{"id":1958,"date":"2012-10-03T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2012-09-04T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:53:42","slug":"ruling-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Ruling the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cOMG Wes, how far can you take this theme?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m a firm believer that offensive driving is good defensive driving.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say I\u2019m a jerk on the road.\u00a0 Ok, maybe I\u2019m a little bit of a jerk on the road.\u00a0 I am a Los Angeles driver after all.\u00a0 But there are certain things I\u2019ll do and certain things I won\u2019t.\u00a0 If I know you want to change into my lane but you are not signaling, I will actively speed up to make sure you see me and don\u2019t crash into me.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you are signaling, I\u2019ll actually take my foot off the accelerator and let you through (see?\u00a0 I\u2019m not a complete a-hole).\u00a0 What it really comes down to is that I\u2019ll enforce the area around me.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to make sure that my buffer exists by actively forcing the issue, not backing off.<\/p>\n

I often think we are soft with our clients.\u00a0 \u201cHello sir, yes sir, of course sir\u2026\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard so many times that we don\u2019t have a seat at the table, that we are a cost, not profit center, that we are a support organization.\u00a0 All of this is part truth, and mostly crap.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a seat at the table because we don\u2019t force the issue.\u00a0 \u201cWhat are you doing about talent?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell, we\u2019re working on it.\u201d\u00a0 We are a cost center because we don\u2019t force the organization to accept the real quantification of dollars that our hiring and talent activities produce.\u00a0 We are a support organization because we still feel like we need to cater to a business that wants to see their own activities as the highest priority instead of HR.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love for someone to argue with me when I say that we lack confidence.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we get to where HR is supposed to be until we decide that \u201cThe Business\u201d does not rule the universe.\u00a0 The next sale is not more important than talent, unless you\u2019re about to go bankrupt.\u00a0 The business unit that wants to measure their workforce in a radically different way does not trump the standardization that we have fought so hard for.\u00a0 The CEO might actually think that people are our most important asset if we actually connected every activity we do to how s\/he is measured.<\/p>\n

In the end, we are defensive drivers for HR.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to see HR go on the offensive, to attack, enforce and most of all believe.\u00a0 When someone is encroaching on our space, we can\u2019t back off \u2013 we need to accelerate and make others aware that we are there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOMG Wes, how far can you take this theme?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m a firm believer that offensive driving is good defensive driving.\u00a0 That\u2019s not to say I\u2019m a jerk on the road.\u00a0 Ok, maybe I\u2019m a little bit of a jerk on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[338,337],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategies","category-service-delivery","tag-controlling-destiny","tag-seat-at-the-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}