We are liv­ing a world of ever accel­er­at­ing change.  Yet many com­pa­nies con­tin­ue use tra­di­tion­al human cap­i­tal man­age­ment meth­ods built dur­ing a bygone era when we assumed people’s goals and respon­si­bil­i­ties remain rel­a­tive­ly sta­ble over the course of a year.  This is no longer true.  Fre­quent­ly shift­ing goals, orga­ni­za­tion­al struc­tures, and job pri­or­i­ties are the new nor­mal.   In this webi­nar series we share tech­niques and insights from research with Suc­cess­Fac­tors cus­tomers on how to cre­ate more agile and respon­sive work­forces.   We will cov­er four top­ics in four webinars:

• Build­ing a high­ly respon­sive work­force.   Under­stand­ing the fac­tors that make change fun instead of painful.   Three con­cep­tu­al­ly sim­ple but cul­tur­al­ly trans­for­ma­tion­al meth­ods to increase orga­ni­za­tion­al agility. 
• Tru­ly know­ing who works for you.  Get­ting beyond names and job titles to tru­ly under­stand the capa­bil­i­ties and poten­tial of your employ­ees.  Ensur­ing the right peo­ple are matched with the right roles over time.
• Cre­at­ing a cul­ture of con­tin­u­ous engage­ment.  Build­ing a strong but flex­i­ble con­nec­tion between high lev­el busi­ness goals and front­line tac­ti­cal actions.  Adapt­ing to chal­lenges instead of react­ing to them.
• Lever­ag­ing the learn­ing pow­er or peo­ple.   Tap­ping into the knowl­edge of the entire work­force to learn how to deal with change.  Spread­ing new ideas quickly

Join us for ideas on how to ensure your com­pa­ny and employ­ees thrive and grow from change instead of being over­whelmed by it. 

Speak­ers:

Lau­ren Pytel, M.A. ‑HCM Researcher, Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment Research- SAP SuccessFactors

Lau­ren Pytel, M.A., is a Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment Researcher for SAP Sucess­Fac­tors. An Exper­i­men­tal psy­chol­o­gist, Lau­ren is an expert in deci­sion-mak­ing and the effect of groups on deci­sion qual­i­ty and effi­ca­cy with­in the con­text of human cap­i­tal man­age­ment. Much of her work focus­es on under­stand­ing group-deci­sion-mak­ing as it per­tains to tal­ent man­age­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly cal­i­bra­tion ses­sions and tal­ent reviews. She is also involved in study­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive learn­ing meth­ods and changes in employ­ee per­for­mance over time. An active author, Lau­ren has writ­ten a vari­ety of arti­cles on the top­ic of human cap­i­tal man­age­ment, deci­sion mak­ing and work­force performance.

Gabriela (Gab­by) Burlacu, Ph. ‑Sr. Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment Researcher, HCM Strat­e­gy- SAP SuccessFactors

Dr. Gabriela (Gab­by) Burlacu is a senior prin­ci­pal researcher on the Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment Research team with­in the HCM Strat­e­gy group. The pri­ma­ry focus of her work is iden­ti­fy­ing how HCM meth­ods sup­port dif­fer­ent forms of busi­ness strate­gies, improv­ing the accu­ra­cy and impact of tal­ent man­age­ment process­es and deci­sions, and devel­op­ing ways that com­pa­nies can effec­tive­ly sup­port the needs of increas­ing­ly diverse work­forces. Gab­by cur­rent­ly leads the SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors ​“Busi­ness Beyond Bias” ini­ta­tive, col­lab­o­rat­ing with a cross-func­tion­al team to devel­op and posi­tion Suc­cess­Fac­tors solu­tions as tools that enable work­force equi­ty, diveristy, and inclu­sion for customers. 

An Indus­tri­al-Orga­ni­za­tion­al Psy­chol­o­gist, Gab­by active­ly col­lab­o­rates with aca­d­e­m­ic thought lead­ers and her work has been pub­lished in a vari­ety of peer-reviewed jour­nals and aca­d­e­m­ic books. She also serves as an adjunct pro­fes­sor at Port­land State Uni­ver­si­ty where she teach­es grad­u­ate and under­grad­u­ate cours­es in busi­ness and human resource management. 

Joe Sher­wood: Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment (HCM) Researcher, SAP SuccessFactors

Joe Sher­wood is an HCM Researcher at SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors. In his role, Joe is focused on dri­ving employ­ee engage­ment, well­ness and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, as well as influ­enc­ing inno­va­tion by gen­er­at­ing and deliv­er­ing sci­en­tif­ic research that high­lights and max­i­mizes ben­e­fits derived from tech­nol­o­gy-enabled work­force solu­tions. His research has exam­ined man­ag­er-employ­ee and cowork­er rela­tion­ships, employ­ee coach­ing and con­tin­u­ous feed­back sys­tems, work-fam­i­ly bal­ance, employ­ee health and well­ness, man­age­r­i­al and team train­ing effec­tive­ness, and man­ag­er adaptability.

Joe grad­u­at­ed with his Master’s degree in indus­tri­al-orga­ni­za­tion­al (I‑O) psy­chol­o­gy with an empha­sis in occu­pa­tion­al health psy­chol­o­gy in 2014 from Port­land State Uni­ver­si­ty. He is pas­sion­ate about the inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­o­gy and I‑O psy­chol­o­gy, as well as mak­ing com­plex ideas acces­si­ble to those best posi­tioned to apply the knowledge.

In his free time, Joe enjoys spend­ing time with his wife and two-year old twin boys, explor­ing the great out­doors, and mak­ing music.