HR Happy Hour 375: Developing the Talent You Already Have

05/15/19 • 25 min

HR Happy Hour 375- Developing the Talent You Already Have Host: Trish McFarlane Guest: Sunita Navile, Global Offering Go-to-Market Strategy Leader, Watson Talent at IBM and Tara O'Sullivan, CMO at Skillsoft Sponsored by Panopto - For businesses and universities, Panopto is everything YouTube isn’t. With enterprise-grade security, built-in recording, live streaming, and a unique search engine that finds any word spoken in any video, Panopto is how professionals share knowledge. Today on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and was joined by Sunita Navile, Global Offering Go-to-Market Strategy Leader, Watson Talent at IBM and Tara O'Sullivan, CMO at Skillsoft. On the show, Sunita shared how using Watson AI works with your data in Skillsoft to tag the content with skills, then make learning recommendations. Using technology in this way promotes internal mobility though a highly personalized experience. She shared several tips and tricks to better manage the talent you already have. Tara shared ideas on job adjacency and how understanding skills and learning can open your employees up to roles they may not be aware of. It shows many paths to have opportunities in an organization. These are just a few topics we covered. This was a fun and interesting show, thanks so much Sunita and Tara for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts. And add the HR Happy Hour Show to your Amazon Echo device's Daily Flash Briefing - just search for the HR Happy Hour skill on your Alexa app.

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HR Happy Hour 374 - The Future of Employee Communications

HR Happy Hour 374 - The Future of Employee Communications Hosts: Trish McFarlane, Steve Boese Guest: Alan Burger, InfoSlips Sponsored by Panopto - For businesses and universities, Panopto is everything YouTube isn’t. With enterprise-grade security, built-in recording and live streaming, and a unique search engine that finds any word spoken in any video, Panopto is how professionals share knowledge. Today on the HR Happy Hour Show, Trish and Steve were joined by Alan Burger of InfoSlips, an innovative HR tech company that is trying to reinvent the digital document - an endeavor that has numerous applications and implications for HR leaders. On the show Alan shared how the original idea for InfoSlips was developed (it was from receiving old, paper based paystubs), his thoughts on how to improve the way we communicate with employees via modern technology approaches, and the power of digitizing documents and employer/employee interactions. Additionally, Alan talked about how with AI and other technologies, the capability exists to 'talk' with our documents - a really innovative idea and one that I bet you have not heard about before. And since it was a 'tech' and HR show, we also discussed the HR issues surrounding the increased automation of work, and what that means for HR and workplaces. This was a fun and interesting show, thanks so much Alan for joining us. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts. And add the HR Happy Hour Show to your Amazon Echo device's Daily Flash Briefing - just search for the HR Happy Hour skill on your Alexa app.

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HR Happy Hour 376 - HR and Digital Transformation - Live from HR Tech China

HR Happy Hour 376 - HR and Digital Transformation - Live from HR Tech China Host: Steve Boese Guest: Jason Averbook, CEO and Founder, LeapGen Sponsored by Panopto - For businesses and universities, Panopto is everything YouTube isn’t. With enterprise-grade security, built-in recording and live streaming, and a unique search engine that finds any word spoken in any video, Panopto is how professionals share knowledge. On the first of a special three show series recorded LIVE at the recent HR Tech China Conference in Shanghai, Steve is joined by Jason Averbook, CEO and Founder of LeapGen and intrernational speaker, advisor, and HR Tech though leader. On the show, Jason shared some of the key highlights and themes of his recent presentations in China as well as at the HR Festival in Singapore all about HR Transformation, Digital Transformation, and the way forward for HR and HR tech professionals. Jason talked about the importance of employee-centered approached to HR tech design and deployment, how 'technology' does not equal 'digital' and offered some advice as to how to best prepare HR and the organization overall for change and for digital transformation. This was a fun and interesting conversation - thanks so much to Jason for joining us. And also thanks to LRP and DLG China for having the HR Happy Hour Show in Shanghai. Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show wherever you get your podcasts.