Acumen Academy – Prasad Setty of Google on People Analytics
Learn from Google’s VP of People Analytics about how to use data for human resources and apply Google’s research on teams and managers to your own organization
In today’s competitive knowledge economy, a company’s ability to attract, retain and develop talented people is critical. Yet, in most organizations, we end up basing personnel decisions on emotions, instincts or politics rather than data. Important decisions about talent end up becoming black-box calculations rather than data-driven choices.
Enter People Analytics. This emerging field uses data to advance how organizations make decisions about human resources and enables leaders to operate on evidence rather than intuition.
Prasad Setty leads the People Analytics team at Google and is a pioneer in this field. In this course, he’ll offer you a behind-the-scenes look at how Google conducts groundbreaking research to distill the characteristics of the most effective teams and managers. He’ll walk you through how his team uses data to inform Google’s decisions about promotions, compensation, and team structure and help you get ed incorporating data into your own human resource decisions—even if you’re a social entrepreneur ing at a much smaller and scrappier scale.
By the end of this course, you’ll have worked towards establishing a data-powered, performance-driven culture for your own enterprise and gained practical tips for building people analytics processes. This course is for anyone who wants to develop a smarter social enterprise where key personnel decisions are data-informed and human-approved.
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Course Curriculum
Introduction
Pre-Course Survey
1. Welcome to the Course from Prasad Setty (0:45)
2. Introduce Yourself
3. Resource: Workbook for the Course
Building a Data-Driven Approach to Human Resources
4. Human Resources and Data Science (2:33)
5. Fundamentals of People Analytics (2:54)
6. Steps to Get ed with People Analytics (2:20)
7. Collecting Data for HR (3:20)
8. Embedding People Analytics in the Organization (1:58)
9. Complementing Human Decisions with Data (1:58)
10. Exercise: Reflect on Your HR Decisions and Apply People Analytics
The Science of Great Teams
11. Building Great Teams: Google’s Project Aristotle (4:00)
12. Diagnostic Tools for Teams (1:45)
13. Creating Psychological Safety: Google’s Project Wing (3:58)
14. Exercise: Diagnose Your Team Dynamics and Plan for Improvement
Data on Great Managers
15. Effective Managers: Google’s Project Oxygen (4:26)
16. Managing People in Social Enterprises (1:25)
17. Exercise: Adapt Google’s Strategy for Great Managers to Your Organization
Influencing Behavior with Data
18. Data to Influence Behavior Change (2:17)
19. Data for Fairness (0:59)
20. Exercise: Plan For Action Based on Data and Reflect on People Analytics
21. Final Reflection
22. Complete the Post-Course Satisfaction Survey
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