Welcome to Part Two of the Top 10 books that helped to disrupt my approach to HR.

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Welcome to Part Two of the Top 10 books that helped to disrupt my approach to HR.
There’s a few reading lists doing the rounds so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and give you my personal favourites.
If you’ve been in HR a while, you’ll have your own collection of cringe worthy moments. Those memories of when you launched a new process that achieved absolutely nothing. Instead of trying to make our broken processes easier to use, this blog explores how we can have a genuine impact.
My business partner loves uncertainty. She deliberately won’t book a hotel till the last minute so she has the excitement of not knowing where she’ll be staying that night. She starts her shopping on Christmas eve. She actually enjoys hot desking. She is not the norm.
Every organisation seems to crave greater levels of innovation to survive. They add “Innovative” to their corporate values. CEOs boast about in their annual statements.
If you’re in HR, then I’m sure you experience those awful moments when you question whether the processes you and your team have worked so hard to create are actually delivering results.
We often hear organisations say that their “employees are our greatest assets”. What a horrible phrase. Assets are things like buildings, computer equipment and furniture – not human beings.
I am going to assume that anyone reading this already gets the need for better and different HR practices. I am not going to bang on about the demands of a “VUCA” world, the pace of change, the rise of the Millennials, or a more globalised, networked economy.
As the dissatisfaction with the traditional “three legged stool” model for HR increases, many HR professionals are asking the question “What is the next generation HR structure?”
A client recently called me to talk about improving their employment brand. I was very excited and had loads of ideas about how they might change their approach to some of the big HR ticket items such as talent, performance and succession.
The fact that people believe that only one in five business leaders will tell the truth when the going gets tough would suggest that they are not managing their communications terribly well.
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