A day in the life of… head of HR at digital agency Threepipe
What is it like to be the head of HR at a digital agency?
Read on to hear Loveday Langton explain more about her new role at Threepipe.
Five brands using employee advocacy to drive talent acquisition
Asked about John Lewis’s greatest attribute against the digital giants in Vogue, Paula Nickolds, Managing Director, had two words: “It’s people”.
It sounds simple, right? But in an increasingly competitive marketplace, brands need to be smart to reach prospective candidates and then attract and retain the best talent – something existing employees can help with when given the opportunity to become advocates for the business.
Start Me Up! AI-powered people management from Beaconforce
Start Me Up puts the spotlight on emerging companies in the digital sector, and what could be more topical than artificial intelligence and people management?
At Web Summit 2017, I visited the Beaconforce stand and spoke to Director of Strategic Partnerships, Anthony Morra. Here’s what Morra had to say about Beaconforce’s AI-powered people management platform…
A day in the life of… a HR director at an in-house agency
Amina Folarin is global HR director at OLIVER Group UK, an in-house agency.
Here’s what she does with her time, alongside some tips for anyone thinking of going into HR, or who simply wants to get the best out of their team.
Four steps to successful digital transformation
Digital Transformation is the journey from where a company is, to where it aspires to be digitally, according to Econsultancy’s founder Ashley Friedlein.
The essential first step toward digital transformation
Many people wonder where they should start with a digital transformation programme. The most obvious place, since we are talking about ‘digital’ transformation, is technology.
Starting transformation with technology may include doing things like revamping the website, building an app, or even purchasing a marketing cloud to show that your company is, indeed, on its way to becoming digitally transformed.
Doing so, however, may be a big mistake.
How apprenticeships are fuelling Rentokil’s digital transformation
Over the past few years, there have been many reports of a digital skills shortage.
One way of addressing the volatile digital jobs market is to train up some apprentices who can bring the habits of a digital native and the hunger and loyalty of someone new to the world of work.
What exactly is company culture? And how can HR change it?
There has been a lot of crap written about company culture. I have written some of it.
This week I listened to a very cogent explanation of what company culture is and also read some interesting points about HR’s role in changing it. Here’s what I learned…
HR departments are feeling the pain of digital disruption
Just as digital has allowed marketing and ecommerce teams to become more customer centric, digital is also helping HR departments to become more employee centric.
Econsultancy invited 12 senior HR and Learning & Development professionals to our London office to discuss what Digital Transformation means to them.
We wanted to find out how the industry is measuring and improving digital skills and what impact is digital having on organisational structures and procedures? Here’s what we learned.
What makes a good employee value proposition?
A great employee value proposition (EVP) is vital in persuading the best digital talent to join your organisation.
But what makes a great EVP? How can you make your employees blush and say ‘yes!?’
How alumni could help HR combat the digital skills shortage
What if trying to retain your staff was missing the bigger picture?
What if, as the cliché goes, loving something means letting it go?
Well, that’s what forward-thinking HR departments are starting to understand, creating alumni groups to learn from past employees and their networks.
Perhaps this could be an important strategy to improve recruitment of digital skills in the ongoing skills shortage?
Do you need a Chief People Officer?
What’s in a name? HR by any other name would still send poorly formatted emails.
Sorry, that was a cheap shot. But seriously, language is a very powerful agent for organisational change.
Read the fantastic story of Travelex’s digital transformation and you’ll know one of the many principles championed by Sean Cornwell was to ‘talk about speed, agile, failure, new capabiltiies, ways of working and collaboration like it’s going out of fashion.’
Can the mere naming of a Chief People Officer (CPO) be a totemic act? How have organisations rejigged their HR departments and why?