Aitch Are Gives You...
To celebrate my 30th year in HR, I recently took a step back (don't worry, I wasn't near the edge of a cliff) and reflected on what has happened over that time in the Wonderful World of Work.
At a general level, when I started out, it was dictated and typed-up inter-office memorandums rather than emails, hierarchical decision-making rather than cross-functional collaboration and alignment, local outlook rather than global horizons, and 2 or 3 decisions a day rather than 10 decisions an hour. What about at an HR level? As I have steadily climbed the greasy pole to the rarified height that I enjoy today, I have had the benefit of working for a private and public sector organisations, companies large and small, listed and unlisted businesses, French, US and UK-owned enterprises, national and international companies, and so on. Variety is the spice of life, after all. And yet, despite all this diversity, I would contend that there are a set of people management principles that stand the test of time regardless of the sort of business you work for. I have listed these below, and over the coming weeks and months will expand on each. So, here are my Top 10 Golden rules of Aitch Are: - Don't f--k with people's pay! - Culture. It takes years to build and nurture, and minutes to destroy. - Goodbye performance management, hello any-time conversations. - The only three HR tools you will ever need: ears, mouth, brain. - Make engagement easy. What's working, what's not? - Put people at the centre of any new initiative. - There's no such thing as bad change, just poorly executed change. - If there’s a scrap to be had, do it in person rather than over email. - Keep things as simple as possible. You are surrounded by people who have a knack of making things more complicated than they need to be. - Talk the language of the business. - GSD. Otherwise known as "credibility comes through delivery". - Continually build your expertise through lifelong learning and networking. - Be appropriately opinionated. - "It's a business decision, nothing personal". Pull the other one... - Even good CEOs need a strong coach. OK, so that's more than 10, but maths was never my strong-point...
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Sandra Daniels
7/2/2021 09:57:12 pm
Such timeless advise. Can we please get this right!
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