Hrs Seat At The Table

Coveting a "seat at the table," many human resources professionals face a gap between the talent management requirements of their business partners and what gets executed day-to-day in organizations. Written by the executive search and management consultants of Cage Talent (www.CageTalent.com), this book strives to close that gap, in highly engaging prose--including real-life examples, stories from the authors' professional experience, and their interviews with executives in corporate and nonprofit sectors. Part 1 defines "strategy," discussing the work of esteemed management experts as well as guiding readers step-by-step through actual strategy documents to discover how to apply these to daily HR tasks. Also offered are straightforward recommendations for addressing stereotypes of HR staff as "administriviators"--to build a solid foundation on which to lead business conversations. The authors then share a novel approach to conversing with business colleagues--including the CEO--to uncover the strategic data necessary to dramatically enhance hiring. Part 2 explicitly describes how to fold information gleaned from these business conversations into delivering the talent that executes an organization's strategy. Readers will learn how to craft compelling position descriptions (and why they are so vital), use online assessment instruments to carefully vet candidates (especially to identify potential derailers before a hire), and conduct focused, deep-dive interviews and reference checks--all to assure hiring the best-qualified people who also truly fit an organization's culture. The book includes Additional Resources, References, an index, figures, and tables, and the electronic versions of this title are in color. The publisher offers large-quantity discounts and donates 25% of this title's sales to UNICEF.