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The CIPD’s new ‘professional map’ has been welcomed by the MD of leadership development company Dynamic Transitions, who claims that HR professionals have no excuse now to start role modelling key behaviours that will underpin future business success.

Having come from a strong operations-focused HR background, Dynamic Transitions’ MD Judith Germain believes that the new ‘map’ should have a profound impact on the way HR is viewed in the business and will increase HR’s power to help the business align the management of people and processes with the needs of the business.

“HR has for a long time been accused of not understanding the business and concentrating too much on admin and transactional activities rather than focusing on what the business needs. This has led to CEOs discounting the value that HR can add and bypassing them when important decisions have to be made. Too often, HR Business Partnering means advising the business of HR’s objectives rather than helping the business meet and exceed its objectives.”

Germain believes that the CIPD is acknowledging that HR needs to be holistic in outlook and specialist in activity. It now recognises that HR needs to have a set of behavioural competencies including being curious, a decisive thinker, driven to deliver, collaborative, personally credible and being a role model.

Germain is delighted that the CIPD is taking a more business orientated approach and predicts that the move towards strategic-led HR will result in a tighter, more integrated approach to managing people across an organisation that will ultimately improve the quality of leadership in the process.

“It is exactly the attributes identified by the CIPD for HR that also make up good leaders. HR therefore, should set an example to the rest of the workforce, especially as it evolves into this more strategic role. By role modelling these key behaviours, HR can help the business move forward,” says Germain.

Judith Germain is managing director Dynamic Transitions a leadership company specialising in working with Troublesome Talent ® and improving leadership performance within organisations. Judith provides strategic mentoring for senior executives and business leaders and delivers innovative leadership programmes, leadership consultancy, training, coaching and mentoring to corporate clients. For more information visit www.developing-leadership.com or email jude@dynamic-transitions.co.uk

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