Episode 47

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3rd Dec 2021

7 Principles for Effective DEI Data Gathering with Caroline Drake #47

Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast sofa by Caroline Drake, Chief People Officer at Award-winning payroll and HR solutions provider, Zellis!

For those not familiar with Zellis, here is a snapshot of the business in numbers

• They pay 5 million employees every month

• £28 bn+ pounds are paid out each year through their Managed Payroll Services

• And over 29% of the FTSE 100 are Zellis customers

These numbers also provide Zellis with access to big data. And, as part of the Zellis vision, which is to be a leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences, they decided to develop a report, in cooperation with the Economist, that was focused on diversity data to determine what it is that is holding back progress in delivering effective, data-led DEI campaigns.

And if you are wondering why a company, largely focused on payroll, decided to commission research on DEI data collection – stay tuned because you are about to find out!

Let’s just say, the results are fascinating!

In this “7 Principles for Effective DEI Data Gathering” episode with Caroline Drake on The HR L&D Podcast, we also explore:

  1. What what the inspiration behind the “Time to Act: Seven principles for effective DEI data gathering” report?
  2. The research report indicates that there is a Diversity Data deficit. What does it mean?
  3. Why is trust in the employer seemingly so important in making employees comfortable in share data?
  4. How can companies maintain sensitivity while categorising characteristics?
  5. How willing were employees to provide data in aid of ED&I programmes?
  6. How can companies make better use of the data they collect from their employees?
  7. Why did a company largely focused on payroll commission research on DEI data collection?
  8. In terms of the findings, what were the Seven principles any company can apply to improve DEI data gathering going forward?

Links highlighted in this “Seven Principles for Effective DEI Data Gathering” episode are included below:

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Thanks for listening, folks – I look forward to bringing you the next episode of the HR L&D Podcast real soon!

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The HR L&D Podcast
Leadership, recruitment, culture. Conversations with HR's best
HR gets handed the problems nobody else wants to own. The restructure, the grievance, the engagement survey that came back badly. And then gets asked why people are leaving.

I'm Nick Day. I run an HR recruitment agency, which means I spend most of my week on the phone to HR directors, HR leaders and people leaders talking about what the job is actually like rather than what's written on the job spec. This HR Podcast came out of those calls. I kept hearing things worth repeating, and nobody was repeating them.

Every week I sit down with HR leaders, chief people officers, L&D specialists and the occasional academic who has changed how I think about work and people engagement. We get into leadership, and what happens when someone brilliant at the technical side gets promoted into managing humans.

Employee engagement past the survey score. Diversity, equity and inclusion in a climate where saying those words out loud has become a decision in itself. Pay transparency, talent management, reducing bias in hiring, HR digital transformation and the HCM systems everyone is being sold. And of course we cannot forget HR AI tools and platforms that are flooding the landscape as AI in HR becomes a hot topic every people leader is keen to understand and leverage.

Wellbeing comes up constantly, and it usually turns into the same question. Who looks after the HR team.

I'm not an HR practitioner and I don't pretend to be. I'm the person who hires them, which puts me in a useful position. I get to ask the obvious question that everyone in the room already knows the answer to and nobody says.

No script and no polite version. Mostly it's the conversation you'd have with someone doing your job at a different company, if you ever got the chance to sit down with them.

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