Comments on: Sometimes Being Oh So Right Is So Very Wrong http://lancehaun.com/sometimes-being-oh-so-right-is-so-very-wrong/ Life between the brackets Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:42:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HRM Today - Blog Archive » Now Is The Time For HR http://lancehaun.com/sometimes-being-oh-so-right-is-so-very-wrong/#comment-1176 HRM Today - Blog Archive » Now Is The Time For HR Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:45 +0000 http://www.yourhrguy.com/?p=630#comment-1176 [...] Haun has written a pair of thought provoking posts about EFCA and HR. He says he got it wrong the first time. He says his post on HR peeps being afraid of coming legislative changes, including [...] [...] Haun has written a pair of thought provoking posts about EFCA and HR. He says he got it wrong the first time. He says his post on HR peeps being afraid of coming legislative changes, including [...]

]]> By: Laurie Ruettimann http://lancehaun.com/sometimes-being-oh-so-right-is-so-very-wrong/#comment-1175 Laurie Ruettimann Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:41:04 +0000 http://www.yourhrguy.com/?p=630#comment-1175 Lance, The blog format limits deep thought, sometimes. We're presented with two challenges: either write a PhD dissertation, or write something interesting & witty and hash out the details in the comments. That being said, I admire your follow-up post. It shows a commitment to your readers and a commitment to elevating the discourse! - Laurie Lance,

The blog format limits deep thought, sometimes. We’re presented with two challenges: either write a PhD dissertation, or write something interesting & witty and hash out the details in the comments.

That being said, I admire your follow-up post. It shows a commitment to your readers and a commitment to elevating the discourse!

- Laurie

]]> By: Michael VanDervort http://lancehaun.com/sometimes-being-oh-so-right-is-so-very-wrong/#comment-1177 Michael VanDervort Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:51:15 +0000 http://www.yourhrguy.com/?p=630#comment-1177 Lance, In many ways you nailed it here. I think that this moment in time for business is the key moment for Human Resources for the next several decades. Kris Dunn wrote months ago about EFCA being a career killer and I told him then he was wrong. It and all the other legislation coming are way are career shakers for sure, but in a good way. Now is the time for HR pros to redefine themselves within their companies by doing the things you mentioned in your first post: working on positive employee relations, building better benefits,..anything they can do to make the workplace better. That is the transitional opportunity for our profession to step up and make that strategic difference HR professionals are going to have to step up on an individual basis and redefine themselves to keep up with these changes as well. We are gonna need new skills, peeps! Business and HR people in general are not paying enough attention to all the nuances of EFCA, and what it will mean to us when it passes. Now is not the time to shut up, get pissy, or really, even to stop the dialogue. All of it is important. Now is the time to pay attention, learn and observe. It is critical that we all take to the time to understand the laws, the impetus behind them, the forces driving them, and see what is developing for our business and our profession. I think there are two things HR professionals should be doing right now: 1) Help your company prepare for the new world that is coming be developing the right strategies, tactics and policies that will be required. 2) As a practicioner, sharpen those skills that have atrophied, or that you may never have had to use, like grievance handling, formal negotiation, arbitration, conflict resolution, mediation, etc. More to come. Get out there and get going! Get out Lance,

In many ways you nailed it here.

I think that this moment in time for business is the key moment for Human Resources for the next several decades. Kris Dunn wrote months ago about EFCA being a career killer and I told him then he was wrong. It and all the other legislation coming are way are career shakers for sure, but in a good way.

Now is the time for HR pros to redefine themselves within their companies by doing the things you mentioned in your first post:
working on positive employee relations, building better benefits,..anything they can do to make the workplace better. That is the transitional opportunity for our profession to step up and make that strategic difference

HR professionals are going to have to step up on an individual basis and redefine themselves to keep up with these changes as well. We are gonna need new skills, peeps!

Business and HR people in general are not paying enough attention to all the nuances of EFCA, and what it will mean to us when it passes.

Now is not the time to shut up, get pissy, or really, even to stop the dialogue. All of it is important.

Now is the time to pay attention, learn and observe. It is critical that we all take to the time to understand the laws, the impetus behind them, the forces driving them, and see what is developing for our business and our profession.

I think there are two things HR professionals should be doing right now:

1) Help your company prepare for the new world that is coming be developing the right strategies, tactics and policies that will be required.

2) As a practicioner, sharpen those skills that have atrophied, or that you may never have had to use, like grievance handling, formal negotiation, arbitration, conflict resolution, mediation, etc.

More to come. Get out there and get going!

Get out

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