In this 37-minute podcast episode, host Amy Bernstein speaks to two experts, Nitin Mittal and Tsedal Neeley about how to adopt generative AI effectively and ethically within an organization. Nitin leads Deloitte’s global AI business and cowrote the book All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence. Tsedal is a professor at Harvard Business School and wrote the HBR article “8 Questions …
In this 43-minute podcast, Ian Bailie (Board advisor to Insight222 and SVP of People Operations at Crypto), David Green (Managing Partner, Insight222), Diane Gherson (former Chief Human Resources Officer at IBM and now Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School), and Dave Ulrich (Professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and Co-founder of RBL Group.) discuss 2023 workforce trends. The conversation covers: a …
Two weeks ago, I made a post about The Conference Board’s recently released report, Telling Your Human Capital Story. The 20-page report guides organizations on how they can tailor the messages of their human capital story to different stakeholder groups (e.g., investors, current and prospective and current employees, etc.) while still drawing from a single source of truth. As a …
Developing the next generation of leaders is a top priority for CEOs globally, according to The Conference Board’s C-suite Outlook 2022: Reset and Reimagine Report. And while identifying and developing high-potential employees has been a longstanding pursuit of many organizations, firms still struggle with accurately defining and measuring potential. In this 50-minute podcast, host JP Elliot interviews Allan …
Organizations are increasingly trying to shift from role-based to skill-based talent practices. But as I noted in a recent post about the Deloitte article, The Skills-based Organization: A New Operating Model for Work and the Workforce, fewer than one in five organizations have adopted skills-based approaches to a significant extent. Another recent report by the Conference Board (I can’t share the full …
In my 2016 article, Linking Talent Strategy With Business Strategy, I mentioned that if you ask HR practitioners to articulate their company’s talent strategy, the answers might sound more like a list of talent processes, programs, and practices versus a strategy. And while these components enable a talent strategy, they are not a talent strategy by themselves. …
During last week’s HR Technology Conference and Exposition, many HR practitioners learned about the latest technology changing all facets of HR and talent management (see agenda). In his keynote address entitled, “The Disruption Never Stops: What’s New and What’s Ahead in the HR Tech Market,” Josh Bersin summarized the HR tech landscape and untangled this complex, ever-evolving HR tech …
You’ve probably heard or seen the term “quiet quitting” (QQ) being shared across various social media platforms and publications, including this 8-minute Wall Street Journal podcast. And while there are varying and confusing descriptions of QQ, three main points to sum up this latest workplace buzzword are: 1) Unlike the name suggests, quiet quitting is not about …
Many leaders recognize the critical role of strategic workforce planning (SWP) in executing organizational strategy. Yet, SWP practitioners continue to face challenges in implementing SWP in their firms. I covered a few of these challenges in my 2019 People + Strategy article on SWP, such as making SWP too complex to be practically executed. As SWP …
In this new one-hour on-demand webinar conducted on April 27, 2022, Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau share ideas from their book, Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (released March 29, 2022). The main point of their book is that organizations must embrace a new “work operating system” that deconstructs or unpacks jobs into …
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