HR Insights – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Stuart dives into the transformative potential of AI in the Learning and Development space with Luis Garcia, President of PETE, an AI-powered learning platform. Luis talks about his journey from product development to launching one of the fastest-growing online universities in the US and how this has shaped his expertise and vision for the future of learning.

Luis discusses why translating expertise into effective training is harder than it looks, and how generative AI is set to revolutionise both the creation and evaluation of learning materials. From scaling training for hybrid teams across the globe to designing personalised micro-courses that target specific learning gaps, Luis explores how PETE is helping organisations keep pace with the future of work. We also explore the changing role of facilitators in a tech-driven world, the impact of generative AI vs. the metaverse, and how L&D departments can overcome challenges in AI adoption. 

Luis Garcia is a seasoned international executive with over 25 years of experience in technology, digital media, and education. He specialises in driving new ventures and products to rapid growth by building effective teams that harness innovation, technology, and creativity to solve complex problems. He is the president of PETE, an Orlando-based tech startup that offers a suite of cost-effective and customisable solutions that enable organisations to deliver personalised workforce learning at scale. The PETE team is dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to help organisations of all sizes optimise their training initiatives, spanning from onboarding to regulatory compliance, product knowledge, technical skills, and more, without hiring additional training resources. 

Key Timestamps: 

• 01:50 – Intro into Luis
• 10:40 – Trends shaping the workforce 
• 15:45 – How the system delivers the courses 
• 17:40 – Personalising the programmes for organisations 
• 20:58 – Generative AI vs the Metaverse
• 22:44 – How to ensuring workforces remain agile 
• 33:10 – Challenges of implementing generative AI 
• 35:40 – How to overcome the challenges 

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Our Host and CEO, Stuart Elliott, is joined today by Lucinda Reader, Founder of Ravello HR. Ravello HR is an HR consultancy specialising in helping businesses create highly effective and efficient talent teams. 

Throughout the episode, Stuart and Lucinda focus on talent and succession planning; discussing why she started Ravello HR and giving advice to mums to be as they navigate their career journey. Stuart and Lucinda chat through how to get talent and succession planning right, how small businesses can adapt their talent strategy to continue growth, and how skills mapping and skills pathways can help in talent success. The discussion then moves on to hiring, where they cover the difference between internal and external recruitment partners, hiring people known to the business and how this could incorporate unconscious bias. Finally, they spoke about AI in the interview process, examples of good hiring processes and advice for startups going through a recruitment process. 

Get to know our guest:

Lucinda Reader is the founder of Ravello HR, she is also the non-executive HR Director for Shoorah, a wellbeing app currently disrupting the market. Lucinda has worked in HR and Recruitment globally, both in house and agency, for almost 20 years across sectors, for some of the most well known brands. She is extremely passionate about creating an excellent and equitable experience for all candidates is a firm believer of equal opportunities for all; this being said, she is part of the charity No Going Back, which helps to rehabilitate offenders. Lucinda is proudly a mum to two young children; Santino and Lucia as well as her proclaimed first baby, Norman the sausage dog!

Key Timestamps:

• 02:06 – Introduction to Lucinda Reader
• 06:44 – The birth of Ravello HR
• 09:32 – A special mention to Norman the sausage dog
• 10:09 – Career advice for mums to be
• 13:42 – Getting talent and succession planning right
• 16:50 – Small businesses people strategies
• 20:03 – Skills mapping and skills pathways
• 24:50 – What Lucinda believes falls under the word ‘talent’ in the workplace
• 29:05 – Internal vs external recruitment partners
• 33:00 – Hiring people known to the business
• 37:34 – Examples of good hiring processes 
• 39:49 – Advice for startups going through a recruitment process

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We have another exciting episode of HR Insights: The Podcast. This week, Stuart Elliott is joined by HR Consulting Director and Thought Leader at EDLIGO, Reimund Nienaber to discuss his role of leveraging talent analytics to enhance employee satisfaction and business outcomes. He explains how EDLIGO supports companies in their digital transformation journey and the importance of understanding data to personalise career development paths.

