Reimagined Workforce - Workforce Transformation

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to reimagine the workforce and develop the skills needed for the future? Join us as we explore this fascinating topic with our esteemed guests, Michelle Ockers and Arun Pradhan. As experts in the field of learning and development, they have been instrumental in shaping our professional lives and those of countless others. In this insightful conversation, we discu...

Send us Fan Mail How can understanding demographics and trends shape the future of our work, workplace and workforces? And how could it be used to shape the education system? Join us as we sit down with social analyst, demographer, and author Mark McCrindle to explore the importance of long-term vision and planning.  In our conversation, we take a look at how work has evolved from merely exchangin...

Send us Fan Mail Collaboration is an essential element to solving complex problems. And while most of us rely on collaboration in our work, few of us have ever been taught how to do it effectively. This is largely because the people who are good at it do not really know why they are good at it. Ed Morrison decided to find out and share it with the world so we could all benefit. In this episode he...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Burrows has a new approach to Strategic Workforce Planning...Coaching. He has over 30 years’ experience devoted to the delivery of data, reporting and analytics, including 17 years purely focused people analytics and strategic workforce planning in both London and Sydney.  Most recently he was Director of Workforce Planning for Faethm by Pearson where he worked with several l...

Send us Fan Mail Jo'Anne Langham has been supporting government organisations to solve complex problems for decades. She applies a human centred design approach to empthasise with those facing the problems to collaboratively solve design solutions with them. She applies a human centred design approach which is supported by a platform called Sparttank which she developed. Sparktank is an innov...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kieran Murrihy provides a structured approach to reimagining the future and how we might make it happen. He outlines the emerging trends that are likely to impact our workforces into the future, including: people power machine models to ecosystemic models tech abundance Kieran Murrihy is a consultant futurist and founder of Crazy Ideas College and Foresight Lane....

Send us Fan Mail It is a well known that the demand for the Healthcare workforce is fast outstripping supply.  Strategic workforce planning can provide us with alternative ways of ensuring our citizens have access to quality and safe healthcare, where and when they need it. Paul Clarkson explains how he is establishing the function at Mater, a private and public healthcare organisation in Brisbane...

Send us Fan Mail Are you confident your employee's digital experience is enabling them to perform at their best? Jazz Hanley is the Enterprise Sales Director at Temporal, a leading workplace analytics and insights company, making working life more productive, efficient and engaging for all. His focus for 2023 and beyond, is to create a digital working environment with the same intention as th...

Send us Fan Mail Helen Finneran has been workforce planning for health organisations for over 15 years. She speaks about how she applied systems thinking to improve outcomes for urgent care in rural health. This is a truly wicked problem and Helen takes us through the steps she took to determine the four projects that would make a difference. 4:09 Helen's reimagined workforce 13:28 Finding tr...

Send us Fan Mail Dieter Veldsman PhD is an Organisational Psychologist with a strong focus on strategic HR, talent, digital HR organisational design and development. He was awarded the CHRO of the year in 2021 by the Chief HR Officer Society of South Africa. He has 15 plus years of experience across the HR value chain and lifecycle having worked for and consulted with various multinational corpora...

Send us Fan Mail Alison Hernandez explains how she had driven better outcomes for organisations and employees for over 20 years. She takes us through the important considerations to creating optimal employee experiences that are underpinned by listening to employees and finding solutions together. We discuss: the impact of demographic shifts the four step process for Redesigning Work the factors w...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Derler PhD is the Principal of Research and Value at Visier and conducts research on one of the largest data sets available, 17 million employees...and counting. Andrea speaks to us about what she has been finding lately that we can use to make better decisions relating to the humans in our organisations. In particular, she discusses: the need for data capability  addressin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ralf Buechsenschuss explains how he aligns HR Strategy, People Analytics and Digital Transformation to gain the greatest benefit from both formal and informal networks within an organisation. Ralf explains how these fields intersect to create a comprehensive picture to guide decision making to deliver strategic priorities. He also provides an example of how he par...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, it's just me sharing  three creative ideas for how we might build and sustain a high performing workforce. I outline the practical steps we can take to enhance the experience of employees in the workforce to boost their motivation, enhance their performance and encourage them to stay. Episode transcript and references Connect with Kath Hume on LinkedIn The Re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Deb Semple provides some of her recent experiences in supporting organisations to crowdsource information from their workforces to inform their organisational design. Deb has a wealth of experience in supporting a range of industries. She explains how she utilises the HR Tech solution, OrgVue to consult with her clients to drive efficiency and effectiveness. Deb S...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Cerasoli is the Senior Associate Director of People Analytics at Boehringer Ingelheim. He has generated award winning research, cutting edge analytics and evidence based actionable tools for Government, Defence, Fortune 500, companies and internal clients. In this episode he speaks with such clarity about the future of People Analytics and the importance of blending it...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Phil Cook shares his thoughts on how digital transformation can lead to better work life balance that delivers mutually beneficial outcomes for organisations and the people in them. He shares his perspective on where we are heading in the future and how we might ensure the best possible outcomes. He talks about how we can work with technology to leave repetitive t...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Kennedy is the Chair of the Workforce Planning Institute, an organisation that exists to support collaboration, foster innovation, and develop workforce planning capability across the public, private government and not for profit sectors worldwide. Nick started his career as a mechanical engineer but found himself in a strategic workforce planning role where he was supported...

Send us Fan Mail Maree Howard is the Head of Organisation Capability at Life without Borders. She speaks of the evolution of the Human Resource function over her career that has spanned almost every industry over several decades. 3:55 The appeal of People and Culture 8:19 Where we are now 9:37 The need to make complex work effortless 12:26 Shifting from recruitment to training and development 16:2...

Send us Fan Mail Ian Arnold shares his view of the Reimagined Workforce and how he applies human centred design to uncover innovative solutions to complex workforce challenges. Recorded 27 July 2022 Season 1 Episode 6 Key moments 3:33 Ian describes his reimagined workforce 6:49 Exploring the problem to be solved 13:07 Benefits of reimagining our workforces 15:49 Capabilities that enable success in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Reimagined Workforce podcast, I provide an introduction to the human centred design methodology in preparation for the episode 6 with Ian Arnold who describes his experience in applying it in his work. I explain why human centred design used to solve complex problems. I outline the key steps and how to bring them to life. I describe how human centred design...

Send us Fan Mail Alicia Roach is the co-founder and director of eQ8. eQ8 is an innovative platform that goes beyond complex analytics, detailed algorithms and predictive insights to produce compelling visualizations that facilitate strategic workforce planning, conversations to drive organizational outcomes.  I credit Alicia with exposing me to the world of strategic workforce planning at a Public...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I outline a few of the fundamental steps involved in strategic workforce planning. This is divided into two parts. Part 1 is more general information around establishing a strategic workforce planning project or function. Part 2 provides an overview of some of the steps you will need to complete to develop a strategic workforce plan that outlines the workforce you...

Send us Fan Mail Being aware of the workforce challenges and opportunities enables us to develop and implement quality plans to ensure the workforce has the capacity and capability to deliver organisational outcomes, today and tomorrow. In this episode, Alicia Cook highlights the Top 5 challenges and opportunities she is seeing in her work at Emerson Health where she supports Healthcare organisati...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explain my reasons for creating this podcast and sharing it publicly. Essentially, I hope people feel energised and inspired by others who are willing to share their stories. Over this first 10 episodes, I hope to bring your stories from people who are making a meaningful impact through workforce transformation across a range of organisations and industries. We...