Employee Growth

Employees still have all the leverage when it comes to the race for talent. So in an increasingly competitive (and global) job market, how can companies evolve their total rewards and compensation strategy to match the moment? People leaders from Anaplan, Lattice, Kasasa, and Ironclad will share how they approach employee compensation, from adopting a philosophy toward “pay for performance” to addressing the shift to distributed work.

HR and People Operations roles at companies were evolving well before the events of last year. High growth coupled with competition for talent drove companies to care more about building a great culture and creating workplaces where people felt they could do their best work, grow, and belong. And that put Chief People Officers and similar roles in huge demand. And the last year has only heightened HR’s importance with new needs and new roles within organizations.
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Our panel will explore what HR leaders need to know as they develop strategies and grow their teams to meet the coming challenges employees and companies will face.

Companies want to build a culture that leads with empathy but also cultivates high performance. While that decision needs to start at the top, carrying out that strategy often falls to managers. So how do you cultivate and empower self-aware, emotionally intelligent managers? In this session, our panel will talk over how to make empathy a holistic part of your culture from the top down, show how performance and empathy aren’t at odds, and give practical advice on how to build an empathetic manager practice.

Artist Shantell Martin will deliver a talk while creating an original drawing during her Resources for Humans Virtual presentation. In her talk, Shantell will explore the connection between tapping into your creativity and developing collaborative, compassionate relationships in life and in work.

Companies are always evolving and helping employees grow their skills and progress in their career track only helps companies grow. But during periods of high growth and change, L&D and employee development initiatives can sometimes move to the backburner. Our panel will discuss ways companies can keep attention on these incredibly important needs, even when the swirl of change is pushing HR teams in different directions.

Lattice’s All Hands podcast will debut a very special episode featuring host Katelin Holloway and her mentor in HR, Katarina Berg, Spotify’s CHRO. In their conversation, Katarina explains the importance of “controlled chaos” in building innovative companies and HR processes, why “no two other roles that should choose each other as much as the CEO should choose his CHRO and vice versa,” the power of a “walk and talk” as a forum for great leadership and connection, and finding connectivity and community in the “great experiment” of hybrid work and “work from anywhere.”

Lattice CEO Jack Altman reflects on the last two years of unprecedented change, and how strong HR leadership, a focus on People Strategy, and an emphasis on empathy are helping companies build robust, adaptable, high-performance cultures strong enough to weather all the challenges that come their way.

One thing that has started happening more and more this year: many organizations are starting to see that empathizing with employees, showing them compassion, is no longer just a “nice-to-have” — it’s a must. And many of us are rethinking their approach for how they lead with empathy and how to manage with compassion. Adam Grant shares his thoughts for areas where he has begun his own rethinking on these questions.