HR Insights: Evolving skillsets of HR leaders

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolving skillsets of HR leaders based on insights from a recent white paper.

In this special episode of HR insights, Stuart Elliott is joined by Ilona Jurkiewicz and Roshan Jayawardena to draw on insights from their recently published white paper, ‘Evolving skillsets of HR leaders’, which combines qualitative interviews with 80+ HR leaders and quantitative data. They explore how the HR function is rapidly evolving in response to significant external forces and how the expectations of HR professionals have expanded far beyond traditional responsibilities; today’s HR le...

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Host: Stuart Elliott

Guests: Ilona Jurkiewicz, Roshan Jayawardena

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• skillsets
• evolution of HR
• qualitative research
• quantitative data

Keywords

• HR leaders
• skillsets
• evolution
• interviews
• data

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