Climbing the HR Career Ladder
What skills, strategies and drivers are needed to climb the HR career ladder? Insight HR answers this question in their recent webinar, which features a panel of industry thought-leaders.
In the webinar, HR leaders discuss how their work has been impacted by digital transformation, economic change and COVID-19. One thing is clear - there are many new challenges HR professionals face as a result of these events and changes. But perhaps the most pressing challenge of them all is the global skills crisis.
On responding to the skills crisis, Simply Get Result’s CEO, Simon Haines, shares his expert insight on ‘Winning Skills’ and how HR leaders can use them to succeed in this volatile world.
Differentiating and thriving with ‘Winning Skills’
Simply analysis of over 900,000 HR job postings shows that high performing HR organisations are differentiating through ‘Winning Skills’. HR leaders and other pioneers embrace innovation and experimentation using data analytics and technology. This helps them find the skills needed to close gaps in their businesses and gain a competitive advantage.
Most of the skills which drive a competitive advantage are found outside of HR. Therefore, traditional or long-established HR skills are unlikely to make the biggest impact. HR leaders need to collaborate with colleagues in different functions to identify the ‘Winning Skills’ that can help their business stay agile and on top of its game.
In the webinar, Simon covered ‘Winning Skills’ and how to find them. Here are his key lessons:
Translate your business strategy into underlying capabilities and skills - define your future success not only in terms of financial and customer metrics but in the skills required to achieve those goals.
Benchmark against the best - compare your organisation to a combination of your established competitors, innovators in your industry and leaders in the fields where you want to excel.
Track emerging, declining and forecast growth skills - to ‘future proof’ your workforce, you need to understand which skills will become redundant and which will fuel your future - and the data is out there to do just that.
Estimate, don’t survey, for the skills you have today - technology like Simply can use data from your HR system to estimate the most likely skills across your workforce today - the detail you need to identify critical skill gaps and investment priorities.
Use AI tech to evaluate your build or buy decisions - use role adjacency to pinpoint career development opportunities. And use market supply data to evaluate hiring potential. If you use Simply Navigate, evaluate the ability to ‘borrow’, ‘base’ or ‘bot’ at the same time
Prioritise the closure of your skills gaps - make a smart balance of most important and urgent vs. most do-able. And always explore skills development opportunities; developing skills can be 4-6x times cheaper than hiring. You retain organisation knowledge, and development investment is hugely motivating to your current workforce and future hires.
Download our free report, The Winning Skills Advantage, for more insight. You can also learn more by reading Winning Skills and Where to Find Them.
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