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The next generation of front-end user interfaces for Oracle Fusion Applications is being built using Visual Builder Studio and Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit. However, many of the terms associated with these tools can be confusing. In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are joined by Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald. Together, they take you through the different terminologies, how they relate to each other, and how they can be used to deliver the new Oracle Fusion Applications as well as stand-alone, bespoke visual web applications. 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During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Nikita: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi there! If you've been following along with us, you'll know that we've had some really interesting seasons this year. We covered Autonomous Database, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Builder Studio and Redwood, OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Database 23ai New Features. Nikita: And we've had some pretty awesome special guests. Do go back and check out those episodes if any of those topics interest you. 01:04 Lois: As we close out the year, we thought this would be a good time to revisit some of our best episodes. Over the next few weeks, you'll be able to listen to four of our most popular episodes of the year. Nikita: Right, this is the best of the best–according to you–our listeners. Lois: Today's episode is #1 of 4 and is a throwback to a discussion with Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald on Visual Builder Studio. Nikita: We asked Joe about Visual Builder Studio and Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit, also known as JET. Together, they form the basis of the technology for the next generation of front-end user interfaces for Oracle Fusion Applications, as well as many other Oracle applications, including most Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) interfaces. 01:48 Lois: We looked at the different terminologies and technologies, how they relate to each other, and how they deliver the new Oracle Fusion Applications and stand-alone, bespoke visual web applications. So, let's dive right in. Nikita: Joe, I'm somewhat thrown by the terminology around Visual Builder, Visual Studio, and JET. Can you help streamline that for us? Lois: Yeah, things that are named the same sometimes refer to different things, and sometimes things with a different name refer to the same thing. 02:18 Joe: Yeah, I know where you're coming from. So, let's start with Visual Builder Studio. It's abbreviated as VBS and can go by a number of different names. Some of the most well-known ones are Visual Builder Studio, VBS, Visual Builder, Visual Builder Stand-Alone, and Visual Builder Cloud Service. Clearly, this can be very confusing. For the purposes of these episodes as well as the training courses I create, I use certain definitions. 02:42 Lois: Can you take us through those? Joe: Absolutely, Lois. Visual Builder Studio refers to a product that comes free with an OCI account and allows you to manage your project-related assets. This includes the project itself, which is a container for all of its assets. You can assign teams to your projects, as well as secure the project and declare roles for the different team members. You manage GIT repositories with full graphical and command-line GIT support, define package, build, and deploy jobs, and create and run continuous integration/continuous deployment graphical and code-managed pipelines for your applications. These can be visual applications, created using the Visual Builder Integrated Development Environment, the IDE, or non-visual apps, such as Java microservices, docker builds, NPM apps, and things like that. And you can define environments, which determine where your build jobs can be deployed. You can also define issues, which allow you to identify, track, and manage things like bugs, defects, and enhancements. And these can be tracked in code review merge requests and build jobs, and be mapped to agile sprints and scrum boards. There's also support for wikis for team collaboration, code snippets, and the management of the repository and the project itself. So, VBS supports code reviews before code is merged into GIT branches for package, build, and deploy jobs using merge requests. 04:00 Nikita: OK, what exactly do you mean by that? Joe: Great. So, for example, you could have developers working in one GIT branch and when they're done, they would push their private code changes into that remote branch. Then, they'd submit a merge request and their changes would be reviewed. Once the changes are approved, their code branch is merged into the main branch and then automatically runs a CI/CD package (continuous integration/continuous deployment) package, build, and deploy job on the code. Also, the CI/CD package, build, and deploy jobs can run against any branches, not just the main branch. So Visual Builder Studio is intended for managing the project and all of its assets. 04:37 Lois: So Joe, what are the different tools used in developing web applications? Joe: Well, Visual Builder, Visual Builder Studio Designer, Visual Builder Designer, Visual Builder Design-Time, Visual Builder Cloud Service, Visual Builder Stand-Alone all kind of get lumped together. You can kinda see why. What I'm referring to here are the tools that we use to build a visual web application composed of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for metadata. I call this Visual Builder Designer. This is an Integrated Development Environment, it's the “IDE” which runs in your browser. You use a combination of drag and drop, setting properties, and writing and modifying custom and generated code to develop your web applications. You work within a workspace, which is your own private copy of a remote Git branch. When you're ready to start development work, you open an existing workspace or create a new one based on a clone of the remote branch you want to work on. Typically, a new branch would be created for the development work or you would join an existing branch. 05:38 Nikita: What's a workspace, Joe? Is it like my personal laptop and drive? Joe: A workspace is your own private code area that stores any changes you make on the Oracle servers, so your code changes are never lost—even when working in a browser-based, network-based tool. A good analogy is, say I was working at home on my own machine. And I would make a copy of a remote GIT branch and then copy that code down to my local machine, make my code changes, do my testing, etc. and then commit my work—create a logical save point periodically—and then when I'm ready, I'd push that code up into the remote branch so it can be reviewed and merged with the main branch. My local machine is my workspace. However, since this code is hosted up by Oracle on our servers, and the code and the IDE are all running in your browser, the workspace is a simulation of a local work area on your own computer. So, the workspace is a hosted allocation of resources for you that's private. Other people can't see what's going on in your workspace. Your workspace has a clone of the remote branch that you're working with and the changes you make are isolated to your cloned code in your workspace. 06:41 Lois: Ok… the code is actually hosted on the server, so each time you make a change in the browser, the change is written back to the server? Is it possible that you might lose your edits if there's a networking interruption? Joe: I want to emphasize that while I started out not personally being a fan of web-based integrated development environments, I have been using these tools for over three years and in all that time, while I have lost a connection at times—networks are still subject to interruptions—I've never lost any changes that I've made. Ever. 07:11 Nikita: Is there a way to save where you are in your work so that you could go back to it later if you need to? Joe: Yes, Niki, you're asking about commits and savepoints, like in a Git repository or a Git branch. When you reach a logical stopping or development point in your work, you would create a commit or a savepoint. And when you're ready, you would push that committed code in your workspace up to the remote branch where it can be reviewed and then eventually merged, usually with the main Git branch, and then continuous integration/continuous package and deployment build jobs are run. Now, I'm only giving you a high-level overview, but we cover all this and much more in detail with hands-on practices in our Visual Builder developer courses. Right now, I'm just trying to give you a sense of how these different tools are used. 07:52 Lois: Yeah, that makes sense, Joe. It's a lot to cover in a short amount of time. Now, we've discussed the Visual Builder Designer IDE and workspace. But can you tell us more about Visual Builder Cloud Service and stand-alone environments? What are they used for? What features do they provide? Are they the same or different things? Joe: Visual Builder Cloud Service or Visual Builder Stand-Alone, as it's sometimes called, is a service that Oracle hosts on its servers. It provides hosting for the deployed web application source code as well as database tables for business objects that we build and maintain to store your customer data. This data can come from XLS or CSV files, or even your own Oracle database customer table data. A custom REST proxy makes calls to external third-party REST services on your behalf and supports several popular authentication mechanisms. There is also integration with the Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) to manage users and their access to your web apps. Visual Builder Cloud Service is a for-fee product. You pay licensing fees for how much you use because it's a hosted service. Visual Builder Studio, the project asset management aspect I discussed earlier, is free with a standard OCI license. Now, keep in mind these are separate from something like Visual Builder Design Time and the service that's running in Fusion application environments. What I'm talking about now is creating stand-alone, bespoke, custom visual applications. These are applications that are built using industry-standard HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JSON for metadata and are hosted on the Oracle servers. 09:30 Are you looking for practical use cases to help you plan and apply configurations that solve real-world challenges? With the new Applied Learning courses for Cloud Applications, you'll be able to practically apply the concepts learned in our implementation courses and work through case studies featuring key decisions and configurations encountered during a typical Oracle Cloud Applications implementation. Applied learning scenarios are currently available for General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Inventory, and Procurement, with many more to come! Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 10:12 Nikita: Welcome back! Joe, you said Visual Builder Cloud Service or Stand-Alone is a for-fee service. Is there a way I can learn about using Visual Builder Designer to build bespoke visual applications without a fee? Joe: Yes. Actually, we've added an option where you can run the Visual Builder Designer and learn how to create web apps without using the app hosting or the business object database that stores your customer data or the REST proxy for authentication or the Identity Cloud Service. So you don't get those features, but you can still learn the fundamentals of developing with Visual Builder Designer. You can call third-party APIs, you can download the source, and run it locally, for example, in a Tomcat server. This is a great and free way to learn how to develop with the Visual Builder Designer. 10:55 Lois: Joe, I want to know more about the kinds of apps you can build in VB Designer and the capabilities that VB Cloud Service provides. Joe: Visual Builder Designer allows you to build custom, bespoke web applications made of interactive webpages; flows of pages for navigation; events that respond when things happen in the app, for example, GUI events like a button is clicked or values are entered into a text field; variables to store the state of the application and the ability to make REST calls, all from your browser. These applications have full access to the Oracle Fusion Applications APIs, given that you have the right security permissions and credentials of course. They can access your customer business data as business objects in our internally hosted database tables or your own customer database tables. They can access third-party APIs, and all these different data sources can appear in the same visual application, on the same page, at the same time. They use the Identity Cloud Service to identify which users can log in and authenticate against the application. And they all use the new Redwood graphical user interface components and page templates, so they have the same look and feel of all Oracle applications. 12:02 Nikita: But what if you're building or extending Oracle Fusion Applications? Don't things change a little bit? Joe: Good point, Niki. Yes. While you still work within Visual Builder Studio, that doesn't change, VBS maintains your project and all your project-related assets, that is still the same. However, in this case, there is no separate hosted Visual Builder Cloud Service or Stand-Alone instance. In this case, Visual Builder is hosted inside of Fusion apps itself as part of the installation. I won't go into the details of how the architecture works, but the Visual Builder instance that you're running your code against is part of Fusion applications and is included in the architecture as well as the billing. All your code changes are maintained and stored within a single container called an extension. And this extension is a Git repository that is created for you, or you can create it yourself, depending on how you choose to work within Visual Builder Studio. You create an extension to hold the source code changes that provide a customization or configuration. This means making a change to an existing page or a set of pages or even adding new pages and flows to your Oracle Fusion Applications. You use Visual Builder Studio and Visual Builder Designer in a similar way as to how you would use them for bespoke stand-alone visual applications. 13:12 Lois: I'm trying to envision how this workflow is used. How is it different from bespoke VB app development? Or is it different at all? Joe: So, recall that the Visual Builder Designer is effectively the Integrated Development Environment, the IDE, where you make your code changes by working with both the raw HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code, if need be, or the Page Designer for drag and drop, and setting properties and then Live mode to test your work. You use a version of VB Designer to view and modify your customizations, and the code is stored in a Git repository called an extension. So, in that sense, the work of developing pages and flows and such is the same. You still start by creating or, more typically, joining a project and then either create a new extension from scratch or base it on an existing application, or go directly to the page that you want to edit and, on that page, select from your profile menu to edit in Visual Builder Studio. Now, this is a different lifecycle path from bespoke visual applications. With them, you're not extending an app or modifying individual pages in the same way. You get a choice of which project you want to add your extension to when you're working with Fusion apps and potentially which repository to store your customizations, unless one already exists and then it's assigned automatically to hold your code changes. So you make your changes and edits to the portions of the application that have been opened for extensibility by the development team. This is another difference. Once you make your code changes, the workflow is pretty much the same as for a bespoke visual application: do your development work, commit your changes, push your changes to the remote branch. And then typically, your code is reviewed and if the code passes and is approved, it's merged with the main branch. Then, the package and deploy jobs run to deploy the main code to the production environment or whatever environment you're targeting. And once the package and deploy jobs complete, the code base is updated and users who log in see the changes that you've made. 15:03 Nikita: You mentioned creating apps that combine data from Fusion cloud, applications, customer data, and third-party APIs into one page. Why is it necessary? Why can't you just do all that in one Fusion Applications extension? Joe: When you create extensions, you are working within the Oracle Fusion Applications ecosystem, that's what they actually call it, which includes a defined a set of users who have been predefined and are, therefore, known to Fusion Applications. So, if you're a user and you're not part of that Fusion Apps ecosystem, you can't access the pages. Period. That's how Fusion Apps works to maintain its security and integrity. Secondly, you're working pretty much solely with the Fusion Applications APIs data sources coming directly from Fusion Applications, which are also available to you when you're creating bespoke visual apps. When you're working with Fusion Applications in Visual Builder, you don't have access to these business objects that give you access to your own customer database data through Visual Builder-generated REST APIs. Business objects are available only to bespoke visual applications in the hosted VB Cloud Service instance. So, your data sources are restricted to the Oracle Fusion Applications APIs and some third-party APIs that work within a narrow set of authentication mechanisms currently, although there are plans to expand this in the future. A mashup app that allows you now to access all these data sources while creating apps that leverage the Redwood Component System, so they look and work like Fusion Apps. They're a highly popular option for our partners and customers. 16:28 Lois: So, to review, we have two different approaches. You can create a visual application using the for-fee, hosted Visual Builder Cloud Service/Stand-Alone or the one that comes with Oracle Integration Cloud, or you can use the extension architecture for Fusion applications, where you use the designer and create your extensions, and the code is delivered and deployed to Fusion applications code. You haven't talked about JET yet though, Joe. What is that? Joe: So, JET is an abbreviation. It stands for Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit and JET is the underlying technology that makes Visual Builder, visual applications, and Visual Builder Extensions for Fusion Applications possible. Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit provides a module-based, open-source toolkit that leverages modern JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS3, and HTML5 to deliver web applications. It's targeted at JavaScript developers working on client-side applications. It is not for backend development. It's a collection of popular, powerful JavaScript libraries and a set of Oracle-contributed JavaScript libraries that make it very simple, easy, and efficient to build front-end applications that can consume and interact with Oracle products and services, especially Oracle Cloud services, but of course it can work with any type of third-party API. 17:44 Nikita: How are JET applications architected, Joe, and how does that relate to Visual Builder pages and flows? Joe: The architecture of JET applications is what's called a single page architecture. We've all seen these. These are where you have a single webpage—think of your index page that provides the header and footer for your webpage—and then the middle portion or the middle content of the page, represented by modules, allow you to navigate from one page or module to another. It also provides the data mapping so that the data elements in the variables and the state of the application, as well as the graphical user interface elements that provide the fields and functionality for the interface for the application, these are all maintained on the client side. If you're working in pure JET, then you work with these modules at the raw JavaScript code level. And there are a lot of JavaScript developers who want to work like this and create their custom applications from the code up, so to speak. However, it also provides the basis for Visual Builder visual applications and Fusion Apps visual extensions in Visual Builder. 18:41 Lois: How does JET support VB Apps? You didn't talk much about having to write a bunch of JavaScript and HTML5, so I got the impression that this is all done for you by VB Designer? Joe: Visual Builder applications are composed of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code that is usually generated by the developer when she drags and drops components on to the page designer canvas or sets properties or creates action chains to respond to events. But there's also a lot of JavaScript object notation (JSON) metadata created at the time that describes the pages, the flows, the navigation, the REST services, the variables, their data types, and other assets needed for the app to function. This JSON metadata is translated at runtime using a large JavaScript extension toolkit library called the Visual Builder Runtime that runs in the browser and real time translates the metadata and other assets in the Visual Builder source code into JET code and assets, which are actually executed at runtime. And it's very quick, very fast, very efficient, and provides a layer of abstraction between the raw JET code and the Visual Builder architecture of pages, flows, action chains for executing code and events to handle things that occur in the user interface, including saving the state in variables that are mapped to GUI components. For example, if you have an Input text component, you need to have a variable to store the value that was entered into that Input text component between page refreshes. The data can move from the Input text component to the variable, and from the variable to that Input text component if it's changed programmatically, for example. So, JET manages binding these data values to variables and the UI components on the page. So, a change to a variable value or a change to the contents of the component causes the others to change automatically. Now, this is only a small part of what JET and the frameworks and libraries it uses do for the applications. JET also provides more complex GUI components like lists and tables, and selection lists, and check boxes, and all the sorts of things you would expect in a modern GUI application. 