From the course: Change Management for HR
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Leadership matters
From the course: Change Management for HR
Leadership matters
- Early in my business career, I learned a number of very important leadership principles. The most important one was written on a napkin. It simply said, Leadership = Vision + Execution. The vision part means the HR leader must be able to communicate a clear and strategic vision of the benefits of the new process so that everyone involved understands why it's needed. The vision needs to make the business case that the change is worthwhile, and if this vision isn't agreed upon first, the project won't be approved. And if it is approved because HR pushed it through using some legal or compliance threat, it will fail. I heard Jim Rohn say this sometime in the eighties, "Don't major in minor things." My interpretation of this is to not sweat the small stuff. So the advice I'd give to an HR person, if there are legal and compliance issues that your company must make, embed them into some bigger initiative rather than push them…
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