Skills, Sustainability, and More Top HR Priorities

Hey, Crunchies, welcome back to The HR Crunch! ??

This month, we're diving into three critical areas for HR leaders:

1 - Building skills-based organizations.

2 - Navigating talent acquisition and internal mobility with data.

3 - Key priorities for 2025 highlighted by Gartner.

We also can't stress enough the importance of having good, clean data for CSRD reporting, so we're sharing new updates about CSRD's progress in 2H 2024. Plus, we're an exciting new webinar to help you shape a data-driven, agile workforce.

Live webinar: Why People Analytics is Essential for Building a Skills-Based Organization

We're thrilled to join @TechWolf for this informative webinar on leveraging people analytics to foster organizational skills-based growth. This 30-minute session will help you get started with skills to build a future-ready workforce.

When: November 15th, 2024, 10:00 am ET / 04:00 PM CET / 03:00 PM GMT

Speakers:

Stephen Smith , Product Manager, Crunchr

Julius Schelstraete ?? , Skill Community Lead, TechWolf

What you'll learn:

• How to infer skills and build a data infrastructure that unites data from multiple HR systems.
• Practical methods to identify and close skills gaps.
• Why the skill match score and skill gap metrics are two essential data points to measure in-real time.

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Gartner's latest report on Top 5 Priorities for HR in 2025 identifies five key focus areas for HR leaders in 2025:

1. Leader and manager development: Emphasizing continuous development models that integrate practical learning and peer connections to better prepare managers for evolving responsibilities.
2. Organizational culture: Aligning cultural vision with reality by clearly communicating desired behaviors and holding leaders accountable for exemplifying these values.
3. Strategic workforce planning: Moving beyond headcount-based planning to a phased, capability-focused approach that anticipates future talent needs.
4. Change management: Building change management skills among leaders and identifying internal change influencers to effectively navigate transformations and reduce change fatigue.
5. HR technology: Investing in technologies that offer long-term value and innovation, such as generative AI, to streamline processes and enhance the employee experience.

The report details many striking insights, but one in particular caught our eye: 51% of HR leaders say they struggle to access and use data effectively. As the demand for data-driven decisions in HR rises, this challenge underscores the need for robust people analytics solutions.

Skills and mobility: insights and resources

ICYMI: Our most recent content focused on skills, internal mobility, and the use of sankey diagrams and visualizations to optimize HR decision-making:

• Two Must-Know Metrics for Skills Insights
• Revamping Your Talent Strategy with Internal Mobility
• Visualizing Internal Mobility with Sankey Charts and Diagrams

CSRD updates

The?Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)?revolutionizes how organizations report on sustainability. So, what does this mean for HR leaders and People Analytics teams?

With the rise of?environmental, social, and governance (ESG)?expectations, the CSRD pushes for more transparency in how organizations report on these initiatives and their impact. This represents both a compliance challenge and a massive opportunity for HR departments to drive strategic conversations around the workforce's impact on sustainable business practices.

Crunchr recently hosted a?webinar?on this topic and we also rounded up some of the latest news from the European Commission, Forbes, National Law Review, and more. These resources are intended to keep you informed and updated on these evolving regulations.

• CSRD: How People Analytics Drives Workforce Sustainability
• The Latest Updates on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Why HR Should Pay Attention

In our Talent Acquisition Dashboard series, we delve into insights for streamlining recruitment. Hiring the right people is challenging, especially when applicant tracking data is complex to analyze. Our dashboard gives you access to recruitment metrics that empower data-driven hiring decisions.

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Stay tuned as we continue to explore HR metrics that matter, sample dashboards for CHROs, and industry news that impacts the future of HR and people analytics!