MMT Chats: Redefining Human Resources to Take on Recruitment, Retention and Mental Well Being

^{This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.}

“Giving human resources a seat at the table is no longer recommended, it’s required,” Human Asset Management (HAM) Founder Marion Wells says. HAM is a company that focuses on talent development and talent acquisition by taking a scientific approach to bringing the right attributes of an individual into an organization and optimizing them to ensure you are building better relationships and putting employees on the right team and in the right position.  We dive deeper into what human resources means today and share steps a mold builder can take to change their approach to HR that can improve their business overall … and data is key.

Here are a few tidbits from our conversation to pique your interest:

• Leadership needs to step back and re-evaluate where they can make a difference.
• You have to work from both ends, and you can push them two them together.
• Metrics drive behavior.
• Hire young analysts who can do an engagement survey of the company, understand where all the happy campers are within the organization as well as all the opportunity that exists for improvement.
• Marketing needs to work with human resources.
• A lot of companies engaged on social media talk more about what they do as opposed to who they are. You gotta talk about the why.
• Because we're keeping people employed, we're making a difference within the community.
• It’s having a holistic marketing conversation and creating a plan that really helps to ensure your external brand is matching your internal brand.
• It's having the marketing person in your organization working with an analyst person in any organization and bouncing all of these ideas off of leadership to get buy-in to that, this is the story that we want to tell.
• Being inclusive as a company is including everybody in the conversation.
• It takes effort to be inclusive, it's easier to exclude. It's harder to include.
• Partner with your Chamber of Commerce, career centers, colleges, and recruitment sites.
• Be visionary about how would you utilize this person within your organization? It all starts with assessment. It all starts with doing a survey.
• It's self-awareness. How aware are we about our company?
• Look at the data in terms of how to make your workforce better.
• The future is screaming technology and data.

For the full quick chat, watch above, and for more MMT Chats, click here.

This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.