20:37 Nikita: You mentioned a layer of abstraction between Visual Builder Studio Designer and JET. What's the benefit of working in Visual Builder Designer versus JET itself? Joe: The benefit of Visual Builder is that you work at a higher level of abstraction than having to get down into the more detailed levels of deep JavaScript code, working with modules, data mappings, HTML code, single page architecture navigation, and the related functionalities. You can work at a higher level, a graphical level, where you can drag and drop things onto a design canvas and set properties. The VB architecture insulates you from the more technical bits of JET. Now, this frees the developer to concentrate more on application and page design, implementing logic and business rules, and creating a pleasing workflow and look and feel for the user. This keeps them from having to get caught up in the details of getting this working at the code level. Now if needed, you can write custom JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 code, though much less than in a JET app, and all that is part of the VB application source, which becomes part of the code used by JET to execute the application itself. And yet it all works seamlessly together. 21:38 Lois: Joe, I know we have courses in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But does a developer getting ready to work in Visual Builder Designer have to go take those courses first or can they start working in VB Designer right away? Joe: Yeah, that question does often comes up: Do I need to learn JET to work with Visual Builder? No, you don't. That's all taken care for you in the products themselves. I don't really think it helps that much to learn JET if you are going to be a VB developer. In some ways, it could even be a bit distracting since some of things you learn to do in JET, you would have to unlearn or not do so much because of what VB does it for you. The things you would have to do manually in code in JET are done for you. This is why we call VB a low code development tool. I mean, you certainly can if you want to, but I would spend more time learning about the different GUI components, page templates, the Visual Builder architecture — events, action chains, and the data provider variables and types. Now, I know JET myself. I started with that before learning Visual Builder, but I use very little of my JET knowledge as a VB developer. Visual Builder Designer provides a nice, abstracted, clean layer of modern visual development on top of JET, while leveraging the power and flexibility of JET and keeping the lower-level details out of my way. 22:49 Nikita: Joe, where can I go to get started with Visual Builder? Joe: Well, for more information, I recommend you take a look at our Develop Fusion Applications course if you're working with Fusion Applications and Visual Builder Studio. The other course is Develop Visual Applications with Visual Builder Studio and that's if you're creating stand-alone bespoke applications. Both these courses are free. We also have a comprehensive course that covers JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, and while it's not required that you take that to be successful, it can be helpful down the road. I would also say that some basic knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript will certainly support you and serve you well when working with Visual Builder. You learn more as you go along and you find that you need to create more sophisticated applications. I would also mention that a lot of the look and feel of the applications in Visual Builder visual applications and Fusion apps extensions and customizations come through JET components, JET styles, and JET variables, and CSS variables, so that's something that you would want to pursue at some point. There's a JET cookbook out there. You can search for Oracle JET and look for the JET cookbook and that's a good introduction to all of that. 23:50 Nikita: We hope you enjoyed that conversation. To learn about some of the courses Joe mentioned, visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. Lois: Before we wrap up, we've got a favor to ask. We've created a short survey to capture your thoughts on the podcast. It'll only take a few minutes of your time. Just click the link in the show notes and share your feedback. 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Is entrepreneurship truly a solo journey, or would you rather start a business with a friend? For Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther, co-founders of the leadership and HR consultancy the Abbracci Group and co-hosts of “The Breakout” podcast, the answer is clear: collaboration is key. Together, they're on a mission to help women and entrepreneurs navigate both professional and personal changes, big and small. Their book, “Whatever the Hell You Want”, is a guide to identifying the “boxes” that confine us, creating a roadmap to break free, and living a life of choice and freedom. Keri and Kelly's story is a powerful testament to the transformative potential of partnership and support.In this episode, Erin, Keri & Kelly dive into themes of change, growth, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment. Hear how taking bold, sometimes daunting steps can help break free from traditional paths and bring about lasting happiness. Tune in as we discuss:The challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship and why a supportive business partner can make all the difference, especially for womenReimagining community over competition in the workplace and fostering mutual support for women Identifying your core values, wants, and motivations as key to your next steps in life and careerHow growth often emerges from painful experiences, revealing what's no longer serving youWhy workplace gender bias still persists, even in progressive workplacesHow women leaders can drive change by mentoring the next generationTips for embracing the uncertainty and instability that come with entrepreneurshipOUR GUESTS: Kelly Guenther and Dr. Keri Ohlrich are the co-founders of Abbracci Group, co-hosts of The Breakout podcast, and co-authors of Whatever the Hell You Want. Together, they bring a wealth of experience in leadership, HR, and professional development, focusing on empowering individuals and creating supportive workplace cultures.Kelly Guenther applies a holistic approach to leadership and talent development, combining her experience in sales training and certification for top-level executives with a deep understanding of both team dynamics and individual strengths. She holds a Master of Education from Carroll University, a Bachelor's in English from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and is certified in iPEC professional coaching and Prosci® change management, among other assessments. Dr. Keri Ohlrich brings over 20 years of HR leadership experience spanning start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, where she has been instrumental in redesigning HR processes and driving large-scale change management initiatives. With a PhD in Human Development and Organizational Systems, as well as dual master's degrees in Peace and Conflict Resolution and Global Human Resources, she is committed to transforming workplaces into thriving ecosystems. Keri also serves as a court-appointed special advocate (CASA) volunteer for children's welfare.Want more Dr. Keri & Kelly? Tune into their podcast The Breakout and learn more about their work at https://abbraccigroup.com/. Check out their books Whatever the Hell You Want and The Way of the HR Warrior.Follow their work on:Instagram:
Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham continue their deep dive into Oracle Database 23ai backup and recovery strategies with Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar. Picking up from Part 1, they explore critical concepts such as instance recovery, checkpoint processes, and the role of redo log files. Bill shares insights into complete and incomplete recovery, flashback technologies, and lots more. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-backup-and-recovery/141127/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Nikita: Welcome back to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi everyone! Last week, we had a fantastic chat with Bill Millar, our Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor. We dug into the basics of backup and recovery. We touched on everything from a DBA's role in preventing data loss to handling different types of failures, and even some common mistakes that tend to pop up when managing a database. Nikita: Yeah, if you missed that episode, definitely go back and check it out. It's packed with useful info, especially if you're in charge of keeping databases safe. 01:10 Lois: Today, we're picking up where we left off. We're going to ask Bill about instance recovery and recovery strategies. Bill, can you kick things off by explaining what instance recovery is? Bill: You can understand instant recovery by becoming familiar with the checkpoint process, the redo log files, and the role of the log writer with the redo log files. Automatically instance or crash recovery. What is it doing? What are the phases of instance recovery? How we possibly can tune that instance recovery. We can use the mean time to recovery advisor that can help us determine how we might tune the instance recovery. 01:51 Nikita: OK, so let's go through some of these concepts and procedures you mentioned. What is the checkpoint process responsible for exactly? Bill: The checkpoint process itself, it's responsible for updating the data file headers with checkpoint information. When a checkpoint is taken, it is going to write into the controlfiles. It tells the DB writer to write. DB writer writes to the data files, and the checkpoint is also annotated in the data files. So updating controlfiles with that checkpoint information also, controlfiles and database files. It signals that DB writer at full check points again, hey, it's time to write. So that way, it has the latest data written to the data files. The controlfile and datafiles, those are in sync with that. 02:40 Lois: Bill, what about the log writer process and the redo log files? Bill: With the log writer process and the redo log files, the redo log files record the changes to the database himself. It should be multiplexed. 02:53 Nikita: What do you mean by that? Bill: More than one redo log group. Now, the redo log groups, it is recommended that they should be multiplexed. Each group member should be on a different disk or in a different disk group if you're using ASM. 03:10 Nikita: And why is that, Bill? Bill: Because if I lose one, if I lose one redo log group, one member, I can continue to operate with just the one. If I only have one redo log group member and the system comes around and tries to write to it, then my system is going to come to a halt. So the log writer is going to write to those redo logs whenever somebody does a commit. When that redo log buffer is 1/3 full or every three seconds and before DB writer writes. So those are the four mechanism that tells log writer to write from that log buffer to the redo log files. And it'll also write, when we do a shut down, all the buffers will be flushed. And so that way, everything will be in sync when the system is shut down. 04:01 Lois: What are the different modes of operation for a database, Bill? And how do these modes impact the recovery capabilities of the database? Bill: So we have two different modes we can operate in. One is called NOARCHIVELOG mode. It is the default. ARCHIVELOG mode, highly encouraged. But not every environment has to be in ARCHIVELOG mode. 04:21 Nikita: So with ARCHIVELOG mode… Bill: Closed database. You have to close it, recover to the last backup. That's as far as I can go. Actually, I could, depending on what happens, I might be able to apply some redo. Suitable for training and test environments or for data warehouses, we don't have a lot of frequent changes. It's mainly bulk loading data at night and querying during the day. So it might be appropriate for that. Because ARCHIVELOG mode, it is a little overhead. Yes. So with that database, it goes down while it's open. The system, when it comes up, it can recover to the last committed transaction. And this is usually the mode we want to operate in for production environments. So we have that data in the buffer cache. We have that redo being buffered. We have the undo tablespace, keeping track of what the data was before a change. The redo keeps track of what was the change. And if we're in ARCHIVELOG mode, as we switch from one redo log to another, we will generate what's referred to as archived log files, and that's what allows us to do a complete recovery. 05:33 Lois: What happens in the case of automatic instance recovery? Bill: For an automatic instance recovery or crash recovery, our system went down unexpectedly. Because it did not do a clean shutdown, the buffers were not flushed. Everything was not synchronized. So the datafile, controlfile, everything is out of sync. 05:53 Nikita: So, how do the files get synchronized then? Bill: It uses the redo log groups to synchronize the files. It's going to roll forward. It rolls forward the changes that were made. So due to different distinct operations. Roll forward applies committed and uncommitted data. And the redo does not keep track of what was committed and uncommitted. It'll keep track of, hey, I had this transaction, hey, here's a commit for that transaction. But hey, I have a transaction. That was never uncommitted. That's the job of the undo. But rolls forward all those changes. And then anything that did not actually receive a commit, it will roll back the uncommitted data, return to the original state. And that is the job of the undo tablespace. 06:37 Lois: Bill, is it possible to tune instance recovery for better performance? Bill: You can try to tune this instance recovery. Tuning it is touchy. Be careful because you can cause more harm than what you think you might be doing good. The instance recovery, what we're doing, we're trying to-- the transactions between checkpoints. When was the last checkpoint? Because the items between the checkpoints, that's what has to be reapplied. So the last checkpoint to the last redo log, what is that time frame there between those? Well, what we're going to do, we're going to try to control that. We're going to try to control the difference between the checkpoint and the end of the redo log. There is a mean-time recovery advisor. You specify the desired times in seconds or minutes that how often you want that checkpoint to occur. There is a parameter, FAST_START_MTTR parameter that you can set. The default value is zero saying, hey, I'm going to let the system take care of it. And the maximum you can set it is to one hour. 07:46 Nikita: And why 1 hour? Bill: The reason being, if I set that to one hour and I have a lot of activity, how long is it going to take? How many transactions can happen within that hour? Yeah, I'm not doing a checkpoint as often, so I'm eliminating that workload. But if it has to recover, how long is it going to take? If I set it too small, the system says, hey, right now, it's going to take me 19 seconds based off statistics. If I said, OK, I want it in five seconds. So what does that mean? Every five seconds, I'm saying do a checkpoint. So what is it doing? OK, time to do a checkpoint. OK, time to go ahead and OK, DB writer write. OK, log writer write. OK, let me update the datafiles and the controlfiles. So you're just thrashing your system. So be careful if you decide to try to manually tune it. And when you go out and look at this mean time to recover, and even if you do it through the command line, you'll see that, that value is most likely going to change throughout the day, depending on the workload that you have. 08:46 Lois: How does the process of restoring and recovering data typically work? Bill: So when we restore, we're restoring our datafiles. All the datafiles, tablespace, controlfiles, archived redo log, server parameter file. Then when we recover, it involves depending on the backup that we use and other factors in there, it is going to apply the redo. So automatically done by RMAN. So I tell it, this is what I want to do. Hey, I want to restore a database. OK, RMAN says, all right, what backup are you going to use? What is it I need to restore? And then we tell it to recover. OK, I know what I need to use to recover. So RMAN can do the work for you. So when we restore and recover due to a manual process and there's different methods that we can use, and depending on the failure, we'll drive what type of restore and recovery we might perform. 09:40 Are you looking for practical use cases to help you plan and apply configurations that solve real-world challenges? With the new Applied Learning courses for Cloud Applications, you'll be able to practically apply the concepts learned in our implementation courses and work through case studies featuring key decisions and configurations encountered during a typical Oracle Cloud Applications implementation. Applied learning scenarios are currently available in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Inventory, and Procurement, with many more to come! Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 10:22 Nikita: Welcome back! Can you talk about the different types of recovery scopes, Bill? How do they compare? Bill: Recovery can have two kinds of scope. All right. One is the complete recovery. We are getting the database back to the current time of the crash with no loss of data. We're going to again bring everything back to the present. Incomplete or point-in-time recovery. We're going to take a database or maybe a tablespace or even a table back to a point-in-time in the past. So from the time that we select to take it to recover, everything that was done after that is null and void, is gone missing. That's why it's called incomplete recovery, because it's not complete. 11:09 Lois: What are the steps that take place during complete recovery? Bill: We restore the datafiles. Changes are applied. We're applying the redo. The datafiles contained committed and uncommitted transactions. The undo is applied. Anything that did not receive an actual commit will take back to the original value. And we have our datafiles recovered. 11:33 Nikita: And what about point-in-time recovery? Bill: Point-in-time recovery, very similar. We're going to restore the datafiles from as far back as necessary. Changes are applied. So the data files are going to contain the committed and uncommitted up to that point-in-time. Database is open, that redo, that undo, anything that did not actually receive a commit. The undo is applied. The point-in-time recovered is complete. We're not applying all the redo, all the changes, only up to the time that we specify. 12:08 Lois: Are there any features that can make point-in-time recovery quicker? Bill: We also have the ability to use flashback database. It is an optional feature. And it can be a quick way to do that point-in-time recovery. It is an alternative to that database point-in-time recovery we just looked at. Faster. No restore is required. It's going to rewind the database. It does require some configuration in the environment. We do have to set up in order to use flashback database. 12:41 Nikita: I want to talk about Oracle's data protection solutions, particularly when it comes to backup and recovery or disaster recovery. Bill: So for physical data protection-- backup and recovery objective. Yep, that works for both physical and logical. My recovery time, hours to days. Possibly minutes to hours for the logical. And Oracle solution, we have the Recovery Manager that's out of the box, RMAN. Oracle Secure Backup, that is Oracle's media management library system backing up to tape. The logical protection, yes, flashback technologies can help me take care of that very easily. For disaster recovery, physical data protection, recovery time objective, seconds to minutes. We're not going to accomplish that with RMAN. You're going to want to use our Data Guard with the Active Data Guard feature to be able to switch over to a standby database within seconds of a failure. 13:41 Lois: Why would someone choose to use flashback technologies for recovery, Bill? Bill: With the flashback technologies, we can use it for viewing data as past dates. What did it look like? We can wind the database back and forth in time. Assist users in an error analysis and recovery, because we have different technologies. This flashback query, version query, transaction query, those allow me to view what was the value of a row at a time. I can even see what were the changes to a row over a period of time? I can also view the query that caused that change. For error recovery, I can back out a transaction. I can take a table back to a non-current time. I can also flashback a table that was dropped. And I can also take an entire database by using flashback. So the different recovery options I might have with the flashback technology. 14:44 Lois: Thank you so much, Bill. These last two episodes have been so insightful, right Niki? Nikita: I couldn't agree more, Lois! If you want to know more about backup and recovery configuration and other concepts, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Oracle Database 23ai: Backup and Recovery course. Our upcoming episode is a very special one, where we'll be discussing Oracle AI in Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management. So, watch out for that! Until next week, this is Nikita Abraham… Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 15:16 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.
