Jarred Consulting

Digitisation has taken over much of the paper-shuffling process of HR but it’s about more than efficiency – HR development in the tech age is morphing the face and function of the department. You may have a handle on the IT but do you have the soft skills in place that make up the other half of the story? Do you and your people have the authority, confidence and competence needed to lead the transformation? HR sits with its finger on the pulse like never before, lifting the role of the department to a strategic partner. This is a huge opportunity for HR, business leaders and line managers but to deliver greater value, they must onboard skills to revolutionise three key areas.

Mindset

This involves a radical move in how HR sees itself, transforming the department from facilitation and function to articulating future organisational form.

• Meaningful and authoritative evidence-based conversations with all stakeholders come from a well-informed and confident standpoint. These insights are important for everyone.
• The right questions are asked to support initiatives that solve business problems.
• The impact of work is not just measured, it’s articulated so that everyone knows the value it has added.
• Budget, support and trust are secured to expand successful programmes.
• Requests are prioritised according to the value they will create for the organisation.
• Presentations back to the board are confidently handled – questions, solutions, and hypotheses go beyond the initial query.
• Graphs, graphics and storytelling enhance the message, giving it further gravity.

A deep understanding of data

Who understands the numbers better than the people who handle them day in and day out? They’re also involved with the human faces the numbers represent. By unlocking this unique position we open up new opportunities organisation-wide.

• An analytics mindset becomes commonplace and it focuses on outcomes.
• Gathering and utilising data becomes structured and adaptable, boosting credibility.
• Dashboard information is easily and competently leveraged to inform progress and decision-making.
• Your people know where data comes from and they can extract, manipulate and analyse what’s relevant.
• By selecting a range of data we drive sustainable change, insight is added by segmentation and highlighting correlations.

Developing bigger-picture authority

This is where future outcomes are influenced by the people uniquely in the know. It creates a robustly joined-up approach, building collaboration across your business functions. All departments work together, not simply existing in their own silos.

• Using a data-driven approach, projects become better aligned with wider business activity. Time and resources are saved, opportunities opened, and crises avoided.
• HR becomes focused and disciplined, able to concentrate on relevant investigations and actionable conclusions.
• The capabilities and value of the department to the whole organisation are expanded through development, best practice and insight.

The combination of tech, data and analysis enables innovation, which takes the department to a different level but this won’t happen if you have skill gaps. Even the highest-performing teams will need to update their capabilities and re-evaluate their scope if they’re going to step up.

HR development in the tech age – are you ready?

If not, we’d love to help. Our comprehensive development programme is designed to cover all the skills listed above and more – all tailored to your organisation and its needs. The place to start is a conversation. We’d love to hear from you.