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In this week’s episode of foHRsight from future foHRward, hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman Colla debate an article from the Academcy to Innovate HR (AIHR) on the challenges facing HR.You can access the article here:https://www.aihr.com/blog/state-of-hr/ They review the challenges and provide their own unique perspective on how much these challenges exist and how they can be shifted to present opportunities. Join our communityIf you’re interested in being part of these conversations, consider joining our foHRsight+ community. You can learn more here.https://www.futurefohrward.com/communityQuick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at https://www.futurefohrward.com/subscribe.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/ Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/ And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode of foHRsight from future foHRward, co-host Mark Edgar has the opportunity to connect with fellow Brit, think partner and community builder Garry Turner.Mark and Garry had the opportunity to meet in person for the first time at a recent Freedom at Work conference event in Miami and that sparked a conversation exploring the intersectionality of mindset, work and community. Intrigued? Take a lesson to find out more.You can learn more about the Freedom at Work approach here:https://www.worldblu.com/You can follow the case study Garry referred to here:https://www.youtube.com/live/sWoy1nbgiT4?app=desktop&si=cvWDh76n_MkcVvQV&cbrd=1You can follow Garry on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/possibilityexpander/Join our communityIf you’re interested in being part of these conversations, consider joining our foHRsight+ community. You can learn more here.https://www.futurefohrward.com/communityQuick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at https://www.futurefohrward.com/subscribeFollow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode of foHRsight from future foHRward, hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman Colla have the opportunity to connect and share insights from 3 stories that have been hitting the news waves in their community foHRsight+.The first article from Business Insider article from middle of February picks up the theme that the power balance is perhaps shifting and that some companies are using that to bring people back to the office and, unfairly, targeting people who work remotely in lay-off decisions.We explore the concept of proximity bias and the responsibility we have as individuals and organizations to avoid this becoming a real thing.Find the link to the full article here!We shifted girls to explore an article in Toronto Life about our changing expectations of work sharing stories a bunch of 20 to 30 year olds for whom quiet quitting, lazy-girl jobs, bare-minimum Mondays, weekend Wednesdays are a thing. We conclude these people aren’t lazy, but just making different choices that we need to respect.https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/work-less-live-more-confessinos-new-intentionally-underemployed-labour-force/Finally we discussed news in Fast Company about Zoom’s decision to layoff its DEI team. We discussed DEI at a recent foHRsight+ roundtable and were very encouraged by how resolute people were about continuing this important work.https://www.fastcompany.com/91025936/zoom-laid-off-its-dei-team-and-its-not-the-only-company-making-cutsJoin our communityIf you’re interested in being part of these conversations, consider joining our foHRsight+ community. You can learn more here.Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In Part 2 of Naomi's conversation with Josh Bersin, they talk about the impact of GenAI on HR, and specifically about:The Josh Bersin Company's new AI Assistant, GalileoHow HR is positioned to be a key partner in the development and use of responsible AIHow HR can upskill themselves to be more comfortable using AIThe biggest opportunities for HR in 2024And of course they end with a feel-good!Learn more about Josh’s work here:https://joshbersin.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

It's still us - We have a shiny new look! In this week’s episode of foHRsight Naomi Titleman is joined by Josh Bersin who has just returned from the transform conference in Las Vegas.They talk about:A year since irresistible released – what’s shifted / what new trends are Josh following?An update on skills organizationsTalent Density – what does it mean and why does it matter for performance excellenceObservations from the transform conferenceLearn more about Josh’s work here:https://joshbersin.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode of foHRsight Naomi Titleman is joined by Jaime Klein – Founder & CEO of Inspire Human Resources.In the episode Jaime shares the inspiration behind her organizaiton providing fractional HR support to a range of businesses. They explore the value of having fractional support both for the individual who is part of the worker ecosystem and the organization.They also explore why fractional work is so popular in HR to ensure the profession is equipped to deal with big tasks.Learn more about Jaime’s work here:https://www.inspirehumanresources.