In this episode, Stuart and Reimund begin the conversation by talking through his career and role at EDLIGO as well as the benefits of talent analytics. He emphasises the importance of starting small with data, and allowing EDLIGO’s AI driven competency frameworks to fill in the gaps, thus enhancing personalised career development paths and creating a positive impact on overall job satisfaction. The conversation then moves on to the role of talent analytics in fostering a more inclusive workplace, free of bias and ensuring equal opportunities for career advancement. Reimund expresses the concerns and scepticisms employees may have regarding the use of talent analytics and how organisations can address these to build transparency and trust.

Reimund Nienaber is passionate about Talent Development, Talent Analytics, and Learning Analytics. He is a seasoned HR leader with extensive global experience and a strong track record of driving innovation. With over 20 years of expertise in human resources and 15 years in technical and managerial roles within the telecommunications industry, he excels as a trusted senior management advisor and coach. He holds a Master Professional (CCI) in Business Management (IHK) and is a Certified Business Economist (DeLSt). His focus is on continuously improving people and processes through game-changing strategic initiatives, enabling businesses to thrive in rapidly changing environments.

Key Timestamps: 

• 03:02 - Intro into Reimund 
• 04:58 – Reimund's role within EDLIGO
• 08:28 – How talent analytics can be used to personalise career development paths for employees and improve employee satisfaction
• 12:17 - Leveraging AI to create reliable competency frameworks 
• 21:11 – How a manager can use talent analytics to identify skills gaps in their team
• 26:00 - The difference between ‘future skills’ and ‘competency’
• 29:35 – The role of talent analytics in helping us create more inclusive environments
• 38:00 – Changing the sceptics' minds on data-driven research
• 41:04 – How to use data to enhance your own performance and career growth 

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How does the current Covid-19 scenario change companies’ approaches to talent management? Organisations around the world are delicately balancing crisis management with weighing up which longer term strategies and programs to invest in. In this week’s episode of HR Insights - The Podcast Emily Ramji chats to Sarah McLellan, Managing Director for SHL in the UK&I, to understand her perspective on what HR teams can do now to best position themselves for recovery and transformation later.  

Key Timestamps:

3.45: How the current scenario changes companies’ approach to talent management

7.28: What Sarah anticipates the next few months will look and feel like for organisations

15.30: What businesses can do now to best position themselves for recovery later

21.44: How to engage employees at this time 

29.34: What organisations can do to ensure they’re positioned for growth and transformation

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Our next episode of HR Insights – The Podcast is available now! Emily Ramji's guest this week is Taylor Bradley, Director of HR for Global Product Development at Datto. In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Taylor shares a unique perspective and several strategies that he’s developed for his HR role, that are taken from his earlier career as an international medic.  

Key Timestamps: 

4.24: Lessons learnt from the impact of the Coronavirus in the East leading to being more on the front foot in preparing for the pandemic in the West

9.47: The practicalities of managing a team remotely 

11.43: What has worked from a leadership standpoint when dealing with this new situation

14.37: Some models and strategies from Taylor's former career that he's actively used within the HR profession

30.51: Mental health and Covid-19- assisting and distracting our employees 

37.12: Closing advice to the HR community currently managing their organisation’s response to the pandemic and economic crisis

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It is widely expected that remote working will continue for an extended period of time. Leaders and HR teams can no longer rely on traditional, face-to-face approaches for employee management and engagement. How can AI and digital solutions be leveraged to enable organisations to adapt to the new work set-up? In this episode of HR Insights - The Podcast Emily Ramji chats to Devyani Vaishampayan, Managing Partner of the HR Tech Partnership to understand her perspective and experience of AI and HR technology. 

Key Timestamps: 

4.41: How is AI overall impacting the workforce?

8.30: AI in your everyday life

9.30: Given the current circumstances, how can AI solutions be used?

