How to create a strong link between business strategy and HR strategy

In HR you know that your work contributes directly towards business goals, but how do you get the credit for that? How can HR get involved early in strategic decisions so that you can make those links clear?

Here’s a way to provoke conversations that will lead to that alignment and get strategic HR onto the radar of business leaders.

It takes courage to ask, but would you like to know:

a) How leaders regard the relative importance of HR’s activities to business success?
b) How effective HR are regarded to be in those areas?

You can see how powerfully you could use the answers to these questions – explore perceptions, reasons for those perceptions, root causes and alternative approaches. This in turn leads to a HR strategy that’s fully aligned with business priorities, transparent and co-owned by business leaders.

Our Strategic Alignment Roadmap uses an online survey to ask leaders in HR as well as in the business, and we help you to facilitate conversations that are robust, constructive and collaborative about the results.

We want to help you to build alignment. That’s why we’ve developed a free ‘self-drive’ resource for HR leaders that takes you through the principles and process. There are tips for building business acumen, as well as deciding what you want to achieve, and questions for stakeholders.