August 12, 2016 Bi-monthly Meeting: "HR Needs You (Desperately), But You Need HR Too"

HR Needs You (Desperately), But You Need HR Too 

Human Resources is in crisis mode. When Harvard Business Review dedicates an entire issue to “It’s Time to Blow Up HR,” you know it’s getting serious. Organization development partners are the next best hope for HR, as the knowledge and tools they routinely deploy would help HR to lead the people part of the business at both a macro and micro level. Too often, however, OD competes with HR for the ear of operational leaders because HR doesn’t recognize the depth of the skillset that OD brings to the table and think they can “lead change” or “build team.” 

At the same time, for OD to function apart from HR ignores the very foundation of developing organizations – systems thinking. Every program and process designed and implemented by HR is a communication tool for operational leaders, whether performance management, compensation or employee relations. If those programs are not in synch with the developmental work of OD practitioners, it creates confusion and often mixed messages. In this program, we will explore key touchpoints where the intersection of HR and OD must come together to help our organizations.

Attendees will come away with a heightened sense of understanding and urgency about how HR message points for leaders and the workforce can be repurposed in order to make a measurable contribution to the organization’s bottom line. 

Learn: 

1. an overview of key HR programs and how their messaging helps or hinders the workforce, 
2. the key vulnerability of HR and how to partner rather than compete, and 
3. how OD can help HR build the “other” side of HR –Development.

** This workshop is APPROVED for SHRM Re-certification Credits through our partner - UCF Continuing Education -- who makes this re-certification for credit hours possible.

Speaker Bio: 

Carol Anderson is a nationally recognized thought leader, author, speaker and consultant on aligning the workforce to business strategy. With over 35 years of executive leadership, she brings a unique lens and proven methodologies to help CEOs demand performance from HR and to develop the capability of HR to deliver business results by aligning the workforce to the strategy. Carol founded Anderson Performance Partners, LLC, to bring together organizational leaders to unite all aspects of the business - CEO’s, CFO’s and HR executives – to build, implement and evaluate a workforce alignment strategy. She is the author of Repurpose HR: Moving from cost center to business accelerator published by the Society for Human Resource Management in June 2015, which provides a practical RoadMap for human resource professionals to lead the process of aligning the workforce to the business strategy, and deliver results. 

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