Put Down Your Pencils: A Message to Global HR Professionals

The world is changing. The same global forces changing the very nature of work affect the HR profession. In this age of disruption, we have a shared responsibility: to our organizations as they navigate turbulent futures & to ourselves, sourcing as we redefine the purpose of our chosen profession.

Ask the average employee what they believe HR is responsible for. You’ll hear: ‘hiring’, ‘payroll’ & ‘training’. So, what’s the problem?

The tasks listed above are disappearing. Manual, repetitive, administrative tasks are being automated.

To best secure strong futures for our organizations & our profession, it’s important that we look forward. First from a ‘department’ lens – what will organizations need / expect from HR? Then from a ‘practitioner’s’ lens – what skills will we need to support those goals?

This isn’t an article about technology, though it could be. It’s true that technology holds the key to solving many of our existing challenges – talent/skills shortages, higher attrition, stretched budgets. It’s also true that the HR professional’s ability to leverage technology within their practice will become increasingly important. talent management in hr

However, technology is not a panacea. Blindly pairing technology with a problem, in and of itself, does not solve anything. It’s in that spirit that we’ll discuss the required future skill sets for HR practitioners.

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