Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Strategic Positioning - How do you set up a people analytics function?
- Get an overview of the people analytics landscape
- Determine the appropriate composition and positioning of your team
- Understand how this function enables leadership to inform, optimise and align with corporate objectives
- Secure your position as an expert decision-enabling service to the business
- Identify the skills, objectives and resources required to achieve professional and functional maturity
Achieving Operational Excellence with Data: How do you organise and leverage what already exists within your organisation?
- Identify and manage key stakeholders
- Develop a pragmatic approach to people analytics projects
- Find opportunities from data and vice versa
- Identify where relevant data resides within organisations
- Recognise the key benefits of data warehouses
- Conceptualise the role of data warehousing in strategy
Transforming the Workplace - What is your vision for the future of work?
- Analyse inherent limitations of people analytics techniques within ethical scenarios
- Develop strategies for mitigating the diverse array of risks that arise when applying machine learning to organisational challenges
- Define a personal vision of how people analytics technologies should follow the principles of ethical leadership, corporate social responsibility, and values-oriented algorithm design
- Examine how people analytics can transform society and the workplace for the better
Root Cause Analysis and Project Tactics - How do you ensure you solve the right problem within the appropriate timeframe?
- Create project management plans for people analytics
- Explore counter-intuitive hypotheses
- Break down symptoms of people-related challenges into their constituent parts
- Uncover the root causes and tackle them intelligently
Designing Successful Experiments - How can you best achieve scientific rigour and quality within complex and dynamic organisational settings?
- Design experiments and formulate scientific hypotheses
- Compare underlying measurement principles behind experimental designs
- Draw conclusions from data analysis and communicate results to senior leadership
- Apply scientific methods to resolve practical organisational challenges
Psychometrics - What role do latent traits have in governing workplace behaviour and how can psychological data augment people analytics efforts?
- Assess the influence of latent psychological traits on workplace behaviour
- Define criteria against which to evaluate psychometric tests
- Present opportunities and limitations of psychometric data in strategic decision-making
Organisational Data
- Translate an organisational problem into a data question
- Address corporate challenges using both structured interviews and unstructured text analytics
- Become fluent in statistical and data science terms on a high level, to effectively lead data scientists
- Understand the process of moving from description to prediction to prescription
- Appreciate the differences between machine learning, AI and other predictive models
- Analyse prepared code and simulated organisational data, including internal news boards, managerial reviews, employee surveys, emails, and unstructured text data
- Deliver written and oral communications to keep stakeholders engaged and invested in the success of the people analytics function