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Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Senior Principal Database & Security Instructor Ron Soltani, as they discuss how the new Automatic SQL Plan Management feature in Oracle Database 23ai improves performance consistency and simplifies management. Then, Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar shares insights into two new features: one that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance, improving read and write speeds, and another that increases the column limit in a table to 4,096, making it easier to handle complex data. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and joining me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi there! Last week, we looked at the Oracle Database 23ai enhancements that have been made to Hybrid Columnar Compression and Fast Ingest. In today's episode, we'll talk about the 23ai new feature for Automatic SQL Plan Management with Ron Soltani, a Senior Principal Database & Security Instructor with Oracle University. 01:01 Nikita: And later on, we'll be joined by Bill Millar, another Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor, who will tell us about the 23ai automatic feature that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance. We'll also get him to talk about the Wide Columns update. So, let's get started. Hi Ron! What have been the common challenges with SQL plans and database performance? Ron: One of the problems that we have always had, if you remember, was when data changes, database setting configuration, parameter changes, SQL that were operating very well could now behave badly using the SQL plan that were associated to them. And remember, the same SQL plan generally Oracle likes to continuously reuse. So the SQL plans were put in the baseline in the past, and we could have those SQL plan baseline, which are a set of approved plans to be used for a SQL from the SQL history stored in AWR, then could be used for the optimizer to choose from. However, which plan to choose and which one would be the best one to use, this is what the problem has been in managing the SQL plan baselines, and a lot of the operation would have been done manually. 02:22 Lois: And what have we done to overcome this? Ron: So now this new system will going to perform all of those operations automatically for us. Now it can search the Automatic Workload Repository. It can find SQL plans for a particular SQL statement, then look for any alternative plans that may available in alternate sources like SQL tuning sets. And then validate those plans and see if those plans are going to be good and to be used as SQL plan baseline for executing SQL statement by the optimizer. 03:00 Nikita: So we now have the Automatic SQL Plan Management Evolve Advisor to help manage operations automatically, right? Can you tell us a little more about it? How does it ensure optimal performance? Ron: This is an automatic advisor that is created that can go look for different plans and validate the plans by examining them, making sure that they are not causing any regression compared to the previous operation, and then evolve that plan into a good baseline. This simplifies management of the baseline repository for a SQL statement. So as data changes, as parameters changes, optimizer could come up with different type of plans that are set within this baseline that has been validated to be good baseline for each situational operation. So this way you reduce a lot of hard parsing operations. 04:00 Lois: And how does the SQL Evolve Advisor work, Ron? Ron: First, it will check the AWR to find what are the top SQLs that has been found. Then it will look to see if these top SQLs who did not perform well with the plan that they have, that's why they're top SQL, have other alternative plans that are stored in the SQL plan history, in AWR, or available in any other sources. Then if it finds any additional plans, it will go ahead and add all of those plans into the plan history. So in the plan history, now you have accumulation of all the plans available in AWR and anything that has been brought from other sources. Then it will test every one of those plans and validate that by use of the plan, the SQL statement will not deprivate and get slower. The performance is either similar or actually better. So normally, there is a percentage that the SQL should improve. So we will then validate these baselines. And finally, once the baselines or those plans have been validated, they will be accepted, and then they will be added as SQL plan baselines. They will remain in the statement history, in the AWR, and will be available for optimizer for the future use. 05:28 Nikita: What are the benefits of this? Ron: Number one is Autonomous Database. As you know, they want to automate all management, including management of the SQL execution due to changes that are happening for the application, for the data, or the database and its environment. It totally eliminates any manual intervention for management of the statement, and it can transparently repair any statement that had been affected by a major change. 06:00 Lois: What sort of problems does this feature solve for us? Ron: Of course, this is a performance consistency. We want to make sure that every statement performed to its best performance and any specific changes that may impact those SQL statements would be taken into an account, and a better plan, if available, would then be available for use. It also improves the application performance level, therefore database service level will get much improvement. And the SQL execution plans will be automatically managed behind the scene by expanding these baselines, by managing all of these baseline history and all of that that is managed by this automatic SQL plan management environment automatically. 06:50 Nikita: And when do we use this? Ron: If there is a change in a database environment, like you add SGA, the change into the shared pool, change in the size of the buffer cache or any type of storage effects. So all of those can actually affect the SQL execution. Now all of those changes, including data changes, can cause a SQL plan to not behave very well or behave as well as it was doing before. Therefore, if particular plans do not perform as well as they did before, that affects the performance of the application. This also affects the performance of the database and the instance. 07:35 Lois: So, how do we use this environment? Ron: Well, best news that I have for you in that is that there is nothing manual needs to be done. All we need to do is, number one, make sure that we enable foreground automatic SQL plan management that we done through the package for the DBMS SPM for SQL plan management. You will use the package with the configure option, and you enable the auto SPM evolve task, and you set it to auto. Once this is done, now the SQL evolve plan management and advisor are enabled, and they will then monitor your statements, review all of the top SQLs as they are found with all of the ADDM operation, and then do their work in looking for better plans and being able to maintain the SQL plan baselines we talked about. Now for you to be able to view, monitor, and see how these operations are going, if it is enabled, you can take a look at the DBA SQL plan baseline's view. There are many, many columns in that particular baseline, and there are also columns that has been added that tell you where is the plan generated from, if a plan is approved, and any other user interaction with the plan or settings can then be verified using that DBA SQL plan baseline view. 09:13 Are you looking for practical use cases to help you plan and apply configurations that solve real-world challenges? With the new Applied Learning courses for Cloud Applications, you'll be able to practically apply the concepts learned in our implementation courses and work through case studies featuring key decisions and configurations encountered during a typical Oracle Cloud Applications implementation. Applied learning scenarios are currently available for General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Inventory, and Procurement, with many more to come! Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 09:54 Nikita: Welcome back! Let's bring Bill into the conversation. Hi Bill! Can you tell us about the 23ai automatic feature that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance? Bill: The key here is that it is automatic and transparent. There's no parameters set. Nothing to configure in table, no hints, and nothing that you have to do with these improvements. It is tightly integrated with SecureFiles LOB infrastructure. So now, multiple LOBs can be handled in a single transaction and can be buffered simultaneously. This will help with mixed workloads, switching between the LOBs that are writing in a single transaction. The PGA will adaptively resize based off the size for these large writes for the LOBs if you're using the No Cache option. Remember, no cache is going to bypass the buffer cache and does direct reads and writes from the PGA. JSON type will be transformed into the OSON Oracle data type. It is an optimized native binary storage format for JSON data. 11:15 Lois: Ok. So, going forward, there will be better read and write performance for LOBs. Bill: Multiple LOBs in a single transaction can be buffered simultaneously, improving mixed workloads. We just talked about the PGA. Automatically, the buffer is automatically resized. And the improved JSON support. The reason it will recognize, hey, this is a JSON data type. But traditionally, JSON data types were small. So they were small to medium size. So the range from 32k to 32 meg was considered small to medium whereas LOBs were designed for data types larger than 100 meg. So by recognizing this a JSON data type, it can take advantage of the LOB architecture. Other enhancements will also include the acceleration of compressed LOBs, the pen and compression caching, and improves the poor performance of your reads and writes to compressed LOBs. It's faster than previously. 12:24 Nikita: Bill, what do you think about the recent increase in the column limit? Previously, the limit was 1000 columns per table, which sometimes posed issues when migrating from other systems that allowed more than 1,000 columns, right? Bill: Maybe because of workload requirements, the whole machine learning, the internet of things workloads, IOTs can have hundreds of thousands of attributes, dimensional attribute columns for that. And even our very own blockchain tables reserves up to 40 hidden virtual columns, so that takes away from the total amount. Virtual columns count towards the column limits and some applications as they drop columns, what it does, it just converts them to unused, and it still applies towards the limit the number of columns that you can have to that limit. There were workarounds. However, they were most likely not the best way to do it, like column switching, table splitting for that. But big data really use cases, really saw where files have or required more than 1,000 columns. 13:42 Lois: So, now that we can have 4,096 columns in a table, I'm sure it's made handling complex data a lot easier. Bill: So by increasing this, since other systems do support higher column limits, it can-- the increase can make migration from other systems easier and possibly even a little bit more attractive while it can make applications a little bit simpler because the 1,000 column limit was not always optimal for analytics. Where 1,000 might have been plenty for OLTP type environments, but not for the analytics, especially when it comes to machine learning and those internet of things that we talked about, where the previous workarounds, like splitting the tables, really caused more performance issue than anything else. So we want to avoid those suboptimal workarounds. And the nice thing is there's no change to the SQL. So once you have that-- well, if we were doing SQL, if we had tables that were split and we're trying to do things that is actually going to help improve that SQL, now, we don't have multiple objects that we're dealing with. 14:57 Nikita: How do we actually go about increasing the column limit to 4,096? Bill: You do have to have the compatibility set to 23c. Why? Because it's a new feature. There is a new initialization parameter called Max columns, and you do set that. There's two different ways, two different values. We can set it to standard or we can set it to extended. It is dynamic. When it's set to standard, it's only 1,000. When we set it to extended, it's going to allow the 4,096. It is modifiable at the PDB level. However, it will inherit what's at the root level, if it's not explicitly set at a PDB. It can't alter it in a session for that. And multiple instances of the RAC environment must use the same value. Now one thing, notice that it cannot be set to standard if I created a table that had more than 1,000 columns. One thing that might get you, when you drop a table that has more 1,000 columns and you try to set it back to standard, it might tell you, hey, you have tables that have more than 1,000 columns. Don't forget your recycle bin unless you did a drop table purge. 16:09 Lois: Are there any performance considerations to keep in mind, Bill? Bill: There's really no DML or query performance degradation for the tables. However, it might require, as you would expect, the increase in memory when we have the new column limits. It might require additional shared pool, additional SGA with the additional columns, more buffer cache as we're bringing blocks in. So that's shared pool along with the PGA. And also we can add in buffer cache in there, because that increased column count is going to be increase in the total PGA memory usage. And those are kind of expected for that. But the big advantage is it gives us the ability to eliminate some of these suboptimal workarounds that we had in the past. 17:02 Nikita: Ok! We covered a lot today so thank you Bill and Ron. Lois: To learn more about what we discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Oracle Database 23ai New Features for Administrators course. Join us next week for a discussion on some more Oracle Database 23ai new features. Until then, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham signing off! 17:27 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. 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We're thrilled to bring you the latest insights from our newest episode of The ASHHRA Podcast, featuring the esteemed Gregory Pardo, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Fresenius Medical Care. In this compelling episode we delve into the intricacies of HR within the healthcare sector and explore how to effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities therein. Episode Highlights:- From Hospitality to Healthcare: Gregory shares his journey transitioning from the hotel industry to healthcare, underscoring the importance of understanding your business as an HR professional.- Speaking the Company's Language: Learn essential tips on proving ROI in HR initiatives and aligning your people strategy with your company's goals.- Cultivating Strong HR Functions: Discover why a robust HR function is crucial in healthcare and how people are at the heart of a company's success.- Employee Referral Programs: Hear about Fresenius's innovative approach to addressing hiring needs and the importance of continuously learning within the HR community.- Building Trust and Respect: Gregory discusses the significance of relationships built on trust, highlighting the analogies of HR leaders as both "priest and father" and the importance of being a competent and supportive HR professional.- Global & Cultural Adaptation: Uncover the challenges of managing culturally diverse teams and the strategies that can lead to effective communication and management across different countries. Key Takeaways:- Tailor-Made HR Strategies: Inspired by Laszlo Bock's teachings, Gregory emphasizes the need for HR strategies customized to meet specific business needs.- Talent Acquisition: Learn about Fresenius's scalable approach to talent acquisition, including hybrid in-house recruiting and RPO, tailored to different market needs.- Presented Business Cases: Gregory's expertise on securing TA budgets through compelling data and aligning TA investments with top-line growth and cost savings.- Leadership & Communication: Insights into the essence of personalized leadership in a multicultural workforce and the significance of cultural immersion and travel. Why You Should Tune In:This episode is a treasure trove of practical advice and expert-level discussions, perfect for HR professionals looking to bolster their business acumen, enhance their recruitment strategies, and foster a strong HR presence in the healthcare industry. Listen Now:Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Your feedback helps us bring more incredible content to your ears!Warm regards,The ASHHRA Podcast TeamThis episode is sponsored by RxBenefits... Unlock Pharmacy Plan Potential!Your employees expect top-tier medical benefits, like comprehensive care access. But how can you balance these expectations against rising costs, across your full benefits portfolio? Did you know that hospital employees fill 25% more prescriptions each year than other industries? How can you tell if all those prescriptions were needed, or if you could have had significant cost savings by filling at your own hospital pharmacies?Contact RxBenefits today to learn more: https://rxbene.fit/48n8VS8 Support the Show.
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Guest post by Darlene Engoglia, Vice President of Global Human Resources, Park Place Technologies At Park Place Technologies, we are deeply committed to achieving gender diversity. As an IT service provider, our industry is predominantly male. To make meaningful strides in this area, we find ways to elevate the voices and accomplishments of women in every aspect of our business. Recognition Reinvented It is important to understand the importance and impact of recognition. It's not enough to passively acknowledge employees' achievements; they - especially women - must be actively celebrated, so the contributions of quieter voices to the company are recognised by all. There are plenty of ways to share the accomplishments of women with all staff and stakeholders, regardless of the company's size. For example, a regular spotlight series shared via a company-wide email, Slack channel, or intranet is a great start. Another approach would be hosting virtual or in-person events, such as panel discussions, luncheons, or fireside chats, where successful women leaders share their career journeys to inspire others to pursue a similar path. Extending these conversations beyond the company's walls and into the community can further encourage a culture of inclusivity and empowerment for all. Building up women in your company should not be done for PR or clout. When you first implement these practices, consistency and engagement should be your primary goals. Once you establish a regular cadence of spotlights and programming, use those conversations to amplify these diverse voices via other avenues. Amplifying the Unheard When working in a male-dominated environment, women may feel overshadowed - especially those not inclined to raise their hands or speak up if they have a conflicting perspective. There are strategies to overcome this, however. One way is to create smaller discussion groups or breakout sessions where everyone has an equal opportunity to contribute. These smaller settings are less intimidating, allowing individuals who may not feel comfortable speaking up in larger meetings to express their ideas more freely. Alternatively, implementing a rotating facilitator role in large meetings can ensure that different voices are heard during discussions. Intentionally amplifying the voices of women and other underrepresented groups not only strengthens teamwork and collaboration but also unlocks diverse perspectives that can drive organisational success. Beyond Recruitment Metrics When it comes to recruitment or staffing internal workgroups, it's important to evaluate your recruitment metrics. Traditional metrics that define success, such as years of experience or specific technical skills, may inadvertently perpetuate gender disparities within your organisation. For instance, women often face interruptions in their careers due to caregiving responsibilities and biases that can limit their access to certain opportunities for skill development. As a result, relying solely on these static metrics in recruitment decisions may disproportionately favour men who more frequently meet these conventional criteria. To mitigate this bias, organisations can adopt a broader range of qualifications for evaluation, such as transferable skills, potential for growth, and diverse experiences. Additionally, implementing mentorship programs and professional development initiatives can help women overcome barriers to skill acquisition and career advancement, ensuring a more equitable playing field in the recruitment process. When recruiting, here are some key questions to ask yourself to mitigate unconscious biases and expand the pool of qualified candidates: Are job descriptions written in a way that attracts diverse applicants? Are interview panels diverse themselves, ensuring varied perspectives in candidate evaluations? Is there consistent, proactive outreach to professional women's networks to promote new opportunities? Does your organisation conduct ...
