Saturday, March 6, 2010

What do you think? What Does Success in HR Look Like?

One of the discussions my HR Unplugged colleagues and I have all the time is about success in HR. What does it look like? Sound like? Smell like (OK...maybe not smell...)

The field of HR has gone from personnel management to human resource management. We hear constantly about being a business partner and having a seat at the executive table. Are these measures of success? And what does having a 'seat at the table actually mean'?

My colleagues sometime talk about being business professionals with a people focus to describe who we are. We discuss having a seat at the business leaders table every day, not just at an 'executive' table once in a while, as a measure of our success. This blog post at fistfuloftalent.com starts to get at what our HR team has been trying to achieve.

How do you describe your work as an HR professional? How do you measure your success?

We'd like to hear from you.

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