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Coaching for Leaders

323: How to Leverage People Analytics, with Jenny Dearborn

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Jenny Dearborn: The Data Driven Leader

Jenny Dearborn is Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer at SAP. She is the author, with David Swanson, of the new book, The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics.

Key Points

  • There is data in everything.
  • It’s not just about customer data, it can be used internally to improve the organization.
  • HR professionals should try to be more in tune with the C-Suite and the company’s big picture strategy.
  • A lot of organizations think they’re doing analytics but what they’re really doing is reporting.
  • The best way to do analysis is to start mapping information against each other.
  • Organizations often have enough data but they haven’t thought about ways to utilize it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Sometimes as leaders we make decisions that just feel right to us, but occasionally they're contrary to what the data indicates.

0:08.5

On this episode, how to start delivering measurable business impact through people analytics.

0:15.2

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 323.

0:19.2

Produced by Innovate Learning, learning, maximizing human potential.

0:23.6

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:30.4

This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born they're made and this

0:37.4

weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader.

0:44.5

If you're tuning into the show for the first time,

0:46.4

you may or may not have ever given much thought to data and analytics in your organization. And if you've been listening for a while you know that we talk about a lot of aspects of leadership and one that we have not talked about very much and my fault is not really looking a lot at data and

1:04.6

analytics and how we are utilizing those important resources in our

1:09.3

organizations to make decisions to lead more effectively and to ultimately benefit the people that we are there to serve.

1:16.5

Today's guest is an expert on this and has just released a new book.

1:20.7

I am so excited to be able to speak with her. Her name is Jenny Dearborn.

1:24.3

Jenny is senior vice president and chief learning officer at SAP, the world's

1:28.1

largest business software company. She's responsible for learning, development,

1:32.3

talent management, leadership, succession management,

1:35.0

and organization development for the approximately 90,000 SAP employees worldwide.

1:39.9

She's been recognized as one of the 50 most powerful women in technology by the National Diversity

1:45.0

Council and as an industry leader on applying data and analytics to workforce development

1:50.3

and human capital transformation. She is the author with David Swanson of the new book,

1:55.0

The Data Driven Leader, a powerful approach to delivering

1:58.0

measurable business impact through People Analytics.

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