Sean Luitjens - Why and How to Share HR Data Effectively

HR Data Labs podcast

Summary:

Sean Luitjens is the General Manager of Total Rewards Analytics at Visier. With over 25 years of HR experience, he brings a wealth of knowledge around talent acquisition and compensation and benefits to the table.

In this episode, Sean talks about the hesitation some HR teams have when it comes to sharing their data; the hurdles they might face when trying to do so; and how they can best communicate their data analytics to help other departments solve business problems.

Chapters:

[0:00 - 4:40] Introduction

• Welcome, Sean!
• Today’s Topic: Why and How to Share HR Data Effectively

[4:41 - 14:25] Why can’t we all just get along around data analytics?

• Different roles within an organization may use people data quite differently
• The importance of communicating the context around the data you’re sharing

[14:26 - 25:37] Where organizations can benefit from sharing intra-company data

• Addressing the “why” of how managers’ employees get paid
• Where the science of compensation intersects the art of being a manger

[25:38 - 29:49] The biggest hurdles you face when trying to share HR data within a company

• Deciding what data to show and how to communicate it to those outside HR
• Consider how other departments (e.g., finance and marketing) leverage company-wide data

[29:50 - 30:37] Closing

• Thanks for listening!

Quotes:

“I think the philosophy from some compensation [practitioners] is, ‘everyone understands pay because they get paid.’ And managers sometimes get caught in the other trap which is, ‘I get paid so how complicated can it be?’ There has to be some type of translation between those two.”

“[Managers] want to be nice, but . . . everyone can’t be a 5 because then you can’t create the dispersion to keep the talent you want. ”
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