HR Departments in the Top 12% know how to translate and integrate talent challenges to the overall business strategies of the business.
The other 88% of HR organizations? Still spend majority of their time on reactive activities and being bogged down.
Top HR organizations make a point of understanding the business challenges facing each Department. With the help of the management teams in each Department they structure onboarding and retention strategies, training, compensation, coaching and the motivational steps to keep the best employees.
Aberdeen Group ran a survey of 1300 business leaders. 6 of business leaders Top 10 challenges are work force related.
HR organizations at the top not only understand the business challenges of each Department, they also identify how to measure the ROI of all HR initiatives. Measurement drives the performance of any organization.
HR must continually be challenged, and challenge themselves to understand and measure the contributions from their efforts. When it comes to staffing, that means understanding the skill sets the organization is going to need going forward. Often those skills are different than exist now. Then HR needs to anticipate and recruit in advance.
The days of reactive HR Departments is rapidly ending. Reactive HR organizations will find their services sub-contracted out. Pro-active HR organizations that measure the impact of their performance on ROI will be in demand…and those HR people will finally start to get the respect and pay they deserve.
