Hope you enjoyed the last post about Customer Experience (CX), Everyone Has Customers (Including You!) Since then, I've been able to contribute to Bloomfire's "The CX Trends to Watch in 2020, According to the Experts." Check it out! Now on to this edition--I thought I would end this decade where I started...with Human Resources. Whether or not you work in HR (or some iterative version of the name), this one’s for you. Because warts and all, it’s an essential function of the business to maximize the talent in the organization. That should be everyone’s job. What goes for HR, goes for company leaders especially. Take for instance, employee experience. In my HR Professional magazine article, “What HR (and Everyone Else) Should Know About Employee Experience,” I wrote about 3 important characteristics: relevance, differentiation, and co-creation. These are things companies try to do with their products and services already, and certainly with multiple functions working together to do it. If only more businesses turned these efforts toward their employees, we would see fewer toxic, burned out workplaces that underperform to their potential and create business risk. Employee Experience in turn influences and reflects the company’s culture. I talk about the relationship between employee experience and culture in my book, Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @Work. You can read a book excerpt via TLNT.com. Employee Experience and Culture is clearly not just HR’s job—leaders must lead and employees are included given how patterns of individual behaviors shape and reflect culture too. Leadership, which includes Culture and Employee Experience (IMHO) can’t be in- or outsourced to HR alone. Sure, HR has specific roles to play. My article, “It’s More than a Job: The Role of HR in Organizational Culture” is one example. While they may be the educators, facilitators, evangelists, sponsors, and connectors, they can’t “own culture” because no one (or few) people can wield its power. Culture is shared. While there is always much to do, start with these:
… when it comes to deciding whether HR needs a culture change, think about whether the function has met its full potential with energized, engaged, and inspired employees who take the entire organization to a higher level. Every company needs strong HR expertise. Having the firepower will enable them to deliver huge initiatives for the business, such as digital transformation. I happen to have some Tips for HR when it comes to Change Management and Digital Transformation, also published on Learnlight. With the budgets related to the cost of doing business, wouldn’t you need your biggest asset—knowledge and talent that only comes through people--to be the best? Talk to leaders who trust their HR partners. They will tell you your investment will pay dividends.
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