Reference no: EM133624555
Homework: HR Scorecard
Overview
You cannot expect to earn a seat at the table if you do not understand what matters to the other leaders who are already at the table. Elevating HR to a strategic partnership with the C-Suite requires a deep knowledge of the business. This includes the competitive landscape, how the business makes money, and the threats and opportunities the business faces. It also requires that the very essence of the company - its mission and values - forms the foundation for every hiring, firing, compensation and talent development initiative that HR and the business leaders undertake.
In this homework, you are given the opportunity to develop a brief "snapshot" document to be used as a visual support for an initial meeting a between a newly hired, or recently promoted, CHRO and the CEO and CFO. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how well current talent-development efforts and the HR function as a whole support the Mission, Values and Strategy of the organization. In other words, are the things that HR is spending its time on the same things the C-Suite actually cares about?
Instructions
For this homework, you will use your own organization and place yourself in the role of the senior-most HR leader. Because this is a meeting with C-Suite executives, you know that presenting a lengthy document is not the right way to support the discussion or to demonstrate your executive presence.
You decide to create an executive brief that does two things: (i) demonstrates your knowledge of the business and (ii) presents a snapshot of how the HR role is currently functioning. Follow the steps below to complete this homework.
I. Use the Homework template provided in the course as a guide. You may modify the template document to create a more visually interesting layout if it supports your synopsis, as long as your submission addresses all required components.
1. Page 1 is a snapshot of the business and includes brief summaries of your assessment of the top priorities in elevating the HR function in ways that will improve the profitability of the company.
2. Page 2 is a scorecard using the 7 Principles from The Talent Masters as a way to summarize your observations of the corporate culture and practices in your organization that impact HR and talent development.
II. Type your notes - in brief - into each of the cells in the template. You may expand as needed but your entire submission must be no more than 3 pages in length.