Getting your leaders to see the value of investing more in your people

McKinsey & Company are making significant changes to their Organisational Health Index. These reflect getting real and sensible about people and their value in today’s world of work, as they explain:

‘To address this profound shift in how work gets done, organizations can move away from treating employees as cogs who hit their deliverables to using an artists-and-athletes model, which inspires people to produce at the highest levels.’

‘Artists and athletes’ – what do you think? 

For many of the HR leaders I talk to, the attitude of their business leaders towards their people is a long way from this. In fact, this is often their biggest obstacle in achieving the potential of HR’s work. Having to persuade leaders to treat their people well is a regrettable, but common, necessity.

Thank you Aaron De Smet and Arne Gast for a well balanced article entitled ‘Healthy organizations keep winning, but the rules are changing fast.’

HR leaders will find good evidence here to use, as the change in the rules that De Smet and Gast mention are in favour of valuing what drives employee performance and retention, e.g. ‘Common purpose is a strong predictor of organizational health …

‘In the past, employee involvement was about engaging employees in the “what” and the “how” of interpreting, evolving, and executing an organization’s strategy. Our new research found that this involvement can be shallow and transactional when it isn’t tied to a deeper sense of purpose and meaning.’

If you’d like to explore how to get your own leaders to see the value of investing more in your people, message me for a no-obligation conversation.