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode of foHRsight Naomi Titleman is joined by Dave Cairns who shares his story as a Digital Homad (not nomad!) who moved to Prince Edward Island and has maximized the life in the distributed work world!Link to Flex Index report (correction - it’s 93% of companies founded in 21-23 and 85% excluding tech that offer work location flexibility)Link to Atlassian report Learn more about Dave’s work here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-cairns-5644a233/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode co-host Mark Edgar had the pleasure of connecting with Hive Learning to explore the opportunities and challenges facing learning teams as they explore using GenAI.If used in the right way, GenAI ultimately can ensure you create relevant, quality content at speed, but it requires organizations having clarity around the problem you are looking to solve.She shares 3 useful use cases:A bank needing with an ageing workforce looking to train emerging talentA company looking to create learning content from a significant amount of written standardsDeveloping a range of relevant skills academies taking core material and adapting it for different geographies, roles and demogrpahicsIn sharing her leadership journey, Laura references squiggly careers – you can find out more here:https://www.amazingif.com/To learn more about Hive Learning:https://www.hivelearning.com/And Laura invites you to connect with her on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-keith-71930a27/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode, co-host Naomi Titleman has the opportunity to connect with long-time family friend, consultant, board advisor and coach Ralph Shedletsky.Ralph shares valuable insights based on a long career in talent assessment. This includes the do’s and don’t of succession planning, the partnership between the CEO and the CHRO, how to manage expectations from the board and challenges for a new CEO.With so many practical take-aways, you don’t want to miss this one.You can connect with Ralph on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-shedletsky-36a0322/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode, co-host Naomi Titleman has the opportunity to connect with 5x author, thought leader, keynote speaker and futurist Jacob Morgan.They have a far reaching conversation exploring the opportunities for the future of work including the impact of technology, changing expectations from emplpyees and their concerns around social media trends like ‘Lazy Girl Job’, ‘Sunday Scaries’ and ‘Monday Blues’.Jacob research from his most recent book, ‘Leading With Vulnerability’ and the importance of leaders combining vulnerability with competence by demonstrating not only that they have gaps, but they have a plan to overcome them.You can learn more about Jacob’s work here –https://thefutureorganization.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode, co-host Naomi Titleman had a fantastic conversation with Stanford Professor and speaker on work from home, Nick Bloom.Any HR professional who has been wrestling with hybrid over the last 3 years will have come across Nick’s research.The cover a range of topics including how hybrid work has evolved over the last few years and how it could evolve in the future.You can learn more about Nick’s work here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-bloom-86b79510b/And here:https://wfhresearch.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Old friend of future foHRward and Chief Engagement Officer at WorkTango, Rob Catalano is one of the top thought leaders on employee engagement. In this episode with co-host Naomi Titleman, he shares his journey getting into the area of engagement and his passion of improving lives at work. Rob talks about how the best companies are increasingly measuring the whole employee experience and their employee’s relationship with work through a set of diagnostic questions. Naomi and Rob reflect on the shift from HR owning and controlling the process of measurement and “protecting” leaders from receiving the feedback that they need to improve, to providing leaders with access to the information so they can action it.They also talk about the power of democratizing rewards and recognition to all people to drive culture change.You can learn more about Rob’s work and follow him on LinkedIn here –You can also learn more about WorkTango here – www.worktango.comQuick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Stephanie Woodward is an author, coach and consultant who specializes in helping individuals and team find the perfect combination of personal well-being and fulfillment.In this week’s episode with co-host Mark Edgar, Stephanie shares the inspiration to write her first book The Big Scale Back that provides a framework for people to explore their relationship with work.Stephanie used her passion for leadership and self-awareness to create a framework that provides the opportunity for people to shift from unconscious productivity to conscious productivity where people listen to their own voice to inform what success looks like.The framework has been adapted by Stephanie to apply to team and organizations who are searching for purpose and meaning by focusing on