With a psychology-informed perspective, Sarah explores how HR can design more effective and fairer people systems by combining commercial thinking with evidence-based practice.
Sarah explains why aligning profit and purpose is essential for HR to create lasting impact, and why inclusion must be embedded into systems rather than left to individual judgement. Providing an example in hiring approaches, Sarah describes how competency-based assessment, psychometrics and scenario testing help reduce bias and improve hiring quality.
Sarah also explores the future of HR through an ‘augmented’ lens, where people, technology and business strategy are designed together. Sarah highlights the growing role of AI in removing administrative work and enabling more human, value-adding capability, alongside a strong call for HR to remain relentlessly evidence-based in everything it does.
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Are you looking for your next great read that inspires you and helps your work?
Our book of the month for May is The Working Parent Equation, Balancing small humans with big careers, by Georgie Rudd.
Know a working parent? A colleague that has all the plates spinning, and you’re not quite sure how they’re managing? Or perhaps that’s you?!
The Working Parent Equation is an extra special book, packed with practical exercises for anyone to reflect on their own, personal, working parent equation, and wonderfully our very own Cecilia Crossley wrote the foreword.
Here’s her summary: It’s an incredibly helpful tool for any working parent - one that will help you, your family, your organisation, and society – because each of us intentionally designing our own equations takes us a step closer to gender equality.
Head to UpliftingPeople.com to grab your copy, and we hope you enjoy this month's Uplifting Book.
