Human Resources: Leadership and Strategic Impact

Make HR an equal partner in your company's future. Learn how to shape organization strategy and make the HR investments that contribute most to company success.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Strategic Thinking and HR Alignment

• The strategic role of HR
• Ask the right questions
• Strategy is choices and optimization
• What’s important versus what's pivotal
• Pivotal innovation
• Efficiency, effectiveness, and impact

2. Impact: What Talent and Organization Drives Strategy?

• Important is the wrong question
• Define sustainable strategic success
• Map strategic differentiation
• The bottleneck is pivotal
• Find the bottleneck in a process
• What makes sweepers pivotal?
• Return on improved performance

3. Effectiveness: How HR Deliverables Drive Pivotal Talent and Organization Attributes

• Pivotal talent attributes
• Pivotal HR deliverables

4. Efficiency: What HR Investments Drive Pivotal HR Deliverables?

• Strategic HR budget
• Pitfalls of benchmarking as HR strategy

5. Asking the Right Questions

• A strategic question guide
• Strategy energy and rebalancing
• HR measurement and analytics

Conclusion

• Next steps