Capital H: Putting humans at the center of work

As the workplace and nature of work evolve, companies are forced to constantly revisit compensation strategies. Our 2020 Human Capital Trends report revealed that a majority of respondents see compensation as a critical issue, but just 9 percent feel prepared to address this trend. In this episode of Capital H, Deloitte leaders explore trends, challenges, and opportunities for rethinking compensation strategies to help organizations solve the compensation conundrum.

On this episode of Capital H, Deloitte’s Brad Denny checks in with Jensen Harris, cofounder and chief technology officer of Textio, an AI-powered writing tool. They discuss ways Textio is being used to collaborate with people in a novel, integrated way compared to other word processing technologies. This episode also covers superteams and the workforce trends that have given way to collaboration between workers and cognitive technologies.

On this episode of Capital H, Suzan Briganti, CEO and founder of SwarmVision discusses her company’s research with “innovation profiles” that cut across generations and busts common misconceptions about innovation across generations. We also examine how leaders can move beyond the generational lens to understand workers based on values rather than age, enhancing the meaning within their careers and promotes alignment with the purpose of the organization.

On this episode of Capital H, Deloitte’s Jeff Schwartz and Robert Gibbs, associate administrator for the Mission Support Directorate at NASA, discuss the link between the feeling of belonging and organizational performance. You’ll hear about three main building blocks of belonging—comfort, connection, and contribution—along with leadership tips on how to create a culture that builds value at the employee, team, and company levels.

Organizations are realizing the link between worker well-being and organizational performance – an overwhelming majority of respondents from the Deloitte 2020 Global Human Capital Trends survey marked well-being as a major priority for their company. But what is well-being in the workplace? Explore this topic with us and Judy Fimiani, Chief Human Resources Officer at Learning Care Group. And, Deloitte leaders discuss overcoming common roadblocks associated with creating a well-being program.

The 2020 Global Human Capital Trends report calls upon organizations to embrace purpose, potential, and perspective that characterize what it means to fuse people and technology to perform as a social enterprise at work.The power of the social enterprise lies in its ability to bring a human focus to everything it touches, empowering people to work productively with technology to create lasting value for themselves, their organizations, and society at large.

Season 5 of the Capital H podcast is here! Our hosts, David Mallon and Burt Rea will be exploring the findings from Deloitte’s 2020 Global Human Capital Trends research entitled “A Social Enterprise at Work: Paradox as a Path Forward”. This year, we begin with a look back at a decade of tremendous change, focusing particular attention on technological innovation and the evolving relationship between technology and the humans to provide leaders with an informed perspective as we look to the future.

Diversity and inclusion continues to be a driving force for innovative ideas and team performance in the workplace. Jennifer Chatman, the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at Berkeley Haas, takes a closer look at D&I and discusses key findings from her research, including the positive effects of collective attitudes in diverse teams, emphasizing diversity encourages risk-taking and innovation, and how managers can lead their teams to embrace diversity through challenging assumptions.

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging business leaders around the world to rapidly refocus their workforce priorities and programs. How are leading CHROs responding to the crisis and starting to pivot to a path to recovery? We'll explore shifting focus from crisis response to recovery, re-engaging workers to new ways of working, and balancing immediate and future requirements for when, where, and how works gets done and who does it.

As the world grapples with the continued impacts of COVID-19, human capital leaders are at the helm, navigating their organizations through murky waters. As they face uncharted territory, they’re banding together—for support, to share stories, and to strengthen their networks. In this episode, we take a closer look at how organizations are responding to the coronavirus, based on the stories our Bersin members are sharing with us, and with each other.