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.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Basic Business Management Skills for HR Career


This Post I would be concentrating on the generic skills required by Management Graduate irrespective of the Specialisation.
The qualities required based on the level and intensity of the responsibility that are listed and also the Industry and company positioning in the market.


Generic Skills for MBA’s:

Business Presentations

Business is all about presenting -- a product, Service or concept. The ability of understanding the business and creating great and memorable presentations using the Software & Other Productivity Tools (Online / Offline) is the key to success in today’s environment. In today’s environment Business Manager spends more than 30% of the time in making presentation for internal or external customers. Marketing SELF starts with making excellent Business presentations hence the need for this Skill.


Business Modeling & Analysis

Business modeling and Analysis would be a combination of ability to anlyse the market needs and integrate to create new products/services whether for internal customers or external customers. The candidate should have excellent skills in using most for the Business Analysis tools from pure statistics to software tools viz. SPSS etc.,

In this case the candidates ability to create a business model which take into account of all the functions of running an organization and integrating them for designing and delivering products and services. A plan of action and steps in achieving and measuring the business would be a great skill welcomed by organizations.

Strategic Thinking

Business decisions have two levels – Strategic and Tactical Issues. Typically the MBA’s must have a strategic thinking and the ability to support decision which influences the business. Tactical is the translation of strategic direction into implementation ability. Should be aware of all the controllable in the hands of Organization and steer for business productivity with specific measurements. This is possible by involvement of the Individual in understanding the business and ability to look at the nitty-gritty’s of business impact. Must have a futuristic thinking in creating, planning and executing issues in their respective functions/assignments.

People Management:

This is on of the most expected common skill and bears a great impact on the MBA’s when they start working and growing. People Management is the ability to understand the dynamics and able to integrate smoothly in running Business. It is the ability to establish, co-ordinate, communicate and brining commonness in synergy for Business.

This is the skill which challenges to integrate the Humane, intellectual & Factual information to forecast the people behaviors and help them to do well for better output/business results. This skills translates into better output when an individual uses all the Communication (Oral/written/Non-verbal) methods effectively and equally using the abilities discussed here in this article.

Problem Solving:

Problem Solving is the ability to build effective solutions for possible business needs / challenges/emergencies. The ability of individual to find the root of the Problem & use all the tools and information for creating effective longterm solutions in Business environment. This also includes the ability to handle any adverse situations on the job handle effectively.

It is the ability of the individual to ensure the integration of business need and the situation in question for taking effective decision making capability. Uses all the information, available resources and translates in workable solution as part of this ability. This is the ability of individual to bring solutions by looking at the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats) of the firm both from internal and external perspective.


Service Orientation:

In today’s business every business success depends on the Service orientation of the organization. Service is no longer is restricted to a product or to a company and its one of the most single distinctive factor which others can’t copy or replicate so easily.

Service orientation is the ability of the individual/group to see customer centric support that can be provided through various products and services that company is offering to ensure highest level of satisfaction. The individual should be able to see the service part of the product and improve presenting and responding to the customer for greater satisfaction.

In the following Weeks we shall focus on the qualities/skills required for building great HR careers.....

Saturday, September 11, 2010

HR Career Help by GR Reddy


In may career spanning 19 years I come across many questions about understanding and building a great career... I would like to share at my personal level to those who do not want to re-invent what I have gone through or my friends in HR Fraternity have gone through.

I personally believe that ultimately anybody's career ambition should be to manage/own business which is the Summit for Professional life... Giving Back to Society is the Personal Summit for any Individual.... However, HR as a support system one can build that ultimate career.....

This Attempt is to help:

- Educating the young students in their 12th+ and wanting to know more about HR Careers
- Helping the Graduates (12+3) students to build HR Focused Careers
- Helping the Post Graduates with HR Specialisation choices
- Helping the Graduates/PG with any specailisation and having any kind of work experience in achieving HR Career
- More importantly the Start of HRCareer, Mid-life Careers and Career Issues anytime are also addressed in this blog.
- Also any questions that we come across are also addressed through this communication tool.

Please do not hesitate to write your questions to learn@husys.net and authorise & allow us to respond on this blog. We shall make our effort to build clarity and write for you... please do mention your contact number for us to reach and clarify the question.

I wish each one of you a great time and career ahead....

Warm Regards,
Reddy GR
Chief Facilitator @ Husys
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