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 Helping Executives Build Business

June 2006 Newsletter

 

Improving visibility.  Partnering.  Becoming a change agent in the organization instead of the one being changed.  These are challenges for HR professionals today.

           

This month's newsletter addresses some of these issues and uncovers some ways HR can become a change agent and strategic partner in building business.  Articles deal with profitability, succession planning, avoiding the five big HR mistakes and the role business strategy is taking in HR education and training.

           

Become a change agent and a strategic partner that will help your business grow.  Keep up to date with ideas and proven advice that can help advance your organization and the HR profession.  OI Partners can help, whether your concern lies in leadership development, outplacement or coaching solutions.  Call today for a confidential and frank discussion about your organization.

 

Anne Mahoney Glose

OI Partners (Williamsville, NY)

Please click on the links below to read the complete articles.

An HR Scorecard for Performance
Companies today are forced to change and adapt their businesses so that they can sustain and grow their operations. Each major department within the organization must constantly re-evaluate its activities and contributions or risk being outsourced, downsized or possibly eliminated. Why is this and what can HR do about it?

Succession Planning for Organizational Survival and Growth
In today's business world with its ever-changing and challenging environment, organizations need to effectively develop skilled employees to maximize performance and retain their talented workforce. By promoting key individuals into key positions and grooming them for succession within the organization, careers are advanced, employee satisfaction is improved, attrition rates are decreased and the organization reaps the benefits of diminished recruitment costs, along with assured organizational survival and growth. However, succession planning can be so much more.

Five Big HR Mistakes
Start leveraging your team and talent. Every company has a choice on how it leverages its HR function. Today, executive leaders need to focus on the potential contributions of their colleagues and avoid making one or more of five big mistakes.

Becoming a Key Player in Business Strategy
With respect to business strategy, human capital issues influence both what strategies should be chosen, and how strategies should be implemented. The time is right for HR executives to take on an important new role in organizations. They need to become major players in the development and implementation of business strategy. This is a role that adds a great deal of value and one that HR ...

HR's New Breed
Today's up-and-coming HR professionals, those now in undergraduate and graduate programs, are learning things that weren't necessarily part of traditional HR--from finance and operations to statistics and strategy. When these newly minted professionals begin their HR careers, what will they expect--and what can employers expect from them?

 

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Anne Mahoney Glose
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