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Going GreekLessons in HR Partnership
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”- Socrates
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Role of HRBP
Listen
Question
Visualize
Challenge
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Current State
What is the “role” of Human Resources?
Administrative
Tactical vs. Strategic
Essential vs. Necessary
...of the HR Business Partner?
Company Cop
Policy Reader
Team-member
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ListenThe Socratic method is founded on the principal of attentive listening...
Over-emphasis on our “own” information
Increase our awareness as a “guest” in the conversation
“Wind puffs up empty sails.”
- Socrates
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Question...and the ability to ask simple, meaningful questions
“tell me more about what interests you...”
Target the heart, not the hands
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” - Socrates
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VisualizeBring the conversation out of the present...
Vision looks at tomorrow, sight looks at today
Problems exist in the here & now
Solutions look to the future
Our vision allows us to work outside our state in life
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
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Hyperlink
Breakout groups
Role-play, HRBP & Business Leader
What “exit” did you take?
“Benjamin Franklin was a proponent of establishing Junto’s for the purpose of collaboration.”
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Teach
Aristotle believed leadership to be congruent with action...
Model the actions you want repeated
Practice the qualities you want modeled
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” - Aristotle
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Challenge
Substantial change comes in two forms
Generation of a skill
Elimination of a fault
“Change in all things is sweet.” - Aristotle