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The Future of HR

January 28th, 2017 Posted by Capabilities, Human Resources, Strategy, Uncategorized 70 comments

Human Resources, as a function, has an image problem.  And a self-confidence problem.

As a function HR has an incredibly broad set of responsibilities – everything from compliance tasks (payroll, EEO, ACA, ADA, FMLA and all the other acronyms) to day-day blocking and tackling (hiring, firing, reorganizing and paying) to the more strategic work (advising and consulting around people, organization, workforce strategy, business execution, talent pipelines, engagement etc).

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What’s A Job?

September 6th, 2016 Posted by Capabilities, Career, Freelance, Human Resources, Strategy, Work, Workplace 63 comments

When you are looking for a pattern, you can see it all over the place. Just recently, a client asked me what I thought about job descriptions.   I could hear in her voice that she wasn’t sure what my answer would be and that it may have been a source of much discussion inside the company.

Here’s the rub … with the nature of work changing, with the speed at which technology is changing how we do our jobs and with the constant drumbeat of disruptive innovations in many industries it is just plain hard to keep a job description up to date and accurate.

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