- Be curious about the business.
- Measure stuff.
- Stop focusing on cost cutting and expense
- Free people to manage themselves
- Plan, Plan, Plan
The blame can be squarely put on the HR fraternity for its failure to move away from redundant support activities which are predominantly administrative in nature. Until we project ourselves as those playing a serious role in the Business being run, we will always be sidelined and demarcated as the ones who are always Dispensable.
Are HR folks Listening???
Hi Girish,
ReplyDeleteNice thought....spoken about in most HR forums but rarely practiced by HR professionals who are dragged into the routine operational activities either by their own actions or by their superiors in the field.
Point 2 provides the direction for change for HR folks to move from the role of a support function to that of a business partner.
Hi Lakshmi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. As you rightly mentioned we are to blame ourselves for the predicament. We never focussed on understanding the Balance Sheet, failed to connect with our real customers and remained oblivious to the role we actually needed to play.
We need to relook at what we should be doing to add value and not merely be " also existed" entities!A lot of this will depend on future HR Leaders.