How HR Experts Time Travel

Welcome to another edition of People Analytics Bites, brought to you by?Orgnostic .

We hope you have time for us today too. We’ve brought you goodies of all kinds:

• our best solution yet for seeing the future (and adjusting all kinds of parameters, in real time!)
• an informed opinion about performing in times of crisis, from a CEO who’s seen it all
• a lemonade recipe
• an invitation to learn with us for free, today
• 2 big reads we recommend + 1 big listen + a really tiny one

Nice to see you too ?? Let’s dig in, shall we?

Key feature highlight

If you’re feeling the pressure from management to better predict the future of your workforce, amid all this chaos ??, or if you are that frustrated manager (no judgment), this scenario planning tool is your best supportive partner:

• It shows you visually how future outcomes change based on your current numbers, like headcount, costs and diversity.?
• You can set future targets and it tells you how close you are to them.?
• It illuminates ?? your most likely future scenarios based on your own performance data.
• And the best part: adjust any of your variables on sliders and your prediction model changes right in front of your eyes!

This tool is already yours to use, if you’re on an Orgnostic Pro plan, or a Tailored one. Some of you have already started using it, yet some of you have not — and you might find it just as useful:

Work tasks are dead

Ben Zweig , AJ H. and Travis Windling ?offer a much more nuanced perspective than our 4-word conclusion. Are we that far off from the truth though?

No matter what company you’re at, your job is probably much more complex than it would’ve been 10 years ago. And no itemized rule book alone is going to help you face crisis after crisis at work.?

Have a listen?? and decide for yourself what your plan is, to make sure your company truly knows and benefits from people’s skills, moving forward.

?? When life keeps giving you lemons...

… you’d better learn to tweak that lemonade recipe to perfection!

We’re talking about unplanned leaves — also called ‘a breeding ground for workplace tension’. Or ‘What on earth do we do now?? We were already buried in work, even before our dear colleague’s unforeseen time-off saga!’.

It’s hard to believe there is any way to prepare for one of these, as a company, but…

There is a solution — we promise!

You can estimate how often this will happen in the future, across the organization (no individual finger-pointing please!) and then account for it in your workforce capacity planning.

We worked hard on Unplanned Leaves Insight ?and it paid off. It’s yours to use now.

Have a look →

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... and learning and development analytics.?

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??? Our favorite reads & listens

• NLP applications in selection and new science — our podcast episode with Dr. Mike Campion and Emily Campion (45 minutes). Admittedly, it gets easier to learn about exactly what you like, from experts, when you have your own podcast. But hey, we’re happy to share!
• How to plan DEI initiatives based on data, not gut feeling — one guide to rule them all. And since we’re on the topic… ensuring pay equity seems pretty important too.
• This graphic representation of the employee lifecycle model (ELM). You have to squint your eyes to read through it all, but we broke it down into small sections. You can apply it immediately, to your candidate journey (Hey, recruiters! ??We appreciate you!), time to productivity of a new hire (Hey, onboarding specialists, go tell your recruiters you appreciate them today, would you?), internal compensation equity, culture experience, and so on. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure kind of guide ??!
• 'How much time do you think I have, to read all this?!' Ok, fair. Scratch all that. Just listen to Cole Napper 's 1-minute answer to 'What is the quality of hire?' . You're welcome.

That’s all from us this month. Unless…

Unless you’d like to hit ‘reply’ and chat. We always reply back.

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Cheers,

Team Orgnostic ??

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