The next generation of front-end user interfaces for Oracle Fusion Applications is being built using Visual Builder Studio and Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit. However, many of the terms associated with these tools can be confusing. In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are joined by Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald. Together, they take you through the different terminologies, how they relate to each other, and how they can be used to deliver the new Oracle Fusion Applications as well as stand-alone, bespoke visual web applications. Develop Fusion Applications Using Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/develop-fusion-applications-using-visual-builder-studio/122614/ Build Visual Applications Using Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/build-visual-applications-using-oracle-visual-builder-studio/110035/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! Today, we're starting a new season on building the next generation of Oracle Cloud Apps with Visual Builder Studio. 00:45 Lois: And I'm so excited that we have someone really special to take us through the next few episodes. Joe Greenwald is joining us. Joe is a Senior Principal OCI Instructor with Oracle University. He joined Oracle in 1992 with an extensive background in CASE tools. Since then, he has used and taught all of Oracle's software development tools, including Oracle Forms, APEX, JDeveloper ADF, as well as all the Fusion Middleware courses. Currently, Joe is responsible for the Visual Builder Studio and Redwood development courses, including extending Fusion Applications with Visual Builder. 01:22 Nikita: In today's episode, we're going to ask Joe about Visual Builder Studio and Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit, also known as JET. Together, they form the basis of the technology for the next generation of front-end user interfaces for Oracle Fusion Applications, as well as many other Oracle applications, including most Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) interfaces. Lois: We'll look at the different terminologies and technologies, how they relate to each other, and how they deliver the new Oracle Fusion applications and stand-alone, bespoke visual web applications. Hi Joe! Thanks for being with us today. 01:57 Joe: Hi Lois! Hi Niki! I'm glad to be here. Nikita: Joe, I'm somewhat thrown by the terminology around Visual Builder, Visual Studio, and JET. Can you help streamline that for us? Lois: Yeah, things that are named the same sometimes refer to different things, and sometimes things with a different name refer to the same thing. 02:15 Joe: Yeah, I know where you're coming from. So, let's start with Visual Builder Studio. It's abbreviated as VBS and can go by a number of different names. Some of the most well-known ones are Visual Builder Studio, VBS, Visual Builder, Visual Builder Stand-Alone, and Visual Builder Cloud Service. Clearly, this can be very confusing. For the purposes of these episodes as well as the training courses I create, I use certain definitions. 02:39 Lois: Can you take us through those? Joe: Absolutely, Lois. Visual Builder Studio refers to a product that comes free with an OCI account and allows you to manage your project-related assets. This includes the project itself, which is a container for all of its assets. You can assign teams to your projects, as well as secure the project and declare roles for the different team members. You manage GIT repositories with full graphical and command-line GIT support, define package, build, and deploy jobs, and create and run continuous integration/continuous deployment graphical and code-managed pipelines for your applications. These can be visual applications, created using the Visual Builder Integrated Development Environment, the IDE, or non-visual apps, such as Java microservices, docker builds, NPM apps, and things like that. And you can define environments, which determine where your build jobs can be deployed. You can also define issues, which allow you to identify, track, and manage things like bugs, defects, and enhancements. And these can be tracked in code review merge requests and build jobs, and be mapped to agile sprints and scrum boards. There's also support for wikis for team collaboration, code snippets, and the management of the repository and the project itself. So, VBS supports code reviews before code is merged into GIT branches for package, build, and deploy jobs using merge requests. 03:57 Nikita: OK, what exactly do you mean by that? Joe: Great. So, for example, you could have developers working in one GIT branch and when they're done, they would push their private code changes into that remote branch. Then, they'd submit a merge request and their changes would be reviewed. Once the changes are approved, their code branch is merged into the main branch and then automatically runs a CI/CD package (continuous integration/continuous deployment) package, build, and deploy job on the code. Also, the CI/CD package, build, and deploy jobs can run against any branches, not just the main branch. So Visual Builder Studio is intended for managing the project and all of its assets. 04:37 Lois: So Joe, what are the different tools used in developing web applications? Joe: Well, Visual Builder, Visual Builder Studio Designer, Visual Builder Designer, Visual Builder Design-Time, Visual Builder Cloud Service, Visual Builder Stand-Alone all kind of get lumped together. You can kinda see why. What I'm referring to here are the tools that we use to build a visual web application composed of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for metadata. I call this Visual Builder Designer. This is an Integrated Development Environment, it's the “IDE” which runs in your browser. You use a combination of drag and drop, setting properties, and writing and modifying custom and generated code to develop your web applications. You work within a workspace, which is your own private copy of a remote Git branch. When you're ready to start development work, you open an existing workspace or create a new one based on a clone of the remote branch you want to work on. Typically, a new branch would be created for the development work or you would join an existing branch. 05:35 Nikita: What's a workspace, Joe? Is it like my personal laptop and drive? Joe: A workspace is your own private code area that stores any changes you make on the Oracle servers, so your code changes are never lost—even when working in a browser-based, network-based tool. A good analogy is, say I was working at home on my own machine. And I would make a copy of a remote GIT branch and then copy that code down to my local machine, make my code changes, do my testing, etc. and then commit my work—create a logical save point periodically—and then when I'm ready, I'd push that code up into the remote branch so it can be reviewed and merged with the main branch. My local machine is my workspace. However, since this code is hosted up by Oracle on our servers, and the code and the IDE are all running in your browser, the workspace is a simulation of a local work area on your own computer. So, the workspace is a hosted allocation of resources for you that's private. Other people can't see what's going on in your workspace. Your workspace has a clone of the remote branch that you're working with and the changes you make are isolated to your cloned code in your workspace. 06:38 Lois: Ok… the code is actually hosted on the server, so each time you make a change in the browser, the change is written back to the server? Is it possible that you might lose your edits if there's a networking interruption? Joe: I want to emphasize that while I started out not personally being a fan of web-based integrated development environments, I have been using these tools for over three years and in all that time, while I have lost a connection at times—networks are still subject to interruptions—I've never lost any changes that I've made. Ever. 07:08 Nikita: Is there a way to save where you are in your work so that you could go back to it later if you need to? Joe: Yes, Niki, you're asking about commits and savepoints, like in a Git repository or a Git branch. When you reach a logical stopping or development point in your work, you would create a commit or a savepoint. And when you're ready, you would push that committed code in your workspace up to the remote branch where it can be reviewed and then eventually merged, usually with the main Git branch, and then continuous integration/continuous package and deployment build jobs are run. Now, I'm only giving you a high-level overview, but we cover all this and much more in detail with hands-on practices in our Visual Builder developer courses. Right now, I'm just trying to give you a sense of how these different tools are used. 07:49 Lois: Yes, that makes sense, Joe. It's a lot to cover in a short amount of time. Now, we've discussed the Visual Builder Designer IDE and workspace. But can you tell us more about Visual Builder Cloud Service and stand-alone environments? What are they used for? What features do they provide? Are they the same or different things? Joe: Visual Builder Cloud Service or Visual Builder Stand-Alone, as it's sometimes called, is a service that Oracle hosts on its servers. It provides hosting for the deployed web application source code as well as database tables for business objects that we build and maintain to store your customer data. This data can come from XLS or CSV files, or even your own Oracle database customer table data. A custom REST proxy makes calls to external third-party REST services on your behalf and supports several popular authentication mechanisms. There is also integration with the Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) to manage users and their access to your web apps. 08:47 Joe: Visual Builder Cloud Service is a for-fee product. You pay licensing fees for how much you use because it's a hosted service. Visual Builder Studio, the project asset management aspect I discussed earlier, is free with a standard OCI license. Now, keep in mind these are separate from something like Visual Builder Design Time and the service that's running in Fusion application environments. What I'm talking about now is creating standalone, bespoke, custom visual applications. These are applications that are built using industry-standard HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JSON for metadata and are hosted on the Oracle servers. 09:27 Are you looking for practical use cases to help you plan and apply configurations that solve real-world challenges? With the new Applied Learning courses for Cloud Applications, you'll be able to practically apply the concepts learned in our implementation courses and work through case studies featuring key decisions and configurations encountered during a typical Oracle Cloud Applications implementation. Applied learning scenarios are currently available for General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Inventory, and Procurement, with many more to come! Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 10:09 Nikita: Welcome back! Joe, you said Visual Builder Cloud Service or Stand-Alone is a for-fee service. Is there a way I can learn about using Visual Builder Designer to build bespoke visual applications without a fee? Joe: Yes. Actually, we've added an option where you can run the Visual Builder Designer and learn how to create web apps without using the app hosting or the business object database that stores your customer data or the REST proxy for authentication or the Identity Cloud Service. So you don't get those features, but you can still learn the fundamentals of developing with Visual Builder Designer. You can call third-party APIs, you can download the source, and run it locally, for example, in a Tomcat server. This is a great and free way to learn how to develop with the Visual Builder Designer. 10:52 Lois: Joe, I want to know more about the kinds of apps you can build in VB Designer and the capabilities that VB Cloud Service provides. Joe: Visual Builder Designer allows you to build custom, bespoke web applications made of interactive webpages; flows of pages for navigation; events that respond when things happen in the app, for example, GUI events like a button is clicked or values are entered into a text field; variables to store state and the ability to make REST calls, all from your browser. These applications have full access to the Oracle Fusion Applications APIs, given that you have the right security permissions and credentials of course. They can access your customer business data as business objects in our internally hosted database tables or your own customer database tables. They can access third-party APIs, and all these different data sources can appear in the same visual application, on the same page, at the same time. They use the identity cloud service to identify which users can log in and authenticate against the application. And they all use the new Redwood graphical user interface components and page templates, so they have the same look and feel of all Oracle applications. 11:59 Nikita: But what if you're building or extending Oracle Fusion Applications? Don't things change a little bit? Joe: Good point, Niki. Yes. While you still work within Visual Builder Studio, that doesn't change, VBS maintains your project and all your project-related assets, that is still the same. However, in this case, there is no separate hosted Visual Builder Cloud Service or Stand-Alone instance. In this case, Visual Builder is hosted inside of Fusion apps itself as part of the installation. I won't go into the details of how the architecture works, but the Visual Builder instance that you're running your code against is part of Fusion applications and is included in the architecture as well as the billing. All your code changes are maintained and stored within a single container called an extension. And this extension is a Git repository that is created for you, or you can create it yourself, depending on how you choose to work within Visual Builder Studio. You create an extension to hold the source code changes that provide a customization or configuration. This means making a change to an existing page or a set of pages or even adding new pages and flows to your Oracle Fusion Applications. You use Visual Builder Studio and Visual Builder Designer in a similar way as to how you would use them for bespoke stand-alone visual applications. 13:10 Lois: I'm trying to envision how this workflow is used. How is it different from bespoke VB app development? Or is it different at all? Joe: So, recall that the Visual Builder Designer is effectively the Integrated Development Environment, the IDE, where you make your code changes by working with both the raw HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code, if need be, or the Page Designer for drag and drop, and setting properties and then Live mode to test your work. You use a version of VB Designer to view and modify your customizations, and the code is stored in a Git repository called an extension. So, in that sense, the work of developing pages and flows and such is the same. You still start by creating or, more typically, joining a project and then either create a new extension from scratch or base it on an existing application, or go directly to the page that you want to edit and, on that page, select from your profile menu to edit in Visual Builder Studio. Now, this is a different lifecycle path from bespoke visual applications. With them, you're not extending an app or modifying individual pages in the same way. 14:11 Joe: You get a choice of which project you want to add your extension to when you're working with Fusion apps and potentially which repository to store your customizations, unless one already exists and then it's assigned automatically to hold your code changes. So you make your changes and edits to the portions of the application that have been opened for extensibility by the development team. This is another difference. Once you make your code changes, the workflow is pretty much the same as for a bespoke visual application: do your development work, commit your changes, push your changes to the remote branch. And then typically, your code is reviewed and if the code passes and is approved, it's merged with the main branch. Then, the package and deploy jobs run to deploy the main code to the production environment or whatever environment you're targeting. And once the package and deploy jobs complete, the code base is updated and users who log in see the changes that you've made. 15:00 Nikita: You mentioned creating apps that combine data from Fusion cloud, applications, customer data, and third-party APIs into one page. Why is it necessary? Why can't you just do all that in one Fusion Applications extension? Joe: When you create extensions, you are working within the Oracle Fusion Applications ecosystem, that's what they actually call it, which includes a defined a set of users who have been predefined and are, therefore, known to Fusion Applications. So, if you're a user and you're not part of that Fusion Apps ecosystem, you can't access the pages. Period. That's how Fusion Apps works to maintain its security and integrity. Secondly, you're working pretty much solely with the Fusion Applications APIs data sources coming directly from Fusion Applications, which are also available to you when you're creating bespoke visual apps. When you're working with Fusion Applications in Visual Builder, you don't have access to these business objects that give you access to your own customer database data through Visual Builder-generated REST APIs. Business objects are available only to bespoke visual applications in the hosted VB Cloud Service instance. So, your data sources are restricted to the Oracle Fusion Applications APIs and some third-party APIs that work within a narrow set of authentication mechanisms currently, although there are plans to expand this in the future. A mashup app that allows you now to access all these data sources while creating apps that leverage the Redwood Component System, so they look and work like Fusion Apps. They're a highly popular option for our partners and customers. 16:25 Lois: So, to review, we have two different approaches. You can create a visual application using the for-fee, hosted Visual Builder Cloud Service/Stand-Alone or the one that comes with Oracle Integration Cloud, or you can use the extension architecture for Fusion applications, where you use the designer and create your extensions, and the code is delivered and deployed to Fusion applications code. You haven't talked about JET yet though, Joe. What is that? Joe: So, JET is an abbreviation. It stands for Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit and JET is the underlying technology that makes Visual Builder, visual applications, and Visual Builder Extensions for Fusion Applications possible. Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit provides a module-based, open-source toolkit that leverages modern JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS3, and HTML5 to deliver web applications. It's targeted at JavaScript developers working on client-side applications. It is not for backend development. It's a collection of popular, powerful JavaScript libraries and a set of Oracle-contributed JavaScript libraries that make it very simple, easy, and efficient to build front-end applications that can consume and interact with Oracle products and services, especially Oracle Cloud services, but of course it can work with any type of third-party API. 17:42 Nikita: How are JET applications architected, Joe, and how does that relate to Visual Builder pages and flows? Joe: The architecture of JET applications is what's called a single page architecture. We've all seen these. These are where you have a single web page—think of your index page that provides the header and footer for your web page—and then the middle portion or the middle content of the page, represented by modules, allow you to navigate from one page or module to another. It also provides the data mapping so that the data elements in the variables and the state of the application, as well as the graphical user interface elements that provide the fields and functionality for the interface for the application, these are all maintained on the client side. If you're working in pure JET, then you work with these modules at the raw JavaScript code level. And there are a lot of JavaScript developers who want to work like this and create their custom applications from the code up, so to speak. However, it also provides the basis for Visual Builder visual applications and Fusion Apps visual extensions in Visual Builder. 18:38 Lois: How does JET support VB Apps? You didn't talk much about having to write a bunch of JavaScript and HTML5 so I got the impression that this is all done for you by VB Designer? Joe: Visual Builder applications are composed of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code that is usually generated by the developer when she drags and drops components on to the page designer canvas or sets properties or creates action chains to respond to events. But there's also a lot of JavaScript object notation (JSON) metadata created at the time that describes the pages, the flows, the navigation, the REST services, the variables, their data types, and other assets needed for the app to function. This JSON metadata is translated at runtime using a large JavaScript extension toolkit library called the Visual Builder Runtime that runs in the browser and real time translates the metadata and other assets in the Visual Builder source code into JET code and assets, which are actually executed at runtime. And it's very quick, very fast, very efficient, and provides a layer of abstraction between the raw JET code and the Visual Builder architecture of pages, flows, action chains for executing code and events to handle things that occur in the user interface, including saving the state in variables that are mapped to GUI components. For example, if you have an Input text component, you need to have a variable to store the value that was entered into that Input text component between page refreshes. The data can move from the Input text component to the variable, and from the variable to that Input text component if it's changed programmatically, for example. So, JET manages binding these data values to variables and the UI components on the page. So, a change to a variable value or a change to the contents of the component causes the others to change automatically. Now, this is only a small part of what JET and the frameworks and libraries it uses do for the applications. JET also provides more complex GUI components like lists and tables, and selection lists, and check boxes, and all the sorts of things you would expect in a modern GUI application. 