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The Key Ingredients of Impactful Analytics Trainings – Plan Your 2019 Analytics Trainings Now

When I first started conducting analytics trainings in the Philippines back in 2012, I was pretty much the only game in town.

There were very few companies offering any kind of big data management training, the terms data scientist and data storytelling were not part of the lexicon and 90+% of companies operating in the Philippines were pretty much just using MS Excel for their analysis and reporting.

You want to know what has changed in the past six years?

Not much, except that there are now at least a dozen companies offering analytics themed trainings, courses and certifications.

Sure they all sound like they are going to teach you cutting edge techniques to finally get a handle on all your big data, but in the end I keep hearing the same thing… the training I went to didn’t really give me anything I can use.

The training was too abstract, to high level, to dependent on one type of software, etc are the constant feedback I here from executives and managers who have been spending on outside training for their teams.

That plus it’s gotten quite expensive.

Analytics Executive Masterclasses, Big Data Boot Camps, Master’s Degrees in Data Science… they cost a lot when most companies are having to tighten their training budgets.

So the risk of wasting time and money on something that is not really going to move the needle is becoming a problem with all these analytics trainings.

With all the efforts of so many people to “help” the Filipino people level up their organizations analytics talent, you’d think by now we should be really competent when it comes to the use of advanced analytics techniques.

Unfortunately, that is just not been the case. There are definitely some pockets here and there were some world class analytics is happening, but for the most part we have to accept the reality that we have a long way to go to be on the level of Singapore, Viet Nam or China when it comes to analytics.

The one thing that has no changed at all since I started all this back in 2012, is the fact that most companies are still relying mostly on MS Excel for 90+% of their analytics.

Everyone wanted to run before they could walk. They through money at high priced trainings with cool sounding names promising to supercharge your business.

I think it’s time to face the reality, that while a few of our companies can do the big stuff, they are also sucking up all the available talent. It’s really, really hard to build a solid analytics team in your business without breaking the bank.

Unless you do what I do.

Get back to the basics.

Make sure everyone is able to really optimize the use of Excel.

Build a solid foundation in analytics that starts with aligning the data gathers, data managers, analysis builders and data presenters.

Make sure your dats is clean, easy to access, fresh, and shared.

Focus on what’s most important to the business.

Then you add on.

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So when you go out to find an analytics training for your team, look for some basic ingredients.

The 4 Key Content Ingredients to Analytics Training are:

  1. Data Sourcing
  2. Data Management
  3. Data Analysis
  4. Data Presentation

If its missing one or more of these ingredients, the training is going to leave you with a sense that something is missing. You will likely struggle to implement what you learned in class.

The 3 Key Trainer Ingredients to Analytics Training are:

  1. Knowledge
  2. Engagement
  3. Hands on Practice

 

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be blogging about each of these ingredients, so that we you and your team sit down to plan your analytics upskill strategy for 2019 you’ve got all the angles covered.

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An HR All-Star Team for the Decades: 2017 HR Congress Aug 16-17, SMX MOA

Some pictures do not require many words… I think this one speaks for itself.

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There are many HR events in August, but this is the only one you will find so many top though leaders. It is an honor to be among them.

OFW Recruitment Analytics = Zero Hits on Google

So in a few weeks I will be speaking at an event for OFW Recruitment Agency owners, managers and recruiters.

I didn’t expect to find much data on how analytics is used to measure effectiveness and to optimize the OFW recruitment process, but I was kinda hoping something might pop up.

So questions I’m hoping to find some insight into:

  1. Do agencies find value in retaining or re-contracting OFWs for additional employments?
  2. Do agencies use any analytics in their demographic profiling to recruiting certain types of OFWs from targeted geographic, social economic, religious, or live of education groups?
  3. Do agencies have data on how they stack up next to competitors who are filling similar requirements?
  4. Do agencies have internal business data that is used optimize operations.

My gut tells me although you’d hope I here yeses in response to these questions, most agencies would actually answer with a no.

Just on the off chance anyone knows of any studies, research projects or public data on analytics and OFW recruitment, thought I would share this.

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HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

Help Me Pick an HR Analytics Topic…

I need your help. I am submitting a proposal to speak at an upcoming HR event being put on by my good friends at Ariva and need help determining which one sounds like the most interesting topic.

