Human Resources: Leadership and Strategic Impact

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Strategic Thinking and HR Alignment

• The strategic role of HR
• Ask the right questions
• Strategy is choices and optimization
• What’s important versus what's pivotal
• Pivotal innovation
• Efficiency, effectiveness, and impact

2. Impact: What Talent and Organization Drives Strategy?

• Important is the wrong question
• Define sustainable strategic success
• Map strategic differentiation
• The bottleneck is pivotal
• Find the bottleneck in a process
• What makes sweepers pivotal?
• Return on improved performance

3. Effectiveness: How HR Deliverables Drive Pivotal Talent and Organization Attributes

• Pivotal talent attributes
• Pivotal HR deliverables

4. Efficiency: What HR Investments Drive Pivotal HR Deliverables?

• Strategic HR budget
• Pitfalls of benchmarking as HR strategy

5. Asking the Right Questions

• A strategic question guide
• Strategy energy and rebalancing
• HR measurement and analytics

Conclusion

• Next steps