20:34 Nikita: You mentioned a layer of abstraction between Visual Builder Studio Designer and JET. What's the benefit of working in Visual Builder Designer versus JET itself? Joe: The benefit of Visual Builder is that you work at a higher level of abstraction than having to get down into the more detailed levels of deep JavaScript code, working with modules, data mappings, HTML code, single page architecture navigation, and the related functionalities. You can work at a higher level, a graphical level, where you can drag and drop things onto a design canvas and set properties. The VB architecture insulates you from the more technical bits of JET. Now, this frees the developer to concentrate more on application and page design, implementing logic and business rules, and creating a pleasing workflow and look and feel for the user. This keeps them from having to get caught up in the details of getting this working at the code level. Now if needed, you can write custom JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 code, though much less than in a JET app, and all that is part of the VB application source, which becomes part of the code used by JET to execute the application itself. And yet it all works seamlessly together. 21:35 Lois: Joe, I know we have courses in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But does a developer getting ready to work in Visual Builder Designer have to go take those courses first or can they start working in VB Designer right away? Joe: Yeah, that question does often comes up: Do I need to learn JET to work with Visual Builder? No, you don't. That's all taken care for you in the products themselves. I don't really think it helps that much to learn JET if you are going to be a VB developer. In some ways, it could even be a bit distracting since some of things you learn to do in JET, you would have to unlearn or not do so much because of what VB does it for you. The things you would have to do manually in code in JET are done for you. This is why we call VB a low code development tool. I mean, you certainly can if you want to, but I would spend more time learning about the different GUI components, page templates, the Visual Builder architecture — events, action chains, and the data provider variables and types. Now, I know JET myself. I started with that before learning Visual Builder, but I use very little of my JET knowledge as a VB developer. Visual Builder Designer provides a nice, abstracted, clean layer of modern visual development on top of JET, while leveraging the power and flexibility of JET and keeping the lower-level details out of my way. 22:46 Nikita: Joe, where can I go to get started with Visual Builder? Joe: Well, for more information, I recommend you take a look at our Develop Fusion Applications course if you're working with Fusion Applications and Visual Builder Studio. The other course is Develop Visual Applications with Visual Builder Studio and that's if you're creating stand-alone bespoke applications. Both these courses are free. We also have a comprehensive course that covers JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, and while it's not required that you take that to be successful, it can be helpful down the road. I would say that some basic knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript will certainly support you and serve you well when working with Visual Builder. You learn more as you go along and you find that you need to create more sophisticated applications. I would also mention that a lot of the look and feel of the applications in Visual Builder visual applications and Fusion apps extensions and customizations come through JET components, JET styles, and JET variables, and CSS variables, so that's something that you would want to pursue at some point. There's a JET cookbook out there. You can search for Oracle JET and look for the JET cookbook and that's a good introduction to all of that. 23:47 Lois: Joe, thank you so much for joining us today. We're really looking forward to having you back next week to discuss extending Oracle Fusion Applications with Visual Builder Studio. Joe: Thanks for having me. Nikita: And if you want to learn about some of the courses Joe mentioned, visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 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A: Change Agent and Continuous Improver Q: What is one change you've implemented that made your life better? A: Inner monologue questioning Q: What power song would you want playing as you walk out onto a stage? A: Levels by Avicii About Jennifer Manry As Principal of Corporate Systems at Vanguard, Jennifer leads a team that builds and runs the technology that powers Vanguard's enterprise-wide operations, including Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Marketing, and Communications. She's also responsible for supporting technology needs of Vanguard crew (employees) so they can fulfill on the firm's mission of giving investors the best chance for investment success. Jennifer is also passionate about finding ways to support and empower women to consider careers in STEM fields, and currently serves as Board Chair of Women Who Code, a nonprofit organization focused on building diversity in tech and empowering generations of female engineers to succeed. 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At Capital One, Jennifer served as Managing Vice President - End User Computing, Digital Workplace, and Identity & Access Management where she drove the transformation of the employee experience, creating a contemporary, digital workplace based on consumer- grade technology at enterprise scale. Jennifer has also held technology leadership positions at GE and Genworth Financial. She earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. LinkedIn Women Who Code Vanguard
Gabriele Fanta has been Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at the technology group Körber since 2020. As CHRO, she is heading the recruiting, personnel development and employer branding worldwide. Before joining Körber, she worked at Daimler, McDonalds and most recently as Head of Global Human Resources at Sixt. She was named one of Germany's most inspiring female executives in 2022 by 40 over 40.Shownotes00:00 - Intro08:38 - Planning with 13.000 employees14:08 - Internal mobility & hiring16:38 - Length of cutting + 14:00 Culture & Leadership principles21:08 - Brand & Culture transformation, vision27:08 - AI perspectiveLinksGabriele Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielefanta/Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/Thomas e-mail: thomas@pplwise.compplwise: https://pplwise.com/
Wouldn't it be great if you could practice your Oracle Cloud Apps implementation in a safe, controlled lab environment? Well, now you can! Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Bill Lawson, as they discuss the new Applied Learning for Fusion Cloud Applications Implementation projects, which provide practical use cases and business scenarios that you can work through to apply the concepts you've learned and expand your skills. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, Sujatha Kalahasthi Raju, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Nikita: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hello everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about HCM business processes and learned about the Talent Life Cycle. Today, we're going to take a look at some related training that's just launched in our Cloud Learning Subscriptions. This new training was developed based on requests from our customers and partners. You asked, and we listened. 00:58 Nikita: We're joined by Senior Director of Cloud Applications Product Management, Bill Lawson, who you've heard from before, and he will be telling us all about this exciting new program. Lois: Bill, we're so happy you're back with us today. So, as I mentioned, this new program was a direct result of customer and partner feedback. Can you tell us a little bit more about how that happened and what this new training is all about? 01:20 Bill: I'm happy to be back as well, Lois. And very excited to share details about the Applied Learning for Fusion Cloud Application Implementation projects that are now available. And you're correct. This was in direct response to requests we received from our customers and partners. As you're aware, we hold quarterly feedback sessions with some of our strategic partners and customers, and one thing we heard was the need to have some practical applications of concepts learned in our implementation courses. 01:46 Bill: So, we got our subject matter experts on the task and challenged them with creating some real-world scenarios that students can work through in our hands-on lab practice environments. In these scenarios, students will work their way through examples of some of the decisions and configurations that they and customers might need to go through in an implementation of Oracle Cloud Applications. It's a great way to expand your skills and apply the concepts you've learned in implementation classes in a safe, controlled lab environment. Then, you can take that back to your workplace and apply that knowledge in your own implementation projects. 02:19 Nikita: Wow, that's really cool, Bill. And how exciting that we're taking feedback directly from our customers and developing the training that they are asking for. Bill: Yes, Niki, it is. And we're planning to continue that listening program in our Oracle University Learning Community. We've launched an Idea Incubator and we're looking forward to hearing from our members about their content ideas and suggestions. Who knows what new types of courses will come out of that? 02:43 Lois: It's another great reason to join the Community for sure. Bill: Indeed, it is. Nikita: Ok, Bill, back to the Applied Learning for Fusion Cloud Application Implementations program. Who is this training best suited for? Bill: Well, Niki, it's really aimed at those people who are going to be actively involved in an Oracle Cloud Apps implementation. So, your solution consultants, implementers, administrators, project teams, etc. etc. 03:07 Nikita: And can you give us an example of what one of these projects looks like? Bill: I sure can, Niki. One of the new Applied Learning Implementation projects is centered around Fusion Enterprise Structures & General Ledger in the ERP space. In the project scenario, we follow a fictional company, which is a startup that has decided to implement Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials to streamline their business processes while taking advantage of the latest functionality Oracle Cloud Applications has to offer. The case study outlines the business requirements of the company and then provides a challenge to the learner. The student must determine how these requirements would be met within the application, complete the setup and configuration, and validate that they've done it correctly. 03:48 Lois: That's really neat. So essentially, it's mimicking a business scenario that you may come upon in a conference room pilot during an implementation and would have to configure using Fusion Applications. Bill: Right, Lois. Providing a practical business scenario based on the customers' requirements for the student to configure a solution in a safe practice environment. The student will be prepared to tackle the scenario based on the foundation of knowledge they've gained when they completed the implementation learning path training in the learning subscription or during their previous implementation experience. 04:22 Have an idea for a new course or learning opportunity? We'd love to hear it! Visit the Oracle University Learning Community and share your thoughts with us. Your suggestion could find a place in future development projects. If you're already an Oracle MyLearn user, go to MyLearn to join the community. You will need to log in first. If you've not yet accessed Oracle MyLearn, visit mylearn.oracle.com and create an account to get started. 04:51 Nikita: Welcome back. Ok, Bill, so the students do this setup. How do they know it was done correctly? What if they get stumped and don't know what to do? Bill: If they're completely stumped, then it's probably a good indication that they need to revisit the training and check that they understand the core concepts. But once they've completed the challenge, there will be a solution video in which our SME will walk through one of the possible solutions. Bear in mind, there may be more than one solution that is possible. We will show one possibility, but learners may opt for a different route when they approach the challenge. And that's ok. We want people to be able to explore the options and learn while they're doing so. 05:28 Lois: And all of this is done within MyLearn and the lab environments provided to our learning subscribers, right? Bill: That's correct, Lois. This content is available to our MyLearn subscribers. The projects are included as part of the Cloud Applications Implementation training. So, if you go to mylearn.oracle.com and search by the phrase “Applied Learning,” you will find all the applicable learning. You can also search by “Implementer” to see the Implementation training that is available. Applied learning projects will be part of this implementation training. The content is available on a paid subscription basis only, but very well worth the investment if you're in the middle of an Oracle Cloud Apps implementation. If you already have a subscription, you can dive right in and give one of our projects a try. 06:12 Nikita: Bill, where are these Applied Learning scenarios found? Is it only for General Ledger? Bill: No, Niki, it's not. We've got Applied Learning projects available for 10 of our most popular product areas, such as General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Project Management, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Recruiting, Inventory, and Procurement. Lois: So, we're covering all the bases here – ERP, SCM, HCM… Bill: Exactly. 06:42 Lois: Is there anything else we should know about the Applied Learning program? Bill: Well funny you should ask, Lois, because one of the unique things we're doing with this new program is we're offering the opportunity to engage with other people who are completing the project via a discussion in the Oracle University Learning Community. Lois: You knew that was a loaded question, right? Bill: Haha, I sure did. You're the champion of our Community. So, in the Community, people can ask questions, share their solutions, and more. It's a great way to expand the learning experience and see how other people approached those same scenarios based on their knowledge and experience. 07:13 Nikita: And if people have ideas for other Applied Learning scenarios, what should they do? Bill: They can always suggest those in the Idea Incubator in the Community, Niki. Lois: Yep. The Community has a lot of great things to offer. If you're not a member, you should join today by accessing it via mylearn.oracle.com. 07:29 Nikita: Thank you so much, Bill, for coming back to talk to us about the Applied Learning program. I really think it's such a great new resource for our learners. Bill: I'm always happy to be here with you ladies. Thank you for having me. Lois: Thanks Bill. Ok, next week we've got another great topic lined up. If you followed along with some of the announcements at Oracle Cloud World, you'll know that we launched a new certification and training path centered around Artificial Intelligence. Next week, we'll be talking with Rohit Rahi to learn more about this free training that is available, in an episode we're calling AI for Everyone. You won't want to miss that. 08:03 Nikita: And if you want to learn more about these Applied Learning projects, visit mylearn.oracle.com. Lois: Right, Niki. So that's all for today. Until next time, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham, signing off! 08:15 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Lynnette Heath about nVent's Environmental, Social and Governance Report. Lynnette Heath (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnetteheath/)is nVent's Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer and ESG People pillar executive sponsor. Prior to joining nVent, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Twin Cities-based Entrust Datacard. Check out the HCI Academy: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn Alchemizing Human Capital Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Future Leader. Check out Dr. Westover's book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 627454) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points.
In this episode, Ha-Keem Abdel Khaliq, a Global HR leader and executive coach, shares his four pillars for success based on his book, You're Worth it! Advice, Insights, and Inspiration to Propel Your Career. He shares his best practices for authentic self-promotion, which includes questions you should ask yourself to make it easier to talk about your strengths.
This week on The New P&L we speak with the awesome Rahul Varma. Rahul is a board member at Sapien Labs, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2016 with a mission to understand and enable the human mind. He is also is a global Human Resources leader, speaker and thought leader, whose career has been dedicated to helping people thrive at work and make a positive impact on businesses and society. Most recently, Rahul was Chief Talent Officer at Accenture Technology, leading HR for Accenture's largest business division that employs over 375,000 people. During his 28-year tenure at Accenture, he crafted a new approach to leadership development and led the largest re-imagining of performance management in the world, creating multiple innovations in digital learning and global learning centres. As the first HR Director for Accenture in India, Rahul led the organisation through a phase of dramatic growth as Accenture grew from 200 people to almost 40,000 in seven years, an achievement that is now a Harvard Business School case study on hyper-growth in India. Take the Sapien Labs MHQ Mental Health & Wellbeing assessment: https://sapienlabs.org/mhq/ Connect with Rahul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-varma/ Rahul on Purpose: https://youtube.com/@HumanExpansion-ACorePurpose To learn more about The New P&L Global Leadership Network, including membership and sponsorship options, go to: paul@principlesandleadership.com If you'd like to join The New P&L movement for more principled leadership and more purpose-led business and keep up to date with our latest news, go to www.principlesandleadership.com and subscribe. LinkedIn page: Principlesandleadership Web: www.principlesandleadership.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/principlesandleadership/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/principlesandleadership/support
In this deeply engaging conversation, I'm talking with the brilliant Katy Conway from Resources Global Professionals. It's conversations like these that truly spark a deeper understanding of the vast landscape of global HR and the professionals that navigate it. In this chat, we navigated through some rather intriguing topics. Katy brings her sharp perspective to illuminate subjects that we often hear about, but rarely delve into. And as always, she demonstrates her knack for deconstructing complex ideas into digestible concepts. We explored the realities of the global human resource industry, the ongoing trends that are transforming this landscape, and the impacts on professionals within this space. Katy shared some insights that not only shed light on the state of HR but also on the professionals that are making waves in the industry. And let me tell you, you don't want to miss her take on this. It's unique, it's refreshing, and it's insightful! If you're someone interested in the latest developments in HR, or just looking to gain a richer understanding of the industry, this conversation is for you. There's a wealth of knowledge packed into this video, and Katy's perspective is truly enlightening. It's conversations like these that remind me why I love doing what I do! Don't want to give too much away, but we also discussed something particularly fascinating, something Katy referred to as the "silent revolution." What does that mean? Well, you'll have to tune in to find out! So grab a cup of coffee, sit back and prepare to dive into an enlightening conversation that promises to stretch your understanding of the HR landscape. Trust me, you're going to want to stick around for this one. Can't wait for you to watch the video and hear your thoughts! Let's continue the conversation in the comments below.
The only thing constant in life is change. From changing markets to challenging times, employees are always navigating change. When times are tough, it's not just important to have strong workplace financial benefits, but to communicate them effectively as well. Cheryl Palmerini, Chief Administrative Officer for Global Human Resources for Morgan Stanley, sits down to cover how companies can provide resources to support employees during important periods of their lives, both inside and outside the workplace.Visit MorganStanley.com/atwork for more insights on workplace financial benefits.Invested at Work is brought to you by Morgan Stanley at Work, produced by StudioPod Media. Our executive producers are Fiona Kelsey, Lisa Boyce, and TJ Bonaventura. Our producer is Clarissa Marks, our engineer is Alejandro Ramirez, and our writer is Dan Pelberg.Not all products and services are available in all jurisdictions. This material has been prepared for educational purposes only. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC, and its financial advisors and private Wealth advisors do not provide any tax or legal advice. Consult your own tax or legal advisor before making any tax or legal related investment decisions. Morgan Stanley at Work Services are provided by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC, member SIPC, and its affiliates, all wholly owned subsidiaries of Morgan Stanley.
