The Fearless HR Story.

Predicting the future of the talent market is nearly impossible. With conflicting signals including low unemployment, high quit rates and layoffs happening simultaneously. Business leaders are struggling to know what they need next and how to staff for it. To meet the increasing demands of an uncertain market, talent leaders from across the organisation need to consider their contingent workforce to quickly scale up or down with sudden changes.

What makes an employer brand believable? The best employers work hard developing their mission, vision, and values and communicating them to their employees. But in spite of all these efforts, two employees from the same organization can have a different experience in how these values are put into practice. For your organization to prove to current and prospective employees that your employee experience is as advertised, your compensation and culture need to consistently align with your employer brand. In this program, Jeff Adams of BambooHR and Wendy Brown of PayScale will explore how differences in compensation and culture from team to team can undermine the experience your organization promises its employees and then share the steps you can take to keep these unspoken promises.

A global workforce is here to stay. The pandemic put a spotlight on remote working and left us with staffing shortages industries are still struggling to fill. Yet outsourcing is still seen in a negative light. The dirty secret nobody likes to admit.

The pressure on public sector organisations to produce more with less has never been so intense. In this climate, HR and Talent functions are often the first to feel the impact. How can we get the most from our people? How do we ensure that our workforce is engaged? The stakes are high, but so are the rewards. So let’s take a look at the legacy of performance management and get into the hard questions. Is what we’re doing meaningful? Accountable? Productive? And is the archaic annual appraisal really the best way to improve performance?