This week, the links focus on things to make you better at your job. Presentation tips, insights on innovation, using Google+ as a sourcing tool, Apple experiences social media backfire and a look at technology and jobs. There’s plenty of good material to cycle around your office.
Narrative visualization in HR is the discipline of discovering and communicating your fundamental story. In business and HR your story is your framework for decision making and one that relies more and more on insights derived from visualization of your big data.
In general, sunlight is a great disinfectant. But, as the walls of the organization become transparent, what happens behind the walls has too change. What other explanation could there possibly be for things like the Candidate Experience movement.
One of the keys to the successful use of insights derived from big data is the visualization of that data. To say that the science is primitive is to overstate the progress we’ve made. Still, the only way to consume big data is through visuals.
“People have a hard time telling their stories. Yet, it’s critical to gaining support from others or presenting an offer. If your narrative is lacking, know that you’re not alone. ” – William Uranga
As we learn to ask the right questions and learn to ask the ones we think are impossible, the magic of measuring will become clearer. Meanwhile, tons of companies will be aggregating the data about our employees and offering to sell it back to us.
“Most of the world’s knowledge is in our pockets. The answer to almost any question is a google search away. So being able to remember stuff is not so important any more.” – Heather Bussing
The world is changing fast. This week’s links point to the global movement against high executive pay, complexity thinking, the importance of context in visualization, pay for play ethics and a review of last week’s Tapestry conference.
Last week, I spent a day in Nashville with the 100 brightest minds in graphic and narrative visualization. The subject is important to HR and the rest of the organization. As we get buried in massive volumes of information, graphic and narrative visualization techniques are the keys to survival.
The common thread is the future of HR. In order to communicate the onruch of human capital data, HR Departments will have to master visualization. This week’s links look at the graphic side of the question. Coming soon, the narrative visualization toolset.
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