The New Stretch for HR

Last Spring, the University of Michigan, the Global Consulting Alliance and the Society for Human Resource Management released new objectives that push the HR professional to strive toward a new level -far beyond the business partner level- to that of a business leader. It is probably one of the most profound directives in the HR profession in the last eight years.


Regan McBain Traub

"What that signals to me," says Regan McBain Traub, "is that HR is going to have to be more connected to the external customer. They're going to have to educate staff about how to do business in a different way or how to behave in a different way that will both attract and retain customers more effectively. This is a completely new focus for HR who has been traditionally focused on internal processes and employees. It's also about working more actively with the leadership team in helping them understand why their making decisions, what the decision criteria is, what's their process and really giving some feedback to the leadership team. The vast majority of HR professionals are no where near this level. We're only seeing this in the most high performance companies."

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>Big savings on administrative time, resources and money
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