So You Want a Seat at the Table: A Practical Guide to Being a True HR Business Partner - Softcover

Kerr, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692542795 ISBN 13: 9780692542798

Publisher: Talent Insight Group Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

So You Want a Seat at the Table, a Practical Guide to Being a True Strategic HR Business Partner is a refreshing approach to a long-debated challenge. It is targeted to new and experienced human resources business partners and human resources leaders who want to expand their ability to think and act strategically. Whether an HR practitioner is in a large or small corporation, no-for-profit, or the government, the book provides clarity to the critical elements to strategic human resources. The book follows Mary Alice, a new vice president of human resources for a rapidly growing company. It guides the reader through critical human resources strategy and execution around building a healthy culture, talent acquistion, competency development, compensation, succession planning, metrics, talent management and employee development that align with the business strategy.The book is structured around a fictitious company and successfully delivers hands on, practical application. It provides readers with multiple useful templates and tools as well as example on how to build and communicate human resources value to the organization. Readers will be delighted with the limited theory and extensive useful guidelines, tips, tools and resources presented in every chapter. Easy to read and apply, readers will be able to quickly grasp key concepts and approaches to make an immediate and lasting impact on their organizations. FInally, a book that helps HR practitioners understand how to think and act more strategically!

About this title

About the Author

Jeanne Kerr is the Vice President of OD and Assessments with Dale Carnegie and Associates Global Accounts, and a Senior Faculty Partner with the Human Capital Institute. She has over 20 years of human resources, organizational development, instructional design and delivery, human capital strategy and metrics experience in a variety of industries. A proven talent management leader, she has expertise in providing talent acquisition, training, and development strategies that align with corporate business strategy and achieve results. A skilled change agent, she is adept at providing human capital solutions within culturally diverse, multinational and multilingual environments. She has developed and implemented a variety of executive, high potential and genera leadership development, supervisory training and succession planning programs across a broad range of industries.

Review

Jeanne Kerr provides critical insights, tools, and templates for HR business partners to add value to their organizations. This book is a roadmap on how to leverage your talent into a strategic competitive advantage. The story of Big Guys Apparel is entertaining and inspirational. A must read for HR professionals at all levels. --Mark Hacker, Managing Director, Alta Leadership Group

Through her fictional organization, Jeanne Kerr provides clarity to the critical elements of strategic HR. As a leader, this book has helped me understand how to implement modern practices to drive high performance in the organization. --Ken Pfarr, President, Corsi Group

Jeanne Kerr uses the case study/story format to being together the concepts of leadership and change management. She blends story with the tools and templates needed to enable organizations to get real return on investment with their HR initiatives and reach their strategic objectives. She not only addresses the why, she sets up the what and the how very effectively. A great primer for the uninformed and a super guidebook for the experts all in one book! --Bob Dodge, Trusted Advisor, The Alternative Board

Edition details

• Publisher: Talent Insight Group Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0692542795
• ISBN 13: 9780692542798
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186