On 21st February, Director of our Singapore team, Paul Watson ran the team’s first in-person event since the pandemic, and it was a roaring success!
This roundtable was in partnership with Hupo, an organisation that endeavours to help high-performing, people-first companies across Asia Pacific build a coaching strategy for their most valuable employees. Hosted at the JLL offices the event was focused on ‘Advanced Coaching’ and saw a group of senior HR leaders discussing coaching strategies encompassing talent development and manager effectiveness.
With the diverse group of HR leaders from a variety of organisations and industries, the conversation evolved to speak about pressing topics including generative AI, the evolving impact of culture and values across Asia and engaging cross-generational workforces; Lee Murphy, Li’er Wong and Hairin Bahren joined us from Hupo to facilitate this conversation.
The two main talking points were culture and leadership and the role of AI and its impact on the workplace.
Culture and Leadership:
“Culture, or conscious leadership for that matter, might be different to quantify, but if absent is glaringly obvious and the symptoms have a visible bottom-line impact’.
Today, Gen Z is becoming the predominant driving force within the workplace, when looking for a new role they tend to deliberate the culture of a company as an aspect of consideration for working at the organisation. The HR leaders within this group discussed how to get buy-in from senior leadership when it comes to investing in a healthy workplace culture where employees feel a sense of belonging and psychological safety. Furthermore, discussing how to scale culture across different regions and teams.
The Role of AI and its Impact on the Workplace:
AI has continued to be a pertinent topic within the HR space for the last year, with new developments emerging daily and the fear that eventually many roles will be redundant and automated by AI. From the conversation, we have identified a demand in the market for employers wanting to understand AI and the risks/benefits around it, in turn helping them to understand how to manage the integration and for senior leadership to know what operational work AI can now do. A consideration mentioned during this part of the roundtable was how organisations can maintain a pipeline of young talent as AI slowly swallows up more junior positions or labour-intensive tasks.
Throughout the event, Lee, Li’er and Hairin mentioned resources that may be useful to look into for those interested in the topic.
- Lark: An AI tool for meeting minutes and project management.
- Workday/Peakon Employee Engagement Surveys: These are run 3/4 times a year and are used to understand engagement and boost productivity.
- Organisational Health Index by McKinsey: Helping companies tie organisational health to performance.
- Microsoft Work Trends Index: Research and data on the trends reshaping the world of work.
- AI at Work: For the latest insights on AI and its impact on the future of work
If you would like to speak more about the topic, please contact Paul Watson via LinkedIn or paw@elliottscotthr.com. For further information on future events, check out our events page on the website.