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The field of human resources (HR) is evolving. Unfortunately, _ HR leaders continue to face challenges when fulfilling the strategic role thought leaders and business executives envision for them.
The rigor and capability of HR functions have steadily grown with the development of human capital processes, enhanced business partnering and maturing systems capabilities. The HR department of 20 years ago is long gone, and a more sophisticated, data-driven function has taken its place.
Despite these steps forward, the HR function still has a tremendous task in front of it in terms of becoming true agents of change transformation. Executives should be considering one question: "How well is my HR function helping facilitate alignment between the organization's strategy and the performance of the organization's human capital?"
To take the HR function to the next level of impact and performance, HR leaders need to embrace three powerful roles that can help them become agents of sustainable change transformation.
Seeing the forest for the trees
The role of HR is to help others see both the forest and the trees. Business leaders cannot always discern what is important in their organization. Without full visibility of the subtle but powerful connections and relationships, a business can struggle to align the organization in a way that delivers value to the marketplace. HR professionals can help the leaders identify and overcome the barriers to change.
Recently, we at AlignOrg Solutions were working with an HR leader and new executive to facilitate...