Phoenix Strategic Performance & Learning Transfer Solutions Launches eBook on HR as a Business Accelerator
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) June 01, 2016 -- In a collaborative effort, Joanne Flynn, Phoenix Strategic Performance, and Mike Smith, Learning Transfer Solutions, have published their new work, The Multifunctional Approach to HR as a Business Accelerator. With over 35+ years of experience each, working both in HR and with business units, Flynn and Smith reflect on the strategic importance of Human Capital on all levels, together with the role of HR as a business accelerator. From their experiences, they have had a front row seat in the evolving and declining role of HR in organizations globally.
Over the past 35 years, the role of HR has gone from business aligned to operational and compliance focused. In that journey, HR’s contribution to managing and developing people has been in steep decline. Paradoxically, this is at a time when the need for strategic HR is increasingly critical. Flynn and Smith write from two different continents and they both have significant global experience. From two different vantage points, they have experienced and share similar perspectives.
"Behavioural change is at the centre of most effective initiatives, whether that involves the individual learner, line management and performance improvement, the competence and confidence of the HR department, or the CEO's concern for business strategy implementation. All these initiatives are concerned with changing peoples’ behaviour. Solutions to behavioural change are out there; the problem is they are not widely shared. We hope this ebook, at minimum, adds to the debate, and at maximum, shares valuable insights into how to create empowered individuals," says Mike Smith, Learning Transfer Solutions.
The key themes of the eBook focus on the role of HR in today’s changing organizations and the need for HR to:
- Anticipate and champion change
- Speak the language of the business
- Advocate for people development as a strategic imperative
“We continually hear the assertion that people are our most important asset. Today, this phrase is strategically important since high-performing human capital is a key driver impacting an organization’s ability to innovate, accelerate growth and maintain competitive advantage. In our hyper-changing world, the enterprise challenge is to ensure that its people can pace with the organization’s strategic initiatives. HR must play a significant role in managing human capital while creating a continuous improvement learning culture. This is HR’s opportunity to be a business anticipator, speak the language of the business and deliver business solutions to the strategic challenges involving human capital," says Joanne Flynn, Founder, Phoenix Strategic Performance.
Today’s organizations need and demand an HR function that establishes business partnerships and provides and delivers business solutions through the disciplined development of its people – the human capital asset. HR is the champion voice of Human Capital as a strategic business accelerator.
Learn more and download your copy of the eBook.
About Phoenix Strategic Performance:
A strategic, business-focused human capital advisory firm bringing an integrated business discipline to human capital performance. We do this through: data and business analytics filtered at multiple levels; strategic insights into your most important asset, your people; and future-focused workforce planning & development capabilities. http://www.phoenixstrategicperformance.com
About Learning Transfer Solutions:
Learning transfer is the #1 problem in training today. Most estimates are that only 10 - 30% of training transfers into job performance. Learning Transfer Solutions (LTS) is dedicated to solving this problem. After 30 years in the training business as both academics and practitioners, LTS realized that until we solve the transfer of training problem, training will never be the strategic advantage that it should be. http://ltsglobal.com/
Joanne Flynn, Phoenix Strategic Performance, http://www.phoenixstrategicperformance.com, +1 4802425522, [email protected]
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