HR Trends with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

The buzz: HR Metrics. If you’re an HR professional, metrics such as cost per hire, training cost per employee, turnover rate, and lag between posting and filling a position will show the executive team that you’re doing your job, but not much more. “Vanity metrics” are not the same as applying workforce analytics tools to give your C-Suite leaders the data-driven, actionable insights they need to solve business problems. Current wisdom says to stop focusing on activity numbers and instead answer the critical question, “What is the value?” The experts speak. Greta Roberts, Talent Analytics: “Pretty HR dashboards and visualizations rarely provide strategic, actionable business insights. Kris Dunn, Kinetix: “Life is a game. Money is how we keep score (Ted Turner). Mick Collins, SAP: “A politician knows not only how to count votes, but how to make his vote count” (U.S. President Richard Nixon, 1969.) Join us for Stop with the Vanity Metrics: Measure What Matters.

The buzz: HR Metrics. If you’re an HR professional, metrics such as cost per hire, training cost per employee, turnover rate, and lag between posting and filling a position will show the executive team that you’re doing your job, but not much more. “Vanity metrics” are not the same as applying workforce analytics tools to give your C-Suite leaders the data-driven, actionable insights they need to solve business problems. Current wisdom says to stop focusing on activity numbers and instead answer the critical question, “What is the value?” The experts speak. Greta Roberts, Talent Analytics: “Pretty HR dashboards and visualizations rarely provide strategic, actionable business insights. Kris Dunn, Kinetix: “Life is a game. Money is how we keep score (Ted Turner). Mick Collins, SAP: “A politician knows not only how to count votes, but how to make his vote count” (U.S. President Richard Nixon, 1969.) Join us for Stop with the Vanity Metrics: Measure What Matters.

The buzz: Recruiting. Acquiring top talent is tough, with today’s job mobility mindset and competitive employee poaching. Another challenge: your Employer Brand. Similar to customers relying on social network reviews of your products, potential recruits are combing the Web for insider info about your organization. Are your Talent leaders and employee ambassadors helping or hindering your brand? The experts speak. Tim Sackett, HRU Technical Resources: “I don’t know how this is going to end, I know how it’s going to begin” (Neo, The Matrix). Will Staney, Glassdoor: “I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success” (Tennessee Williams). Jessica Miller-Merrell, Xceptional HR: “To climb the ladder of success, you don't need more techniques and strategies, you need more friends (Jeffrey Gitmore). Join us for The Yelpification of Recruiting.

The buzz: Recruiting. Acquiring top talent is tough, with today’s job mobility mindset and competitive employee poaching. Another challenge: your Employer Brand. Similar to customers relying on social network reviews of your products, potential recruits are combing the Web for insider info about your organization. Are your Talent leaders and employee ambassadors helping or hindering your brand? The experts speak. Tim Sackett, HRU Technical Resources: “I don’t know how this is going to end, I know how it’s going to begin” (Neo, The Matrix). Will Staney, Glassdoor: “I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success” (Tennessee Williams). Jessica Miller-Merrell, Xceptional HR: “To climb the ladder of success, you don't need more techniques and strategies, you need more friends (Jeffrey Gitmore). Join us for The Yelpification of Recruiting.

The buzz: Turnover? Oh no! Employee attrition is a fact of life staring your HR leaders in the eye, more often than ever due to escalating job mobility, social recruiting and talent poaching. You know that every employee will leave at some point. But it becomes painful for your organization when your prized top talent are the ones jumping ship without even a rumored whisper preceding their departure. The goal for your HR team is not to prevent all turnover, but to prevent the unplanned, unmanaged kind. How are today’s successful companies enticing their most valued human capital to stay? The experts speak. China Gorman, Great Place to Work: “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value” (Albert Einstein). Dr. Steven Hunt, SuccessFactors: “People don’t necessarily want to leave their company after two years, but you may need to create a compelling reason to stay.” Join us for Battling Attrition: How To Keep Good Employees?

The buzz: Turnover? Oh no! Employee attrition is a fact of life staring your HR leaders in the eye, more often than ever due to escalating job mobility, social recruiting and talent poaching. You know that every employee will leave at some point. But it becomes painful for your organization when your prized top talent are the ones jumping ship without even a rumored whisper preceding their departure. The goal for your HR team is not to prevent all turnover, but to prevent the unplanned, unmanaged kind. How are today’s successful companies enticing their most valued human capital to stay? The experts speak. China Gorman, Great Place to Work: “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value” (Albert Einstein). Dr. Steven Hunt, SuccessFactors: “People don’t necessarily want to leave their company after two years, but you may need to create a compelling reason to stay.” Join us for Battling Attrition: How To Keep Good Employees?

The buzz: Work-life what? The term ‘work-life balance’ has become a cliché for a frustrating goal that few of us in the workforce ever reach, or reach very often. With boundaries between work and family more blurred than ever, stress, job burnout, and competition for our time all take a toll on our work productivity and our health. Take heart. Now there’s flexstyle, a more nuanced way of finding balance that reflects individual working styles. Is flexstyle the right fit for you and your employer? The experts speak. Brenda A. Lautsch, Simon Fraser University: “Flexibility isn’t the answer to everyone’s work-life balance problems.” Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University: “Make technology work for you, not against you...redraw the lines between work and family.” Karie Willyerd, SAP: “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” (Refrigerator magnet) Join us for Work-Life Balance: What’s Your Flexstyle?

The buzz: Work-life what? The term ‘work-life balance’ has become a cliché for a frustrating goal that few of us in the workforce ever reach, or reach very often. With boundaries between work and family more blurred than ever, stress, job burnout, and competition for our time all take a toll on our work productivity and our health. Take heart. Now there’s flexstyle, a more nuanced way of finding balance that reflects individual working styles. Is flexstyle the right fit for you and your employer? The experts speak. Brenda A. Lautsch, Simon Fraser University: “Flexibility isn’t the answer to everyone’s work-life balance problems.” Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University: “Make technology work for you, not against you...redraw the lines between work and family.” Karie Willyerd, SAP: “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” (Refrigerator magnet) Join us for Work-Life Balance: What’s Your Flexstyle?

The buzz: Startups and HR. Heads-up, startup founders! If an HR department is the last thing on your mind because you “only” need someone to manage employees’ basic benefits and paychecks, think again. Why bother with HR so early, you ask? Because a core HR function, even in a startup, can take the burden of administration and compliance off your back and place it with human capital experts who know how to handle real HR issues and will free you up to focus your energy on your organization’s innovation mission. The experts speak. Mark Stelzner, IA-HR.com: “Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it. (Dali). Laurie Ruettimann, The Cynical Girl: “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” (Hunter S. Thompson). Natasha Loeffler-Little, SuccessFactors: “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” (Albert Einstein). Join us for HR for Startups: More Important than You Think.

The buzz: Startups and HR. Heads-up, startup founders! If an HR department is the last thing on your mind because you “only” need someone to manage employees’ basic benefits and paychecks, think again. Why bother with HR so early, you ask? Because a core HR function, even in a startup, can take the burden of administration and compliance off your back and place it with human capital experts who know how to handle real HR issues and will free you up to focus your energy on your organization’s innovation mission. The experts speak. Mark Stelzner, IA-HR.com: “Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it. (Dali). Laurie Ruettimann, The Cynical Girl: “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” (Hunter S. Thompson). Natasha Loeffler-Little, SuccessFactors: “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” (Albert Einstein). Join us for HR for Startups: More Important than You Think.