#HRevolution

109: Ask Questions and Listen with Julio Govreau

Join the #HRevolution Episode 9: “Ask Questions and Listen” with Julio Govreau CHRO at LaunchCode.

Julio Govreau is an inspiring HR leader with a background in Business Management as well as Communications. Julio does sing in his off time but understands what "perfect harmony" looks like when the HR department is fully engaged with employees and the business. Julio shares that the work we do in HR MATTERS but we must actively listen to understand precisely how and where we can have an impact. He reiterates that it is all about DATA once you have learned the business by asking the right questions and listening. As the world of work changes Julio has focused on making it personal to build strong, long-lasting relationships while creating a "constantly learning environment" to keep ahead of the competition.

Start asking questions!

 

We discuss:

-Creating a constant learning environment 

-Connecting employees to purpose 

-Communication and engagement strategies with a remote, hybrid, and onsite 

-Understanding the impact of people operations on all business units

-Building trust across the organization 

-Failure is not final, how to learn from mistakes and evolve the business

108: Evidence Based HR with Dr. Solange Charas

Join the #HRevolution Episode 8: “Evidence Based HR” with Dr. Solange Charas, Founder and CEO at HCMoneyball. 

In this episode, Dr. Solange Charas discusses the ROI of Human Capital and how we can use more evidence-based approaches in HR to build the skills and relationships necessary for the proper investment in intangible assets, which has become the most valuable asset to corporations. We talk about the final frontier, human resources, and how organizations are slowly waking up to how their human capital directly impacts the bottomline. 

Dr. Solange harped on the fact we in HR need to learn the qualitative and quantitative data relevant to the business and understand how to use it to tell a story all other business leaders and units can understand.

 

We discuss:

-Human Capital is an intangible asset 

-Understanding the proper indicator for your business - HCROI, HCMB, and HCVA- Evidence-Based Approach

-Relationship between EBITA and HCROI

-HC Investment Intensity

-Using data for decision making and evidence

-Assessing and reassessing the effectiveness of HR-related initiatives for continued investment  

107: Business Savvy HR with Candice Fobb

Join the #HRevolution Episode #7: “Business-Savvy HR” with Candice Fobb, CHRO at ParFab Companies. 

In this episode, Candice Fobb shares her journey as CHRO at ParFab recently acquired by Private Equity and having an impact on the business. Candice shares that her MBA helped to give her perspective but also gave her the ability to “talk business.” We in HR are constantly shaking the negative connotation that we only do feel-good things like party planning, but that we are business savvy and we understand how to drive revenue and growth. We discussed how being obsessed with solving problems will help is to find that alignment between what the employee needs and what the business wants. 

Candice stressed the importance of developing a relationship with finance but also harped on the need for HR professionals to speak in dollars.

 

We discuss:

-Business mindset in HR

-Becoming obsessed with the problem 

-Understanding where our time is being spent in HR

-How to create efficiencies with the investment in technology 

-What it means to be an active business partner in HR

-Active Talent Management

-Finding balance 

 

106: Going Into the Storm with Steve Browne

Join the #HRevolution Episode #6: "Going Into The Storm” with Steve Browne, Chief People Officer at LaRosa’s Pizzeria Inc.  

In this episode, Steve Browne shares his journey as Chief People Officer of an extremely successful, family-owned business.  Throughout our conversation, we dive into the Human side of Human Resources, discussing our role as HR Practitioners to “embrace the uncomfortable.” When we head towards the problems and address them head-on we can solve the business challenge as they are typically people related.  In addition, we explore how the HR Profession is evolving to become a powerful force in bringing on meaningful change in the twenty-first-century workplace.

HR professionals should be the conduit for communications between department leaders, managers, senior leadership, and the employees.

 

Kevyn Rustici and Bobby Spaziani, SHRM-CP discuss:

-Conversations and connections HR should focus on internally

-Impact of employee recognition programs

-How to breed a people-first culture

-The importance of pausing to give people our time

-Future role of HR in business 

105: Ask Good Business Questions with Jakob Ejlsted

Jakob shares with us the importance of asking good business questions to get the most out of your people-related data, instead of just asking HR questions. Since leadership is typically driven by profits, we need to understand this and communicate meaningful people analytics that will help the business achieve the desired result. HR needs to be the master "translator" within their business, when we can articulate what the people want and communicate what the business needs then we can create an integrated culture that yields results. 

