Holding Strategic Conversations with the Business: HR Leaders Share Their Insights
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Holding Strategic Conversations with the Business: HR Leaders Share Their Insights

June 14, 2021 | Report

The ability of senior HR leaders to initiate and manage strategic conversations is becoming a critical skill, requiring a comprehensive understanding of the wider business and a perspective that extends well beyond their functional expertise.

Strategic HR conversations should fulfill several important roles, most notably challenging assumptions, predicting outcomes, diagnosing problems, taking the temperature of the organization regularly, and prescribing actions which add value to the wider business. The arguments need to be supported by an extensive use of rich HR data to be credible. Successful strategic conversations entail candor, the ability to suspend judgement and openness, which collectively trigger new ideas and enable trade-offs to be weighted and decisions made.

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AUTHORS

MarionDevine

Principal Researcher, Human Capital, Europe
The Conference Board

MichelSyrett

Senior Human Capital Fellow
The Conference Board


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