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LEADERSHIP
Do
Amazing Things. Things You Can Do to Become a Better HR Pro
in 2010
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Apr 2010 |
I
know that Human Resource professionals are smart, problem solving
business leaders. I know this because I represent 250,000-plus
members of the Society for Human Resource Management. I see their
effectiveness. I see the results of the innovation. I see their
organizations succeeding because of their leadership.
Whether
they are the “one” in a one person shop in a small
organization or one of hundreds in a large multi-national corporation,
HR professionals are the folks who make every organization sustainable.
Without employees, organizations don’t exist.
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HR
Matters Magazine
Issue 10 | April 2010
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China
Miner Gorman
is Chief Global Member Engagement Officer of the Society
for Human Resource Management (SHRM). With more
than 250,000 members in 140 countries, SHRM is the
world’s largest professional association devoted
to human resources. Follow China
on Twitter.
Do
Amazing Things is
a collection of short actionable ideas - things you
can do in 2010 to become a better HR professional.
This is an extract from the e-book created by Chris
Ferdinandi of Renegade HR in partnership with twelve
of HR's leading thinkers. Download the free e-book.
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Without the strategic and tactical services and leadership that
HR provides, employees aren’t recruited, hired, paid, developed
or retained. And without employees, organizations don’t exist.
Regardless of the size of your organization, the essential role
of HR is to ensure that the organization’s workforce is sustained
and sustainable. This, in my mind, makes HR the most critical function
in the organization.
But here’s my concern: we don’t act like
it.
We wait for validation; we wait for direction; we wait to be invited
to the “strategic table.” My friends, if there’s
one thing we can do in 2010 to become better HR professionals, it’s
to start acting like the critical business leaders that we are.
Stop waiting for validation. Maybe you’re certified, maybe
you’re not. Maybe you’ve got a degree in HR, maybe you
don’t. Are you a business person? Have you managed people?
Are you recruiting for your organization? Are you training employees?
Are you working on compensation plans? Recommending incentive comp?
If you’ve got any experience at all, you know what you need
to do to ensure the organization has the talent it needs.
Stop Waiting for Direction
You’re the expert. Make recommendations. Execute plans. Link
your goals to the business plan. Measure your results. Stop waiting
to be invited. You’re a business leader. You’re a problem
solver. You’re leading the organization’s most important
strategy: the people strategy.
As Lon O'Neil, SHRM’s CEO, says: “Kick down the door
to the meeting room and sit at the head of the table.”
Because what you’ve got is the difference between winning
and losing; staying in business and going out of business; taking
advantage of the improving economy or being a victim to last year’s
financial downturn.
You’ve got the keys to the kingdom because you’re HR.
Now start acting like it!
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