Thursday, September 30, 2010

Key Skills For HR Career Aspirants : Managing Beyond Employment



Human Resources Skills : Beyond Employee Management

This posting focus on the key skills required and observed by me... There are many more skills can be added however I have restricted to these in this posting. We shall explore more in future.....

Human Resources are the function of Managing Perceptions of the People by implementing various Processes, Policies and Procedures. In today’s world it even includes managing influence beyond employee (social system). That is where the success of an HR professional depends in organizations.

Human Sensitivity & Evaluation
o Understanding the Human being and sensitizing them to the business is one of the best skills that a HR professional should posses. Business Sensitization through people is the key.
o Most of the times it’s mistaken as Human priorities take a larger scope in pushing business goals aside. This skill uses the balance between the human priorities and sensitivities and uses them effectively for Business enhancement.

Counseling & Facilitation Skills
o The ability to help people to take decisions and make them owners for their own decisions. The ability to facilitate the thoughts and ideas for people to generate energy to be productive in their jobs.
o This is the skill which differentiates between the Advisors to the HR professionals. This is the skill gives confidence to the other person of feeling high for themselves.
o Hence “Counseling is not selling”.

Interpretation Skills
o Human Resource policies and systems are many a times subjected to the understanding of the Employees, hence the ability to interpret the communication from time to time in the direction of the business. Most of the time the best implementation of policy or process depends on the right interpretation of communication for employees.

Team Building
o The Ability to bring the people together to achieve a common goal. It is the ability of understanding the different kinds of people and build a common synergy. It helps in building the employee relations strong where by supporting the organizational growth. The bond includes and goes beyond the employee and family who are employee’s influencers to be with organization.

2 comments:

  1. GR

    In my view the HR function is not about "managing perception" but "creating and managing expectations". These expectations are not just expectations of the employee but from the employees as well.

    HR function is all about creating an environment / ecosystem which promotes excellence in everything we do..

    One skill I will alway put on top is "Effective Decision Making". HR professionals needs to develop the ability of sound judgement which help them to take effective decisions..

    HR is no longer a support function / role. HR professional specially the ones who are at the early stage of their career have to understand this and work towards it.. They need to understand business and think like business manager with special skills of human relations management.
    Sushil Tayal

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  2. HR is an intermediate guy B/W Higher Management & Employees, who makes possible an employee productivity to meet the lines of higher level management vision & Mission.

    comments Please.....
    Regards
    Bharath Daripally

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