2025 is around the corner: What every HR needs to know!
Each year as November rolls out, HR professionals are lurking around for what are the latest trends, freshest topics, and cutting-edge ideas. Anything and everything that will help them out, because we all know that being an HR has never been easy.
And it is not getting any easier, as new technological advances roll out, generation gaps increase, and the market constantly shifts. It can make you feel like you are constantly missing out - how can you even know which HR trends will make a difference? Which tool will transform your HR practice? Which AI solution will become your right hand?
In all honesty, you can’t. You can only accept that, even as an HR professional, you will have to power through your FOMO and focus on what you do have, what you can control, and what you can influence. The work we do, as HR professionals, is important. But it can also be fun, it can be enjoyable, it can be playful. And this is what this year’s HR Week is all about.
The key idea of the HR Week 2024 conference is that creativity triumphs over all and that we don't have to endlessly chase trends and buy technology. With the help of modern methodologies such as scrum, agile, or design thinking, we can leverage what we already have and focus on the needs of our users – employees. That's why HR becomes a big PLAYGROUND for five days in November.
Here is what we will go over during the last five days in November, and how you can benefit from it!
All about the AI: where humanity meets their favorite robots
It is impossible to have a business conversation that doesn’t include AI. Keeping your distance from it may feel safe to you, but just because you aren’t familiar with it, that doesn’t mean that you will benefit from staying away. In fact, AI is here to stay, in the same way, remote work was a few years back.
Through five days of HR Week, you can hear from leaders from Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and Mindvalley on how they are using AI tools. And if they can do it, then for sure you can as well!
You can learn from their experience, success, and mistakes alike, and make this transition way smoother for you.
HR Tech trailblazers: Do you know who they are?
Most people in HR don’t organically come from technical backgrounds, even though the demographic is changing. If you aren’t familiar with the impact of technology, beyond the AI hype, implementing new tools feels like a challenge more than it feels like an improvement.
So, most HR pros prefer sticking to what they know - so Excel usually beats any HRM, at least for the beginning. On one side, we have the tools we know exist and work, and we get to choose whether or not we want to implement them, and that is fine. But, what happens when there are tools that fix problems we had no clue can be fixed by technology in the first place? Now, that is something else.
Did you know that you can use technology to get ideas about your HR processes, but through the lens of great disruptors, like Oprah or Musk? We bet you never thought to email them for ideas... Well, now you can. You can also use people analytics to predict absenteeism, you can leverage the newest LMS to personalize health and safety onboarding processes, and you can transform your entire recruitment process. All of those solutions will be presented at the conference, and you get to hand-pick which ones work best for you!
New work models: Should I stay or should I go?
To the office, we mean. Since early 2020, the conversation around the best work models hasn’t slowed down for one bit. Hybrid, remote, in-office, and all the other variations seem to be here to stay. However, implementing something and being successful with said implementation isn’t really the same thing. How can you motivate people to truly want to come to the office? We know beer pong tables and fruit baskets aren’t cutting it anymore.
And if you opt for remote, how do you keep the culture cohesive, keep people connected, engaged, and present? Theory is one thing, but putting ideas into practice can be a very different experience.
What will be the top priority for 2025? Well, of course, the people.
All the reports and research done ahead of next year have predicted the same - the focus will be on employee experience! It is now not a question of whether it matters to the business how people feel. The question is how do we measure it, what do we look for, how do we equalize the offering across the workforce, and how do we make sure we have established psychological safety?
If you are still wondering if should people be prioritized, you are asking the wrong question. The real question is how. This is why we have invited coaches, thought leaders, and industry pioneers to shed light on this ensemble of topics. Employee experience, culture, and engagement are evergreen topics, and they should always stay top of the mind for every HR professional.
Hiring in the digital age: a transformative experience
If you are wondering which HR department has gone through the most transformation since AI tools hit the market you would be surprised to learn that Recruitment and Selection are in a leading spot. And that lead is significant! And the improvements are astonishing - from candidate evaluation to communication, from automation of manual tasks to elevating pitches and offers.
However, are we getting too robotic? Is it possible we are missing the human element in a very human-centered process? What is the best of both worlds, how can we leverage what AI brings to the table while making sure humans remain at the head of it? Now that is a question you will surely know the answer to after attending HR Week!
Not only do you have a chance to hear from many speakers during five conference days, but you will also get one month on demand, so you can rewatch the most notable speeches as much as you please! Get your tickets here! This is the one event you do not want to miss.