Option 1: Insightful HR: Integrating Quality Data towards Better Decisions

Most HR teams are surrounded by an almost limitless wealth of information locked inside business data. However, very few HR teams are consistently able to identify the right data at the right time and even fewer are able to integrate high quality data into the strategic decision-making process. The keys to data-driven decision-making are finding the right balance of analytics Talent, Technique and Technology. I will share a few of tips on how to align the 3 T’s in your business so that HR is able to empower data-driven decision making across the organization. For most HR teams, having good data is the easy part, distilling actionable insights is what makes all the difference

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Learn how to Identify the right data
  2. Discuss how to Inventory the data to gain actionable insights
  3. Discover how to Integrate the data insights into HR decision-making
  4. Unlock the analytics Talent needed for cutting edge HR Analytics
  5. Reveal key analytics Techniques to analyze the data
  6. Master the appropriate analytics Technology to optimize HR decision-making

 

Option 2: Driving Workforce Performance using Balanced Score Card Metrics and Analytics

Balanced Score Cards have been around since the 1990’s. HR teams across the globe have spent millions in trying to perfect ways to positively drive workforce performance based on metrics. So why is this still a topic of interest? Well, in most cases, it is because score cards and the metrics they report keep pointing us problems that are just not going away. Rising attrition, rampant job-hopping, and lower productivity are challenges we are all dealing with. In many cases, though the problem is not what we are reporting with our scorecards but the data we are populating them. As a whole, we are relying on metrics of the past to describe to us how we got here. What we need though is metrics of the future that accurately predict where we are going. I will share with you several of the metrics of the future I use for workforce reporting in my business and how we employ Predictive HR Analytics to optimize our scorecards.

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Discuss HR Metrics of the Past
  2. Learn about HR Metrics of the Future
  3. Discover how to use HR Predictive Analytics
  4. Design a Data-Driven Scorecard Template

 

Option 3: Strategic Problem-solving for Better Decision-making: Analytical and Critical Thinking in Motion

One of the biggest strategic challenges facing HR teams is transforming Big Data into actionable insights. The speed in which decision-makers need to act can often preclude the deep understanding of what value actual lies in the data. This causes misguided strategic planning and under informed decision-making across an organization. The best strategic solutions to quicker and more accurate decisions are found in a well rounded HR analytics approach. One that empowers critical thinking not just from the top, but down the ranks. Business Dashboards and Data Storytelling are two tools that should be used to quickly enable quick decisions in real time. I will show you how HR teams are able to keep one eye on strategic problem-solving while still taking care of daily challenges as they pop up.

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Discuss the challenges of HR Big Data
  2. Share HR Strategic Planning best practices
  3. Learn how to get Real Time HR Data
  4. Design HR Tactical Implementations using Analytics
  5. Align HR with Organization-wide Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

Let me know what you think asap!

Thanks!

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HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

3 Key Tools Needed for HR Analytics: R, SPSS & Tableau

I get asked a lot about what are the best tools to use for HR Analytics. That is not really an easy question to answer as every company has needs a little different then every other company.

That said, the two most common in my experience with HR in the Philippines are R (including RStudio) and SPSS.

R is great for statistical analysis and visualization which is very suited to explore huge data sets.

It enables you to analyze and clean data sets with millions of rows of data. In addition, it lets you to visualize your data and analysis, like what you see below.

RStudio is an open source and enterprise-ready professional software package for R.

It basically does everything that R does, but has a friendlier user interface. The interface contains a code editor, the R console, an easily accessible workspace, and history and room for plots and files. You can take a look at an example of this below.

SPSS is one of the most commonly used HR analytics tools in social sciences. Thanks to its user-friendly interface you’re able to analyze data without having extensive statistical knowledge.

In addition, SPSS is often used within the field of social science. This means that a lot of HR professionals know how to use it, especially the ones with an interest in data.

Additionally, SPSS shares many similarities with Excel which makes it easier to work with.

Tableau is a business intelligence tool that is great at data visualization and business dashboards.

You can also learn to use Tableau to display data you process through SPSS to show results of predictive models.

So for companies looking take the dive into HR Analytics, these tools would give you a good base to inventory and analyze data using R, model it using SPSS and presenting it using Tableau

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Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions. DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. And that is exactly why I wrote Putting Your Data to Work, the first analytics guidebook designed specifically for the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.

Analytics for HR Managers (2 Day Training)

Deploy Big Data Analytics Solutions to Align HR with Organizational Business Strategy

Learning Session Description

Successful HR Managers are strategic planners and take decisions which are apt and considering all the facts. They also have a knack for metrics as these are essential in improvising various process in the organization and make data-driven decisions for the benefit of the organization.

Learning Session Outline

Successful HR Managers are strategic planners and take decisions which are apt and considering all the facts. They also have a knack for metrics as these are essential in improvising various process in the organization and make data-driven decisions for the benefit of the organization.

In the past few years, we have seen the importance of big data, analytics and data science grow at a dizzying pace. By using meaningful HR Analytics techniques, your recruitment and retention efforts can be greatly enhanced.

A recent Facebook job posting for HR Manager described the importance of Analytics for HR Managers. “We are looking for a visionary who gets excited about using data insights to drive HR related business decisions at all levels. The right candidate thrives on HR data, overseeing dynamic reporting and implementing actionable analysis within both HR and across the organization.”

