Middle manager burnout is emptying the leadership pipeline of exactly the people organisations can't afford to lose.

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Topics: HR Managers

If your business strives to be a great place for your employees to work, it is essential that you have a leadership team that Employees trust implicitly and are willing to follow. In some ways, the HR representative on your leadership team needs to walk the talk and role model behaviours, not just for your Employees, but also for the others on your leadership team. It would be fair to say that HR Managers are responsible not only for providing a model for the leadership team to emulate, but also for ensuring that the leadership team follows that lead and provides a cohesive example, in words and action, for the entire business.This should be HR best practice, but scan an HR publication and you will see examples of the exact opposite behaviour from leadership. Historically, the top behaviours that HR Managers need to succeed looked very different to the way they look today. In a world where trust is at an all time low, and technology disruption at an all time high, which behaviours are the ones HR Managers most need to model?

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Topics: HR Managers

Let’s go back in time for a second, to the year 2000. Your HR team is busy getting through a lot of paperwork, recruiting for new employees, preparing reports and managing employee information. You are reading through several reports. There’s data about staff turnover, the number of hours worked this week and absenteeism rates. The reports also look into how long employees stay with the organisation on average, diversity of employees and promotion rates amongst different roles.

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Topics: HR Efficiencies, HR Data, HR Metrics, HR Managers

Topics: HR Manager, HR Leadership, HR Values, HR Managers, Human Resources, HR Culture