 

We discuss:

 

-Basic decision-making roadmap with data

-Culture Integration

-How good companies are leveraging people analytics to make key business decisions

-The importance of having a people-first mentality during times of M&A and organizational restructuring

-Building a people strategy during a global pandemic

-Learning the numbers in HR and how to ask good business questions

And more...

 

104:The Competitive Advantage of People Analytics with Max Blumberg

Join The #HRevolution for Episode 4: "The Competitive Advantage of People Analytics" with Max Blumberg, People Analytics Consultant and Owner of Blumberg Partnership LTD.

Max Blumberg takes us on a personal, insightful, and humorous People Analytics journey in order to help us (and all HR Professionals) understand the importance of using human capital data and analytics to influence company stakeholders, improve organizational capabilities, and drive greater Human Capital Return on Investment (HCROI). Kevyn refers to Max as "The Godfather of People Analytics"

We discuss:

- The evolution of people analytics from theory to critical business process

- How to effectively connect the academic world to the business world through the scientific method

- Going from descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive analytics to multi-level modeling in order to provide real value

- Why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can be both useful and dangerous as the Future of Work evolves

- What HR professionals need to know when implementing a People Analytics process in their organization
- And more….

 

103 | Fully Embedding DEI Into The Organization - with Tashanda Thomas

Tashanda Thomas shares with us the importance of fully integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into every aspect of the business, not only to maximize business results but because it’s the right thing to do.

Tashanda discusses with Kevyn Rustici and Christopher Darone:

• Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a critical business driver and must be woven into every aspect of the organization
• How flexibility and agility is no longer a “nice to have” but a “need to have” organizational pillar
• The many hats HR leaders wear on a daily basis
• Why listening with empathy is a necessary skill
• How to communicate with courage and consideration when having critical conversations
• The importance of all levels taking active ownership of engagement.

102 | Learn Forward in HR - with Jenna Rosenberg

Jenna Rosenberg is all about adding value to Visions FCU, a rapidly growing credit union spanning multiple states with a growth mindset.

As the VP Chief Governance and Strategy Officer, she shares with us how she is able to provide insights using data while understanding how to build the necessary internal partnerships to execute strategy.

Jenna reviews her evolution as an HR professional, sharing how her MBA helps make her a more dynamic HR leader. Being able to talk finance has allowed her to understand where she could have an impact in the business, making all the difference in building a winning culture.

Her focus on growth, strategy, and alignment is an inspiration, and she helps the board of directors, executive team, and employees to deliver on their objectives and initiatives.

 

In the conversation:

• Her new Role: From VP HR to Chief Governance and Strategy Officer
• Handling expectations of the board and employees
• Understanding priorities, what are your overarching tenants?
• Setting the right intention, and finding the organizations "why"
• Applying her MBA in real-time, and how it helped make her a more global thinker
• Why all HR professionals need to be business partners and take the time to learn about the business operations
• What is the business case for this, and how to prioritize
• How to adjust your approach based on personalities.

Listen and find out how Jenna Rosenberg ensures alignment with her stakeholders and uses data to make sure her company is aiming at the right target.

101 | Building the Greatest Company in the World - with Sallie Reid

Listen and find out how Salle Reid stepped in to help build the greatest company in the world from her kitchen during a global pandemic.

For our first guest, Sallie Reid joins us and she is an HR dynamo when it comes to providing value to ACV Auctions. Sallie was brought in to help build one of the greatest companies in the world. Sallie reflects on her own experience from wildly successful employee-first cultures, and how it helped to show her how to be a strategic business partner, how important an employee-centric culture is, and why it's worth fighting for. One thing for sure Sallie isn't afraid to make changes and challenge the status quo if she knows it will make the company and culture better.

We discuss:

-How she in HR provides value and gets "into the field"

-Having critical conversations with managers

-Understanding the business inside and out

-People Analytics a new skill in high demand today

-Business and financial literacy

-The future of work and where are we headed as a profession in HR