Why do people choose careers in HR? You might be surprised to know that many people high up within HR didn’t start their careers looking to go in that direction and I am one of them. An article published by Rasmussen College sites 10 perks of working in HR and I thought I would share a couple of them with you.
- You get a chance to change lives,
- You get to help develop the people around you
- and you get the gratification of solving problems!
All of which is true to a greater or lesser extent, but if HR are the ones responsible for changing other peoples lives and developing others, who does it for HR?After a 25 year career in HR, I know from personal experience, how great it can be when you are aligned with the organisation and together you are achieving targets and growing the business. However, what about when things aren’t going so well in the organisation? I have also experienced how isolating and lonely it can be at times. Role model of best behaviour, holder of the values and keeper of the organisation’s secrets!
Richard Elliott, HR Manager at ManpowerGroup posted a series of blogs on LinkedIn about the many different roles you might be required to carry out if you are an HR generalist. To many of us, it was hugely entertaining but not a surprise. We know from personal experience what it’s really like to be in HR.
Yesterday morning, I received a CIPD update stating that although coaching is currently one of the most popular methods of training amongst employees (92% of respondents to a recent survey rate it useful), just 9% of employees said they’d actually received it over the last 12 months. I suspect the figure for the percentage of people in HR who receive coaching would be lower than 9%
This statistic might seem surprising after so many years of talking about creating coaching cultures still so few employees actually receive coaching. But, what if you are the person responsible for creating and role modelling the coaching culture? Who then coaches and mentors you?
What if your boss plays lip service to coaching? So whilst you hold others accountable for coaching their team and colleagues and you coach your team, who coaches you?
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