Thanks to everyone who read, liked, commented, shared and got in touch following the first two blogs in this series. We look forward to further interaction as we work our way through “How HR can add value to your Business”. The response has been outstanding and hence why this blog is a little late in coming out. Blog 3 is about HR adding value through keeping it simple and using the mantra ‘Standardise, Simplify and Optimise’, which was introduced to me by a great MD back in my early Executive days.
HR should be focussed on achieving outcomes and solving business problems. Yet, you often see HR functions trying to come up with complicated and expensive initiatives and trying to please everybody. You see this with Recruitment, Talent Management, Performance Management, Employment Relations, Remuneration and Benefits, Learning and Development, and many other HR processes and initiatives. HR tries to add value using complicated methods which leads to expense and administration nightmares.
To back away from this we believe organisations must Standardise, Simplify and Optimise what they are doing.
1. Standardise – Many complex business challenges can be vastly improved by standardising some HR processes
2. Simplify – Make sure your HR solutions are as effective and simple as possible, and remove any unnecessary steps
3. Optimise – After stripping things back to basics, build on what’s there to make it the most effective HR solution for your business
From experience helping to add value to businesses, we have added a fourth term – Transform. HR, like all areas of the business, needs to Transform what they are doing to adapt their organisation for challenges that are faced in today’s ever changing business world.
This is what we mean by Transform:
4. Transform – Once you have the initiatives optimised and adding value to the business you must think about staying ahead of the game and continuing to look at ways to transform your performance. Remember, this is not about making things complicated, simple is still key.
The key to remember with the above mantra is to keep things simple. HR stops adding value when things get complicated. Often when initiatives and processes get complicated, more administration and cost comes into the equation, HR starts to form a negative reputation and the focus on adding value to the business and solving problems is lost.
The above are just some of our thoughts on HR needing to keep it simple to add value to a business. Let me know what you think, get in contact on the details below.
If you would like to discuss the above and look at how HR could be adding value to your business visit www.completehr.co.nz or email me on michael.peters@completehr.co.nz or call me on +64 275 479117 to arrange a time to meet to discuss this further. At CompleteHR we believe the HR function needs to be commercial, practical and pragmatic, but most of all adds value to your business.