The HRForecast Getaway 2019 Think. Learn. Create

50+ participants — the entire HRForecast team from Bremen, Munich and Kyiv, HR interested parties and clients took part in the fifth three-days nonstop conducted Getaway on the 16-18^th. of June. Thus, it became the biggest Getaway and at the same time coincided symbolically with the 5th anniversary of HRForecast, giving us the great chance to sum up the most relevant issues in HR, their influence on business units and our contribution to the world of People Analytics. We all, including you, dear reader, are working on the same goal — our main duty is to drive changes in the rapidly changing world.

Built in the form of think-tank sessions, the HRForecast Getaway dealt with three huge information blocks all about the future of HR and data-driven workforce management — THINK, LEARN and CREATE, targeting themes as People Analytics, Digital Transformations, Job Changes, Skilling Up, Design Thinking.

We were mainly aimed to provide an atmosphere of peaceful enjoyment, combined with constructive discussion, fascinating learning, and intense experience interchange. We prepared a brief overview for you to get a more detailed look at our Getaway insights.

Our daily sessions were purposefully divided into Guest & Internal Tech sessions, giving everyone the possibility to contribute, express their view and come up with their ideas. We hold the presentations, presented new HR tools, examined the use cases, discussed, asked questions and felt free in considering every relevant problematic, which shows how diverse the structure of Getaway was.

The common thread between all sessions was „What are the concrete possible steps of the HR parties to tackle the digital challenge and to adapt themselves accordingly“.

Starting with a personal assistant and ending with a bookkeeper, every employee needs new skills – both hard and soft, and every company – new rules. Hierarchy is to change into collaboration, slowness into agility, activity into pro-activity. We can’t afford us to be unconscious until our work disappears, because the impact of digitalization is immense, and we’ll feel it more and more. The traditional recruiting questions – «Tell us your strengths and weaknesses» – have nothing personal themselves, consequently, the new valid recruiting methods have to appear.

Among our invited guests and clients there were qualified specialists not only in HR and Proforientation but in Psychology, Digital Transformation, Project Management… These people shared with us their views and expectations about how HR looks like right now and how should it look like in the nearest future.

Founders of HRForecast, Christian Vetter and Florian Fleischmann, add unanimously:

On the one side the government, politicians, and authorities must realize its unquestioning importance and give their support.  On the other hand, HR has to deal both with value-added IT and agile conscious society. Hence, we can summarize that awareness, urgency, complexity, proactivity, feasibility, and changeability are the keywords of the next decades.

Our Getaway ran through various HR, People Analytics, and agility topics. We talked about modern technical approaches and tools, that can make HR more digital, agile, and help to jump aboard the digital bandwagon. HRForecast deals every day with the further development of these solutions and it was very exciting and valuable for us to get an external view from the experts and to see which optimization potentials there are. In the end, the goal of HR is to make people independent and motivated, not to categorize them.

A lot of relevant questions were asked and were being answered during the Getaway. We discussed such issues as ethical & software sides in the HR tools, motivation & incentives of employers to invest in workforce further education, future needed people & skills in a certain company. Besides, we tried to define the minimum of data needed for HR investigation, reasons making people leave a company, as well as to predict the number of lacking skilled workforce and the time a certain company will need the most employees.