Reputation

Building the reputation of HR is both strategic and situational; there are formal opportunities to present the value you add, and these need to be backed up consistently by everyday informal interactions. Reputation is built conversation by conversation, by the whole team. Strategies here, therefore, require careful planning of the key messages you want to send out and repeat, together with actions and behaviours that back them up. Defining and living your HR values enables you to develop trusting relationships, and therefore influence at a higher level. Learning to understand and manage organisational politics helps HR to explain and ‘sell’ the value you add. Explore Reputation further.