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Key takeaways: As businesses look to develop resourcing plans that align with their business strategy, working out what those required skills are is a key part of HR's value. However, in addition to being able to assess the skills needed in the here and now, organisations will also need people who can anticipate how things might change, describe what good will look like in the future, and understand what's happening in the wider marketplace and the implications this has. HR professionals therefore need to reassess their role in the overall talent strategy for their business, and insist on being part of the bigger discussion on realising the organisation’s vision.

Thank you to our guests - Mari Milsom and Simon Brown - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work.

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Key takeaways: Now that individuals are working much more flexibly, the employee touch points, whether it's people processes, finance processes, procurement processes, need to provide a really positive experience. As such, the user experience will be much more important than ever going forward, and this is something that will affect the whole employee journey, from recruitment, through to on-boarding, as well as retention, reward and off-boarding. 

Thank you to our guests - Mari Milsom and Simon Brown - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work.

To learn more about how Underscore can support you in developing your workplace of the future, please visit: https://www.underscore-group.com/virtual-training/

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Key Takeaways: It's more important than ever for organisations to invest in technology to provide the user experience that customers - internal and external - have come to expect as a result of modern life. But in order to do so, organisations also need to develop their people to ensure they can comfortably use and integrate new technology into their working lives.

This podcast episode is the fifth in our bonus series on the Future of Work. Find the previous episodes on our podcast page, or wherever you get your podcasts. We will be joined by another panel of experts next week.

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Key takeaways: As organisation continue to adjust to a post-COVID digital world, HR is going to be a driving force behind building the new world of work. As such, HR professionals need to be equipped with the skillset, mindset, and toolset to respond appropriately and support organisations and employees in rising to the challenge of confidently navigating change. To achieve this, HR professionals need to develop skills in key areas such as business acumen, change management, data analysis, programme management, design thinking, user experience and marketing.

Thank you to our guests - Emma Lucas, Craig McCoy, and Rachel Kay - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work.

To view a webinar outlining the Sage/ Personnel Today report that Craig mentioned during the podcast, please visit: https://www.personneltoday.com/five-ways-hr-is-changing-and-how-people-leaders-can-get-ahead-on-demand-webinar/

To learn more about how Underscore can support you in developing your workplace of the future, please visit: https://www.underscore-group.com/virtual-training/

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Key takeaways: As organisation continue to adjust to a post-COVID digital world, they need to equip employees, leaders and HR functions with key skills, competencies, and behaviours, with a greater focus on business skills such as creative thinking, communication and problem solving alongside technical expertise, business analytics, programme management and marketing capabilities.

Thank you to our guests - Emma Lucas, Craig McCoy, and Rachel Kay - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work.

To view a webinar outlining the Sage / Personnel Today report that Craig mentioned during the podcast, please visit: https://www.personneltoday.com/five-ways-hr-is-changing-and-how-people-leaders-can-get-ahead-on-demand-webinar/

To learn more about how Underscore can support you in developing your workplace of the future, please visit: https://www.underscore-group.com/virtual-training/

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Key takeaways: Areas such as the digitalization of work, and ensuring that employees are adequately trained to work in a digital way, along with HR's role in supporting employee wellbeing and mental health have long been ares of focus for progressive HR functions. COVID-19 has forced the pace of change, organisations have to address these issues at speed for the sake of the business and its workforce.

Thank you to our guests - Marc Weedon, Steve Hunt, and Richard Phelps - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work.

To learn more about how Underscore can support you in developing your workplace of the future, please visit: https://www.underscore-group.com/transformation_home/

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Key takeaways: Conversations around the future of work show that there are exciting opportunities for the workforce to evolve, but also challenges in how to make that happen. The impact of Covid-19 has had a tangible impact on how many of us work and the ways in which organisations will operate in the future. There is still great uncertainty, but in a time of flux, it's important for businesses and employees to adapt quickly and put new learning into practice to prepare for the future. 

Thank you to our guests - Marc Weedon, Steve Hunt, and Richard Phelps - for joining us for this podcast episode and sharing their expertise and insight on the Future of Work. 

To learn more about how Underscore can support you in developing your workplace of the future, please visit: https://www.underscore-group.com/transformation_home/

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Covid-19 has raised some stark questions about technology, supply chains, staffing, leadership, sustainability, skills and resilience. These questions won’t go away when the virus abates, and many need to be addressed right now. 

You can learn more about Mental Toughness on one of our virtual training courses, please visit https://www.underscore-group.com/virtual-training/

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For more information on the various psychometric tools available and their uses, please visit https://www.underscore-group.com/psychometrics/

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To find out more about the Crisis Management & Recovery Toolkit please visit https://www.underscore-group.com/cmrtoolkit/

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Key takeaway: It’s essential that your executive steering committee, operational steering committee and design authority draw their members from across different functions and areas of the business. 

In this episode, Jason refers to two articles on puzzles and mysteries. The first written by Gregory Treverton in 2007 in the Smithsonian Magazine and describes the differences between puzzles and mysteries, and how to tackle them.  

Here’s a quote from that article:

“Puzzles can be solved; they have answers. But a mystery offers no such comfort. It poses a question that has no definitive answer because the answer is contingent; it depends on a future interaction of many factors, known and unknown. A mystery cannot be answered; it can only be framed, by identifying the critical factors and applying some sense of how they have interacted in the past and might interact in the future. A mystery is an attempt to define ambiguities.”

Read the original Smithsonian article here

The second article was again written in 2007 this time by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared in the New Yorker titled ‘Open Secrets’ in which Gladwell describes the difference neatly.

"The whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden was a puzzle with a definitive answer that was, at the time unsolved, because the US intelligence community didn’t have enough information.  In contrast, the pressing problem of the time was what should happen in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was removed, that was a mystery. There wasn’t a simple, factual answer. Mysteries require judgments and the assessment of uncertainty, and the hard part was not a lack of information but that there was too much. The CIA had a position on post-war Iraq, so did the Pentagon and the State Department, and Colin Powell and Dick Chaney, as did Fox News and MSNBC and CNN and on and on." 

Read Gladwell's New Yorker article here

Welcome to season two of the Underscore Transformation Podcast. We hope you enjoy our episode exploring the importance of governance and control during your business transformation. This season focuses on the Build phase of transformation and follows on directly from season one (Scoping). If you haven't already, we recommend you listen to episodes 2-11 of season one as we will refer back to these topics, and they are vital in building the foundation knowledge required to move into the next phase of transformation.

Season two will cover the following points:  
1. Resource your programme team
2. Build your future support model
3. Manage business change
4. Solution design
5. Get the best out of suppliers
6. Target Operating Model – detailed design
7. Integrations & Reporting
8. Data
9. Testing, testing, testing
10. Governance & control

We will soon be releasing our white paper on the above points, which will be available for download via our website.

If you'd like to be notified of when this becomes available, please contact us via email, or register your interest via our website.

We’re always looking for ways to improve our content and would love to hear your feedback. If you would like to join the conversation, please contact Jason West to join our WhatsApp group.

Follow us on social media: @UnderscoreComms, find us on LinkedIn, or get in touch via email at [email protected]

Visit our website to find more content on transformation, project resourcing, and talent development. 

This episode was recorded and produced by Matt Gore of icon business media.