In this episode, Kyle Roed, VP of Global Human Resources for CPM Holdings and founder of Disrupt HR and Rebel Human Resources podcast, discusses his passion for studying human behavior and how it applies to the HR field. Kyle emphasizes that people are at the heart of what makes organizations thrive and discusses strategies for managing disruptions and driving innovation. He also provides insights on better practices for hiring, onboarding, performance management, and team collaboration. Whether you're a sales professional or an HR leader, this episode provides valuable insights into how HR can enable sales success and drive business results. Don't miss Kyle's upcoming speaking engagement at the Ivy Sales Innovation Summit on May 17th, focused on building sales talent and maximizing technology. Registration closes May 9th; save your seat today! https://www.ivybusiness.iastate.edu/event/ivy-sales-innovation-summit/
With the rising demand around employee expectations, leaders will be challenged like never before to provide authentic, tailored workforce experiences that empower people to do their best work. Innovative solutions are gaining greater momentum, as employee experience emerges as a defining priority.Listen to hear why the heightened focus on employee experience is influencing the way employers approach talent challenges in real-time, making the future of work even more fluid.Panelists:Colleen Mitchell, DEIB and Culture Leader, NordstromDonald Knight, CPO, Greenhouse SoftwareTracy Layney, EVP and CHRO, Levi Strauss & Co.Moderated by: Derek Lundsten, President & Chief Culture Officer, LifeGuidesBIOS:Colleen Mitchell is the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) and Culture leader at Nordstrom where she is focused on operationalizing DEIB strategies to achieve equitable outcomes in the workplace, marketplace, and community. Prior to joining Nordstrom, Colleen was the Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Petco where she was responsible for establishing the multi-year DEI vision, strategy and goals for the company. Colleen also served as the DEI leader for Amazon's global customer fulfillment organization. In this role, Colleen provided leadership and direction to DEI Business Partners as they developed and executed DEI strategies and accountability mechanisms to deliver on key initiatives for more than 700,000 employees globally. She has more than 15 years working across DEIB, HR, and Operations to create inclusive and equitable workplaces for all employees.Donald Knight is the CPO at Greenhouse Software. He leads with a people-first mentality hoping to unlock the potential of Greenhouse talent globally. With a laser focus on the connection between people and the processes that serve them, Donald and his team create proximity by building bridges focusing on enhanced experiences that nurture culture and develop people. He is responsible for providing global strategy and leadership in developing, overseeing, and administering people programs. Before Greenhouse, Donald served as Senior Vice President of Global Talent for Edelman, where he helped shape the HR brand as a proactive, insightful, and collaborative solution provider.Tracy Layney is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Levi Strauss & Co. Tracy is responsible for LS&Co.'s people strategy on a global scale, including diversity, equity & inclusion, recruiting, employee engagement, talent management, compensation and benefits, HR technology and HR communications. Tracy brings more than 20 years of experience in human resources and organization strategy to her role. Prior to joining LS&Co., she served as senior vice president and chief human resources officer for Shutterfly, Inc., the leading retailer of personalized photo-based products. Before Shutterfly, Tracy spent 10 years at Gap Inc., where she held numerous senior leadership roles in HR, most recently serving as the senior vice president of Global Human Resources and Communications for Old Navy. Prior to Gap Inc., Tracy held positions at LS&Co. and PricewaterhouseCoopers/IBM Business Consulting Services where she worked with Fortune 500 clients in the high tech, financial services, retail and healthcare industries on projects ranging from organization design and development to strategic change management.Follow Colleen on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleenmitchell/Follow Donald on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/proximityknight/Follow Tracy on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracylayney/
Growing from Within: Strategies for Building and Nurturing your Employees Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Shelley Roither, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources, Enterprise Holdings This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year's top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don't have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today. This week we met with Shelley Roither from Enterprise Holdings to talk about important HR topics such as talent management, engagement, retention, culture, and more! - How to provide an engaging, inclusive workplace that's purpose driven - The importance of internal mobility and why it's a differentiator - Sustaining internal mobility in a declining labor market - Attracting and retaining talent by upskilling current talent in the workplace Check out Enterprise and the careers they have available Thank you for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
On the first episode of our latest series, Opening Doors, Marie is joined by Tina Jones, a global business leader who currently serves as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Cadence Design Systems. Tina shares her insights on creating new STEM education opportunities for women, navigating the talent shortage, and opening doors in the tech sector.
In this episode recorded live at SEMICON Europa 2022, Françoise hands over the mike to Cassandra Melvin, Senior Director of Business Development and Operations at SEMI Europe. At SEMICON Europa, Cassandra led a panel discussion on the topic of Leveraging Generational Differences in the Shifting Workplace. The panel comprised industry professionals representing different generational cohorts, from Baby Boomers to Gen-Z. We recorded it in its entirety. Meet the Panellists Cassandra Melvin, Moderator, SEMI EuropeFrancoise Chombar, Chairwoman, MelexisPhilip Matthes, Head of Global Human Resources, Semiconductor Materials, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt GermanyMark Agujar, Project Technician, Edwards Vacuum Marco Fasel, Industrialization Team Leader, Comet PCTLike what you hear? Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter Interested in becoming a sponsor of the 3D InCites Podcast? Check out our 2023 Media Kit. Learn more about the 3D InCites Community and how you can become more involved.
On this week's episode of ‘You're On Mute', Bianca Miller-Cole is joined by Amanda Rajkumar, adidas Executive Board Member, Global Human Resources, People and Culture, discussing adidas's ‘New Agenda'.Amanda's journey demonstrates the transformational power of education and how with the support of her direct and extended West Indian family, she overcame obstacles to build an extraordinary career and bring about generational change. We learn about the impact, hustle, bustle and energy of London's melting pot versus her provincial hometown and how Amanda defied the odds, by going on to play HR leadership roles for some of the globes biggest and most prestigious investment banks, before joining Europe's largest sportswear brand.Boasting 65,000 employees, hear directly about Amanda's quest to promote equity and social justice, adopting important lessons from historical events, using data to make informed decisions and her mission to re-shape adidas's DEI agenda by 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The early bird gets the worm and the second mouse gets the cheese."It's something that I got in a fortune cookie a number of years ago. What I learned from that is you don't have to be first, learn from other's mistakes that are there, because the rewards might even be richer, but be smart about what you're doing."David Crawford is a Global Human Resources executive who has experience leading recruiting strategies, world-class hiring practices and tools to make your job easier. He's passionate about connecting with people personally & professionally through his strategic business approach for successful HR delivery in all cultures around the globe!Support the show
Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges. AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we're excited to learn from experts who share our mission. In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we're chatting with Krista Pappas, VP of Global Human Resources at GAN. Krista is an HR leader with multi-industry and global experience who is committed to building true partnerships and serving as a trusted advisor. Tune in to learn Krista's thoughts on collaboration within different departments, the role of the employee voice, global and local people strategy, and more!About AllVoices In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what's happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.
The human component of building a startup has always been, and probably will always be one of the most challenging aspects of any organization. Our guest today is an expert in building culture and getting the best out of people, Sandy Scholes, Chief People Officer, most recently at Flipp, has a wealth of experience in team building and coaching managers to get high performance from their teams.About Sandy Scholes:Sandy Scholes is a leader with 15+ years of global HR experience ranging from large multinational organizations to mid-size companies both public and private. Most recently she was the CPO of Flipp. Previously Sandy was Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources at Entertainment One, and Senior Vice President, People at Softchoice.A word from our sponsor:At Ripple, we manage all of our fund expenses and employee credit cards using Jeeves. The team at Jeeves helped get me and my team setup with physical and virtual credit cards in days. I was able to allow my teammates to expense items in multiple currencies allowing them to pay for anything, anywhere at anytime. We weren't asked for any personal guarantees or to pay any setup or monthly SaaS fees.Not only does Jeeves save us time, but they also give us cashback on our purchases including expenses like Google, Facebook, or AWS every month. New users can earn up to 3% cashback for their first 90 days.The best part is Jeeves puts up the cash, and you settle up once every 30 days in any currency you want, unlike some other corporate card companies that make you pre-pay every month. Jeeves also recently launched its Jeeves Growth and Working Capital initiative for startups and fast-growing companies to enable more financial freedom for companies. The best thing of all is that Jeeves is live in 24 countries including Canada, US and many other countries around the world.Jeeves truly offers the best all-in-one expense management corporate card program for all startups especially the ones at Ripple and we at Tank Talks could not be more excited to officially partner with them. Listeners of Tank Talks can get set up with a demo of Jeeves today and take advantage of our Tank Talks special with a $250 statement credit after the first $2,500 in spend or a $500 statement credit after the first $5000 in spend. Lastly, all Jeeves cardholders receive access to their Lounge Pass program and access to over 1300 airports globally.Visit tryjeeves.com/tanktalks to learn more.In this episode we discuss:02:44 Sandy's journey into tech04:43 How Sandy was able to navigate between large organizations and smaller startups07:07 Dealing with office politics at large companies09:19 What is performance management and how it differs from traditional HR11:42 Why open ended questions and frameworks are important12:59 Problems with traditional performance reviews16:25 Types of frameworks that work best for managers19:40How much influence should managers have in setting OKRs21:39The cadence that performance and work plans should be updated23:35Why isn't performance management more widely adopted24:19How often should managers check-in?29:06Advice to managers to avoid random or confusing feedback33:01Communicating expectations to employees34:20How do you establish a culture of high performance without dealing with burnout or high turnover37:01Dealing with burnout38:02What to do with high performance/low culture fit hires39:23Favorite tools to help with performance coaching40:09Does Sandy coach performance to those in her private life41:15About her fatherFast Favorites
In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by Dominic Cole-Morgan, to discuss how to build a gold-standard employee benefits programme.Dominic Cole-Morgan is the Senior Vice President, Total Rewards and Global Human Resources at Scotiabank.
Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges. AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we're excited to learn from experts who share our mission. In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we're chatting with Leah Sutton, SVP of Global Human Resources at Elastic. For the past six years, Leah has led global human resources for Elastic through 10x people growth, including an IPO and 6 acquisitions.Tune in to learn Leah's thoughts on qualitative and quantitative ways to measure company culture, shift your talent strategy, define succession planning, and more!About AllVoices In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what's happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.
In today's episode, our guest is the very young and fit Mr. George Randle. You'll understand why I say that later in our conversation. George is co-author of the book “The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent” and is the host of the podcast of the same name – The Talent War. He's an experienced talent executive, veteran, coach, and leader known for selecting, building, and reorganizing teams to reach their full business potential. George has 20+ years of Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 Global Human Resources and Talent Acquisition experience building and coaching elite teams. During this time as an executive, the teams George has built and led have hired more than 85,000 professionals. Visit our website for access to the episode notes, guest links, and full transcript - The ET project
Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges. AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we're excited to learn from experts who share our mission. In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we're chatting with Necole Jones, Global Human Resources Leader. Necole is a certified human resources professional offering more than 20 years in human resources competencies in both large corporate and small non-profit settings with a client base including non-exempt, exempt, sales, corporate support functions, Vice Presidents.Tune in to learn Necole's thoughts on patterns in the evolution of people and talent, identifying hidden dangers, showing up for the full lives of employees, and more!About AllVoices In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what's happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.
Warum Technikunternehmen diverser sein sollten - besonders in der Führung - und warum eine Quote Sinn macht. Die gebürtige Dänin Anette Skau Fischer ist Vice President Global Human Resources beim Werkzeughersteller Walter und spricht über ihre Erfahrungen in skandinavischen und deutschen Industrieunternehmen.
Reckitt are huge manufacturing business with over 37000 employees! And today, we are talking to their Global Human Resources Director, Laia Estorach Cavaller, about the steps they have taken to become a more diverse & inclusive business. We covered: How much further do we need to go with driving diversity in business How Reckitt has worked on driving the diversity levels of their teams The steps Reckitt have taken to build a more inclusive business Why and how to change the language from unconscious bias to conscious inclusion How to use data to manage and drive our diversity levels How we can ensure our has a culture of transformation What we must do to make sure our employer branding is on point and appealing to a more diverse set of talent In terms of employer branding, what must businesses do to make sure they appeal to a more diverse set of talent Contact Laia here - Laia Estorach Cavaller
If you're not inspired after listening to THIS conversation, I'm not sure what to tell you! Cynthia Wells is the Vice President of Global Human Resources for Destaco, a Dover Company. Cynthia talks about her journey so far and how she is empowered by her leaders to empower others. HR isn't adjacent to the rest of leadership, but an integral component that impacts each part of the business! We talk about branding inside and out of the corporate setting and the importance of putting yourself in challenging situations to increase your exposure. #BaxtersBuzz The book is called "Angelic 8s: A Letter To Zara" and is available now. Link to book - https://amzn.to/37BIX44 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baxter-hall/support
Bethny Ricks has over 18 years of leadership experience, most recently holding the position of Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources. Her ability to take that experience and equip those coming behind her has led to one of the most rich conversations I've had over the past three years of podcasting. These are the lessons I wish I'd leaned into sooner. The words I wish I'd thought to pay attention to earlier on. Her insight into leadership dynamics from the top, down, and from the bottom, up - no matter if you're in the workplace or holding it down at home...this is worth pushing play. The post Life 101: Lessons in Leadership appeared first on .
I have very exciting news! I've written my first book and I can't wait for you to read it. It is a letter to my wonderful daughter and I think you're going to love it! On this episode I have a Global Human Resources executive, Bernard Morgan on the podcast. One of the chapters of the book is "Plant Good Seeds" and Bernard talks about how this approach is what he lives by. He also shares an amazing story about how how some of his seeds created a harvest that he never expected. #BaxtersBuzzLink to book - https://amzn.to/37BIX44 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baxter-hall/support
Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three phenomenal leaders: Meisha Sherman, Vice President, Global Human Resources for Envista Corporation, a Danaher Legacy Company; Julie Doherty-Kowalski, Lead Trustee for a private trust and former lead for select bilateral and multilateral initiatives in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs; and Dr. Danell Scarborough, President of Convening for Change and Former Executive Director Human Relations Commission for the City of San Diego. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways women, leaders, and allies of women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three phenomenal leaders: Meisha Sherman, Vice President, Global Human Resources for Envista Corporation, a Danaher Legacy Company; Julie Doherty-Kowalski, Lead Trustee for a private trust and former lead for select bilateral and multilateral initiatives in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs; and Dr. Danell Scarborough, President of Convening for Change and Former Executive Director Human Relations Commission for the City of San Diego. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways women, leaders, and allies of women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Angel Lowe is the Vice-President of Global Human Resources for Atkore and Betty Johnson is the Director/Auditor for Atkore.
Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three phenomenal leaders: Meisha Sherman, Vice President, Global Human Resources for Envista Corporation, a Danaher Legacy Company; Julie Doherty-Kowalski, Lead Trustee for a private trust and former lead for select bilateral and multilateral initiatives in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs; and Dr. Danell Scarborough, President of Convening for Change and Former Executive Director Human Relations Commission for the City of San Diego. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways women, leaders, and allies of women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally—Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of three phenomenal leaders: Meisha Sherman, Vice President, Global Human Resources for Envista Corporation, a Danaher Legacy Company; Julie Doherty-Kowalski, Lead Trustee for a private trust and former lead for select bilateral and multilateral initiatives in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs; and Dr. Danell Scarborough, President of Convening for Change and Former Executive Director Human Relations Commission for the City of San Diego. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways women, leaders, and allies of women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
In this episode of the B2B Leadership podcast, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Julia Blachman, Head of Global Human Resources at IRONSCALES. Podcast highlights: 0:23 - Julia's background - Julia explains her role at IRONSCALES. 4:48 - Building a company identity - Julia calls her team "scalers" instead of employees. 10:31 - Your role as an HR leader - Julia lives by this philosophy. 11:11 - Decisions vs approvals - What's the difference between the two within an organization? 16:36 - Focus on opportunities - What does this mean in the context of leadership? 19:15 - Important leadership characteristics - What does Julia look for in a candidate? 27:05 - Julia's advice to herself - What advice would Julia give her younger self? Connect with Julia Blachman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-blachman-b0152267/ Learn more about IRONSCALES at https://ironscales.com/ Learn more about your own leadership style at: https://www.30dayleadership.com/ This episode is brought to you by the B2B Leaders Academy The cost of not consistently developing your leadership skills is enormous. At the B2B Leaders Academy you can gain access to monthly leadership training and live coaching. Being a great leader isn't hard, you just need a guide and the right set of tools. Head on over to b2bleadersacademy.com and become the leader you have always wanted to be.
