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HR – Too Squishy, Flabby & Foggy For The C-Suite?

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Regular listeners to the Oven-Ready podcast will know I frequently cover the more apos humanistic apos side of HR I regularly interview guests on topics such as employee engagement organisational culture and purpose and wellbeing These are all of course hugely important to HR practitioners but in this episode I wanted to discover what the executives of the apos C-Suite apos are focused on and whether HR as a function is on the same page Andrew Bartlow this week apos s guest suggests in many instances we apos re not on the same page at all He argues HR apos s focus is often on apos HR Stuff apos instead of apos Organisational Stuff apos Andrew is a veteran of both HR and of the boardroom He apos s participated in 11 M amp A transactions numerous business scale-ups countless IPO and Private Equity exits and as HR lead for a real estate start-up business that became a 14 bn listed firm he certainly knows his apos stuff apos His expertise is widely sought with Andrew mentoring a number of HR leaders His 25 years of HR experience also led him to co-author apos Scaling for Success apos a book the provides an HR framework for high-growth companies HR is a servant 01 39 Andrew argues that HR is really good at giving apos customer service apos to the organisation We apos re eager to please and at every stakeholders beck and call but is that he states showing leadership Advocating for the business as a whole 3 35 HR tends to be guilty of navel gazing We tend to work on HR things that matter to HR as opposed to seeing a bigger picture and working on things that will benefit the organisation as a whole Employee engagement is all a bit squishy 10 21 I mention to Andrew about how important it is for HR to build a sense of community and focus on employee engagement Andrew doesn apos t really buy that Employee engagement for example is all a bit squishy HR is again focusing on the humanistic element as opposed to driving business performance The wellbeing apos air quotes apos 13 34 Andrew suggests that wellbeing may be important to the organisation right now but is HR working on that at the expense of other goals such as role clarity and management training which the company also may require Merging two cultures 17 20 Andrew discusses at length how you merge two different business culture that have come together because of a merger or takeover and cautions against the apos usual apos go to slogan of bringing together the best of both worlds HR practitioners need to wear their apos business apos lenses 23 22 Andrew recommends that HR leaders out away their HR lenses and wear business lenses instead to trust understand what your organisation needs right now Resourceshttps ovenreadyhr comhttps www linkedin com in podcasthost https www amazon co uk Scaling-Success-Priorities-High-Growth-Organizations dp 0231194447https www seriesbconsulting com about-us