leadership matters
One Small
Step for HR By Karen Stone, CHRE
This month’s cover story is a for-ward-
thinking one – quite literally.
It’s all about the future workplace,
the digital shift and the HR pro-fessional’s
role in advancing the people side
of businesses in this age of significant au-tomation
and analytics.
One of the critical points our cov-er
story makes really resonates with me.
It is, put simply, this: HR’s role is to ad-vance
and support the conditions under
which a great work culture can occur. No
matter how technology changes, our role
does not.
In a way, it’s reassuring to think that in
the midst of near-constant change, HR
has something of a “north star” to align
our mission toward. We have already seen
a great deal of change, in our workplaces
and in our profession, and it’s critical that
we keep our mission in mind as we navi-gate
change.
At HRPA in particular, we have seen
a great deal of change over a relatively
short period of time. We recently held
our Annual Meeting, which is always an
excellent opportunity to assess and re-flect
on the changes we have seen over the
past year.
For HRPA, that meant a discussion of
how our work continues to move the pro-fession
of HR forward – whether that
means elevating the discussion around
professionalization across our networks;
the vast growth in the number of Certified
Human Resources Executive (CHRE)
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IN A WAY, IT’S REASSURING TO THINK THAT
IN THE MIDST OF NEAR-CONSTANT CHANGE,
HR HAS SOMETHING OF A “NORTH STAR”
TO ALIGN OUR MISSION TOWARD.
HRPROFESSIONALNOW.CA ❚ MAY 2017 ❚ 5
