Datafication Of Hr: Making The Transition From Metrics To Business Analytics
Learn to move from HR metrics to business analytics, apply descriptive, diagnostic and prescriptive analytics to people data and present insights that drive business impact.
Speaker
Ronald L. Adler
HR consultant and HR auditing expert · Laurdan Associates Inc. · 42 years in HR consulting
Overview
Leading organizations use metrics to guide people decisions, but HR metrics alone often fall short of the insight business leaders need. This 60-minute HR analytics webinar on the datafication of HR shows how to move from measures to real analysis.
You'll learn the trends driving the need for HR analytics, key terminology, the difference between metrics and analytics and when to use each, and how to integrate and analyze data rigorously. The session gives tools and strategies for descriptive, diagnostic and prescriptive analytics that build better people intelligence.
It also covers data visualization, building and articulating a business case, communicating insights to senior leaders, and the focus areas, such as recruiting, performance, retention and compensation, that deliver the most business impact.
Why attend: HR leaders who can turn metrics into insight make better people decisions and drive results. This session helps HR and business leaders analyze key HR data rigorously and move from operational reporting to strategic analytics. It suits HR executives and professionals, division and department heads, managers, supervisors, team leads, consultants and individual contributors who deliver results through others.
What’s covered
- Key trends driving the datafication of HR
- Key terminology for datafication and analytics
- Metrics vs. analytics and when to use each
- Integrating and analyzing data
- Descriptive, diagnostic and prescriptive approaches to analytics
- Rigorous use of data
- Data visualization to show key insights
- Building and articulating a business case
- Communicating insights and outcomes to senior leaders
- Focus areas that deliver insights with the most business impact
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Ronald L. Adler, president of Laurdan Associates Inc. has 42 years of HR consulting experience and has served as a consulting expert on work force, workplace, and HR management issues for The Wall Street Journal, HRMagazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. Mr. Adler's research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the EEOC, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), insurers, and international organizations.
Mr. Adler is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management, employment practices, and UI issues. Mr. Adler is the author and editor of the Employment-Labor Law Audit (ELLA), the internationally recognized HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment process.
Mr. Adler is an adjunct professor at Villanova University where teaches a graduate level course in HR Auditing. Mr. Adler is also a certified instructor for The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society on employment practices liability and HR auditing issues and has conducted continuing education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on HR management and HR auditing topics. Additionally Mr. Adler has served as an adjunct instructor at the Baltimore City Community College on workplace diversity and sexual harassment.
Mr. Adler is an appointee to State of Maryland's Unemployment Insurance (UI) Oversight Committee and previously served as an appointee to the State's UI Funding Task Force, the UI Advisory Committee, and the state's Workforce Training Initiative. Mr. Adler has served as a moderator at the State of Maryland's Annual Human Relations Conference and at the state's Annual Small Business Conference.

