Managing Consultant Rodrigo Quezada Dighero attends Working Futures on 13 November 2019. At this event, they’ll be discussing the challenges HR Directors need to overcome to deliver greater productivity, digital transformation and formalise new strategies around organisation purpose.
HR's changing role
HR’s role now is to deliver the performance, frameworks and environments for both people and systems to allow true business transformation. This requires HR to reorganise itself and to grasp the purpose of the organisation and formalise new strategies around the purpose of the company.
We’ll be attending Working Futures on the 13th November 2019. There we will debate these elements and provide the shift in thinking that HR Directors now need to form the productive organisation.
Challenges organisations face
- Disruptive technologies
- Low entry barriers, new segments served
- Short product lifecycles
- Stress, wider product portfolio, product profitability
- More demanding customer experience
- Customer service, customer journey and customer lifecycle
- Multi-generation workforce – there are now 5 generations in the workforce
The challenges leaders face is how to envision, set and lead a flexible organisation that can quickly adapt and thrive in an ever changing and demanding environment
Creating a flexible and meaningful organisation requires a different approach
Forming strategy around purpose
Purpose:
- Allows peers and management to set a connection towards something bigger than just business profits
- Enables a multi-generation workforce to connect around a greater outcome
- Encourages disruptive design and thinking
- Allows the company to adapt, move and thrive by creating the products and services that best serve clients
- Facilitates flexibility to respond rapidly
- Provides speed to execution and calibration
- Allows people and teams to risk and innovate
- Eliminates silos, fostering interdependence, trust and team work
Many high-growth companies use purpose to generate sustained profitable growth, stay relevant in a rapidly changing world, and deepen ties with their stakeholders.
Targets and incentive plans became cross-functional, designed to build capabilities both within and across businesses. And at every step, purpose helps everybody in the company understand the “why”.
Questions leaders can ask about their organisation
Leaders need to constantly assess and calibrate how purpose can guide strategy, and they need to be willing to adjust or redefine this relationship as conditions change. Questions Leaders and People/HR Directors should be asking are:
- Does your company have a purpose?
- Do your company have a clear vision?
- What drives your company’s vision?
- Is your vision based on a clear purpose?
- Are your plans and projects tightly connected to your purpose and business outcomes?
- Are your people aligned around your vision?
How we can help HR Directors to align the organisation around purpose
- “From There To Here” Design
- Transformational maps
- Pathways definition
- Disruptive design
- Interdependence and shared outcomes
- Identifying Blockers and gaps
- Identifying Behaviours
- Putting in place new structures
In addition, we can help HR Directors with
- Strategic Workforce planning
- Digital Transformation
- HR Transformation
- Change management
- Recruitment Excellence – readiness assessment and implementation
- Culture
- People
- HR Target Operating Model
- HR Processes
- HR Supplier Management
- HR Rewards
- Talent Acquisition and Management
- Performance Management
- HR ITS and Applications (WorkDay, SAP HCM, Oracle HCM)
- Programme and Implementation Support
Get in touch to find out how we can help your organisation with strategy, digital and HR transformation.
