contributors (analysts, data scientists, consultants) and a director or senior director level leader. This leaves only one spot for the entire team to aspire to, at least for upward movement.
In addition, most people analytics teams sit within HR and tend to be branded as a highly-specialised “HR-lite” centre of excellence (CoE), which limits the opportunities to move laterally or upward into other HR roles in CoEs or business units. And this reality of being “boxed-in” can be very frustrating for bright, highly-employable individuals.
If you are a leader in people analytics, and if you have had to recently recruit new talent for your team, I would guess you are acutely aware of the gaping chasm between talent demand and supply in this field. In my opinion, an organisation and a leader who can offer development and career growth can be a key differentiator in attracting and retaining the best people analytics talent.
Broadening that vision, if we enabled more fluid movement of people analytics talent, it would add to the diversity of skills, approaches and perspectives to other parts of HR and the business, and would create additional value for the enterprise.
An organisation and a leader who can offer development and career growth can be a key differentiator in attracting and retaining the best people analytics talent
5. What program have you put into place at Merck regarding the career development of the people analytics team?
From the first day of my role at Merck, one of my top priorities was to understand the strengths and aspirations of my team and align their development to meet their career goals. After multiple discussions and numerous iterations on ideas, I arrived at a Capability-Capacity-Connectivity model to power a sustainable development program for our people analytics team. The underlying idea is that if we can build the right capability within the analytics team and its clients; reallocate capacity that is being consumed by suboptimal tasks; and drive connectivity between people analytics teams and other parts of the business; then we can potentially discover and create new career paths and opportunities. But please bear in mind that a key driver of success for such a model is sponsorship from your leaders and partnership with other teams. In our case, we were fortunate to have both. This has empowered us to be inventive and co-create development opportunities for our team.
6. Please can you provide more detail on what comprises each of the Capability, Capacity and Connectivity elements of this approach. What have been the key benefits and learnings from the career development program?
The “3C” approach is built around tackling barriers and creating bridges that promote career development for people analytics teams. At the outset we knew that the team was faced with a high volume of requests needing significant manual effort. (see Figure 2 below):
Figure 2: Challenges in accelerating maturity in people analytics (Source: Geetanjali Gamel)
Since the day-to-day work was time and effort intensive, there was not much room to hone more sophisticated skills or build knowledge sharing relationships with others, leaving the people analytics team stuck in a loop. So, we put careful thought and purpose into adopting the following model.
Capability
The first “C”, or capability, had to be addressed at two levels. The first was to empower our broader HR team with the right tools and training to have greater autonomy to perform analyses. We moved to an intuitive analytics platform and organised workshops, office hours, and learning sessions to improve data literacy among our internal HR clients. This type of effort is important to free-up time for the people analytics team to build their own skillset (and path to growth), while also creating a greater awareness in other parts of HR about analytics.
Figure 3: Capability - Level 1: building data, technology and analytics savvy clients (Source: Geetanjali Gamel)
The second area of capability building had a more direct impact on the team. We held a team strategy session where we identified areas that needed focus for internal functional, technical and strategic competency building. These focus areas were carefully selected to create dual impact – provide us with a skill or knowledge we could use immediately in our work; and more importantly, help us practice a new behaviour that would develop us as well-rounded professionals. For example, on the technical side, we organised an in-house R-training curriculum, created and delivered by some of our own colleagues to the rest of the team. This helped us build a technical skill we could immediately put to use to do better work, and also built coaching and confidence skills for those who led the program. Another great example was of an external guest speaker series that we launched, which brought recognition to the team for bringing new insights to the company, and also helped the team gain experience in organising an event successfully end-to-end.
Figure 4: Capability - Level 2: Upskilling the people analytics team (Source: Geetanjali Gamel)
Capacity
At first, capacity building measures may not sound like a natural fit with developing career paths. But it is impossible to focus on the next steps in one’s career if there is no time to step away from the daily barrage of activity to have a conversation; listen to a webinar; learn about a new project; or simply, chat with colleagues over lunch. As such creating capacity for the team is critical to allow them to develop their skillset to be more widely applicable, as well as to build the networks they need to find new opportunities.
