7 Maxims Needing Immediate Change From Companies to Expect from HR - As Led by the CEO and BOD

1. Upgrade your Head of Human Resources.

Expect them to be a real business person who will add value to the business performance and not simply take care of traditional HR issues of compliance and transaction or menial tasks you do not want to think about.

2. Your top Talent/(HR) person should be an authentic OD practitioner and business advisor

The days of Generalists running HR should be long gone. Generalist knowledge is technical, transactional, and compliance related. (And could be easily outsourced or driven by the legal department.) Traditional HR generalists are not strategic nor business-minded. They are often pretenders in areas of business acumen. (This may hurt and upset some practitioners but we need to honest about this.)

3. Demand and desire that HR be a true, proactive and relevant function in business performance just as you would expect from your Marketing, Finance and IT functions

Take their advisement in the same way you would do from any function.

4. Demand that your business strategy is integrated, aligned and created with your talent/people strategy Having them in parallel or lagging behind is not effective business and will hurt

performance in the long run.

5. Do not see the Head of HR as a throw away role Stop putting people in that role that you can easily push around because you do not want to be bothered too much with HR. Assigning someone to lead HR that is weak, or is a traditional HR leader who has happened to have had the title of CHRO or who is an obsolete executive who you do not want to force to retire or putting in diverse candidates just to give the (false) appearance that you have a diverse Executive Team is both disingenuous and highly limiting to what HR should be.

6. Demand great things from HR Do not leave HR to its own devices, because it does not seem

exciting or relevant to the business. Remove the corruption inherent in the HR function.

7. Sincerely value you employees as your most valuable asset

Demonstrate this with your behaviors and by building a worthy Human Resources function.

-Flapjack July 12, 2019

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