The bad newsWestern European C-level execs believe their HR head…
…is too focused on processes and rules - 42%
…doesn’t understand the business well enough - 36%
…is not of the same calibre as other C-level execs - 30%
Yep, you guessed it. Once more study came out that showed that HR is not at the table, not being strategic, not smart enough, etc.. Not sure if the journalists and survey groups out there have figured out that the proverbial horse is dead. So for 2013 - my personal resolution is not to write another blog show casing a study on how we are "failing" but focus on tips on how to change those surveys!
Ten Habits to Strategic HR!
1. Read your company's annual reports and SEC filings2. Block time on your calendar to dial into your company's earnings announcement.
3. Based on your functional HR area - pick one way that you are impacting the company's business - and then measure the tar out of it!
4. Celebrate company successes (e.g. new customer, new product releases).
5. Write one thank you a week to to those who were instrumental in the above successes.
6. Set up a Google News Alert to get news releases for your company and read them
7. Set up a Google News alert to get news releases for your #1 competitor and read them
8. Schedule and have lunch with at least one peer outside of HR per month. Get to know their business.
9. Once a month - go on LinkedIN - search for your company and then look at the insights section. Where are employees coming from and where are they going to?
10. Once a month - ask your self - do you know what the top 3 focus areas of the company are?
The above is about 8 hours of work on a monthly basis but it will reap tremendous rewards. Why? I can guarantee that if you do all ten of the above a couple of things will happen:
1. Your ability to align HR goals with business goals will increase
2. Your ability to stop HR projects that will be perceived as noise, intrusions, busy work will increase
3. Most importantly, I promise that you will start coming up with a list of projects and/or items that you need to start doing in order to help the business.
Original Page: http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2013/01/hr-the-damning-verdict.htm
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