How Bayer is redefining the workplace around Purpose, Innovation & Culture
Digital HR Leaders Podcast hosted by David Green EP47: Melissa Harper, SVP, HR, Innovations at Bayer

How Bayer is redefining the workplace around Purpose, Innovation & Culture

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Co-Author of Excellence in People Analytics | People Analytics leader | Director, Insight222 & myHRfuture.com | Conference speaker | Host, Digital HR Leaders Podcast

发布日期: 2020年11月17日
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Matching the people agenda with the business agenda has never been more critical for HR

We are in the midst of the biggest global pandemic for a century. Combine that with social unrest, an economic crisis – and, at the same time, rapid business transformation, then the role of the HR function has never been so important.

One company where HR has really come to the fore during the crises is Bayer. My guest on this week's episode of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast is Melissa Harper, Senior Vice President for HR Innovations.

With more than 30 years of HR experience, Melissa has been at the forefront of Bayer’s response to the crises of 2020 and efforts to redefine the workplace around purpose, belonging, innovation and culture.

In a time of isolation and social distancing, the craving for a sense of belonging has never been stronger

You can listen by clicking on the image below or by visiting the podcast website here.

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In our conversation, Melissa and I discuss:

  • Why Bayer’s people-first philosophy has been critical to the company’s response to the crisis and its efforts to redefine the workplace of the future ("This way of working has only accelerated so much of, what many organisations were already striving for, greater digital use in way of working and greater flexibility.")
  • How Bayer is incorporating some of the positives that have emerged in 2020 such as faster, more distributed decision making, and increased employee listening to enhance its innovative culture ("We need to make sure that we take care of, the listening and empowering of our employees to bring voice")
  • How technology and innovation is helping Bayer to take a skills-based approach to talent attraction, development and management ("We are think about how do we unpack jobs and traditional or older models of job descriptions with really beginning with what are the skills we need and how does data inform the skills we need.")
  • Bayer’s approach to inclusion and diversity ("It is inclusion which gets at our customers, our reach with communities and with our external marketplace as well.")
  • How digital, analytics and culture provide the connective tissue around the workforce ("We know increased data drives. speed to decisioning"), and how Bayer is using AI and Analytics in learning ("We really took a step back to re-imagine and transform learning with the principles of, let's use data and insights to the skills we know we need to re-skill or continuously skill.")
  • What HR can do to prepare their organisation for an increase in remote and hybrid working ("One thing I would say for HR in this new way of working is to really think about simplicity, differently, and be more intentional around removing the complexity in our HR processes that can sometimes make the business of people and the business of HR, just hard or harder, for our customers, whether that is internal or external.")

This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in inclusion and diversity, culture employee experience and innovation, so that’s business leaders, CHROs and anyone in a People Analytics, Workforce Planning, I&D or HR Business Partner role.

We are connecting data, transparency and accountability. Those three really work very well together.


LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

To listen to the Podcast and read the transcript of my discussion with Melissa, head over to myHRfuture by clicking on this link: How Bayer is redefining the workplace around Purpose, Innovation & Culture.


WATCH THE VIDEOS

As well as the podcast, there will be a couple of videos available on the myHRfuture YouTube channel highlighting two of the topics Melissa and I covered in our conversation. In the video below, Melissa outlines how Bayer supports a culture of inclusion and diversity.

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THANK YOU

A huge thank you to Melissa for sharing her time, knowledge and expertise with me and listeners of the podcast. You can connect with Melissa on LinkedIn and read some of her recent articles by clicking on the links below:

Thanks also to Panalyt for sponsoring Series 10 of the podcast, and also Ian Bailie, Manpreet Randhawa, Caroline Styr and the myHRfuture team for creating the Digital HR Leaders podcast and video series.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David is a globally respected writer, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As an Executive Director at Insight222, he helps global organisations create more cultural and economic value through the wise and ethical use of people data and analytics. Prior to joining Insight222 and taking up a board advisor role at TrustSphere, David was the Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM Watson Talent. As such, David has extensive experience in helping organisations embark upon and accelerate their people analytics journeys. David also hosts the Digital HR Leaders Podcast on myHRfuture.

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I’ll be chairing and/or speaking about how to drive business value and employee experience through people analytics as well as the Nine Dimensions for Excellence in People Analytics model at the following upcoming events:

Sam Paul

Talent Market Analytics @ Lightcast (Emsi Burning Glass) | Skills Taxonomies | Role Architecture | Workforce Data

4 年

"Unpacking old job descriptions and using data to inform the skills we need." A worthy project for this year -- virtual SPRING CLEANING! ?? ??

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Jake Nicks ?? Adtech/Fintech

#1 Door to Door salesman in the world Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2020

4 年

Excellent content. All the best.

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Alan Slavik

Unlocking insights for commercial leaders | Co-Founder Insight Revenue

4 年

Wonderful episode, David. I especially liked the lessons around "bringing work to talent." Thanks for sharing, Melissa Harper. I really learned a lot and appreciate your insights!

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Puneet Sachdev

Globally Experienced People & Culture Leader | Future of Work | Fractional Digital HR | NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Centre | Speaker | Exec Coach to Extraordinary Female Leaders

4 年

enjoyed it.

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David McLean

LinkedIn Top Voices in Company Culture USA & Canada I Executive Advisor | HR Leader (CHRO) | Leadership Coach | Talent Strategy | Change Leadership | Innovation Culture | Healthcare | Higher Education

4 年

Brilliant podcast- highly recommend this episode

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