Why is it so hard to transform HR?
Is it getting easier or harder to get business leaders to support HR’s transformation? There’s some worrying data. I’d welcome your own thoughts. You’d think it should be getting easier, after the epic efforts of HR teams across the world, keeping their businesses going. Have HR’s achievements during the pandemic helped them to rise up […]
McKinsey & Company: ‘Back to Human’
How has the pandemic changed expectations of HR? ‘Back to human‘ is the strapline for McKinsey & Company’s research on the implications for HR’s operating model.
McKinsey & Company: ‘Four Essentials for Hybrid Work’
Here’s a great take-out from some recent research by McKinsey & Company.
In the organisations that more successfully navigated the pandemic, they say, ‘leaders spent more time on coaching and recognition’.
4 Models for Transforming HR
Transforming HR – what does it take? Do you need massive investment, or can you take the guerilla approach? Actually, a lot can be achieved conversation by conversation. Let’s look at some practical techniques. First, let’s envision the desired outcome – top right of our model. HR are partnering strategically, with a strong […]
How can HR leverage its unique reach?
HR touches every employee, every manager, every leader. As we navigate our way to a new future of work, this reach has never been more critical. It’s even more powerful when we make it a two-way street. How do we make it flow both ways? Our power is in our questions – and in the […]
Old School and New School Views On the Same Goal of Evolving HR
This is a topic I keep coming back to. Building HR’s credibility as strategic business partners is the only way we’re going to fix the issues that frustrate HR – e.g. lack of involvement in key decisions; lack of clarity about the value HR adds; being seen as an admin function – and don’t forget […]
Dave Ulrich: ‘How HR Must Rise to Today’s Opportunity’
‘Where more is expected, more must be delivered.’ With this quote, Dave Ulrich is putting a positive spin on some of their recent survey data – that ‘HR professionals somewhat lower in the recent (2021) 8th round of our research compared to the seven previous rounds.’ That’s tough to read. After all HR’s incredible work […]
Trust Equation by David Maister from ‘Trusted Adviser’
Trust and power – we’re learning a lot right now about how connected they are. Could we be at a kind of tipping point in the balance of power in the relationship between employers and skilled employees?
Time to change from ‘Human Resources’ to ‘Human Assets’?
I’ve seen a few suggestions recently that it’s time to change the name of HR. There is real potential during this period of re-thinking, re-orienting and re-aligning of business models that we could create a tipping point for HR. ‘Resources’ seems rather cold and impersonal and, well, not very human. This suggestion of ‘assets’ came […]
What have we learned about trust?
Do we need to redefine what trust means in organisations? As individual people we know exactly what we mean by trust. We know when it’s in place, and we know when it’s broken. Perceptions of trust and respect are being tested every day as business leaders try to satisfy their hunger for some kind of […]
