Transforming leadership
Transform HR in your organisation by meeting the leadership challenge of understanding the business and the people you lead.
No business sector has journeyed like HR to find it's place and path. No other department has undergone such radical transformation, has questioned itself more deeply or has doubted itself more strongly. Rather than dwelling on why this may be, it is time to look forward and grasp the strategic leadership opportunity now available. In order to be a great modern HR practitioner and a successful leader of your people, it is essential to understand the business, how it acts and why it behaves as it does. Much of this understanding can come from understanding your people, realising how they are motivated and why they make the decisions they do.
This next generation of business, civic, political and religious leaders, as well as social entrepreneurs, will understand their constituents’ state of mind and the capacity to quantify it better than their predecessors did. These leaders will be uniquely poised to create real economic growth.
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Get noticed, Get ahead: Free chapter download
In their book 'Transforming HR' Reddington, Williamson and Withers guide you through the process of transforming the HR function to deliver value to customers and superior performance and opportunity to employees. Download a free sample chapter below which identifies the five key challenges HR must address in order to add value and get noticed!
Interview with author Mark Withers
Hear Mark’s thoughts on the skills HR professionals need to adopt in an ever changing business environment.
To see more videos, including one from another co-author of Transforming HR, Mark Williamson visit the Elsevier HR channel on Youtube
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