What talented tricks do you use to get board air time for your talent strategy? How are you measuring leadership potential from the shop floor up? Which of the new analytics work for your industry? How are you shifting diversity beyond gender? What’s next for you in 2012?
Networks. Events. Magazines. Journals. Books. There are a lot of opportunities for HRD’s to get new ideas, but the most valuable insights are still – always have been – from their peers. From people at the same level facing the same issues and dealing with similar – often personal – pressures. And not just in casual and oftentimes cagey conversations at the back of conferences, but face to face in focused sessions, sustained and informed by shared challenges.
Of course, when you mean peer to peer you tread a careful line. Let’s be clear: HR is a brutally competitive industry. Openly divulging your tactical secrets in the war for talent to your main competitor is not a great idea. But there are enough generic best practices to learn from. And keeping it exclusive to one person per industry puts everyone at ease.
Which all sounds good. But this is hardly the time to set up such a network? Actually, it’s the perfect time. Especially if you eschew the oddly still believed notion that such an exclusive network should meet in expensive dining rooms, paying silly prices to be a ‘member’, with oodles of sponsorship nonsense getting in the way of direct and valuable discussion. How about ‘members’ picking the subjects that matter and picking the time when they can meet. Hosting events in their offices. With no fees. And no sponsors allowed. How about the opportunity to learn from HRD peers, who then become firm friends.
Starting this month, it’s happening: http://www.peopleresolutions.com/events/hrd-strategy-network
