The CHRO Skill No One Talks About Enough: Disciplined Ignoring

Most CHROs I know are not struggling because they lack effort.

They’re struggling because everything sounds important.

And when everything sounds important, attention gets scattered.

The CEO asks for something. A board member raises a concern. A consultant sends a 42-page report. A trend starts showing up everywhere. A peer mentions something that sounds smart.

Suddenly, the calendar is full, the team is running hard, and everyone is busy.

Busy is not the same as strategic.

The real skill most CHROs are not talking about is disciplined ignoring.

Not ignoring people. Not ignoring the business. Not ignoring the hard things that need to be faced.

Ignoring the constant stream of requests, meetings, projects, and trends that make you feel productive while pulling you away from work that actually moves the business forward.

This is exactly why I loved Erica Chapman’s talk on focus.

Erica Chapman, Vice President of H...

HR can often feel more like an “administrative resource" rather than the strategic Human Resources role that impacts the business by driving growth. If you are a corporate HR leader that feels like:

• There’s not enough time, staff, or resources to focus on strategic initiatives
• Your strategic skills are being under-utilized
• Everyday is like playing a game of whack-a-mole
• The HR team is doing more administrative work than they should

In this sixty+ minute lesson with Billy Parsons, VP of HR for U.S. Dermatology Partners, you will learn how to streamline HR processes to free up HR from tactical tasks, so that you can focus on talent strategies that drive growth for your organization. Billy shares:

• 4 key phases to streamlining HR, and how to get buy-in from your team 
• A template for ensuring the work of process improvement yields an optimal employee experience
• Best practices on process improvement modification for the most impact and least amount of effort
• Get process in pla...