Lessons From The Pandemic: What Have We Learned About Change?

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Lessons From The Pandemic: What Have We Learned About Change?

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In this podcast, I detail our new research, The Change Agility Playbook, which looks back at what companies have learned over the last two years. Change Agility is a new management manifesto, and it’s...

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Jan 23, 2022

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The Flourishing, Surprising, And Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching: In this podcast, I discuss the billion dollar+ market for online coaching. It’s an amazingly successful, fast-growing space with four distinct categories. Coaching on-demand, driven by AI matching, Leadership development for all, democratizing coaches... by The Josh Bersin Company
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A New Role For Corporate Learning? Yes: Growth In The Flow Of Work: In this podcast, I discuss our groundbreaking new research on corporate training, Growth in the Flow of Work. After almost a year of research and study of 1000+ companies, we evaluated more than 90... by The Josh Bersin Company
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Everything You Need To Know About Recruiting (Almost): This podcast details our brand new research on recruiting, and why 74% of companies underperform. I took some time to give you many of the details, including the labor market situation, why companies struggle... by The Josh Bersin Company
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What The War In Ukraine Teaches Us About Business: This week I discuss how the war in Ukraine teaches us important lessons in business. This week I'm talking with several thousand HR professionals in Ukraine and we're going to talk about what we've all learned. What you'll see is that most of the lessons in my new book, Irresistible: The Seven Secrets Of The World's Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations, are also the lessons of winning the war. The book is available on Kindle this week (purchase here) and the print version comes out on October 25. Resources Mentioned In The Podcast Organization Design: The Real Secret To Growth Team of Teams, by Stanley McChrystal Accounting for Slavery, by Caitlin Rosenthal by The Josh Bersin Company
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Recap of HR Tech Conferences, GWI Launch, And My New Book Irresistible: This podcast is a quick overview of all these topics, following my week at the largest HR Tech conference in the world. As you’ll hear, the HR Tech world is doing fine, and I... by The Josh Bersin Company
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Introducing The Global Workforce Intelligence Project (GWI): We’ve entered a new world of work. Jobs, skills, and organizations are changing faster than ever. And it’s all because of what we call “Industry Reinvention.” If you want to learn all about how... by The Josh Bersin Company
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Employees Are Fed Up, And They're Not Going To Take It Any More: We have entered a new phase in the economy: one where employees are simply fed-up. Union movements at Starbucks, Amazon, and Apple are just the tip of the iceberg: almost 81% of employees are... by The Josh Bersin Company
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Recruiting And Retention In Crisis. How Do We Build Trust, The Most Benefit Of All?: How do we attract, recruit, and retain people in this difficult labor market? Raise wages? Improve career options? Spend money on training? The answer is yes – all these things. But there’s something more.... by The Josh Bersin Company
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Understanding Workday's AI Strategy. And Update on GPT-4 and Microsoft Copilot Launch.: In this podcast I detail the Workday AI and ML strategy, with a strong focus on the new, more integrated HCM products and how they fit together. I also discuss the Skills Cloud, where it came from, and where it's going. And I also explain why Workday Prism, Extend, and Orchestrate have become so strategic to the company's growth. And I also give you my perspectives on GPT-4 and the massive Microsoft Copilot launch. Additional Resources The Role Of Generative AI And Large Language Models in HR Workday’s Response To AI and Machine Learning: Moving Faster Than Ever New MIT Research Shows Spectacular Increase In White Collar Productivity From ChatGPT LinkedIn Announces Generative AI Features For Career, Hiring, and Learning Microsoft Launches OpenAI CoPilots For Dynamics Apps And The Enterprise. Understanding Chat-GPT, And Why It’s Even Bigger Than You Think (*updated) Microsoft’s Massive Upgra by The Josh Bersin Company
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Layoffs: Probably More To Come, A Personal Story, Lessons From Twitter.: Layoffs are simply a part of business. Over the years there have been millions of workers let go and it's always a difficult, painful process. In this podcast I give you my perspectives on the process, the role leadership must play, and how to deal with the topic if you are the one losing your job. I also give you my own perspectives on hiring, which is the mirror image of layoffs, and what I think is going on at Twitter. Finally, I took a few minutes to share my personal experience with layoffs at IBM, Sybase, DigitalThink (where I was the victim), and my own company. I hope this podcast gives you some perspective as a leader, HR person, or individual dealing with this issue. And let me remind you the Irresistible companies deal with this a very unique way. (They hire slowly and have a very deliberate process to make sure all new hires "increase productivity" and don't "slow the company down.") More Background by The Josh Bersin Company
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HR Technology Disrupted: Employee Experience Has Become The New Core: In this podcast, I explain how HCM systems have changed, and how the center of gravity for HR Tech has shifted. The new center is the Employee Experience and Talent Intelligence platforms, with the... by The Josh Bersin Company
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The HR Tech Market Is Going Crazy: What To Look For In 2023: In this podcast, I “spill the beans” on all the major trends in HR Technology for 2023 I’ll be detailing this in my 75 minute keynote at the HR Technology Conference in September. In... by The Josh Bersin Company
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What Can AI Teach Us About Human Resources? Do HR Tech Companies Get It?: This week I summarize the results of 20+ interviews with HR Tech and AI vendors and talk about how AI and all its various manifestations can teach us a lot about how to approach Human Resources in a much more systemic way. Not only are the HR tools and Copilots starting to roll out in the market, but we are also seeing how AI-centric platforms (Talent Intelligence systems, for example) will really disrupt and ultimately obsolete many traditional HR tools. I also introduce the idea of "Falling In Love With The Problem," which in many ways defines what we call the new Systemic operating model for HR. (Uri Levine, the founder of Waze, really first coined this phrase.) Resources I Recommend What Is A Neural Network? Fantastic Overview Of How AI Systems Work. Redesigning HR: An Operating System, Not An Operating Model. Why Is The World Afraid Of AI? The Fears Are Unfounded, And Here’s Why. Irresistible: The Sev by The Josh Bersin Company