20.02: Other areas of the HR function where digital can make an immediate impact  

22.01: How can HR professionals learn and up-skill themselves around AI? 

26.26: Finding the right HR tech solutions for your business needs 

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The level of uncertainty and change we are living in at the moment across the globe is unprecedented. Understanding how to build resilience has never been more important. In this episode of HR Insights - The Podcast Emily Ramji chats to Thierry Moschetti, Partner at The Resilience Institute Europe. Thierry takes us through some simple and effective ways we can develop and implement resilience alongside advice on how to build a business case for organisations to invest in developing resilience in their leaders.  

Key timestamps:

3.40: What does resilience mean?

7.12: Why is resilience important both to organisations and us as individuals?  

10.48: How can we build resilience?

12.39: Going through the Resilience Spiral – steps to build your resilience 

31.42: How does The Resilience Institute partner with organisations?

34.40: Tips on how can HR Leaders build a business case with their leadership team to focus on resilience 

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Welcome to our third guest episode of HR Insights - The Podcast, where our host Emily Ramji is chatting to Jig Ramji, former Global Head of Leadership and Talent at Bloomberg. In 2019 Bloomberg launched a new set of leadership attributes, designed specifically to define leadership within the context of the organisation’s unique culture. In today’s episode Jig discusses why and how Bloomberg developed their leadership attributes and how these are being embedded into their global assessment and development processes.

Key Timestamps:

2.04: Leadership and talent have been buzzwords now and key focus areas for HR and broader leadership for decades. Why is leadership so critical to Bloomberg’s business at this time?

4.22: How have Bloomberg defined their leadership attributes and who made this happen? 

6.51: Was there instant buy-in from the business when creating ‘Leadership at Bloomberg’?

9.10: Tell us about the broader strategy and the rollout across the business.

11.11: Adapting the Hogan assessment and other tools to the business. 

12.16: What feedback have you had from both the participants and the broader team that might be privy to some of the development or output that comes from psychometric testing? 

14.06: Have the new leadership attributes had an impact on recruitment? 

15:12: Does the organisation have a new approach to employee development?

19.14: What has the feedback and the uptake been from the business in regards to these tools that are now available to them?

26.57: Have the leadership development programmes in the organisation been aligned to the new attributes? 

28.20: In terms of partners, what proportion of your development is outsourced? Has that been a challenge or relatively easy in terms of working in partnership with those that support you?

31.54: What are the five leadership attributes that Bloomberg have defined? 

34.13: The top piece of advice for people that are looking to do something that is bespoke, customised, and really relates to their organisational context for leadership assessment and development.

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Welcome to our first guest episode of HR insights - The Podcast, where our host Emily Ramji is chatting to Sasha Scott. Sasha founded her business, Inclusive Group, almost 20 years ago and she's personally known as a thought leader around inclusion, diversity and workplace culture. Sasha has worked with over 350,000 professionals across multiple sectors, from airlines to luxury brands to law firms. In today’s episode Sasha shares her perspective on the latest definitions for both inclusion and diversity and discusses global I&D trends for 2020.

Key timestamps: 

3.30: Sasha, how and why did you first get into diversity?

5.06: Did you go and work for somebody else within the diversity or more the training and development space or did you immediately go out on your own?

7.10: Do you have any advice for anyone who may be listening, that's looking right now to move into the diversity and inclusion area?

8.26: What do you look back on for 2019 and think really would summarise the current trends that we’re experiencing at the moment?

12.10: What is inclusion in your words? And how would you explain that to different levels of an organisation? 

13.53: How about diversity, again in your words, what do we mean by that?

19.31: Is there a right way round of putting the 'D' and the 'I'?

21.26: Are there any particular organisations or sectors that you feel are really spearheading work around, particularly, inclusion?

25.23: How else would you describe your approach to work at Inclusive Group? How would you define you typically work with your client organisations?

27.14: What are some examples of inclusive behaviour, particularly at the leadership level?

31.21: What advice would you give at the level of the organisation? 

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