New techniques like predictive analytics and data storytelling as well as new technologies like social networks, applicant tracking systems and business intelligence applications are fundamentally changing the entire talent management process from recruitment to retirement.

The pressure on HR Managers to deliver results has never been greater as they are required to demonstrate the return on investment being made into HR functions.

Building analytics centric teams and using techniques taught in this training session will empower more data-driven decision making across your HR organization from the top down.

Learning Session Objectives

  1. To learn analytics techniques that will allow quicker, deeper and more impactful analysis of HR & Recruitment Big Data.
  2. To be exposed to cutting edge technology being used in other companies to build HR & Recruitment business dashboards and design more powerful reports.
  3. To assess the current state of analytics in your HR & Recruitment process and build a strategy to empower the greater use of HR analytics in your organization.
  4. Understand the implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in regards to HR functions.

Who Should Attend

This session is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • HR Managers and Recruitment Managers
  • Business Analysts working with HR and Recruitment teams
  • Senior Leaders who work closely with HR and Recruitment

Learning Session Process

Based on a Set of Key Data Science and Analytics Competencies developed by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), our learning sessions are designed for HR Managers to use both in the Philippines and across the region.

Session One – HR Domain Knowledge & Application:  Apply HR domain-related knowledge and insights to effectively contextualize data, achieved by practical experience and exposure to emerging innovations.

  • The Complexity of Multigenerational Workforces
  • Aligning the Brand between HR & Recruitment and Marketing
  • State of Data Science and Analytics in the Philippines

Session Two – Data Management & Governance: Understand data management strategies and governance, incorporating privacy, data security, polices and regulations, and ethical considerations.

  • The 5 V’s of Big Data
  • The 3 Tenants of Data Governance
  • Following Data Privacy and Security Laws

Session Three – Data Analytics Methods & Algorithms: Appreciate the processes used to capture, clean and inspect data for HR & Recruitment. Evaluate and implement data analytics initiatives to derive insights for decision making.

  • Finding the Right Data at the Right Time
  • Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
  • Blending Data from Across the Organization

Session Four – Data Science Engineering Principles for HR: Use analytics software to share findings and tell data stories. Develop analytic processes to improve HR operations.

  • Getting IT: the 3’s I and the 3 T’s of Data
  • Data Science 101: How to Build a Data Science Team
  • Data Storytelling Case Study: The Best NBA Team of All Time

Session Five: Computing Principles for HR: Appreciate information technology, computational thinking and utilize programming languages to design and develop data analysis processes and techniques.

  • Optimizing the use of MS Excel for HR and Recruitment
  • Defining KPIs Case Study: Google Project Oxygen
  • Working with the IT Team: Buy them Doughnuts

Session Six – Statistical Techniques for HR Data Analytics: Direct the application of statistical concepts and methodologies for data analysis including predictive HR analytics.

  • Predictive Analytics Case Study: HP’s Flight Risk Model
  • Tying Management Reporting to HR Analytics Models
  • Group Exercise: Build a Flight Risk Model

Session Seven – Operational Analytics: Use data analytics and specialized business intelligence techniques for the investigation of all relevant HR data to derive insight in support of decision-making.

  • Competitor Landscapes and Demographic Profiles
  • Overview of Business Intelligence Tools
  • BI Tools Demo: Tableau Public

Session Eight – Data Visualization & Presentation: Ability to create and communicate compelling and actionable insights from data using visualization and presentation tools and technologies. Build a HR Business Dashboard prototype.

  • Data Visualization Guidelines
  • Group Exercise: Build a Business Dashboard Prototype
  • The Concept of Enchantment

Case Studies and Exercises

We will use case studies and group exercises throughout the two-day class. In these activities, the group is divided into teams. Each team will analyze datasets using the principals learned in the various learning sessions. These exercises will also use elements from the case studies as we progress from finding data, to conducting analysis on the data and finally presenting the data.

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Augment BPO

The Augment BPO Data Science and Analytics Advocacy Project (Augment BPO) is empowering BPO Companies, Executives, and Workers in the Philippines to prepare for and address the clear and present danger posed by Artificial Intelligence Chatbots (AI Chatbots) to BPO revenue growth and jobs through Data Science and Analytics strategy planning, awareness building and upskill training.

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DMAIPH Analytics Training

DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you. 

HR & Recruitment Analytics: 3 Reasons You Need More (Mar 28 – Ortigas)

On March 14, 2017 in Ortigas, I will be conducting a learning session on HR and recruitment analytics entitled HR Big Data & Recruitment Analytics.

