Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

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To be different, to be spontaneous, to be authentic, to trust, to try something new everyday, to face uncertainty as an adventure - all of these challenges require courage. The new role of leaders and HR who support them is to ENCOURAGE people to do all of the above in...

By Edna Pasher on May 10, 2022

HR Managers do not have an active role in the matters of employees within an organization. Who has? Individual Managers. While the Managers are focusing on other aspects of Management (Planning, Controlling, Monitoring, etc.), the Human aspect is neglected. Why? Not intentionally. The Managers do not have skills to make...

By Madhusudan Rao on May 10, 2022

Agility is complicated.  Just ask Navy SEALs, Fighter-Pilots, Fire-Fighters and other everyday agile leaders who have undertaken the arduous journey to mastery.  It requires a three dimensional system, acutely oriented to our unfolding journey of dynamic complexity and detail complexity, which we must be fully triaging.  We must address the whole challenge,...

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Adaptability is essentially a cultural element and reflects typical thinking patterns and ways of working.

The main enemy is therefore itself a cultural one.  Embedded behaviours in managers and staff, underpinned by procedures and systems which emphasise the day job and getting work done/targets achieved over development projects, networking with...

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Although it is evident that practices such as "hard & soft management" have been the fundamental in the development of the current human resource management function, they can also sometimes hold organisations back in terms of proactive change. The practices are very relevant to industry 20 or 30 years ago, however in...

By Amy Mahmood on May 9, 2022