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Get Started Using Data for HR Decisions

January 18, 2016

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Effectively working with data and technology is a skill HR professionals need to have to bring significant value as internal advisors. The practitioners who focus seriously on developing this skill will be much more relevant than their peers going forward.

There is great power in having information, numbers and technology as your key allies in being a relevant strategic partner. Numbers tell a story. Numbers amplify needs. Numbers can help us see truth. Numbers can give voice to the human experience when perhaps no one will listen. When used appropriately, they are a uniquely expressive and descriptive partner to the business story we desire to tell.

Analyzing data can reveal insights that perhaps could not be reached any other way. This is a huge and significant benefit and motivator in collecting and analyzing data. Better insights will produce better decisions, even to the point of predicting the future.

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