Workforce planning tools are an essential part of the HR professional’s toolkit. In this article, we’ll go over 5 strategic workforce planning tools, explain their use, and give examples and excel templates on how to use them. If you want to know more about how you can apply the basics of Strategic Workforce Planning to…
The question “What value does HR add to an organization?” has always been difficult to answer. In this article, I will discuss the HR value chain. Not only helps this tool to show the added value of HR, it also constitutes an excellent framework for people analytics. In fact, it helps analyze how HR contributes…
Here’s the interview we did with David Green at HR Tech World in Amsterdam (now UNLEASH). This is the transcript of the interview above. David Green: So my name’s David Green. I’ve got quite a lucky job really, I travel the world and write and speak about people analytics and its role in the future…
Digital HR has garnered a lot of interest from HR professionals and business leaders for the way it is changing how we manage people. This change enables a better HR service delivery but also impacts how we do HR on a day-to-day level. To many of us, digital HR seems fascinating but do we really…
What’s the difference between people analytics and HR analytics? When we started our Analytics in HR blog, we had to pick a name. Because everybody was talking about HR analytics, Analytics in HR made sense. It was simple, recognizable, worked well for traffic from Google and everybody would understand the website would be about HR…
Talent management is one of the most current topics in HR. How can we give candidates the best experience? How can we attract and retain the best people? What do we need to do to win the war on talent? In this article, we’ll dive into the question “what is talent management”, look into creating…
At HR Tech World in Amsterdam (now UNLEASH), I asked four leading people analytics expert what HR analytics will look like in 5 years. The answers provide a window into the trends that they are seeing on how analytics is developing. In the video, Laura Stevens, Tom Haak, David Green, and Luk Smeyers see a…
Imagine you’re about to engage on your first HR analytics project. You want the project to be a success – obviously. How do you make sure you have the right people and the right skills to start quickly and finish the job successfully? The skills matrix, or competency matrix, is your best friend. What is…
Whether you’re a People Analytics beginner or a seasoned professional, having all the relevant resources from the field of People Analytics in one place offers a lot of value. That’s why we’ve created a list of key HR analytics resources, divided into several categories: books articles academic papers reports HR standards and data definitions people…
A lot of people – including us – are looking for a talent management model but so far, no one has developed such a model yet. This article, therefore, introduces a talent management model you can use in order to get the most out of your employees. The AARRR model Back in the day, I…