Achieving HR and Business Targets
When it comes to achieving your HR and business goals, there are lots of things that can stand in the way. Inefficient processes, piles of paperwork, unreliable partners; when you’re bogged down in chaos – it’s easy to lose sight of your goals. My guest today says he and his team are breaking down those barriers by building the tools and solutions that empower organizations to see goals through to the end.
In this HRchat, I talk with Joe Du Bey, CEO at Eden Workplace, a company on a mission to create better places to work. Founded by Joe and Kyle Wilkinson in 2015 and launched out of Y Combinator, Eden Workplace has expanded to become an all-in-one workplace management platform that aims to make it easier for companies to run their offices.
Questions Include:
- How has the world changed in terms of what the modern org is doing in their approach to work policies and what are you seeing as the key trends?
- How have you seen the role of HR change e.g. facility management?
- What are the biggest challenges faced by organizations when it comes to a) safely reopening offices and b) encouraging employees to return to work?
- Let’s talk about desk booking, visitor management, and room scheduling – traditionally, how much of a headache and time suck was this? What are the options available today that make it easier?
- What are some generational differences in trends the workforce wants to see?
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Our guest today has been ranked as the number one management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top-five coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 Hall of Fame as one of the world’s leading business thinkers.
Dave Ulrich has a passion for ideas with impact. Dave and his colleagues at the RBL Group have 30+ years of experience in helping organizations and individuals succeed through HR practices in talent, leadership, and organization.
Dave previously appeared on the HRchat pod back in May 2020. In that show, he talked about ways leaders and employees can come through the Covid-19 crisis with greater resilience and new skills.
Questions Posed to Dave Include:
- Throughout the Covid crisis, you have remained an optimist; emphasizing the opportunities available to HR leaders willing to use this time as a chance to learn and grow. When it comes to the role of the HR function in contributing to the overall success of the org, what are you most hopeful for in 2022?
- What are the biggest challenges facing HR leaders now and through the rest of 2022? what are the roadblocks facing hr and leaders to getting to success in the marketplace?
- How has 'The David Ulrich HR model' evolved over the past 25 years?
- In a 2021 interview, you explain "now is the time to reinvent HR by pivoting from benchmarking and best practice to guidance. Instead of improving by comparing oneself to others and by adapting what others do well, we must move beyond these descriptions of HR work to prescriptions ... We want to move to guidance to be prescriptive on what should be done." Please can you expand on the why and explain how HR departments can become more prescriptive?
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