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Christopher Cerasoli is the Senior Associate Director of People Analytics at Boehringer Ingelheim. He has generated award winning research, cutting edge analytics and evidence based actionable tools for Government, Defence, Fortune 500, companies and internal clients.
In this episode he speaks with such clarity about the future of People Analytics and the importance of blending it with behavioural science and industrial and organisational psychology.
Chris speaks about:

•  the value of building tools to match the person to the job and to enable them to perform their job well
• the importance of process, data and partnerships
• why people analytics must ensure they pay for themselves
• how people analytics teams become and stay relevant
• why people analytics is 90% consulting and 10% data
  
  

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In this episode, Phil Cook shares his thoughts on how digital transformation can lead to better work life balance that delivers mutually beneficial outcomes for organisations and the people in them.
He shares his perspective on where we are heading in the future and how we might ensure the best possible outcomes.
He talks about how we can work with technology to leave repetitive tasks to machines to free up time for more meaningful and enjoyable work.

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Nick Kennedy is the Chair of the Workforce Planning Institute, an organisation that exists to support collaboration, foster innovation, and develop workforce planning capability across the public, private government and not for profit sectors worldwide.
Nick started his career as a mechanical engineer but found himself in a strategic workforce planning role where he was supported to develop his own capabilities.
He shares his incredible vision for professionalising the strategic workforce planning workforce and is making a huge difference in this space.
He is passionate about developing the capabilities of others and explains how he is doing this and where he intends to lead in the future. 

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Maree Howard is the Head of Organisation Capability at Life without Borders.
She speaks of the evolution of the Human Resource function over her career that has spanned almost every industry over several decades.
3:55 The appeal of People and Culture

8:19 Where we are now

9:37 The need to make complex work effortless

12:26 Shifting from recruitment to training and development

16:28 Optimising by investing in what you have

18:00 The power of leadership

19:46 How to support teams to optimise their workforce

23:06 Building agility to thrive in a dynamic environment

26:30 Leveraging our learnings from COVID

28:57 Empowering people through trust

31:14 Unlocking discretionary effort with authenticity

31:59 Gaining support through story

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Ian Arnold shares his view of the Reimagined Workforce and how he applies human centred design to uncover innovative solutions to complex workforce challenges.

Recorded 27 July 2022
Season 1
Episode 6

Key moments
3:33 Ian describes his reimagined workforce
6:49 Exploring the problem to be solved
13:07 Benefits of reimagining our workforces
15:49 Capabilities that enable success in workforce transformation
21:24 Advice for people wanting to develop their own capabilities

About Ian Arnold:
Ian is a senior People and Culture leader who has worked in diverse industries including banking & finance, education, the arts sector and healthcare. He has worked in large, medium and small sized organisations in private, not for profit and government sectors.
He is currently part of the Employee experience team in a large NSW Government organisation and is deeply committed to making a difference for consumers.
As we know in the research, happy and engaged workforces deliver better outcomes for their customers and this is something Ian is committed to making a difference on. He has led large change and strategy projects in complex and dynamic environments. He thrives on human centred design that is meaningful for the stakeholders he works with.

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In this episode of the Reimagined Workforce podcast, I provide an introduction to the human centred design methodology in preparation for the episode 6 with Ian Arnold who describes his experience in applying it in his work.
I explain why human centred design used to solve complex problems. I outline the key steps and how to bring them to life. I describe how human centred design might be used to solve one of the Top 5 workforce challenges facing healthcare that Alicia Cook raised in episode 2. 

There are a few key moments that may be of interest:

5:10 Establishing your project group

5:28 The Double Diamond

5:49 Creating a shared vision for a better future

7:03 Problem: Divergent

9:07 Ethnographic research

10:00 Gallery walk

12:07 Problem: Converge

12:37 Coming to a consensus on root cause

13:03 The Design brief

13:48 Solution: Divergent

14:48 Generating ideas

17:02 Solution: Convergent

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Alicia Roach is the co-founder and director of eQ8. eQ8 is an innovative platform that goes beyond complex analytics, detailed algorithms and predictive insights to produce compelling visualizations that facilitate strategic workforce planning, conversations to drive organizational outcomes. 

I credit Alicia with exposing me to the world of strategic workforce planning at a Public Service Commission breakfast in 2019, where she explained how important SWP is for organizations to enable them to prepare for an uncertain future and maintain a competitive advantage.

9:11 Defining Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)
13:41 How to demonstrate the value of SWP
17:31 Getting started with SWP
19:51 Overcoming resistance to SWP
24:21 SWP's role in value generation
27:43 The role of People Analytics in SWP
32:00 Where SWP 'falls down' and how to avoid
35:41 Implementing Strategic Workforce Plans

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In this episode, I outline a few of the fundamental steps involved in strategic workforce planning.

This is divided into two parts.

Part 1 is more general information around establishing a strategic workforce planning project or function.

Part 2 provides an overview of some of the steps you will need to complete to develop a strategic workforce plan that outlines the workforce you have, the workforce you will need and the strategies you will implement to make it happen.

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Being aware of the workforce challenges and opportunities enables us to develop and implement quality plans to ensure the workforce has the capacity and capability to deliver organisational outcomes, today and tomorrow.

In this episode, Alicia Cook highlights the Top 5 challenges and opportunities she is seeing in her work at Emerson Health where she supports Healthcare organisations grapple with the ongoing challenges in this complex environment.

Recorded 1 August 2022
Season 1
Episode 1

Alicia's Top 5 Workforce Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare
16:54Near term impact of COVID on the workforce
19:59 Collaborating with education for workforce planning
24:19 Immigration as a workforce planning strategy
26:37 Implementing workforce plans
30:41 Innovative models of care

About Alicia Cook:
Alicia is a Health Informatician and the founder and Director of Emerson Health. She's recognized as a trusted advisor to leaders in government and health systems across Australia and is appreciated for her consultative engagement and facilitation approach.

 Alicia's understanding of health service needs in the context of major health reform gives her credibility when working on projects. She brings experience spanning primary care to the hospital and health service level through to the Commonwealth, both as client and vendor.

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In this episode, I explain my reasons for creating this podcast and sharing it publicly.
Essentially, I hope people feel energised and inspired by others who are willing to share their stories.
Over this first 10 episodes, I hope to bring your stories from people who are making a meaningful impact through workforce transformation across a range of organisations and industries. We will explore the common challenges and the ways they might be solved. I hope this provides people with new insights, energy and inspiration that I receive from these conversations. 
If you are or want to be part of creating a better future, then I will do my very best to connect you with the masters. People I admire who are willing to share their stories. So that we might all learn from each other and collaboratively find solutions that don’t exist yet to drive the innovations we need to not just ride out this perfect storm, but to thrive in it.

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