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People Analytics Career Discovery Lab

Accelerate your People Analytics career and business outcomes.

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About this Lab

Accelerate your people analytics skills and drive business outcomes by joining this four-week live acceleration lab. Each week is designed to simultaneously accelerate you and your career while providing easy to implement people analytics approaches to bring immediate value to your organization.

Join a group of peers for live sessions focused on skills and career acceleration. This lab is for anyone seeking to differentiate themselves and their work by leveraging people analytics skills.

You will identify your own personal people analytics strengths, build a career and development plan, and have an opportunity for peer coaching. Each week you will also receive industry expert designed processes guiding you on how to: build a business case using analytics, use analytics to measure progress, change, & ROI,

design a people analytics plan of action, proactively identify issues using people analytics, and address current challenges with people data.

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This is not your typical people analytics course focused solely on learning new terms and concepts. This is an interactive lab focused on your skills, your career, and your ability to deliver results for your organization.

This Lab is designed for

those early in their use of people analytics (whether new to working in general or seasoned professionals who are just new to people analytics),
those in HR or a people leader roles who want to incorporate more analytics into their work and skillset (e.g., recruiting, learning, HR managers, etc),
those currently using people analytics, who are unsure which career path or skills might suit them best to focus on.

Benefits of attending include:

Identifying the unknown or under-utilized people analytics skills and strengths you already have to make more of an impact today.
Drive results by getting templates and guides to making an impact in your
organization with people analytics no matter what your role or starting point.
Get ahead by focusing on your skills, your career and your ability to show impact

Next Lab: 2021 January 5th

Weekly Online Live Sessions:

US: Thursday at 1.10 -2:50pm (PDT), 4:10-5:50pm (EDT)

Australia: Friday at 8:10-9:50am (AEDT)

NZ: Friday at 10.10 – 11.50am (NZDT)

There will be 1-2 office hours available weekly for personalized meetings, feedback and coaching. Estimated time outside of training will be between 1-3 hours effort between sessions.

If interested in this lab but the times don’t work for your location – then please fill in form below and let us know.

Indicative Course Outline

Week 1:

Knowing your strengths

Learn how you can start being more productive using people analytics today, with the skills you have, no need to wait until you learn more! Discovering and using your non-analytical super strengths. Learn why analytics skills aren’t always the most important component to successful people analytics. Gain techniques to get value out of people analytics with no math skills required!

Week 2:

All the different approaches...

There are so many different approaches, styles and combinations of skills that can be leveraged for people analytics. It can be overwhelming. Do I need to learn statistics? If so, how advanced do I need to be? What about coding? What should I learn first? This week we will dive into one of the biggest people analytics problems for career discovery. And, news flash the problem isn’t that it’s hard to find good learning opportunities to build our skills, it’s that we don’t know which skills are most important to gain to get us to the type of career we want to be in.

Week 3:

Choose your own adventure

Choose your own adventure. No two careers will ever be alike. We all have different strengths, preferences, and different possibilities available to us based on the types of roles, organizations, and cultures in which we work. This week you will learn about all the ways that you can use people analytics in different sizes of companies, industries, locations. Also, you will learn about non- HR roles that leverage people analytics, ways to use people analytics in addition to non-PA roles, and different people analytics specialty areas. To get a full view of all the many possible people analytics careers to discover.

Week 4:

Discovery plans in action

This week you will learn how to create a career discovery map that will be best for you as well as in the kind of company, location, industry or size of company in which you work. This week will be all about equipping you to be able to get started now on making an impact with people analytics. So that you will be able to leverage your strengths, start building the skills you need, and to bring about valuable outcomes for the organizations that you support. This is the week where we see all the ways that our own PA discovery journey can lead to powerful outcomes like learning how to design a people analytics project, building a business case for using people analytics, identifying unforeseen problems that can be addressed with pa, and solving problems using people analytics.

Lab Leader

Heather Whiteman

Heather Whiteman, PhD is an expert in People Analytics, Talent Transformation, and the Future of Work. Heather teaches People Analytics at UC Berkeley Haas and serves as a Fellow at Future Workplace. She has a master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and PhD in Human Capital Management. focusing on the science of people at work. She has held executive roles leading People Analytics, Talent Management,
Learning & Development, HR Operations and HR Technology at companies like General Electric (GE), PG&E, and more through consulting partnerships. Heather has led organizations through hyper-growth, digital transformation, mergers, acquisitions & restructuring with the use of advanced, data driven talent
management techniques. Heather’s passion and focus lies in helping organizations prepare for the challenges of the future of work, digital talent transformation and in enabling a new future driven by data and people analytics insights.

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