Nine To Thrive HR

Top HR leaders say that getting ahead of change is crucial for their thriving organizations. It’s natural to expect innovation, but today, it’s about predicting change and using digital transformation to impact the way things are done. For example, candidate experience is becoming more and more digitalized, and so recruiting has to change accordingly. In this episode of Nine to Thrive HR, Roopesh...

Ryan Sarpalius of Uber joins the podcast to discuss the challenges of measuring the impact of learning and development programs in a global organization. Make sure to watch Ryan's keynote presentation at the 2019 People Analytics and Workforce Planning Conference in Miami, FL. Live and virtual passes available at www.pawpconference.com

Most organizations have goals to be diverse, inclusive, and fair, but find that their good intentions do not lead to the wanted outcomes. This podcast features Judith Williams Head of People Sustainability and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at SAP. From her experiences leading D&I, Judith shares ideas for building a successful D&I strategy and what practices to avoid. Judith gives recommend...

Amid an increasingly diverse and distributed workforce are shifting societal priorities, the growth of artificial intelligence and technology, an increase in employee burnout, and the need for resilience. How can organizations and leaders best prepare themselves for this burgeoning world or work? Building an intentional culture and tackling the most pressing people issues facing HR professionals i...

How can you ensure that your engagement surveys are a vehicle for individual and organizational change? A holistic approach to engagement needs to be taken that includes employees, managers, and organizations. It is critical to the success of engagement initiatives that all employees receive feedback on their engagement surveys. This podcast, featuring Dr. Scott Rigby of motivationWorks, will shar...

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace has become a business, economic, and social imperative. Organizations that unleash the potential of diverse talent see: • 39% higher customer satisfaction for diverse, inclusive companies[1] • 48% higher operating margins generated by diverse management teams[2] • 35% higher return on equity for companies with women on the board[3] • Diversity Inc. top 50 c...

The agony of reference checking, experts say, keeps talent acquisition professionals from going through the motions. They “give it the side eye” due to misbeliefs about authentic feedback, not being valuable of their time, inability to predict candidate success, poor processes, among others. There’s got to be a better way. And there is! Join SkillSurvey Chief Marketing Office Michelle Reed to bust...

“Show me the money!” This iconic scene from the movie Jerry Maguire gets to a core factor of any job. Especially with access to social media and company review sites like Glassdoor, the perceptions and expectations around compensation are changing. Join us for this podcast with Dr. Lauren Bidwell, a Decision-Making Psychologist and Research Scientist in Human Capital Management at SAP SuccessFacto...

Performance Management is one of the necessary evils of management, but is there a way to make it less painful and more effective? Dr. Steven Hunt knows there is. Over the course of 10 years, SAP SuccessFactors has studied performance management in a variety of different organizations and industries, and that research has yielded some critical takeaways about what works – and what doesn’t. Join us...

Everyone in talent management seems to talk about employee engagement, which companies measure to predict important business outcomes. The problem? Most companies don’t know how to motivate their employees so that high engagement reflects low retention, solid ethics and increased happiness. To succeed in employee motivation today, leaders must move beyond old practices of incentives and rules. The...

The adage is true: no man is an island. While individual performance is a standard metric, people are heavily influenced by those around them. This social performance management model is a new way to think about and measure performance in a job, especially as teams have become more ubiquitous and integral to work today. Join us for this podcast and discussion with Dr. Steven, Hunt, the Vice Presid...

A large body of research supports the fact that well-being matters at work. But, what does that mean financially? Join us for this podcast where we go in-depth with Dr. Autumn Krauss of SAP SuccessFactors and Ilyce Glink, the CEO of Best Money Moves, discovering what financial well-being is, why it’s important to your employees, and what you can do to support and enable it in your own organization...

Many people think that employee well-being is a “soft” initiative. These same people would likely argue that their organization needs to focus on sustaining business operations, decreasing costs, and increasing employee engagement and productivity. What people fail to realize is that investment in well-being motivates and enables the workforce to better execute company strategy. If you want to lea...

Workforce strategy and people analytics are “absolutely complimentary,” according to Aon’s Director of People Analytics, Neil Shastri. Strategic workforce planning isn’t going anywhere, which makes the need for core skills among people as important as ever: teamwork, learning comprehension and long-term planning ability, for example. As the rate of change in the workplace picks up, each shift make...

Performance management is among the top areas where organizations must stay on the cutting edge of trends and developments in best practices. At its core, performance management is a fundamental, human process with many moving change management parts. Even though tech, AI and talent mobility shift, the human part of the process still matters. The companies that are the best at performance manageme...

The frequency of change in our work world today can make feeling at ease seem impossible. How can you breathe easily, when you never know what change might be lurking right around the corner? Shifts in the office are best handled with a shift in leadership’s mindset and the tools they’re using. In fact, when leaders have the skills needed to thrive through change, they’re best prepared and empower...

Leaders say data that’s associated with large databases can guarantee the right talent takes the right roles in your company, but using big data proves to be quite challenging. Recruiters have their work cut out for them in today’s war on talent. The correct use of big data in talent acquisition comes from understanding that there’s more to do then data mine the path to top candidates. Recruiters...

Leadership teams don’t stay the same for very long, meaning your company must be ready when succession plans ...well, don't go as planned. You’ve had your eye on a potential leader for a while, but the unexpected redirects focus to your Plan B – the one who will step up when original plans fall through, who’s not necessarily on the list. How do you know they’re ready for the next step, and how do...

Leaders are put to the test every day when it comes to agility and being “mentally tough,” but the right mindset can determine if you sink or swim. Even if you weren’t the tough kid in school, with the right mindset you can become the tough leader that drives your business forward, and the same goes for HR executives developing leaders of today and tomorrow. Constant change has come to be expected...

Industrial-Organizational psychologist, Tiffany Poeppelman shares how HR and L&D professionals can be a strategic partner to the business. She speaks about the science of influence and about what strategic behaviors look like. In this podcast, we discuss how measurement and HR analytics support executive sponsorship and gaining buy-in from all stakeholders.

Ensuring that today’s organizations deliver a positive candidate experience means HR professionals have to land in a happy medium – one that incorporates technology and people. A candidate experience, according to Humber River Hospital’s Director of Talent Management and Workforce Analytics, Paul Hamilton, “refers to the sum of every interaction a candidate has with your organization during the at...

Free Gift: http://unstoppablecultures.com/landingpages/hci/ Organizational culture might just be the next big thing in your company’s leadership and development success story. After all, Southwest Airlines has a remarkably low turnover rate and the company gets seemingly countless job applications. One might say Southwest has an Unstoppable Culture, which means it puts its people first, goes “peda...

When fresh, new faces of top talent join your team, the best onboarding practices begin before the employee’s first day with your workforce. The time between the job offer being accepted and the end of the employee’s first day – “Day Zero” engagement – is powerful and meaningful for new hires and so the employee’s experience should follow a careful design to jumpstart their journey. Join Bek Chee,...

Teams are so ubiquitous in the workplace that we often don’t give much thought to the teams we are a part of.  HCI researchers' 2017 Talent Pulse describes the I’s of teams: Intention (the design), interaction (performance and training), and influence (leadership) and how each plays a role for better talent and business outcomes. Darrin Murriner, author and CEO, discusses how to apply the three I'...

Buyers are more likely to respond well to sellers who behave like leaders, according to research, which means they must adopt the same approaches and practices used by effective business leaders. There’s a credibility between buyers and sellers that’s supported when sellers follow through with their word, and involve buyers in visions and solutions for a common goal. Join Deb Calvert, co-author of...