I’m super excited to welcome Dave Ulrich back to the HRchat podcast! Dave has been ranked as the number one management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top-five coach in Forbes, and recognized in Thinkers50 Hall of Fame as one of the world’s leading business thinkers.
Dave has a passion for ideas with impact. Dave and his colleagues at the RBL Group have 30+ years of experience in helping organizations and individuals succeed through HR practices in talent, leadership, and organization.
Questions Posed to Dave in HRchat Episode 394 Include:
- Throughout the Covid crisis, you have remained an optimist; emphasizing the opportunities available to HR leaders willing to use this time as a chance to learn and grow. When it comes to the role of the HR function in contributing to the overall success of the org, what are you most hopeful for in 2022?
- What are the biggest challenges facing HR leaders now and through the rest of 2022? What are the roadblocks facing HRT and leaders to getting to success in the marketplace?
- In a 2021 interview, you explain: “Now is the time to reinvent HR by pivoting from benchmarking and best practice to guidance. Instead of improving by comparing oneself to others and by adapting what others do well, we must move beyond these descriptions of HR work to prescriptions … We want to move to guidance to be prescriptive on what should be done.” Can you expand on the why and explain how HR departments can become more prescriptive?
- In a recent LinkedIn article, called How Can Business and HR Leaders Simplify Complexity? You wrote:“Even before the last two years, business leaders had to deal with the complexities of their lives by satisficing, bundling, delineating, creating value and renewing. But with the unparalleled demands of the past two years, the ability to simplify complexity is more critical than ever.” Can you explain what Simplifies Complexity means and why it’s vital for HR leaders?
Dave previously appeared on the HRchat pod back in May 2020. In that show, he talked about ways leaders and employees can come through the Covid-19 crisis with greater resilience and new skills.
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