Traditionally in HR, the focus was on the individual rather than the broader picture. Those days are behind us. The best-performing companies put people data at the heart of their HR decisions.
While people analytics leaders and those implementing analytics initiatives currently tend to come from outside of HR - it’s people from Finance or IT who have an HR mindset or skills - there is still a strong need for an HR background in order to understand all the processes, as well as having the soft skills.
Not everyone in HR needs to be a data analyst, of course, but they should be able to be a data consumer, data translator, and data storyteller (as opposed to analyst) and that’s what Chris Bjorling and I will be focusing on today.
Our guest in episode 4 joined Protective Life to help them build data-driven capabilities in their HR dept and take their performance to new levels. Matthew Hamilton is Head of HR Strategy and People Analytics at ProtectiveLife.