Agenda

If you are a traditional HR professional without a background in analytics, this workshop is for you. Develop your analytical skills to stay ahead of the biggest trend in human resources. Walk away with the skills to:

1. Use descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
2. Identifying the right data sources
3. Analyze new and existing data
4. Apply hard data to soft decision-making
5. Explain your data with context

Master the non-technical basics of people analytics to unlock the potential your HR department.

Establishing your people analytics projects without many resources can be challenging. Apply these “no & low” cost tools to make an immediate impact in your organization. Gain insights on:

1. Techniques to collect data from different sources
2. Testing different ideas before formulaizing and scaling up
3. Easy tools to replicate advanced visualizations
4. Core competencies you should include in HR functions
5. Building an action plan specific to your organization’s goals

Lay the groundwork for HR analytics with practical and low-risk options.

A robust people analytics program plays a vital role in helping your organization overcome key challenges. Knowing where to start and what to avoid as you go through the journey can make the different between being just another HR function or being the HR function that consistently gets a seat at the table. Create a plan for:

• Building the capacity and capability for data analytics and reporting
• Choosing the right technology to meet your needs
• Managing change and getting results

Recognize the steps to establish your own program from start-to-finish

“Hire, require, inspire” is a new approach to recruitment analytics. Use data to hire the right people and track success in their new roles. Gain fresh ideas to:

• Hire the right people for long-term employment
• Monitor the on boarding process of new hires
• Boost productivity by setting up your new employees for success

Apply analytics to not only identify the right hire, but also ensure long-term success.

Ensure you are Working with Reliable Data to Better your Analytical Insights
Data integrity is the driving force behind people analytics. Create your data integrity strategy to build and maintain quality analytical insights. Draw wisdom from Shopify’s journey to:

• Avoid the downside of poor data integrity on analytical results
• Build and implement your data integrity strategy
• Maintain the quality of your data

Make data quality a priority to ensure the credibility of your insights.

Big Data and technology is rapidly altering the landscape of our workplaces. Discover tools and new approaches to integrate data into your processes to drive measurable results. Get insights to:

• Tap into the potential of HR metrics, Big Data, and predictive analytics

• Identify future gaps in the workforce

• Increase your visibility into workforce issues and challenges

 
Build your feedback architecture to drive employee performance and productivity.

Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees

Gain insights from your industry peers and benchmark your organization against others in this interactive session. Attendees will be divided into informal discussion groups centred on a variety of topics related to people analytics. Topics to be discussed include:

• Employee engagement
• Integrating data
• Recruitment
• Total rewards
• Workforce planning
• Technology and platforms

“Flock together” to brainstorm innovative approaches to your most pressing challenges.

Healthcare has significant challenges when dealing with workplace related injuries. Determine how your organization can use analytics to learn how to create a safer work environment. Walk away with a plan to:

• Improve performance and increase accountability
• Build a dashboard and supporting tools to measure injury rates
• Make data correlations to identify areas of improvement

Apply analytics to improve your safety processes and minimize risks.

A growing issue in people analytics is ensuring your employees’ rights are protected. Use analytics to your advantage while safeguarding employee privacy to maintain trust and remain compliant. Walk away with a plan to:

• Understand the legal landscape for employee privacy in Canada
• Identify the key privacy risks associated with people analytics
• Apply a privacy by design approach to analytic applications

Build support for people analytics while upholding your employee’s right to privacy.

Google does HR by the numbers. In this session, Anuj Chandarana, a Senior Manager in Google’s People Analytics team, looks at how to apply people data to everyday HR decisions, and gives examples of how to get started on the path of using data to transform organizations. This presentation will help you understand how Google uses data to:

• Enable effective teams
• Improve physical health
• Make work better (in the long, long-term)