Six Weeks of HR Analysis Landed After the Executive Decision. The CHRO Problem Isn't the Slides

About this episode

This episode discusses why rigorous analysis can lead to being ignored in decision-making rooms and how the focus should shift from presentation to the purpose of the analysis.

Why does the analysis your team spent six weeks on keep landing after the decision it was meant for? It's rigorous, and it's right. But it was built to prove the function is working, and nobody in the building has a decision that turns on that. So it shows up on the reporting calendar while decisions run on events, and the call gets made from memory by someone with nothing behind it. Presenting it better won't fix that. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to sort the numbers you alread...

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Hosts: Jackson O. Lynch, Scott Morris

Topics covered

• people analytics
• CHRO
• HR leadership
• decision-making
• data presentation

Keywords

• CHRO
• people analytics
• HR leadership
• data analysis
• decision-making

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