Why HR professionals were set up to struggle with strategy
There are a number of things that have always held HR back from being strategic and most of them aren’t our fault
Stop wasting your line managers’ time
There’s a really simple fix, to stop being the person everyone dreads meeting with
Strategic HR is thinking, operational HR is doing: what a load of bobbins
You might be surprised by how a lot of what you’re doing already is strategic
Strategy isn’t just for senior people
Your job title doesn’t determine whether you’re allowed to think strategically or not
"Strategic" is the most overused word in HR
Just putting a word on a job title or a LinkedIn bio doesn't make any of us strategic.
Why are you asking me the same questions as the Finance Director?
I think about 95% of the issues I've ever seen a business need to resolve have had people at their core.
"I don't know what 'being strategic' even means"
You can't learn to think strategically in a vacuum. The environment has to give you something to work with, and for most HR professionals, it simply hasn't.
Why other people's perception of HR is your problem to solve
There is a lot of dislike for HR as a profession out in the world
The HR strategy that almost missed the point entirely
We focus on activity, best practice, or what feels like the right thing to do, instead of starting with the problem the business actually needs solving.
You don't need to have written an HR strategy to be strategic
I was asked more than once to create an HR strategy document without having access to the business strategy.
When "We want to grow" passes for a business strategy
Most ‘business strategies’ aren't actually strategies at all.
I was told I wasn’t strategic enough. Here’s what that taught me.
The sad reality is that when HR are not strategic or just not perceived to be strategic, we can't make the impact we would like.