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
HR Happy Hour Episode 509 – Attracting and Retaining Talent during the Great Resignation Host: Steve Boese Guest: Ann Marr, EVP of Global Human Resources, World Wide Technology Sponsored by: Culture Amp This week, we spoke with Ann Marr about the Great Resignation and ways of attracting and retaining talent during this time. - Prioritizing a positive, purpose driven work environment - Importance of offering additional employee benefits - Boosting diversity and inclusion efforts - Supporting local communities and non-profit organizations Thank you Ann, for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe to the HR Happy Hour wherever you get your podcasts.
Mary Barra is a pioneer in the male-dominate auto industry and one of the world's most respected and influential CEOs in the world. As Chair and Chief Executive Officer at General Motors, Mary became the first female leader of a “Big Three” automaker in 2014. In this episode, she sits down to discuss leadership with Mary Erdoes, Head of Asset & Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan and share some insightful advice for aspiring leaders. Focus on the job you're doing As someone who worked her way up at GM from an hourly job that helped her pay college tuition, Mary offers one piece of career advice to talented and ambitious employees: Focus on doing the job you have well. “Do the job you're doing today like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, because that means you're going to invest in it, you're going to make it better, and you're going to drive efficiencies,” she says. “If you're doing your job today and you're more focused on your next job, it's not going to work out well.” In Mary's experience, when you're invested in your job, your leaders notice your commitment, and that's what leads to new opportunities. For Mary, new opportunities at GM included being named vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering in 2008, before being tapped a year later to be vice president of Global Human Resources. Trusting and empowering the most vital resource One of Mary's first big moves as head of HR was to abolish the firm's multi-page dress code and introduce a “dress appropriately” policy. Explaining that her real motivation was to recognize and empower employee's own instincts. Mary says, “When you think about it, you're trusting these people to do a great job every day to design a vehicle, or to service a customer,” she notes. “And you can't trust them to know what they should wear?” She recalls one incident where a manager came to her asking her to re-implement the old dress code because his employees were now wearing jeans to work and he didn't think that was appropriate since they sometimes had to meet with clients. Mary suggested he talk to his team about the issue rather than establishing a mandate. “He called me back two weeks later and he said, it was great. We all decided that we can wear jeans, but we'll have a pair of khakis or dress pants available. So if there's that rare time where we have to meet with someone, we will look appropriate for the meeting.” Recognizing what women bring to the table Mary also shares tips for aspiring female leaders, drawn from her experiences. First she highlights the importance of women understanding that they bring a lot to the table. “I know we're all different, but in general, I think we approach things more collaboratively, we recognize people, we include,” she notes. And those traits are invaluable in terms of being able to engage other people and get the best outcomes—especially in cross-functional teams and situations. Mary also has words of wisdom about the perennial work-life balancing act, stressing that when women take ownership of their own balance and identify what's most important to them, they have the best results. “Your manager or your leader can't work life balance for you, because they don't know what's important to you,” she says. Once they've identified what's important to their own work-life balance, she advises women to give themselves permission to state their needs. She recalls a time when she watched the clock keep rolling after a meeting was supposed to end at 5:15 pm. She had to be home to relieve her childcare-giver so they could make it to an evening class. “Finally, I think I let another five minutes go and I just said to my boss, ‘I really need to leave.' And he's like, ‘Oh my gosh, go,'” she recalls. “From that point on, if it was toward that end of the day, he'd be like, ‘Do you need to leave?' And he didn't say, ‘You can leave. We're going to keep going.' He ended the meeting.” Mary says one thing she learned is that most managers will do that—once they understand what you need to be effective at work, they want to make it happen. “No one gets it perfectly,” she says of work-life balance. But the important thing is advocating for yourself at work so you can meet the needs of your family. In the end, Mary wants her family to know she did what was necessary to meet her obligations to them: “I was dedicated and I cared and it was important.”
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
Black Women Voices in Leadership: Increasing Understanding and Being an Ally Tune in to Leadership Matters as host Dr. Sheryl White explores life and lessons in leadership through the eyes of 3 dynamic leaders who are Black women. Special guests will be Staajabu Heshimu, a concerned activist who over a career of 44 years served nonprofit, political, and government organizations in the advancement of communities; Khalilah El-Amin, Vice President of Global Human Resources for a public tech company; and Ebony Isis Booth, a transformation coach, cultural strategist, and event designer. Each will share lived experiences and food for thought on ways Black women, leaders, and allies of Black women can successfully meet today's challenges. Join us for Leadership Matters: Informing leaders. Inspiring Solutions!
"That's step one is you have to build that partnership. And hopefully now that the iron is hot, strike it. If you have been supporting your business and organization through this pandemic, how do you take advantage of that and make sure that now your voice is in the room. Make sure that now you're using your voice and you're saying some of these things. I think HR has a unique perspective to your point--we don't cause a lot of these issues, but we help solve a lot of these issues." Julie Salomone, VP of Global Human Resources, Televerde We're Only Human -- Episode 126 In all the factors that wrap into what a company does, the people are the key enablers, doers, and makers. And HR is the keeper of the people. In this heartfelt episode, Julie Salomone of Televerde and host Ben Eubanks discuss how HR can step up and drive success for all initiatives, both talent-oriented and not. Julie talks about what inspires her as an HR leader and offers a clear call to action for today's talent professionals to step up and lead during challenging times. Resources: Connect with Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-salomone-mahr-phr-3096212/ Learn more about Televerde and their unique approach to talent: https://televerde.com/who-we-are/model/ See our show archives, sign up for free updates, and more: http://lhra.io/podcast
On this episode of The Shape of Work podcast, we interacted with Srishti Jain Kawatra, Co-founder and Director of Feeding India (Zomato) - the largest non-profit working on a mission to ensure zero hunger. They have served over 126 million meals across 188 cities to date.This organization is a direct result of Srishti's desire to do something that touches people's lives.In the episode, she talks about her journey as a hunger hero as well as other aspects that helped her choose this path.She also covers:The important steps to a successful global Human resources strategyChallenges and opportunities for startups in 2021The need to shift from 'human capital' to 'social capital'Covid-19 workforce challenges and tipsThe biggest challenge companies are facing in the new normal:There is no handbook to figure out how organizations can face the challenges that the pandemic has brought along. The biggest challenge that the people in an organization are facing is to balance their mental health and discontinue learning. The news around covid destroyed work-life balance to a certain extent. Moreover, a lack of social connection has the possibility of reducing productivity in work. Srishti feels that working online, taking care of employee well-being, and ensuring that employees are learning are still some challenges prevailing in the organizations. At an organizational level, hobby groups should be created. Learning sessions, mental health sessions, yoga sessions, and other such ideas can be conducted for ensuring productivity and wellness. These steps can support the organizations as well as the employees.Communication is the key to it. Organizations should try to virtually recreate the otherwise casual interactions.How does it feel to be an achiever?Srishti humbly responds by saying that she still wants to create more impact than she already has. She adds that the recognition she has received motivates her to work harder. It gives her the courage to tackle all the difficulties coming in her mission's way. The biggest challenge for the startups to sustain during the pandemic:Plenty of organizations have seen drastic changes due to the pandemic. But organizations that can make it through and have a strong system design can grow in the long run. She talks about the importance of a self-driven system design. According to Srishti, adding too many complexities within an organization in very little time is not always beneficial. After the onset of the pandemic, her organization could not conduct any on-ground activities and had little control over the food supply. Srishti feels the organizations need to use their strengths to pivot at times of challenges and uncertainty. It is only possible when the overall system design is very agile and flexible.Aiming towards more social initiatives:Srishti says that the pandemic has changed the perspective of a lot of people. They have become more empathetic. The hunger prevailing in the country was always talked about but never experienced before. It has awakened people and made them more kind and helpful. An organization's main aim should not only be profit but also contribute to the social good. If all organizations start viewing it from this perspective, they would inherently have an angle to make a social impact. Issues of income disparity, gender inequality, illiteracy, etc., will automatically be less severe.Follow Srishti on LinkedInProduced by: Priya BhattPodcast host: Yashwanth Jembige
Caroline Stockdale is Chief People and Communications Officer at First Solar and a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council. Prior to joining First Solar, Caroline served as the Chief Executive Officer for First Perform, Chief People Officer for Medtronic, EVP of Global Human Resources and Business Operations for Warner Music Group, The senior HR leader in global divisions of American Express and General Electric. In this episode, Ron and Caroline discuss: The power of a strong mission How to build an agile and innovative culture Corporatitis vs the mindset of being an entrepreneur
Interview with Jeff Bettinger – Jeff is Nu Skin's Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources. He is an award-winning senior HR executive known for leading cultural transformations that connect to the heart and impact business results. In his free time, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife of 28 years, four children and three grandchildren.
Sue Bethanis hosts Diane Kaufman, author of HR Bullcrap! Revolutionizing Your Workplace Culture. Diane is the President and CEO of HR BullCrap! LLC and is a workplace game-changer, providing HR expertise that can reform and revolutionize workplace cultures, leadership, talent, and strategy. Diane is a former Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for Ergotron, headquartered in the United States with 4 subsidiaries, China operations, and representation in 67 countries. She has vast expertise in multiple functions and industries in the global HR and business world, including championing cultures of pure productivity that get results with a no-nonsense approach. In addition, Diane is a mentor to young female athletes, combining personal growth and development with building strong, healthy relationships. Diane is a former NCAA Division I athlete, which provides her the “know-how” to share her knowledge and experiences. Diane and Sue discuss how to revolutionize workplace culture, including: - How to build a trustworthy culture in a two-step process - How to gain employee accountability - How to secure and retain top talent in a Covid-era workplace - How to get rid of the HR non-sense in HR
In this week's episode, we shine a light on Building Authentic Relationships with Marcela Niemeyer, a Global Human Resources Executive with more than 16 years' experience in people management for multinational companies. She has worked in the financial, automotive, chemical, and educational sectors, and is currently serving as the Executive Director of Global Human Resources at Laureate Education, an American, publicly-listed multinational in the higher education sector. Marcela holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in business administration, and is a certified Global Human Resources Professional (GPHR-HRCI). Uncut Gems by mezhdunami. https://soundcloud.com/mezhdunami Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-uncut-gems Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/9CC2Elmv9J4 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/opal-community/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/opal-community/support
Cathy Dixon is the Sr. Director of Global Human Resources at Automation Anywhere, a leading software company that specializes in providing robotic process automation software that helps businesses systematize their processes. In this role, Cathy serves as the HR Business Partner for all international locations and the central point of contact for all management and employees. Before Automation Anywhere, Cathy worked in HR and Administrative roles for companies like HotChalk, Inc., Silicon Image, Harrah’s Entertainment, and many others. She was also an early employee of Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, where she served as the Manager of Compensation and Benefits. In this episode… Have you ever realized with awe that you are participating in something legendary? Do you ever wonder what it would be like to go back in time and work for one of the giants of the tech industry in the ‘80s and ‘90s? If so, you’re in luck—Cathy Dixon is here to share her experience with you. Cathy Dixon began her career serendipitously. As a young professional with little experience, Cathy got the opportunity to work for a new tech startup: Apple. Though working as an early employee at Apple might sound dreamy, the reality of Apple’s workplace culture was complicated, to say the least. So, how did Cathy land a job at Apple, navigate its heightening interpersonal complexities, and pave a successful career for herself after leaving Apple in 1987? In this episode of Next Wave Leadership, Cathy Dixon, Sr. Director of Global Human Resources at Automation Anywhere, sits down with Dov Pollack to talk about her storied career in the tech industry. Listen in as Cathy discusses working as an early employee at Apple, living in Hawaii for 12 years after leaving Silicon Valley, and the work she is doing today with Nancy Hauge to cultivate high-quality workplace cultures everywhere. Stay tuned!
About Our Guest Steve Miranda is a global human resources executive with almost forty years of experience in the corporate, non-profit, education and public sectors. In this episode, Steve takes us into a world where he reimagines what HR can contribute to the new complex global workplace post COVID-19 — and offers sound advice for the global workforce of the future. About the Global Careers Podcast Series This podcast presents inspiring stories from seasoned professionals who have embraced a global role and reaped the benefits. We offer practical advice and insider tips across a broad swath of industries and fields around the world about what it is like to work globally. If you love adventure and thrive on taking risks and operating outside your comfort zone, join us as we explore the ins and outs of pursuing an international career! About GW-CIBER The George Washington University Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER) promotes the nation's capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise related to the theme of Institutions, Inclusive Globalization and U.S. Competitiveness.
Sandra is the Diversity & Inclusion Executive responsible for the Global Diversity & Inclusion Council (GDIC) for Bank of America. In this role, she supports the CEO and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer in delivering the Bank's global D&I strategy. Sandra's work is focused on growing the diverse representation of the workforce, promoting an inclusive workplace where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals and meet the needs of customers. Sandra also leads diversity for Global Human Resources, an organization of over 2500 employees. She serves the community through her contributions to the Executive Committee and Board for Family & Children's Services, a leading provider of behavioral health care and family services in Tulsa; Chair of the Black Women Business Owners of America Board, a business association that supports African American women business owners, entrepreneurs, and start-up foundations across the country; the City Year Board, an organization that partners with schools to help bridge the gap by providing diverse, talented and trained young adult tutors, mentors and role models who work alongside teachers to support student success. Connect with us! WEBSITES: Speaking: https://www.cbbowman.com/ Coaching Association: https://www.acec-association.org/ Workplace Equity & Equality: https://www.wee-consulting.org/ Institute/ Certification: https://www.meeco-institute.org/ SOCIAL MEDIA: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbbowman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/execcoaches Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CB.BowmanMBA/
Welcome to Inspired Conversations with Kim Evans. We celebrate Black History Month with our BHM Edition of Excellence, Leadership, and Passion of guests on our podcast show. We celebrate Keith Jones, Retired Vice President at UPS; Global Human Resources 31 years of service. Meet the man behind Vision, Passion & Leadership that have led the way of thousands at UPS. God, Faith, and Family sum up Keith Jones's success with over three decades of service as a Global Human Resource Vice President worldwide.Keith Jones is also featured as one of 29 executives and top employees in the new book titled: Black Voices from Big Brown, United Stories of African Americans at UPS. Perfect for Black History.Episode #10 Topic: A Candid Conversation with Keith Jones.Purchase Big Brown Copy on Amazon:Amazon.com/shop/2gorjiswellnessContact Keith Jones:FB @Keith Jones____________________________About Your Host:Kim Evans, MA, LE, CMTSpeaker, Beauty, Business & Lifestyle Wellness Coach. Kim is the owner of 2GORJIS Wellness: Facial, Makeup & Massage for 24 years in the SF Bay Area.She is also the founder of her 2GORJIS~The Look Good, Feel Great Program taught to students in the bay area.Contact Kim Evans:KimMevans.comStay Connected:Text 2GORJIS to >>21000Book a Virtual Appt with Kim:Calendly.com/KMEcoachingShop 2GORJIS Spa Boutique:kimMevans.com/shopThank you for watching our Podcast Show Inspired, Conversations with Kim.Your Host Kim Evans, MA, LE, CMT
Workspan and #evolve Managing Editor Mark McGraw sneak previews Q1 editions. Michael Piker, a Global Human Resources executive based in Switzerland, on what it means to be an “agile organization” in a post- Covid world, and his work with the WorldatWork Global Advisory Council. He also dazzles with his impressive facility for languages developed during his world travels.
Interview with Sue Olson – Sue is a Global Human Resources executive who brings strategic insight in developing and leveraging leadership teams and HR functions. She is a client facing, result-focus person with stablished trust with their clients. Sue has been a key member of executive leadership teams. Within her clients, Sue is known as a cultural whisperer who builds and leads agile, fast-paced global leadership teams, including HR operations and talent acquisition to implement strategic organizational changes and drive innovative solutions.