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Women Falling Behind In Leadership And More Big Announcements From OpenAI: This week I want to talk about the IBM/Chief study of women in leadership that concludes "the leadership pipeline is broken" and that "given the state of the pipeline, we may NEVER reach gender parity." The data is striking so I want to show it to you and try to interpret what's going on. Second, I want to update you on the rapid progress in OpenAI's strategy as they launch their open API for enterprise and developers, and discuss major new announcements coming. Finally, I want to describe Systemic HR in more detail and give you a real-world example. Additional Resources OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers In 2023, Gender Parity 'Feels' Close — But Research Shows We Are Farther Than Ever Before Redesigning HR: An Operating System, Not An Operating Model. The Unbelievable, Critical, Never-Ending Role Of Culture In Business by The Josh Bersin Company
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Pay Equity, Chat-GPT Bias, Slowing Economy, Post Layoff Advice, Secret To Great Hiring: In this week's podcast I cover a bunch of topics. Here they are: The unexpected impact of pay transparency laws Why the economy is experiencing a "slow motion car crash" The ever-tighter labor market and shortage of workers Why gig workers are happier than wage slaves and what you can do about it Microsoft research on the inadequacy of productivity tools (& why ServiceNow is hot) More proof that Chat-GPT is immature and yes, it's biased What 10 HR execs agree on the "secrets of high performance hiring" Why car sales people are great folks to hire! What to do AFTER the layoff Why Amazon is a very tough place to sell a book (sob) The new operating model for HR, which we call Systemic HR Predictions for 2023: it's all about Activation!!! Additional Links Predictions for 2023: Work, Workforce, and HR Understanding Chat-GPT, And Why It’s Even Bigger Than You Think (*updated wi by The Josh Bersin Company
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What To Do About Inflation Pay, Job Design, Hiring, And Hybrid Work Now? It's Still Complicated.: After several weeks travelling to conferences and talking with clients I want to riff on a bunch of urgent topics: How do we create pay equity when inflation is running at over 8%? How do we get people "back to the office" when 55% of job candidates now want fully remote work? How do we redesign jobs to reduce stress and help with tremendous hiring challenges? And what really works for Employee Experience now that people are more worried about their standard of living than their mental health? (And will the Four-Day week really work?) In this podcast I try to cover it all, and also point out some of the important lessons in my book Irresistible, to help you stay ahead of this crazy labor market. Important Resources Irresistible: The Seven Secrets Of The World's Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Companies (a 99 cent special price discount on Kindle for a week!) Microsoft's Amazing DEI and by The Josh Bersin Company
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What Is The Role Of An Expert In The Age Of AI?: I bet you're an expert at something. We all are. But how will it feel when a Generative AI becomes deeper and more expert than we are? In this podcast I describe what an "Expert" really is, and why Gen AI has the potential to totally change the market for Experts: not only HR consultants, but lawyers, accountants, scientists, and more. And that means we "Experts" need to up our game. Consulting firms watch out. After many weeks using our new platform Galileo™, I'm amazed at what it can do. This podcast explains how it works and how "expertise" is created by AI. Additional Information Introducing Galileo™, The World’s First AI-Powered Expert Assistant For HR (Join the waitlist) Building A Company Skills Strategy: Harder (and More Important) Than It Looks Understanding An Expert System (Wikipedia) by The Josh Bersin Company
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The OpenAI, Sam Altman Drama In Perspective: What Have We Learned?: The OpenAI board saga has been fun to read about, but now that it's settling down what have we learned? In this podcast I recap the last week's events and give you some perspectives on tech companies, leadership, employee activation, and culture. And by the way, what is the role of the board and where does it fit? And why is Sam Altman so important? As you'll hear, the big lesson here is that the most important stakeholders are not the board, but the employees, management, leadership, and culture. And I share lots of stories about tech companies, leadership, culture, and growth. Additional Information Companies Have Been Neglecting Their Leadership, And It Shows The Big Reset Playbook: Organizational Culture and Change Agility The Unbelievable, Critical, Never-Ending Role Of Culture In Business by The Josh Bersin Company
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Hello Galileo™, The AI-Powered "Bloomberg Terminal of HR": In this podcast I tell the story of our new Generative AI platform Galileo™, The World's first AI-Powered Expert Assistant for HR. Not only do I explain the history, but I explain how Generative AI platforms work and how flexible and scalable they can be. As I explain, Galileo is much more than a highly intelligent assistant, it is a platform for many applications in HR. I hope you find this podcast educational, because it will teach you about AI in general and many of the powerful benefits to come.... and why deep domain-specific AI can be so powerful. Additional Information Sign Up for the Galileo™ Wait List (Corporate Members, you'll be receiving instructions.) Read About Features and Sana AI Watch The Explainer YouTube Video by The Josh Bersin Company
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Performance Management Revisited and The Ray Dalio Dot Collector: As everyone talks about building a skills-based organization, developing people, and dealing with the tough labor market a looming question remains: How do we evaluate people for performance? A new book about Ray Dalio's company Bridgewater Associates gives us some interesting insights into one of the most "feedback-rich" cultures on the planet. How much feedback is good and how do we make it work to everyone's benefit? In this podcast I explore the topic and give you my perspective on the never-ending topic of how we evaluate our people. Additional Information We Wasted Ten Years Talking About Performance Ratings. The Seven Things We’ve Learned. Performance Management Reimagined: Certificate Program In The Josh Bersin Academy The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, by Rob Copeland The Dot Collector, by Ray Dalio by The Josh Bersin Company
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