HR Takeaways from Collision Conference

Written by: Nicola Watson, HR Manager, TribalScale

As the HR lead for TribalScale, I was so excited to attend the discussions on the future of work. The pandemic may be behind us, but it has left us with an ever-evolving workplace with significant transformation around where, when, and how we work. As strategic needs and employee expectations evolve, as HR leaders, how can we collaborate and share our learnings with each other?

In light of this, let me share the Key HR Takeaways from Collision 2022:

As HR Leaders, we need to make sure the efforts made on employee experience are purposeful and show value. How do we measure the following employee metrics?

Pete Schlampp discussed the idea of “Bidirectional Listening”. Pre-labor movement, employee-employer listening was more one-directional which resulted in an averaged voice and one version of what the employees in an organization think. Employees want their voices heard and employers need to make sure they are capturing every employee’s voice, mirroring Pete’s opinion, it takes technology and process.

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The reality is that virtual work requires constant presence. Managers want to ensure they keep their team connected and scheduling more meetings and business cadences to stay on top of things. This raises two questions for me: when is there time to get any work done and how do we build connectedness between employees in a remote world? Certainly a plethora of staff meetings and attendance-taken Zoom games can’t be the best answer. We look out for tools to get back the high-fidelity sense of being in-person.

Contrary to my previous point on introducing new tools to increase employee productivity by reducing inefficiencies with meetings, similar to meeting fatigue, tool fatigue is real. As many of the keynote speakers alluded to during their discussions at Collision, introducing too many tools to navigate the remote world can cause our employees to feel overwhelmed and result in declining usage of such tools.

At TribalScale, we focus on introducing tools that can be integrated into Slack or our Google Calendar. Slack is our most used tool for employee communication and we want to make sure our employees can access tools like Donut and 15Five through Slack. The biggest takeaway I have learned introducing new tools to our employees is that integrations in Slack and Google calendar are great, 20 desktop tools aren’t.

Nicola is the HR manager here at TribalScale and is focused on leading and driving all HR initiatives across the organization. She is originally from Ireland and moved to Toronto in 2019. Outside work she likes to workout with her friends.

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