Us + HR = ❤️

Ah February, the month of lurve!

To keep that spark alive, we’re here to chat about what we love about HR 💘 (no idea how we’ll contain this into one newsletter by the way)

So, after 11 years in a committed relationship, we figured it's about time we spill some of the secrets.

💘 Adam

There are 2 things I love about HR:

1. Dealing with people makes every day unique and there’s certainly very limited scope to get bored with repetition!  

Don’t get me wrong, people can also be a source of frustration, but they are inherently interesting (much more interesting in my opinion than numbers or machines!) and they can be unpredictable.

So trying to understand human behaviour and interactions is a constant source of interest and learning.

2. The opportunity to make change a positive experience and help people adapt and succeed in new situations.  

So often, changes at work are seen as a negative, something that’s forced onto us or introduced on the back of a ‘formal HR process’.

I really enjoy putting people at the heart of these situations and working out what needs to be done to create positive outcomes for everyone.

💘 Dean

The list is long and filled with HR nerdisms but a couple are:

1. HR is simply the relationship between people and work. I love that everything we do touches every part of a business. Business success comes from the sum of all its parts. We are in some way involved in and helping drive everything. 
2. I might not be a refuse collector, pilot, plumber, doctor, cleaner or rocket scientist but the beauty of HR is you get to meet all these people, learn about and from them and help them do their bit and be the best version of themselves.

💘 Mark

For me, HR is not only about making an impact in the workplace as we are dealing with people not products so with anything in life, a lot of HR interventions are symbiotic and can manifest as either the cause or the effect. 

Working on identifying these and addressing them properly can have a far-reaching and consequential benefit.

I remember my time at BT where I was a career coach and talked to people about what they saw as their future within BT and whether it was something they were really engaged in, as at the time BT was offering voluntary redundancy.

During these meetings similar considerations kept coming through, peer pressures, cultural backgrounds and fear of the unknown all of which needed to be considered and not simply do I want to stay here? 

These conversations can be difficult to have and the answers can only truly come from the individual and once made have to be adopted by all.

HR supports these types of conversations and decisions either through the cultural lens helping make workplaces a better place to be or in some cases the procedural lens such as restructures and redundancies, this is why HR can and does make such a difference.   

As you can see, our passion is still strong even after all these years in the industry with our commitment very much alive and kicking.

Until the next one!

Adam, Mark & Dean 💘