Highlights from McKinsey's 2023 State of Organizations Report

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This week on Redefining Work Reports, I dug into 麦肯锡 's robust State of Organizations 2023 Report.

The report examines 10 major shifts that are transforming organizations. These include increasing speed and resilience, true hybrids, AI, new rules of attraction and retention, skills and capability development, talent tightropes, inspiring leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging progress, mental health support, and organizational efficiency.

So, what does this mean for HR and people teams?

Quite a lot, actually. I broke down some of the stats I found most interesting in the podcast like the one below.

Your highest performers are 800% more productive than your average performers in the same role.

You can check out these stats and more in the episode below.

This week I also introduced two new tools to help Redefiners get more value and utility from each podcast.

1. Beginning this week I'll be including time-stamps of key moments in each episode to make it easy for listeners to jump right into specific parts of the conversations. See the example below from this week's episode.

[00:03:16] The value of high performer

[00:04:08] Organizational resilience

[00:08:41] Mental health in the workplace

[00:12:39] NASA’s April Jordan preview: building diversity in astronaut corpss        

2. I'm also using a new AI tool (Swell AI) to embed a chatbot on each episode where you can ask questions about that episode’s content. I'm excited about the possibilities here to make these episodes more interactive and increase their learning value. You can take that for a spin on this week's podcast episode page.

Coming Up Next

On Monday's episode, I sit down with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Head of Astronaut Selection April Jordan for a fascinating look inside the astronaut selection process.

We cover a range of topics, including the historical significance of the crew representation in the Artemis II mission. Here's a preview.

As HR continues to evolve we'll be embracing new approaches from other fields. This piece by Natasha Delisle-Barrow provides a practical look at adopting UX approaches to design Employee Experience.

Josh Bersin on point as always as he breaks down different generations of AI in HR tech in his podcast.

And yet another great resource from a company that's truly leading the way in open-source support of the HR community, Pyn shared a useful Employee Journey Map That Strengthens DEI.

Update on the Founder's Playbook: Building Modern HR and People Teams for Growth

You've probably seen some of my build-in-public updates over the past several weeks about the open-source Founder's HR Playbook I've been building. Well, I just finished it! ?? 74 pages of goodness I think will really help Founders and people leaders who want to show them the fundamentals of great HR.

There's a chapter on Hiring Your Head of People and I wanted to open with context on where the field is after the past several years. Here's a preview.

Next Week: Barcelona ????

Next week I'll be coming to you live from Barcelona as I'll be joining IESE Business School as a guest instructor for their Foundations of Scale program. I'll be sharing some behind-the-scenes updates from the event and AmpliFiles videos. I can't wait!

That's a wrap for this week's newsletter. Thanks for reading and I'll catch you around the interwebs.

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