Click here for more details and instructions on how to register >>>

The 3 top reasons for anyone working in human resources and/or recruitment to attend are:

  1. To learn analytics techniques that will allow quicker, deeper and more impactful analysis of HR Big Data & Recruitment Analytics.
  2. To be exposed to cutting edge technology being used to build predictive HR models for all aspects of talent management from recruitment to training to retention.
  3. To assess the current state of analytics in your business and build a strategy to empower the greater use of both descriptive and predictive analytics in your organization’s decision-making processes.

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DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

HR Predictive Analytics is the Next Big Thing in Talent Management (Mar 28 in Ortigas)

Predictive analytics are a rapidly upcoming trend in Human Resources.

Even though a lot of people talk about predictive analytics in HR, hardly any organizations are really able to tie success in HR with success to the bottom line. By applying predictive analytics to business data, HR should be able to add value as a strategic partner that relies on proven and data-driven predictive models, instead of relying on gut feeling and soft science.

Last year, Towers Watson found that one in three organizations planned to increase spend on their HR function by more than 20 percent, and HR data and analytics tools rated as one of the top areas for investment.

However, just looking at HR data in isolation does not represent the best opportunity to make an impact. In fact organizations today need to be able to use predictive analytics for a wide range of functions, especially to:

  1. Measure employee engagement and workforce perceptions
  2. Predict employee turnover
  3. Predict employee performance
  4. Monitor impact of business interventions

This learning session is specifically designed to provide HR teams with a strategic road map to bring together all the relevant data in a business and to use it to predict successful outcomes. Join us March 14, 2017 in Ortigas. HR Predictive Analytics is just one of the topics we will discuss. Click here for more info >>>

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HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today.

DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

Don’t Let Fear of Technology Doom Your Recruiting Efforts

One of the biggest challenges facing Recruitment professionals across the Philippines (and the world) today is a fear of technology. I hear this all the time when I talk with those involved in recruitment.

We all know recruitment is an expensive and continuous process just as trying to eliminate employee turnover is. Hiring and retaining top talent is the topmost priority for every organization yet few readily embrace the use of recruiting software or applicant tracking systems (ATS).

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Given that people represent a company’s most important asset and attracting and selecting the right kind of talent is critical for a company’s successful operation, it is really a no brainer that technology would be a key to success. However, based on both industry research and my own observations, it is the single biggest impediment to successful recruiting in the Philippines.

For some it is a fear of the cost. For others it might be fear of admitting they aren’t very good at embracing technological change. And still others are afraid they will need to rely on someone else to show them how to use the technology. No one is afraid that technological solutions to recruitment won’t help. SO getting past the various causes of apprehension is their biggest challenge.

A good technological solution can connect the dots between you and your candidates. This helps recruiters automate the entire hiring process from capacity planning, career portal, resume management, assessments and interviews, offer management, and extensive reporting and insights into the process.

All in all, you can supercharge your recruitment analytics with the right system to significantly speed up hiring, reduce costs, and improve the overall quality of recruiting and employer branding. .

If you know you need an ATS and are ready to explore, I can help you figure out which of the hundreds of products out there best fits your unique need. Not all of them are super expensive and when compared against the cost of hiring more staff to hire staff, ATS’s generally have a much better ROI.

HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

Finding Meaningful Ways to Use HR Data

One of the biggest challenges people have with using more data in their talent management process is that many leaders just don’t know where to start. Most HR organizations have tons of data on end to end talent management from recruitment to training to operations, but it is not easy to see meaningful patterns within all the data.

HR data used to be something easily captured in spreadsheets. Some of us have evolved to using more robust applicant tracking systems and talent management tools. Cutting edge HR teams are able to use the Big Data in their business to fuel a mature analytics engine that leads to insightful reports and business dashboards. Recent leaps in technology have given data hungry HR professionals access to a wide range of employee information that  can be used in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.

To really find meaningful ways to use HR Data, today’s HR professionals needs to have at least a working knowledge of the data they have in their business. To be successful they need to know how to access and analyze the data, provide it to decision-makers and incorporate the data into a living process of continuous improvement.

11709268_10153506561077425_1608720566061502683_nIn the end, success with HR data all boils down to the culture of the business. Is the team, or at least a number of the team, tech savvy and analytical? Is curiosity encouraged when it comes to finding new data? Is proactively mitigating risks and eliminating waste in the talent management process encouraged? If yes, then you are doing better than most.

Finding meaningful ways to use HR Data is not just about the cool new technologies available, nor is it just about harnessing the power of Big Data. It is as much as, if not more important that the HR team share a culture that optimizes the use of HR Data in defining strategy, making decisions and improving the business.

If you are wondering how to find more meaningful ways to use your HR Data, connect with me. I have helped dozen of HR teams to find ways to up their game when it comes to growing a data-driven culture that can maximize the big data in their business.

HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.