Recently I was recording a video for HR The Real Deal’s series of VODs (Videos On Demand), and Human Capital Europe, where the interviewer, Anne-Marie Andric, asked me about Spotify’s People Strategy. It was great to be able to explain the strategy as a complete package. The work that the entire HR team at Spotify […]
Our experiences in the past few weeks have probably been similar to yours – like we’re all part of a giant experiment. From one day to the next our reality changed, and our entire band instantly started working from home. And just like that, our biggest challenges became finding the best ways of working in […]
Feeling that love/hate relationship with the traditional tools and processes for developing people? More specifically; the career frameworks and the typical career paths that we have gotten used to, that go hand-in-hand with hierarchical job architectures built on level structures and impressive business titles. While we don’t question the intent of them, like clarity for […]
A couple of months ago, Spotify’s global HR Team gathered together for two days in Stockholm, Sweden for our annual HR Summit. This year’s theme was “Dare to Disrupt”. We’d like to share some insight on why this was such an important theme for us this year. As a united HR Team, we are in […]
The simple way to increase engagement Looking for a magical way to get better leadership, a more inclusive environment, clear direction for everyone, and employees who recommend the company to others? Good news, there is almost one! It’s spelled c-o-n-v-e-r-s-a-t-i-o-n. It won’t solve all your problems, but if you can get everyone in the company […]
Failing is not the opposite of success We’ve written about failing before on this blog. How it’s not the opposite of success, but rather part of the path to success. We’ve also shared how we encourage people to dare and try (and then sometimes fail), how we celebrate failure as a learning opportunity and do […]
How do we learn faster? In order to stay ahead, we need to learn faster than the world is changing. How is that possible? That’s the million dollar question! I don’t think there is a cookie-cutter approach to use here, but a number of different solutions depending on who you are as a company. Here […]
When I was travelling the other week I picked up the magazine in the seat pocket in front of me on the plane. It had all these articles on the Nordics, about culture, artists, restaurants, start-ups but what caught my eye most was a piece about success. The message in the article was that failure […]
Blended learning @ Spotify Our industry sector didn’t exist before we came along. We invented it and that’s what we’ve kept on doing. We invent the future and we love it. But to keep on doing that, we can’t rely on old truths and learnings, we need new ones or we’ll lose our edge. Without […]
Trends in HR If you work in HR you’ve probably seen some of these headlines the past couple of years: “The death of performance reviews”, “HR needs a revolution”. There’s certainly a new buzz topic out there, but how much should you listen to it and what should you do? I’m always cautious about getting […]