As mentioned before, our journey began with democratising data and providing a range of workforce metrics and even results of our enterprise voice survey in accessible cloud platforms to our HR community. We continue to supplement our efforts to empower our internal clients, and in the process unlock capacity for our team, by forming global communities of practice for analytics. Another effort to scale our analytics delivery and save precious time has been by finding opportunities to utilise process automation on repeatable tasks.
It is impossible to focus on the next steps in one’s career if there is no time to step away from the daily barrage of activity
Connectivity
Despite efforts in building capability and reallocating capacity, there can’t be much career development if there is nowhere to go! This is when the third “C” of connectivity comes into play. In fact, it could just as easily be C for creativity, because we need a great deal of innovative thinking and risk taking to create opportunities where they don’t always exist.
We started with small yet effective steps rather than trying to construct huge, formal programs. Connecting the people analytics team with other HR, data science, technology, and business professionals builds an awareness and appreciation for different types of work on both sides. We leveraged opportunities to co-create part-time assignments with other teams, participate in cross functional events, invite guest speakers to team meetings, and collaborate on projects to expose the team to other areas of analytical work.
Connecting the people analytics team with other HR, data science, technology, and business professionals builds an awareness and appreciation for different types of work on both sides
To create development assignments for the people analytics team we were creative and went with “quasi-experiments”. The first was an opportunity for a team member to take on the role of an HR business partner on a part-time basis for a few, smaller client groups. This gave the individual an opportunity to apply their analytical skillset to the role and get much greater exposure than before to business clients and business issues. Such an experiment has a multiplier effect. Where typically a business partner track is not easily available to a people analytics professional, creating such an opportunity internally can open up a new career path. Moreover, even if the individual does not end up pursuing this new career direction at the end of the experiment, it is still a valuable learning experience for them to be in the shoes of their internal client, i.e., the HR business partner. Finally, it may help to lay the foundation for what I like to call the HRBP 3.0 model.
Where the original HRBP role had a heavy component of operational (and even transactional) work, the HRBP 2.0 model that many companies follow today aims at strategic business partners who enable key business decisions. The HRBP 3.0 model takes it a step further by envisioning an analytical HR business partner, who relies on both data driven insight and business acumen to support their client.
Another “experiment” in creating new career opportunities was a mini-assignment we created for one of our people analytics team members to lead a large, remote team in the service delivery space. This was a completely different line of work from people analytics, and was heavily focused on operational and organisational skills like identifying and escalating issues on short deadlines, supplier relationship management, building relationships with a variety of HR and non HR stakeholders, and leading a service centre team to drive customer satisfaction. Clearly, this would not be a typical career path for a people analytics professional, but that is exactly why we need to be bold and creative with such experiments. This assignment not only exposed the individual to a different type and pace of work, but also gave them an opportunity to bring their analytical skills to the table to significantly elevate the usage and interpretation of transactional data.
While many mature organisations have good-sized people analytics teams, there are still many where the teams are pretty lean. This model may work well for most purposes, but it usually limits the opportunities for team-members to have people management experience. This is not always necessary for upward mobility, but it many cases it is difficult to move upward without some kind of experience of leading a team. Keeping this in mind, we built more depth in our people analytics team, creating enterprise advanced people analytics and data visualisation and reporting sub-teams within the larger group, which are led by two of our team members. Taking a chance on subject matter experts and giving them the opportunity to lead and delegate not only helps to open up doors for them, it also gives them a chance to coach others on their team to be future experts and leaders.
Lastly, we also created a new learning analytics role on our people analytics team which is a step toward building greater synergies between people analytics and learning practices, but also our small contribution in creating a new capability (and career path!) that is still evolving in many organisations.
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