CIPD People Analytics Conference 2023

The future of work is anticipated to be AI-driven, but how will this affect people analytics and its use within businesses? This session will explore how to develop efficient, effective and proactive approaches to incorporating AI to analyse the way your workforce operates. 

• Understanding how AI can boost the use of people analytics to solve people management problems and enhance practice.
• Human vs machine - assessing the speed and processing capabilities of AI with the power of human intuition and judgement.
  
• Understanding the risks associated with AI and monitoring your data in order to spot the warning signs of potential problems within your algorithms.
  
• Looking to the future - how will AI evolve within people analytics?
  

Getting started: Building your people analytics skill set

At the basis of people analytics is data, but how can we go about collating that data? This hands-on workshop will explore how and what it means to develop good data sets, including how to maintain best practice.

• Exploring techniques for obtaining good data through establishing a consistent data structure.
• Developing clear data guidelines that allow you to collect and process a clean data set.
• Examining how to practise good data hygiene when collecting and storing data.
• The importance of collecting the ‘right’ data and how to avoid flawed analysis.

Taking it to the next level: reinventing data-driven decision making

• Developing techniques to categorise your data to attract and retain top talent.
• Creating data visualisations to assess where high levels of attrition have occurred and how this can influence strategies to prevent employee turnover.
• Enabling efficiency through automated candidate screening.
• Removing barriers within the recruitment process that aid diversity and inclusion across the workforce.

How can data be placed at the forefront of decision making within the people profession? Share experiences, gain a wider perspective, challenge ideas and develop strategies through in-depth discussions on key people analytics issues. An expert in the field will lead and moderate the discussion and you can focus on one of the below topics during this session:

• How can people analytics strengthen strategic decision-making? 
• Utilising people analytics to boost employee satisfaction.
• The role of data in understanding how to widen EDI across your workforce.
• How can AI enhance the people profession?

• Exploring how to embed data protection within your people analytics strategy.
• Creating a culture of openness with your employees when carrying out data collection to maximise transparency whilst maintaining employee confidentiality.
• Navigating data collection regulations and their impact on your people analytics strategy.
• Understanding how biases can occur when compiling insights and developing practices that avoid discrimination.

Getting started: Building your people analytics skill set

Want to look at how to get started with implementing a people analytics strategy? This hands on workshop will explore how to:

• Pinpoint the areas of data you need to create data visualisations for your organisation.
• Understand how your people analytics strategy can inform wider business goals and outcomes.
• How HR tech could assist you in achieving the goals of your people analytics strategy?
• Integrate transparency and data security into your people analytics strategy.

Taking it to the next level: reinventing data-driven decision making

• Techniques for turning structured data into recommendations and future outcomes in order to predict trends and patterns across your workforce.
• Mitigating risk and uncertainty using data to optimise workforce planning strategies.
• Evaluating whether prescriptive analytics can aid long-term planning and developing data visualisations to map pathways to success.

• Joining up your people data to centralise reporting processes to boost efficiency.
• Understanding what key metrics are important to analyse and how this can impact your workforce for the better.
• Considering what tools and processes matter most when developing a people analytics strategy on a budget.
• Creating internal buy-in when it comes to putting people analytics into practice.