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Focus is building an HR survey... what would you like to see included?
Focus is building an HR survey designed to highlight the industry's top priorities, investments and challenges, and benchmark today's HR professionals. Practitioners, strategists and consultants, what are your most pressing HR questions? What would you like to learn from your colleagues?
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The key question I always ask senior HR leaders: "What talent capabilities does the business strategy demand, and what specific actions/programs are being enacted to deliver and measure the contribution of those capabilities?"
Caty/Jessica,
Took a look at the results. Nice job. The single most interesting thing to me is the results on how the effectiveness and value of HR is measured. After more than 30 years it still makes me smile ironically that management wants to put responsibility for things like retention, engagement,employee "satisfaction", hiring and selection in the HR responsibility column.
We facilitate those processes and design the systems, but in reality the "outcomes" happen in the departments.
Years ago I was was on a highly leveraged compensation plan. The CEO wanted to put 100% of my at risk comp on similar outcomes, I told him I would be willing to put the same amount at risk as he and the other executives were, that we "owned" the culture together.
High performing organizations don't make HR alone accountable for metrics like that- you make "leadership" and management accountable. THEN you see meaningful change...:)
When WE owned the metrics we saw improvement...
Potential questions:
As more baby-boomers retire, how is your company handling the transfer of cirical knowledge and skills to younger employees?
What steps is your business taking to retain its top talent as the economy continues to improve?
What are the most critical skill and knowledge gaps you see with new hires, including college graduates?
Is your organization placing any noteably greater emphasis on ethics and integrity as a part of core value reinforcement?
One of my questions to senior leaders is: What does your picture of success around Talent Management look like? I am also aways curious to see what type of business continuity plans they have put into place around their leaders or HiPos. We always hear leaders talk about business continuity from a facilities or infrastructure standpoint, but what happens when you lose key people within the organization? Can you survive?
1. What is HR's role?
2. Does HR have (or deserve)a seat on the board?
3. How do you measure the value that HR brings to the company?
Hey everyone!
Not sure if you heard, but we actually published the results of this survey last week! Check it out here: http://www.focus.com/research/focus-survey-results-2011-crowdsourced-hr-survey/
Best,
Caty
HR Community Manager
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