Tag: Strategic HR
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Startup HR: Planning vs Doing
Startup HR is something that I have talked about a bit before. Today I will answer a question from a reader who works for HR in a startup company. The question Good Morning, I have been reading your blogs and your Slideshares and it has been easy reading for me and is helping me along…
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63% of Organizations Have No HR Strategy In Place
Study Shows HR Doesn’t Do Strategy (Shocker) The other day I was reading some data (be still my heart!) and ran across something that didn’t initially surprise me. However, the more I think about it the more I am puzzled that this is still an ongoing issue. I reported on some other data  a while…
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Differentiation is Critical for Long Term Success
Today we’re talking about the importance of differentiating your HR practices to increase your value and the satisfaction of your customers, both internal and external. Check out the video (subscribers click through to view): The bottom line? You should explore the possibility of differentiating your offerings where you can. I’ve long said that as technology and…
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Forget HR Strategy: Get in the Trenches
This isn’t a call to completely forego the HR strategy that undergirds your long term success. However, it is a reminder that some of the things you’ll have to do to ultimately be successful include more than just making plans, developing schedules, and keeping to those guidelines. Sometimes you might actually have to jump in…
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Preventing Conflict in the Workplace
If asked, many HR professionals would say that preventing conflict in the workplace is one of their key job duties. However, I’d like to step back from that well-known requirement and re-examine the need for civility at all costs. Let’s kick off with a quote: It means caring a lot about not offending someone. Let’s…
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76% of CEOs Value Relationship with HR
I was reading a white paper recently that touched on the role between HR and the CEO, and it was something I have experienced personally and never took the time to put into words. This relationship is highly strategic, as I write about in this post on HR being the CEO’s trusted advisor. There are a few…
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Driving Innovation with Event Planning
Event planning? Really? I thought HR was supposed to give up the “party planner” role in the move to strategic partner… Well, let’s hear what the indubitable Sue Meisinger has to say about that: Open Communication Spurs Innovation Meisinger then pointed to employee social events as an opportunity to tear down boundaries that many HR…