Disrupting HR: It’s time to break the rules

Back in the day, it made sense for HR to embrace a “rules and planning” based model. Career paths were predictable and business leaders set up their five-year plans and stuck to them with vigour.

As tech continues to disrupt everything about how we live and work, organisations are largely dependent on their capacity to embrace change and modernise rapidly. HR is no exception, but seems to have been left behind in the transformation, perhaps because it’s such a far-reaching and extensive function. The digital transformations taking place today rely on a simpler and faster model – driven by feedback from participants.

On Tuesday 21 January, we’re bringing together a panel of experts to talks us through some of the biggest disruptions and how organisations are adopting agile models effectively and pulling HR into the 21st century.

  • Agile processes are replacing the old rules and systems: feedback models, flexible working, compensation, digitisation, onboarding, learning and development
  • Shared creation of the employee experience
  • Reskilling HR with the support of IT
  • Integrating HR back into the heart of business

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