HR Professionals, Spur your growth by Leaps and Bounds!
Nature orchestrated a world disruption in the guise of a pandemic which nobody saw coming. Things moving on their natural course of evolution have been suddenly thrown out of gear. Businesses have been catapulted from tried and tested ways of operating into completely uncertain operating environments. All aspects of business operations have got affected including the HR domain. Every department is undergoing intense transformation, can HR be left behind? With the economic scenario showing signs of improvement with HR taking a centerstage, HR policies and long-term roadmaps will play a pivotal role to power this revival and growth. In fact HR has been a key player in rejuvenating several organizations and bringing them back on line.
HR practitioners will have to find innovative and viable ways to prepare the workforce including the digital nomads of today from such future disruptions or black-swan events. All the present-day requirements are being looked at in a new light of Covid experience forcing HR practitioners to identify gaps in their learning. It is time to unlearn redundant practices and embrace HR 3.0. They have to integrate new age skills like design and strategic thinking, agile HR and data analytics etc. along with their generalized core competencies, to help them traverse and navigate through this new age roadmap. By undergoing a rapid digital transformation, HR tech has been able to perform wonders in preventing corporates to slip into an irreversible crisis.
The traditional training and courses of HRM though built on sound conceptual and theoretical knowledge seldom provide enough experiential focus or industry connect for it to make the candidate industry ready and meet real life challenges at the workplace. Core HR fundamentals are often not developed in the way that the learnings can be immediately transferred to the workplace. This gives rise to significant gaps in application. Conventional training programs do not realise the extreme importance of mentorship, thus either completely overlook it or place lip service to it in order to meet marketing requirements. Moreover the aspiring HR practitioners miss out on gaining immense benefits from the experiences of a mentor and getting guidance at various stages of career. Mostly, the trainers delivering the course in many instances are themselves not practicing HR professionals. This may lead to the practitioners to be far removed from the real challenges and nuances of very rapidly evolving industry expectations. The young professionals are often not equipped to be equal partners to other strategic players and are often relegated to the side-lines. Thus, HR has mostly been traditionally considered as a supporter and an enabler, seldom a key player in the strategic business decision making. But that is all evolving rapidly now.
With HR moving up the value chain to keep the business not only sustainable but also profitable, the millennials of today have the opportunity to lead from the front tomorrow as business strategist. Their role and responsibilities are undergoing a very fast paced transformation and HR practitioners are increasingly involved in solving organizational strategic and tactical problems on a day to day basis. For making rapid advancements in the highly competitive business environments, thinking cannot be done in silos. An endeavour to develop systemic thinking has to be developed. It is time for the young talented HR professionals to equip and empower themselves with new age HR competencies and capabilities to become able decision makers, systematic thinkers and thought leaders. They require to be up-skilled to lead from the front in the face of fast evolving business environments and power growth. HR departments of today are set to see many more such rapid changes. Every HR practitioner needs to be ready to play a pivotal role in this process to bring about systematic transformation.
Young high potential HR practitioners need to be mentored, trained, coached and hand-held by highly experienced industry experts to become skilled in these real time industry requirements, to be able to ‘take a ‘seat at the table’. They need to be lifelong mentored by HR leaders who have the vision, experience and expertise to bring out the deep connect and sync of HR activities and the tightly woven business goals to achieve larger objectives for business growth and look ahead. Embracing HR 3.0 and development of a strong core HR competency framework can dovetail to build the right HR strategy for meeting organizational goals.
So, what can young HR professionals do to change the situation, accelerate growth and become not only future ready but also make their career future-proof? Especially if they feel stuck with limited options towards a comprehensive self-development and feeling stagnated in their career.
As a young aspiring HR practitioner wanting to make an impact as a strategist and decision maker, it is time to step up the game and explore ways of learning with meaningful Industry connect through mentor-led blended learning.
HRLeap offers an exclusive mentor-led HR practitioner certification programme which is much more than a convergence of mentoring, training, coaching, technology and application-based learning all put together. Helmed by Industry leaders, veterans, alumni of the top-ranking premier business schools like XLRI, IIM, ISB, TISS and SIBM with experiences spanning decades of leadership in key roles across sectors. Their personal mentoring will leverage their insider perspective and learnings from their rich multidimensional experiences in the present tumultuous evolving environment to help you shape up as a decision maker and strategist and be an equal partner. The uniqueness of the program is in it being-
- An intense “application-based learning” + “Mentored-for-life” Program, scripted and designed by industry veterans, alumni of premier institutes like XLRI, IIM, ISB, TISS, and SIBM, carrying cumulative experience of over 150 years across industries.
- Personal Mentoring and Coaching by Industry stalwarts who will guide you with their rich insights and learnings from their multidimensional experiences.
- A blended model of program delivery with simulated experiential learning along with case studies, capstone project, assignments and industry connect
- Establish linkage of functional knowledge to practical business requirements for attaining organizational excellence
- A platform for networking and best practices sharing by participants & Alumni of the Program
This certification aims at making its cohort future ready.