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When claims about science become edutainment, science loses

Nov 6, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Rob Briner

I first noticed it in Ted Talk clips. You know the sort of thing. A nicely lit stage with a big logo. Someone way too well groomed and friendly to be a scientist or an academic is strutting around, headset microphone positioned neatly below dazzling and shapely teeth. If they’re really good – and some of them are – they might use a prop. A neuroscientist, or a pseudo-neuroscientist, may have a model of a brain.
Does it matter what we call things? Much more than you might think

Oct 24, 2024 | peoplemanagement.co.uk | Rob Briner

In almost every discussion I’ve had with HR teams about an important issue they’re working on, there comes a point when I sort of snap. I just can’t take it anymore. Why? Because I feel I’ve got to ask: ‘What do you mean by X?’ Where X is something like culture, performance, talent, stress, motivation, EDI, wellbeing or engagement. Typically, there are two quite different reactions to this question.
Evidence-based HR: Overcoming barriers and reaping the rewards

Mar 29, 2024 | tlnt.com | Rob Briner

Mar 29, 2024Imagine, if you will, what steps you might take when faced with a large and reasonably complicated decision – one where the outcome is extremely important to you. It might well be a decision that you come to where everyone wants something different. But here’s the thing. When you’re making such one of these decisions are you:More likely to get the outcome you want if you systematically take account of relevant information or evidence? (in other words, if you do your research?
Menstrual leave at work: Is better flexibility enough?

Mar 27, 2024 | hrzone.com | Amanda Day |Rob Briner

Menstrual health significantly impacts women, non-binary individuals and transgender men across all generations in the workplace, with contemplating quitting their jobs due to the effects of menopause or menstrual symptoms. While acknowledging the call for cultural change in workplace attitudes towards menstrual and menopause leave, it’s essential to explore whether flexible work arrangements adequately address the challenges posed by menstrual health issues, or if more is needed to be done.
Home, office or hybrid? You're asking the wrong question

Mar 26, 2024 | hrzone.com | Rob Briner

The difficulty of agreeing a policy for working from home or office reveals the weakness of management bureaucracy. Think beyond task and process, toward people and value, to see how productivity sits alongside wellbeing and to avoid the strife of return-to-office mandates. As the world emerged from lockdown, boardrooms sought to build on emergency measures introduced during the pandemic.
How to govern and support culture from the boardroom

Mar 25, 2024 | hrzone.com | Ella Overshott |Rob Briner

“A healthy culture both generates and protects value. It is therefore important to have a continuous focus on culture, rather than wait for a crisis.” So said Sir Winfried Bischoff, former Chair of the Financial Reporting Council in their into the relationship between corporate culture and sustainable growth.
How much do you really know about Evidence-Based HR?

Mar 21, 2024 | hrzone.com | Rob Briner |Paul Anderson-Walsh

Evidence-Based HR (EBHR) is an idea that’s been around for a while. An increasing number of people have heard of it and many of us have a sense of what it means but, at least in my experience, relatively few of us have a clear understanding. So, here’s a chance to test your knowledge and to fill in some of the gaps with an Evidence-Based HR quiz. Cick here to take the quick quiz and get your score before reading the rest of the article, which explains the correct answers.
Does the people profession really understand evidence-based HR? Not so much.

Jan 22, 2024 | trainingjournal.com | Rob Briner

Professionals, when working with clients, form a view about what it is needed from the request and discussion and then suggest a course of action that is likely to help. This sounds straightforward but, of course, it can easily go wrong. We may fail to properly diagnose the client’s challenges. We may also recommend a course of action which is ineffective or even harmful. Why does this happen? Usually for one reason and one reason alone: We have made poorly-informed decisions.
Evidence-based HR and people analytics are the same, right? Afraid not

Dec 14, 2023 | peoplemanagement.co.uk | Rob Briner

Like any other management function or indeed any other profession, HR continues to evolve. One of the most notable features of this evolution over the past 30 years is the slow but steady rise in the use of data to inform HR decisions and actions. Since HR first emerged as a function it has, of course, always used data. So what’s actually changed over the past few decades? What’s changed in HR’s use of data?
Aligning HR with the business through the evidence-based HR process

Oct 3, 2023 | hrdconnect.com | Rob Briner

What is evidence-based HR and why is it effective? Let’s start with a few basic questions. When you’re making a reasonably complicated and important decision, are you more likely to get the outcome you want if you systematically take account of relevant information or evidence? Are you even more likely to get the outcome you want if you ensure that the evidence you use is trustworthy or reliable?