In Episode #23, we are joined by Nathan Sheranian, Senior Director of HR at Freshworks. We discuss: The differences and similarities in companies and employees from Africa, Asia, and North America. Freshworks' expansion from its roots in India to Silicon Valley and beyond. Covid-19's impact on the work environment and whether multinational companies will fare differently than domestic companies. Corporate initiatives to address gender disparities in mid- and upper-level management in technology companies. Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from: Nathan The Story of Human Language, an Audible Great Course by John McWhorter Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson Fred – Cádiz are Finally Back, But Not in the Way That They Dreamed Of (The Guardian) Jonathan – The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
*This spotlight is an excerpt from our 2019 interview. Want to become a world-class CHRO? Roberto di Bernardini, Head of Global Human Resources and board member of CHRO Global Leadership Board, presents the global standards of the CHRO role, backed by the world’s leading experts CHROs and most distinguished CHROs.
Disruptive technologies have upended existing business operating models, are threatening jobs at unprecedented pace and scale, and are bringing whole industries into question. All of this change is creating a new social contract between employers and employees. Listen to Abbe Luersman, the CHRO for Ahold Delhaize and a member of Gartner’s CHRO Global Leadership Board, discuss how organizations can prepare for new labor market realities. Abbe Luersman serves as Co-Chair for the CHRO Global Leadership Board, a network of HR executives working with Gartner to share best practices and influence cutting-edge thinking to guide the next generation of HR leaders. She is also Ahold Delhaize’s Chief HR Officer and a member of its Executive Committee. She is responsible for Global Human Resources, including Talent and Diversity; Leadership and Development; Organizational Effectiveness and Design; and Total Rewards.
Sandi Landon, Global Human Resources Director for Teton Outfitters (KLIM / 509) shares how the company has adapted to COVID, the growth of the motorsports business, and the adjustments designers and product creators will have to make. Connect with Sandi on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-landon-phr-csp-9746746/ For more conversations with outdoor movers and shakers, subscribe wherever you get podcasts including on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, or each Sunday at 4 pm (MT) on Aggie Radio, 92.3 FM in beautiful Cache Valley, Utah. Follow Aggie Radio for more great news, content, and other podcasts at aggieradio.com and make sure to follow Highlander on Instagram and Facebook. The Highlander Podcast is sponsored by the Outdoor Product Design & Development program at Utah State University, a four year, undergraduate degree training the next generation of product creators for the sports and outdoor industries. Learn more at https://opdd.usu.edu/
As NGO community we are staring into the unknown, and as Bob Johansen of the Institute for the Future, memorably, said recently: "The future will reward clarity, but punish uncertainty. Be wary of people who need certainty, since certainty is brittle". Yet, our brains crave certainty, so what to do? How to lead our NGOs during a global crisis like this?This was one of the central topics at the recent (June 3-5, 2020) 'Leading Together' meeting of the International Civil Society Centre, a leading convening body for mid to large size transnational NGOs. I was happy to be of service to the Centre by offering a presentation on 'Leading during Crisis' and by assisting in the meeting's design and facilitation. We also tried something new: Tom Howie at the Centre and I recorded a joint episode to capture the meeting's main takeaways.In the episode, we hear thoughtful NGO practitioners offer their takeaways: participants Jayanta Bora, Executive Director for Global Human Resources at Plan International and Aida Rehouma, Lead Global Programming at World YWCA. And, of course, we also benefit from listening to the reflections of Wolfgang Jamann, the Centre's Director and main host of the meeting.Click here to subscribe to be alerted when new podcast episodes come out or when Tosca produces other thought leadership pieces.Or email Tosca at tosca@5oaksconsulting.org if you want to talk about your social sector organization's needs, challenges, and opportunities.You can find Tosca's content by following her on her social media channels: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook
Lynda Spiegel is a professional resume writer whose 14 years as a Global Human Resources executive means she knows how your resume will be viewed by recruiters and hiring managers. She is also a frequent writer and speaker on job search and networking skills and also a member of The Wall Street Journal‘s Experts Panel. As a recruiter, she has posted jobs on LinkedIn, so she also knows how to write a LinkedIn profile. I learn how you can improve your chances of being found by your target employer by articulating your professional brand and the specific accomplishments that differentiate you from every other candidate. I invited her onto the podcast to share a behind the scenes insights that will improve your chances of getting an interview. We also chat about how you can ensure your application stands out in a world of AI-driven application tracking system and much more.
Alexis Daur is ISS’ Head of Global Human Resources with responsibility for leading the team dedicated to ensuring and supporting an inclusive and diverse culture of engaged and high performing professionals around the world. Alexis leads the company’s efforts to develop human resources programs and policies which support both ISS’ strategic business goals and tactical plans.Prior to joining ISS in 2014, Alexis led the Human Resources function for MSCI Americas. In this role, she worked closely with MSCI teams and their leadership to provide strategic direction and implement compensation and employee relations programs while also serving as the human capital lead for M&A activity. Prior to MSCI, Alexis led a Human Resources team for RiskMetrics Group where she developed and implemented the annual compensation process and advised on change-management around the acquisition of ISS. She supported RiskMetrics through its IPO in 2008 and led the people integration of other acquisitions. During her tenure, RiskMetrics was identified by Crain’s New York Business as one of New York’s Best Places to Work.Earlier in her career, Alexis led the national diversity recruiting effort for financial service associates at Prudential Financial and held various human resources roles at Deutsche Bank, PWC, and Dominion Resources. Alexis holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Christopher Cozic joined Genmab as Global Vice President of Human Resources in November 2017. He is a global human resources executive with expertise in strategic leadership, organization design, human resource management, strategy development, change management, organizational development, and a heavy concentration in all aspects of corporate growth and expansion.Prior to joining Genmab, Cozic was Vice President of Human Resources at Ipsen. Previously, he spent 9+ years at Eisai, where he served as Director, Global Human Resources, after joining the company as an Associate Director in 2006. During his career, Cozic was also Business Development Manager for Aerotek and Vice President, Human Resources, for NorVergence. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from Quinnipiac University and holds PHR, SPHR, and GPHR certifications
Dr. Keri Ohlrich, CEO and co-founder, is an outcome-focused senior executive with more than 20 years of success in the HR, manufacturing, consumer goods, and consulting industries. Her broad areas of expertise include strategic planning, business development, employee relations, talent management, culture change, conflict management, performance management, organizational development, workshop facilitation, and employee engagement and development. Throughout her career, Keri has held leadership positions at a variety of organizations ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 companies. In her previous roles she has created and implemented HR processes, redesigned the talent function for an organization serving 25,000 global employees, led change management for a new business strategy, and overhauled the Human Resources department.Keri obtained her PhD in Human Development and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She holds an MS in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, an MS in Global Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and a BS in Psychology and Business from Carnegie Mellon University. She resides in Pasadena, CA.
We are focused on the safety of our employees and clients, friends, families and loved ones. However, it is important for many organizations to keep their talent acquisition functions moving – whether to provide essential services or to serve our communities by providing jobs. Many organizations are also now adapting to a newly virtual workforce. In that spirit, in this episode, we are sharing insights from Andrea Brogger, TrueBlue’s Leader of the Global Human Resources team, on how to keep employees engaged when things are difficult.
Today's Guests: Debbie Curl- Nagy is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Managing Partner of Marcus Management Consultants, LLC. Kristi Nelson, Vice President Global Human Resources for Multi-Color Corporation
On this MarketScale Software & Technology Jobcast, we sit down with Miami-based Kaseya, a rapidly growing software and monitoring solutions company that's looking to fill entry-level technology sales and account manager positions. The ideal candidate must be tenacious, positive, relentless, energetic and capable to influence. Kaseya is the leading provider of complete IT infrastructure management solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide. Kaseya's best-in-breed technologies allow organizations to efficiently manage and secure IT to drive sustained business success. "Account managers will hone influencing skills, negotiation, and empathy," said Ken Finneran, Vice President of Global Human Resources. "I'd even go as far as saying emotional intelligence skills." The Account Managers/Sales Executives will have a hand in research, collaboration, time management, pipeline development/management, constant communication, renewals and reaching out to existing customers. "The plethora of opportunities at Kaseya are limitless," said Alexis Braddy, Global Corporate Recruiter. Kaseya's corporate culture has set a new standard for Braddy. "This is probably the happiest group of people I've ever worked with," she said. Job basics: Location: Miami, FL Hours: 40 hours, Monday through Friday Travel involved: Some depending on location of clients Experience: Entry-level, but two years ideal Educational requirement: Bachelor's degree ideal but outstanding sales candidates will be considered without a degree. If you'd like to apply for these positions, head to kaseya.com/careers.
Ann Cuiellette Marr is currently Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources and a member of the Executive Team for World Wide Technology. WWT is a $12B systems integrations, value added reseller and software development company. WWT is on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For (8 years in a row) and Best Places to Work for Glassdoor. In her role, Ann oversees all global human resources functions which include talent acquisition, strategic staffing, policy development, benefits and compensation, government compliance, training, leadership development, immigration, communications and employee relations. WWT’s global expansion has included offices in Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, England, India, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. As a strategic partner, Ann also manages the company’s Corporate Development Program which includes Diversity and Inclusion, Supplier Diversity and Small Business Enterprise and manages the company’s communication efforts. Ann has successfully spearheaded the company’s submission for the 100 Best Companies to Work For and founded the WWT Women’s Leadership Forum. Ann is President of the WWT Charitable Foundation and is very active in the St. Louis community. Ann has managed tremendous growth at WWT continues to focus on making WWT a great place to work. Ann has over 30 years of human resources experience and has held HR positions with Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Anheuser-Busch Companies.
Tony Bridwell is a highly recognized thought leader in corporate culture, learning and development, and human resources with more than 25 years of global leadership expertise. As Chief People Officer for Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, he leads the Global Human Resources practice focusing on enhancing, communicating, and driving Ryan’s award-winning culture.As the former Chief People Officer of Brinker International, Mr. Bridwell led a global team in support of more than 60,000 people. His work transforming the Brinker culture to the next level garnered him the highest acclaim and recognition from his peers in the industry. Tony is the author of several articles and four books, The Kingmaker, A Leadership Story of Integrity and Purpose (June 2016); The Newsmaker, A Leadership Story of Honor and Love (February 2018); The Difference Maker, A Leadership Story of Faith and Friendship (June 2018); and The Changemaker, A Leadership Story of Courage and Character (April 2019).For more information visit:https://www.tonybridwell.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybridwell/
Phil is a Global Human Resources leader currently focused on strategic design and deployment of companywide Organizational Development initiatives. Well versed in talent management, leadership development, consulting, coaching, strategic planning, program design, program facilitation and program evaluation. He is currently the head of learning and development at JBS, which is the second largest food company in the world. Experience working with diverse populations including executive leaders to hourly employees within technical & non-technical roles across America, Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Mexico and South America.
Phil is a Global Human Resources leader currently focused on strategic design and deployment of companywide Organizational Development initiatives. Well versed in talent management, leadership development, consulting, coaching, strategic planning, program design, program facilitation and program evaluation. He is currently the head of learning and development at JBS, which is the second largest food company in the world. Experience working with diverse populations including executive leaders to hourly employees within technical & non-technical roles across America, Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Mexico and South America.
Phil is a Global Human Resources leader currently focused on strategic design and deployment of companywide Organizational Development initiatives. Well versed in talent management, leadership development, consulting, coaching, strategic planning, program design, program facilitation and program evaluation. He is currently the head of learning and development at JBS, which is the second largest food company […]
How do you attract talent to an organization known primarily as a job search engine? Today we interview Paul Wolfe, SVP of Global Human Resources and responsible for all things HR and employee-related at Indeed. Claim your Indeed company page: https://www.indeed.com/hire/company-pages Connect with Indeed: https://twitter.com/insideindeed Connect with Paul: https://twitter.com/PWolfe67 Subscribe to this podcast: https://employerbrandingpodcast.com Measure your employer brand: https://employerbrandindex.co Thanks for tuning in!
Want to become a world-class HR leader? Listen to Roberto di Bernardini, Head of Global Human Resources and board member of CHRO Global Leadership Board, present the global standards of an HR leader, backed by the world’s leading experts CHROs and most distinguished CHROs.
In this inaugural podcast we talk to Andy Slentz about his views on corporate wellness, the new wellness program at Hess and about the Hess title sponsorship of the Hess Houston Corporate Run 5K. Support the show (http://houstoncorporate5k.com)
For all show notes please visit http://bit.ly/HRSP-Ohlrich. Are you passionate about a Human Resources career but concerned about the perception of HR? Does making an impact on the human experience in the workplace bring you satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment but are cautious about choosing HR as a career for the long haul? Do you have what it takes to be a true HR warrior? Dr. Keri Ohlrich is CEO and co-founder of Abbracci Group, an ‘Unconventional HR Consulting’ firm, that works with companies to address their organization’s specific needs and develop sustainable solutions, with a focus on solving the problem the first time out. Keri obtained her PhD in Human Development and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She holds an MS in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, an MS in Global Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and a BS in Psychology and Business from Carnegie Mellon University. Recently, Keri and her co-author Monice Frede released their new book, The Way of the HR Warrior: Leading the CHARGE to Transform Your Career and Organization, which talks about the role of the HR warrior.
Jeff is a Global Human Resources leader with 18+ years of progressive HR experience. He currently is the Vice President of HR supporting the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and ~7,000 employees at IDEX Corporation, a $2 Billion+ publicly traded company (NYSE: IEX) engaged in the development, design and manufacture of fluidics systems and specialty engineered products.
Jeff is a Global Human Resources leader with 18+ years of progressive HR experience. He currently is the Vice President of HR supporting the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and ~7,000 employees at IDEX Corporation, a $2 Billion+ publicly traded company (NYSE: IEX) engaged in the development, design and manufacture of fluidics systems and specialty engineered […]
Jeff is a Global Human Resources leader with 18+ years of progressive HR experience. He currently is the Vice President of HR supporting the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and ~7,000 employees at IDEX Corporation, a $2 Billion+ publicly traded company (NYSE: IEX) engaged in the development, design and manufacture of fluidics systems and specialty engineered products.
Next Generation Catalyst Podcast: Millennials / Generation Z / Workplace Trends / Leadership
Millennial and Generation Z keynote speaker and author, Ryan Jenkins, welcomes Ann Marr, Vice President of Global Human Resources at World Wide Technology, Inc., to the Next Generation Catalyst Podcast. The topic discussed is how to be an ideal employer for Millennial and Generation Z talent. We also cover... How the emerging generations impacting the workplace What the next generation wants from an employer How to manage their often elevated expectations to get promoted or move throughout the organization Structuring a successful internship program How to use Glassdoor to attract Millennial and Generation Z And more...
Episode #69 - We are joined by Samuel K. Tam, Sr. Director, Global Human Resources at Visa. Watch the video footage from the podcast here: http://bit.ly/HRDLeadersPodcast.
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Oracle HCM Cloud Global Human Resources Release 12 new features are introduced on Whats New SaaS Readiness portal. These are the notes from my learning of these new features. Any new feature introduced in the cloud product comes with 4 options to enable/use the feature in product. These actions are mentioned against each feature of […] The post Oracle HCM Cloud Global Human Resources New Features R12 appeared first on Open Tech Talks - Technology worth Talking.
Globalisation is no longer on the horizon—it’s here, staring us in the face. And for those in leadership roles, understanding its impact is only the first step. Learning how to navigate and think beyond one’s corporate, and geographic, borders is a leadership imperative. Tina Durocher-Murphy, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources at Quintiles, discusses the importance of overseas experience for HR leaders—even those in large and diverse markets like the US.
What a treat we have today as Pernille Lopez joins us today. She has some insanely valuable tips and tricks to become a successful entrepreneur! Ms. Pernille Spiers-Lopez has been the Head of Global Human Resources at IKEA North America Services, LLC since January 1, 2009. Ms. Spiers-Lopez served as the President of Ikea North America Services, LLC. until January 1, 2009. She has been a Trustee of Save The Children Federation, Incorporated since September 2006.
Barbara Walters, President of The HR Advantage, and Nancy Liss, Business Partner of Global Human Resources provides valuable information and insights on how to nail job interviews. The event is sponsored by Executives on Campus, Job$mart and takes place on May 3, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-245.
Barbara Walters, President of The HR Advantage, and Nancy Liss, Business Partner of Global Human Resources provides valuable information and insights on how to nail job interviews. The event is sponsored by Executives on Campus, Job$mart and takes place on May 3, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-245.