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Why It's Time to Digitalize Global Rewards
Digitalizing HR is a hot topic promising many benefits for employers and employees. In a recent email interview, Stuart Smith of Conduent, explained to me why there’s so much excitement around digitizing rewards. Be sure to checkout the on-demand webinar (recording and slides) in which…
Why Digital HR is a Big Deal for All
On a recent APQC webinar, Georg Lange described his experience digitalizing the HR function at global agribusiness Syngenta. I asked Georg to answer some basic questions on this emerging topic. Following are his answers about why HR digitalization matters to all. APQC members can learn…
Changing Times for HR Shared Services
The focus of HR shared services is changing. Fewer organizations are wrestling with how to implement HR shared services. More are challenged with improving HR shared services performance. The results of the fifth cycle of the APQC/ScottMadden HR shared services…
Rethinking Talent Development
The 5 W’s of Learning in 2018 Have Employers Asking—How?? Developing talent is getting complicated. Employers are seeing changes in who needs development, what skills must be imparted, when people are available to learn, where learning can (or must) take place, and why talent development is…
Three Questions Every Employer Should Ask in 2018
It’s that time again—time for the annual flurry of predictions about the world of work in the new year and beyond. The list of trends that are forecasted to change the future of work is long. Analytics Artificial Intelligence Automation Digitization Generation Z The Gig…
6 Tips for Creating Strategic Plans That Actually Get Implemented
2017 is quickly coming to a close and business professionals across the globe are engaged in a common annual ritual. They are assessing how well their organization performed over the past year and crafting plans for a more successful 2018. Through this process, many professionals will uncover…
Give Your Boss What They Really Want
In honor of boss’s day, we’re taking a look at what employees can do to help their managers. Be sure to also checkout APQC’s research into how people and organizations can improve leadership as well as our advice on what individuals can do to become better people managers. 98 percent of bosses…
A Culture Change Success Story
How Royal Bank of Canada Engaged Employees in Agile Making organizational change stick is one of the most common and vexing challenges faced by organizations today. In a recent webinar, APQC members heard how Canada’s largest bank, with offices in 37 countries and more than 80,000 employees, got…
Summer Fridays Are Great, But . . .
July was an especially great month to be an APQC employee. We met our performance goals in June and earned the coveted reward of half-day Fridays for all of July. As long as we got our work done and made sure members were taken care of, we were free to take Friday afternoons off and head to…
Augmented Reality Benefits on an HR Budget
Augmented reality—AR for short—has the potential to completely redefine what it means to be a skilled worker. I read this prediction in a recent Entrepreneur magazine article: The Augmented Reality Workforce is Coming. Here are some snippets from the article. “…