David Sperl's guest appearances

David Sperl

Responsible Leadership

Workplace Stories by RedThread Research

Edward Snowden

Kate Shaw

Dawn Klinghoffer

Rob Cross

John Boudreau

Heather Whiteman

Phil Rhodes

Aryeh Neier

Hallie Bregman

Jan Hagen

Greg Pryor

Karen Kocher

Francine Espinoza Petersen

Matthew Bothner

Peter Löscher

OwlTail

In the Ancient Greece of Homeric times and mores, the concept of gifting, or gift-friendship, ξενία (‘xenia’) was central. Assuming your fellow Greeks would observe xenia allowed you to travel in the hope you’d be good for food and shelter for the night from strangers on your Odyssey; in exchange, travelers would leave a parting gift in thanks. At many points in The Odyssey, we see xenia in action, like when Eumaeus the Swineherd shows it to the disguised Odysseus, noting guests always come under the protection of Zeus. Well, we’ve reached the end of our own Skills Odyssey here, and so we thought it appropriate to give you, our fellow travellers, some xenia back: and it’s in the delightful shape of this bonus episode with our great final conversation with a CLO making experiments and achieving early results with a new approach to Skills, GE Healthcare’s very honest and informed David Sperl. It’s a conversation that covers his use of machine learning and analytics—again, underlining how key these practices are now in serious HR—as well as how dealing with challenges like replacing a zoo of older HR IT with one new global replacement just as is his division is being divested by its parent. He does a great job sharing learnings and best practice; it’s a bit of xenia in its own right—as Dani says in the episode, “That's one of the things that I really like about HR: if once you solve the problem, you can share that with other people, because it's going to work different in their organizations anyway.” And as she goes on to say, in this Odyssey we've seen tons of people being very honest and transparent with us about what they're doing—which is xenia all of us can treasure. Please also note we have yet another gift to close the Season, though, which you will hear about right at the beginning. Now it’s time to head back to shore--but we’ll be back very soon with more things to inform, help and challenge you.

The Skills Odyssey II SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE w/GE Healthcare's David Sperl

In this ESMTcast "Learning for Leading...GE Live, talking to the CEO", David Sperl, HR Manager, GE International Europe describes the "GE Live" format as a platform for both MBA students and GE's CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt to learn from each other; MBA students gain insights form one of the Worlds's top business leaders, and Mr Immelt gets first hand understanding of education and training requirements and developments.David Sperl outlines the main challenges in management education from GE's perspective; with the current shift towards a maturing emplyee dempographic, he sheds light on GE's recruitment and employee programs - aimed at making GE an attractive employer of choice.

In this ESMTcast "Learning for Leading...GE Live, talking to the CEO", David Sperl, HR Manager, GE International Europe describes the "GE Live" format as a platform for both MBA students and GE's CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt to learn from each other; MBA students gain insights form one of the Worlds's top business leaders, and Mr Immelt gets first hand understanding of education and training requirements and developments.<br>David Sperl outlines the main challenges in management education from GE's perspective; with the current shift towards a maturing emplyee dempographic, he sheds light on GE's recruitment and employee programs - aimed at making GE an attractive employer of choice.

Interview with David Sperl, HR Manager, GE International Europe