Amplify Digest: Picture This

Subscribe to the Amplify Digest: a weekly newsletter designed to help modern HR operators stay on top of the latest news, trends, and resources in all things people.

Welcome to the Amplify Digest. Every week, I break down five articles in five minutes; discussing the top people news, stories, and resources that are worth your time. Scroll down for links to the articles covered in the video (and more), Amplify Academy updates, and recent Redefining HR podcasts.

This week’s digest explores the office's last stand, how to show employees the big picture of HR, reimagining retention, Josh Bersin's take on the confusing job market, FirstRound's management guidebook, and more.

🔦 HR opportunity spotlight: Pursuit, VP People & Culture (Denver, CO)

In this role, you’ll lead all human resource business planning activities, including the creation and development of innovative compensation strategies, seasonal and year-round recruitment, training and onboarding, the creation of a strong guest-focused hospitality culture, reporting, analysis of our people & culture requirements, planning, budgeting, ongoing weekly management of the division’s People and Culture performance, weekly reporting of hiring, training, performance management and evolving business trends in a fast-paced and growing enterprise.

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Articles discussed in this week's Digest

1. The Office’s Last Stand (New York Times)

2. How to show employees the big picture of HR’s duties, priorities, and goals (Fast Company)

3. It’s Time to Reimagine Employee Retention (Harvard Business Review)

4. The Confusing Job Market: CEOs and CHROs Seem Baffled (Josh Bersin)

5. Stop Overcomplicating It: The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game (First Round Review)

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Old Maps Don’t Work For New Worlds

The Amplify Academy was built from the ground up to help people leaders efficiently and effectively connect with diverse learning needs for today and tomorrow.

• Amplify Academy Learning Lab & Community - The Learning Lab is an AI learning platform including a range of courses, resources, templates, presentations, reports, and more to support the learning needs of today’s HR and people practitioners. You can check out an overview of courses, including sample titles, here. Learning Lab subscriptions include access to the Amplify Academy Slack Community, a purpose-designed community to help you build your network equity and connect, collaborate, and grow with peers worldwide.

• Amplify Academy Cohorts - Cohorts are four-week immersive peer-learning programs designed to help people leaders build the skills and network needed to build progressive people teams. Note: cohorts are capped at 30 students so be sure to secure your seat early.

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Redefining HR Podcast 🎧

Exploring tomorrow’s HR, today. Listen to the latest, and recent, episodes below.

1. Nurturing the Dynamic Between Chief People Officer and Founder-CEO With Lynee Luque, CPO at NerdWallet

2. Surfing the Chaos in HR With AJ Thomas, Chaos Pilot at X, the moonshot factory

3. Building Work Relationships With Rapid7 Chief People Officer Christina Luconi