clarity, climate and flow.In the episode, Stephanie refers to the 13 factors of psychological well-being and the enneagram. You can learn more through these resources.13 Factors: Addressing Mental Health in the Workplace - Mental Health Commission of CanadaThe 9 Enneagram Types — The Enneagram InstituteTo learn more about Stephanie’s work, here is a link to her website -Agency To Change | Communication | Facilitation | CoachingQuick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist (something she realizes people don’t decide to become at school!), an author and a LinkedIn Learning facilitator. In this episode she joins host Naomi Titleman to explore insights from her recent book The Retention Revolution.Erica explains how the acceleration of a number of macro trends during the pandemic have created a shift in how people think about work requiring leaders to think differently about how they retain their people – hence the revolution.She shares some of her 7 secrets including the importance of flexibility, the role of leaders and employee centric design.Some great insights in this episode making it well worth the listen!Learn more about Erica and her work at her website here!Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman get together to review the top 6 macro trends impacting work in 2024.Technology, changing expectations, demographics, safety & security, the economic environment and globalization have all been trends that we have been monitoring at future foHRward for a while and our conversation provided the opportunity to challenge ourselves to see if they are still relevant and how we predict they’ll impact work in 2024.Our conclusion? Yes they’re more relevant than ever, but with a twist. Take a listen to learn more and share with us your perspective on the macro trends impacting work.Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.This week Naomi Titleman is joined by Rob Sadow who is a LinkedIn top voice on flexible work, founder and CEO of Scoop, inventor of the Flex Index and host of his very own podcast.Naomi has a chance to speak to Rob about one of her favourite topics – hybrid work. Rob shares information on how Scoop pivoted from supporting people with their commute to helping organizations use their time in the office more effectively and shares data from Flex Index that tracks organizations' policies and practices related to work flexibility. They share more about the “magic number” and provide some practical strategies to support your flexible working plans.You can learn more about Rob’s work by following these links:https://www.scoopforwork.com/The Flex Index can be found here:https://www.flex.scoopforwork.com/And his newsletter here:https://flexindex.substack.com/Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.In this week’s episode, Naomi Titleman has the privilege to nerd out with co-host of podcast Brave New Work and partner at The Ready Rodney Evans.You can learn more about her work here:https://www.bravenewwork.com/podcasthttps://www.theready.com/Rodney shares some background to the podcast and explains why she enjoys working at The Ready so much – an organization that uses a self-managing system.They talk about the future of HR and the important role HR plays in supporting organizations. This means evolving beyond the (now traditional) Ulrich model and finding an approach that is much more adaptive to a set of changing circumstances to get to the depth of the problem that needs to be solved. This includes both how teams are structured with cross-functional teams, using systems and design thinking techniques (that involve end users) and using experiments and pilots.It also involves HR changing its view that it is a service function and learning to “say no to get behind the bigger yes.”Quick reminderDon’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.In this final episode of 2023, hosts Naomi Titleman and Mark Edgar review their insights form 2023.Wishing all of our listeners a healthy and fulfilling 2024 filled with plenty of foHRsight!Quick reminderDon't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.Hosts of foHRsight Mark Edgar and Naomi Titleman managed to co-ordinate their diaries and connect to talk about AI’s influence on the HR function.They share their experience from recent conversations within the HR community about the areas that appear to be ripe for disruption from the technology and Mark shares how his mind was recently blown with an intervention from friends of future foHRward Hive Learning!You can learn more about Hive Learning’s use of AI to support learning here –https://www.hivelearning.com/Quick reminderDon't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.In this week’s episode of foHRsight, host Naomi Titleman is joined by leadership strategist, culture change expert and award-winning author Dan Pontefract.Dan shares insights from his fifth book Work-Life Bloom that aims to change the narrative we have about work and life and the importance of thriving in both.Learn more about Dan and his work here –https://www.danpontefract.com/You can access free resources and learn more about the book ere –https://www.danpontefract.com/work-life-assessment/Quick reminderDon't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/Support the show