Strategic thinking… For a human resources professional? Yep. It’s the second most important competency for senior HR leaders.

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Today we’ll look at effective communication, the number one competency for senior HR leaders.

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Today I’m kicking off a video series on the Top Five Senior HR Competencies. I recently found a white paper that listed the top competencies for senior HR leaders, and I knew I wanted to delve into each of them and give a few thoughts on all five. Below you’ll find the intro video and every day this week there will be a new video post for you to enjoy. Hope it’s beneficial to you!

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So I heard that the HR Carnival for this upcoming week was going to be focused on food and HR. For some reason my brain defaulted to comparing the characters in every workplace with a bag of trail mix. Check out the short (kinda funny!) video below for more.

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Notes

• Ain’t Bella the cutest?
• Fruits-they have been around forever, they are kind of sour, and even if we don’t enjoy them they are pretty boring and don’t rock the boat
• M&Ms-these are the best part of the whole batch, but just like in life, we only have a limited number of M&Ms (aka star employees) to work with
• Nuts-the nuts make up the bulk of our workforce, they have their little quirks and we spend most of our time dealing with this group

Okay, so it was a fun little exercise. Want to tell a story about a “nut” in your own workplace? I’d love to hear it!

My friend Chris Ponder at XtremeHR is asking people to share their own career stories. I’ve talked about my HR career before, but I thought it would be fun to participate in his project as a showing of support for this great idea. The back story of the challenge. I was supposed to answer the questions he asked in several shorter videos, but after being snowed in this week and having all kinds of crazy stuff come my way, I just shot it in one long video (my longest ever). This is my career story thus far with more detail than you ever imagined. At the very end I am on the verge of a coughing fit and you can barely understand me. Sorry ’bout that!

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This series was a lot of fun, and he will be doing something like this quarterly if you ever want to participate. Just in case you wanted to find them, here are the 3 sets of questions I answered.

• Why did you choose your profession and how did you get your foot into the profession?
• Based on your profession that you told us about in Question 1, let’s explore some career milestones…
• Based on your profession and career that you told us about in Question 1 and Question 2, let’s close this series with a bang! Career hits, misses, and hopes.

My beautiful girls (all three of them) and I would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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I shot the video below a while back, and it is currently playing on the HRevolution 2011 event registration page. By the way, tickets are for sale… I thought it would be fun to share some of the back story of the event, how it’s different from other conferences, and what you should expect if you decide to attend. If you’ve already seen the video, feel free to share it with someone else! If not, then it’s a great primer on this revolutionary HR/recruiting event!

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