There’s an intersection between tactics and strategy in HR. As we want our work to matter more and as we move through our careers, we need to understand the transition.

The guest for this episode was Brittany Eisenman, the founding principal of Stokefire. With her unique career path from social work to advising CEOs, Brittany brought a fresh perspective to this! Some of that perspective includes:

Being busy busy busy will not get you involved in the strategy. See the video.

She thinks strategy when someone says ‘tactics’

Watch for being too deep in the weeds! Sometimes you need to poke your head above the surface and look around.

Use whatever data you have even if its limited!

Think about alignment. Deep alignment.

Find Britni at LinkedIn or on Stokefire.com.

Find Andrea for HR consulting in Western Canada at thehrhub.ca.

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Why is it so hard to find someone to talk about HR strategy? I’ve been trying for a long time now… and apparently it’s complicated!

Len Nanjad, however, was up to the task! He thinks deeply about HR strategy including how to deliver an HR strategy that balances the complexity of people with business strategy. He is also the guest on one of my most popular episodes! He says:

1⃣ So developing our strategy is similar to other parts of the business: First understand the business strategy.

He gives us some guidance about how to think the product-market fit of HR – see the video below.

We talk about how to consider all the things that employees think we should be doing and sometimes we want to do.

We’re not doing HR to do HR well. Not usually anyhow.

If you read this far, I’m also looking for someone who’s willing to teach communications 101 to HR. It’s not exactly our thing if we’re in larger companies. But in smaller companies, sometimes we are all they’ve got. If you know of someone willing to have this convo with me, message me!

Find Len on LinkedIn at @lennanjad.
or www.mnp.ca/en/personnel/len-nanjad.

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Business strategy is not the strategic plan. We often think about the strategic plan, but the business strategy has considerable implications for HR strategy.

In this episode with Len Nanjad, we talked about business strategy and the implications for HR. Len is a guy who thinks deeply about HR, is the guest in one of my most popular videos, and doesn’t accept the easy explanations that many of us have come to accept as truth. Some of his insights about business strategy:

4⃣ Business strategy has 4 pieces.

＝ HR strategy could also focus on the same 4 pieces. We need to think about them in context of HR and the business.

We will often help the stressed out leader in the most simple way possible rather than think about the strategy and if our effort would be better spent in other ways.

↻ We often hold individuals accountable for poor performance. But it is quite possibly the system not them.

Find Len on LinkedIn or at mnp.ca.

Find me (Andrea) at www.thehrhub.ca. I’m an HR consultant and provide a wide range of consulting support in Western Canada. Mostly.

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