Dave Ulrich: ‘How will you shape your impact as a HR professional?’

Apologies if you don’t like spiders, but they are incredible creatures. I guess their most important decision is where to build that amazing web. Investing all that effort in the wrong place would be a disaster.

As we look to the future, we all have decisions to make about where we’re going to build. How are you going to decide?

Dave Ulrich has developed a tool to help organisations work out where to invest in their people initiatives. He’s asked me to urge you to participate. Thanks, Dave, for this free resource to help us all.

The RBL tool is an online self-audit of 4 areas: talent, leadership, organization and HR. ‘Each assessment takes 12 to 15 minutes and you will get a free report not only benchmarking how you are doing but giving you guidance on how you should invest to deliver results.’

Take a look at rbl.ai and select those which relate to you.

As Dave says, ‘2008/9 were the financial/economic crises; 2020/2021 are the people/organization crises. HR can become the guiding light to respond to these crises.’

We’ve all got to take a fresh look at our priorities. What do you think will be yours?

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