Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
In this podcast I discuss the ever-changing role of Labor in our economy, our companies, and our own personal lives. The word “labor” is really an old-fashioned idea, but we still have the US holiday, so I wanted to unpack what it now means.
As you’ll learn Labor Day is a time to think about ... Read more»
One of the most interesting tech companies we’ve studied is Dropbox, a $7 billion market cap rocket ship generating more than $2.5 billion in revenue. This kind of company, which sells a platform that competes with Microsoft, Google, and other major players, lives in a world of brutal competition: competition for product leadership, sales deals, ... Read more»
In this WhatWorks podcast I interview Andy Bradshaw, the CEO of SHL. SHL is one of the world’s largest psychometric assessment vendors, bringing together psychology, skills assessment, and other forms of measurement to identify the capabilities, and potential of an individual at work.
These highly scientific assessments are widely used for pre-hire screening, job-fit ... Read more»
In this week’s podcast I describe the HR Career Navigator and the role of HR skills and capabilities in HR and business transformation. Then, as we approach HR Tech season, I give you my three steps to evaluating HR Tech vendors.
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Today we introduce a groundbreaking new offering: an AI-driven comprehensive Career Navigator for HR professionals. Here’s the story.
The Human Resources profession is vast, complex, and continuously changing. HR professionals who started as recruiters or HR generalists are now flooded with opportunities for specialist roles, technology roles, or consulting opportunities. How does an HR ... Read more»
This week I recap the idea of a “Corporate Learning Architecture” and give you some of my historic perspectives on why this is so important in the age of AI. A Learning Architecture is a constrained approach to corporate L&D that gives employees a clear and memorable approach to learning, and also gives ... Read more»
As I discussed a few months ago, autonomous corporate learning is here. And unlike autonomous driving, which can cause an accident, these new tools are astoundingly accurate and can do things human designers find quite difficult.
Today Arist, a pioneer in mobile adaptive learning, introduced their new product Arist Creator, a major upgrade ... Read more»
In this episode, Susan Podlogar, former CHRO at MetLife, talks with Kathi Enderes about the transformative impact of an AI-based talent marketplace (powered by Gloat). You’ll learn what a talent marketplace is, how to implement, and why these solutions are rapidly growing around the world.
Podlogar explains how they implemented this solution and ... Read more»
In the last few weeks there has been a lot of concern that Gen AI is a “bubble” and companies may never see the return on the $Trillion being spent on infrastructure. Let me cite four analyst’s opinions.
Will Today’s Massive AI Investments Pay Off?
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu estimates that over the next ten ... Read more»
The NYT published an article explaining how hard it is to be an HR professional. “The job has become an exasperating ordeal. People hate us.”
While many people don’t know this, HR is a complex, difficult, and highly strategic profession. And given that HR professionals are caught between leadership and employees, it can often ... Read more»
This week we saw US unemployment “tick up” to 4.3% and economists started begging for lower interest rates. For those of us who talk with companies and leaders all day, I would say we’re experiencing what I’d call a normal economic cycle.
The last major recession (not including the Pandemic, which was not a demand ... Read more»
In this conversation, I discuss three main topics: the battle in the enterprise chatbot space, the transformation of talent acquisition, and the new “sticky” state of the job market.
How to make sense of enterprise AI Copilots? Workday and Salesforce team up, Apple Intelligence is coming, how do you make sense of it all?
In ... Read more»
This week Workday and Salesforce announced a major partnership, focused on integrating these two major enterprise systems to get ahead of the increasing demand for integrated AI.
What did they announce? Two big things.
First, the companies are going to integrate their data platforms.
Salesforce holds vast amounts of sales and customer data (leads, ... Read more»
In this podcast I summarize a series of high-level meetings I’ve had with HR leaders in the EU, where companies are very focused on preparing for tectonic shifts in employee expectations, skills, and work rules. While articles and podcasts continue to talk about “the future of work,” I believe that narrative is over. The industrial ... Read more»
Today I broadcast again from Ireland, where I discuss why I disagree with SHRM’s position on DEI, how DEI is undermined and why it remains important, the unfortunate decline in civility in the American workplace, and how we afford the $2 Trillion investments in #AI. (Read our research report Elevating Equity to understand the real-world ... Read more»
