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Concurrent Session
A Walk in Their Shoes: A Different Approach to Job Analysis
Bayou E
Tuesday 04/09/2019 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM   Add to calendar
1.00 SHRM PDCs | Competencies: Leadership & Navigation, Relationship Management | Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
This session will provide you with the information you need to redesign your job analysis using key principles of empathy and ethnography. 

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk in your colleague’s shoes? Or are you looking for new ways to jump-start a better recruitment, onboarding or development experience? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then implementing a more ethnographic research approach to your work could be the answer. Ethnography isn’t just for anthropologists. The ethnographic research technique can help you unlock valuable and actionable HR insights to drive your company forward. In this session, Abby Cheesman, a former ethnographic researcher herself, will share key principles and techniques you can use to help you better understand new people, activities, places and things. The best part is these are simple and structured techniques that require little or no preparation and are bound to help you see something new.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to use empathy to discover new insights into your recruitment process.
  • Learn the key principles and mindset of ethnography.
  • Gain actionable strategies to engage your team in a new way and redesign your job analysis.
Abby Cheesman Photo
Presenter:
Abby Cheesman, co-founder,
Skill Scout