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Solving Business Problems by Hacking People Problems with Nicole Dessain

Published: May 15, 2020, 4:17 p.m.

All of us in learning, talent and HR functions are being faced with what can often feel like impossible challenges as a result of the coronavirus. We haven\u2019t even had time to fully establish a steady state for the current situation and are already being challenged with predicting the \u2018new normal\u2019 and how we\u2019ll manage that.

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Trying to solve for these monumental challenges in an environment where it\u2019s easy to feel isolated from the very people we need to solve them only adds insult to injury.

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So, how do we rapidly solve for these complex problems in a world where we\u2019re all physically and mentally displaced from our normal mode of operation? Enter in the virtual hackathon where you\u2019ll combine #agile, #designthinking, #hackatons, and #digital #technology.

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In this episode Nicole Dessain from Talent Imperative and I are going to dig into exactly what Virtual Hackathon is, what it takes to pull off, and why it\u2019s an solution we should all be exploring.