New Years Resolution for Human Resources

Every year people make resolutions for the new year but how many really follow through with them? For those of you in human resources I would make the following resolutions and stick with them if you want to continue to sit at the table or even be invited.

• make a concerted effort to ensure you are managing talent;
• be totally involved in the business from the ground floor up;
• hire with passion and intensity;
• interview candidates with deep questions, touch their EQ;
• visit creative communities and see what may fit into your business model;
• use employees as resources not just as workers;
• advertise creatively using all social networks as a basis;
• counsel the CEO, be his/er right hand on everything;
• celebrate failure as the basis for new innovation, there is no strike out in innovation and creativity;
• lead don't follow.

I hope that these new years resolutions resonate & will help you be the HR exec or CHRO you want to be and should be to be successful. Feel free to add to the list by emailing me or commenting on this post.