Some people believe HR is there for the business. Some believe they’re there for the staff. Some believe it’s somewhere in between.
For me, if your HR and People function is being led the way it should be, it’s none of those things. It’s this:
A safe place to land for you, for your business and for everyone in it.
Continue readingWe talk a lot about psychological safety in HR circles. It has its own frameworks now, its own measurement tools, its own place on the engagement survey. Leaders go on training courses about it. Consultants get paid handsomely to come and assess it.
And yet, in every organisation I have ever worked in or alongside, the single biggest determinant of whether people feel safe to speak, to challenge, to bring their whole thinking to work, has never been a programme. It has never been a workshop. It has never been a carefully worded set of company values on a wall.
It has always been the person at the top.
Continue readingFounders don’t need an HR function. They need someone who understands that their business isn’t a business to them. It’s everything. And that changes everything.
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