Adaptive Futures

Justin Hess, Senior Industrial Organizational Psychology at Pymetrics by Al Adamsen

Dr. Adrian Medhurst and Al Adamsen explore our relationship with stress during this time of great uncertainty and threats to safety, security, and well-being. Practical tips are shared for individual well-being, as well as for how leaders can better understand the thoughts, feelings, perspectives, and ideas of those within a workforce.

Adrian Medhurst, Co-Founder & Director of Benny Button by Al Adamsen

Dr. Amy Lavoie shares her perspectives and ideas on how individuals, teams, and organizations can achieve people success during and on the far side of the current COVID-19 crisis. Amy's unique experience coupled with her humanistic, people-first approach offers great insights into how organizations are dealing with the current disruption, as well as how they earn trust by truly listening, learning, and taking appropriate action.

In this episode Peakon's Chief Evangelist, Patrick Cournoyer shares how Peakon's continuous approach to employee feedback helps businesses around the world increase productivity, retention, and business performance in real time.

A remarkable discussion with a remarkable man. Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has a unique, virtuous message that needs to be heard by all. He's helping drive the narrative around how people data and analytics can, and should be used for good -- for an organization's benefit, an individual's benefit, as well as for the benefit of society.

Sarah Johnson, Vice President Enterprise Surveys and Analytics at Perceptyx, details how they, over the past 20 years, have managed to take surveys from paper and a cumbersome annual process to an agile series of high impact events across an employee life-cycle. In turn, this process has shown to create unique data sets that, when aggregated and analyzed, produce actionable insights that drive positive outcomes like engagement, performance, and productivity.

Stacia Garr is one of the most accomplished researchers in the HR/Talent space. She and her similarly accomplished partner, Dani Johnson, bring their expertise to fore in designing and delivering the People Analytics Technology Study. This innovative research creates important distinctions that'll help organizations sift through the forest of vendors to create a healthy ecosystem of technologies that's right for them. Stacia highlights some of her thinking, as well as what's she's hearing from both the practitioner and vendor community in this truly insightful discussion.

How does talent assessment and selection in professional sports relate to recruiting, assessment, and talent selection for other types of organizations? What can be learned? What doesn't translate well and thus serve as erroneous assertions? In this discussion, former Division-1 track athlete and mindful coach Dafna Aaronson shares how data and analytics can be used for better assessment and selection, as well as what should give us pause as we explore the biases, data deficiencies, and the resulting ethical challenges.

This very practical discussion with People Insight CEO, John Pensom, sheds light on the need to think about data as assets, assets that need to be leveraged for the good of the organization and those within it. John has been in the People Analytics field for many years, thus brings his experience to bear as he describes ways organizations can creatively address the challenges associated with the ever-increasing size, scope, and pace of data. Hope you enjoy!