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HRD: We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
Human Resource Development (HRD) is not thought of as the fast track to the “C” Suite. This presentation explores how educators can better position students to align HRD initiatives with organizational strategy.
Target Audience
This session is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate professors, HRD professionals, continuing education faculty and others who are responsible for designing, developing and delivering curricula and certification programs for the HRD function.
Learning Outcomes
This session will focus on providing actionable information and strategies that can be applied to Human Resource Development or Human and Organizational Learning Programs to provide graduate and undergraduate students with relevant and actionable problem solving and decision making tools. Specifically, from this session participants will be able to:
• Identify 8 critical performance factors
• Discriminate between organizational and individual performance factors
• Describe systems thinking
• Describe a Performance Perspective
Session Description
HRD is often viewed as the red-headed step child of the board room and not a fast track to the “C” Suite in business. Far too often HRD professionals are perpetuators of this Rodney Dangerfield “we don’t get no respect” mindset. Those teaching HRD have a responsibility to engage students and demonstrate the positive impact of an HRD function that is truly a strategic partner by providing individual and organizational solutions aligned with the organizations strategic direction.
The old maxim; “if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail” rings true within HRD. If all you have is a training solution then everything is a skills and knowledge problem. Yet, research has most often the problem is not the people in the organization, but the organization itself. This presentation will focus on many areas where HRD should examine before assuming a problem is best solved with training.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7