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 Hiii y’all, I AM FLYING HIGH THIS AM!!!!! You may be wondering why… well I’ve been blessed to see Egypt play two matches in the World Cup and we won both matches I attended!!!! 🇪🇬 Which secured us our FIRST World Cup win ever AND the first time we’ve advanced to the round of 16!!! To be there for two epic historical moments meant everything to me! Needless to say I’m desperado to go to Atlanta for Tuesday’s match, so if you got a hookup who can help me secure tickets, lmk?!!!! Will be forever grateful. <333 You can keep up with my travels on insta where I've documented some of the wildest moments I've witnessed attending matches. It’s been an incredible experience! Another incredible experience: 📺 This month’s HR Therapy!! Does your CEO think you already have a workforce plan ready to go for how AI will impact skills, jobs and roles? I think mine might (Adam, if you’re reading this it’s almost done, I promise!) Never fear because this month’s HR Therapy helps you put together a plan and address how AI could impact your workforce. My panelists and I will dig into what’s actually happening, how this could impact your org and how to make sense of the noise of it all. Now, onto today! A new quarter, a new theme, a new path for HR… Sponsored by Go1 Getting stakeholders to say YES to learning investment is a whole separate skill set...and most HR leaders are figuring it out in real time! 👀 Go1 surveyed 950 IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Compliance leaders to find out exactly what they need to see before approving a learning solution. Great ideas don't always get approved, but well-positioned ideas do! 🧠 Builder Mode The architects won: Last quarter, I left you with some different paths HR could go down… I outlined three potential paths:
And y'all wrote in and decided, overwhelmingly, the architect path was the one y'all thought we were moving towards. Which, TBH? Tracks. Every conversation I have with HR people right now has the same undertone: we are so tired of duct-taping broken systems back together every quarter. We don't want another Band-Aid!!! We want to actually build something that holds and works for the moment we’re in. Not for where we were 5 years ago. So that's the theme this quarter. Builder mode activated. Every issue, I'm walking into a different “room” in the HR house and by the end of each edition, I’m deciding what happens to it… There are only three options. AND THEY'RE NOT SUBTLE:
Can you tell I’ve maybe been watching too many home reno Tiktoks??? So, what does this look like? Let me show you! The house has 3 fates: We are the architects of our fate and the captain of our companies. (Inspo: William Ernest Henley, Invictus) I was trying to start with a rousing quote to inspire you to be excited about builder mode. Because IT IS EXCITING!!!! How lucky are we that we can reimagine our world?! At least, that's how I view it. Here's the dealio for this quarter: each week I’m going to pick something in HR and I'm going to talk about if we improve, rebuild or tear it down. Here’s the criteria for how I’m going to decide what falls into those buckets: 🔨 Improve: The bones are good. The thing mostly works. It just needs better execution, not a full demolition crew. These are the topics where the idea was never the problem, it was just built badly, orrrr nobody's touched it since 2016. Usually the latter! How it shows up in our work: the well-intentioned program that got built once, in a hurry, and then just... never got revisited. Nobody's mad at it buttttt nobody loves it either. It's the guest room you turned into storage three years ago and keep meaning to deal with and declutter. 🏗️ Rebuild: The foundation is worth keeping, but what's on top of it needs to come down and go back up differently. The bones are there but the insides be messy. How it shows up in HR: I most often see this happening when orgs go through a period of change and the policies, tech, and the standard operating procedures haven’t caught up just yet. The intent of what needs to be done is there, the execution is just not quite there. 🧨 Tear down: Some rooms in the HR house are structurally unsound and no amount of reno can save them. We're not sanding it down. We're not throwing up new wallpaper. We're gutting it!!! Just call me the demolition crew. How it shows up in HR: it often manifests as the thing that everyone secretly knows is theatre. Data collected and never used. Values printed on a wall that the org doesn't actually practice. It exists because someone once upon a time had to check a box, and nobody's suggested stopping the practice. That hit me in the gut. At the end of every edition, I’ll hand down a verdict about the topic. Whether it's to improve, rebuild or tear down. And I'll ask you to make your bets too, because I’m not always right. What's next: Next week I’m starting with onboarding. Is onboarding the room almost every company has somewhat half-renovated and just... never finished??? My verdict's already forming... Catch you next week! (HUMAN) RESOURCES
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Sponsored by Remote Your employees rated pay satisfaction a 7 out of 10...but they're also interviewing somewhere else. 👀 An important reminder that high scores don't mean happy people, BTW! Remote surveyed 6,200+ professionals across seven countries, so you don't have to learn this the hard way. 💡 SONG OF THE WEEK 🎧 Bound to You (Stash Koing Remix), Jocelyn Alice Let’s go back in time to 2018… before I obsessively washed my hands every time I touched something. This song was in a spin class and I had to add it to my playlist. I can still remember the choreography we did to this song. I blasted it on the way to the gym recently and haven’t stopped listening to it. I hope you enjoyed this, please let me know what you think and what other topics you'd love for me to cover. I'm allll ears. Reminder: Take care of yourself and know that I support you. | |||||||||||
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