The speed of change across industry sectors and the workplace shows no sign of slowing. As markets evolve, government strategies shift, and generations of workers seek new and different priorities from the workplace, the onus is always on businesses to be agile, fleet of foot, and yet certain in everything they do.
The articles in this issue of HRO Today EMEA all demonstrate how HR can make this happen. Firstly, Shifting to Skills-Based Hiring looks deeper into designing a skills-based organisation. Skills-based recruitment has already become a firm favourite among businesses who want to prioritise finding people who can do rather than those who have done. Taking this attitude further means meeting the skill demands of businesses as soon as they emerge, using the dialogue around skills to govern development and succession planning.
The timely and effective delivery of learning and development is also explored in The Key to Effective L&D, showing how this activity goes beyond addressing capability to creating and supporting company culture itself. Again, this is an efficient way to keep a business on its toes, making sure everyone is aware of and ready for the challenges ahead.
Finally, fractional HR is a delivery model that’s on the rise, and its popularity is growing precisely because it offers a flexible, responsive, and appropriate model for delivering high-level HR services to the businesses that need it. A Fractional Approach shares how it also provides HR professionals with the chance to work across multiple businesses and sectors at once, using their skills and knowledge to support and improve practice for diverse companies and workers.
Taken individually or together, these initiatives all help HR continue to deliver secure and excellent people support whatever the prevailing circumstances. Whatever the future and whatever the challenges, HR continues to evolve practice to ensure its work supports the workplace and every employee.
Simon KentEditor-at-Large