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What’s the HR Playbook for Building AI

September 17, 2025

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🎧 HR Insights: What’s the HR Playbook for Building AI

This perspective outlines how HR leaders should prepare when integrating AI. Key advice includes establishing clear policies and governance, ensuring transparency with employees about what AI tools do, maintaining compliance with privacy laws, and doing risk assessments up front. The goal is to build AI adoption in a way that’s ethical, trusted, and aligned with organizational values.

💡 HR Tips & Tricks

Tip of the Day: Launch a “Workshop Swap” program: HR organizes half-day workshops led by non-HR staff from different functions on skills or challenges they face. HR learns what functional teams struggle with, and employees outside HR better understand HR constraints.

Trick of the Day: Create a “Decision Delay Box”: for any new HR policy or change, put it aside for a fixed cooling-off period (say 48 hours) before implementing. During that time, solicit quick feedback from a small group of employees. This helps catch blind-spots and reduces hasty missteps .

🧾 HR Case Files: How Pandora Turned HR and Sustainability into Engines of Growth

Pandora achieved over 35% revenue growth since 2021 by weaving sustainability deeply into its HR strategy. Under its Phoenix strategy, Pandora aligned HR pillars—like culture, attrition management, and talent development—with environmental goals. It committed to using recycled metals, tied executive incentives to CO₂ reduction, and made sustainability part of its employee value proposition. The effort boosted retention, attraction, and company value.

Key Takeaways

  • Embedding sustainability into HR can power both employee attraction and retention, not just serve as a “nice to have.”

  • Linking leadership incentives to environmental performance strengthens organizational accountability.

  • Broadening talent sources—like hiring from under-utilized pools—can support culture and growth.

  • Clear prioritization in HR (what delivers value) helps balance cost pressures with long-term strategic impact.

🧰 HR Toolbox

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Event of the Day

CultureCon West, scheduled from 3-5 Nov at Las Vegas, is bringing together culture leaders, HR practitioners, and people ops innovators. It will feature sessions, workshops, and networking focused on building strong workplace culture, values alignment, well-being, and the people side of business transformation.

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