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Ten Steps for HR to Earn That Seat at the Table

Recruiting by Numbers: Friday, August 10th, 2007

Understand your organization’s business and financials.
Spend time in each HR staff meeting educating the team about company matters.
Measure and publish total workforce return on investment—not merely HR metrics.
Be a business partner, not a police officer.
Push the responsibility of policy administration ownership on line management.
Increase the organization’s intangibles—things that “can’t be dropped on your foot”
Develop and prepare all the resources of the organization to perform at their highest level by auditing and creating organizational capabilities.
Find new ways to get transactional tasks done to free up HR to work on more strategic, value-adding activities.
Build and cultivate relationships; take someone to lunch. “Get out from under your desk” and let managers know what’s going on in HR
Keep abreast of developments in your professional area of expertise by reading professional books and articles, attending seminars and taking classes.

Kathy Gurchiek, HR News