The profile of an HR executive
ONE of the key roles any organisation would need is that of a human resources (HR) executive.
IF you fill this role with the wrong person many negative things will happen in your organisation. To hire the best HR executive you need to understand what profile is required of such a person. I outline below the profile that is required of an HR Executive.
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Understands the business and how creates value for its stakeholders.
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Capable of building sustainable tionships with key stakeholders.
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Able to positively influence those not directly in their line of command.
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Able to put together solid credible evidence to support their own decisions.
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A good understanding of P& L, income statement, balance sheet and how HR can help grow these sustainably.
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Able to intervene with effective HR intervention at various stages of the business value chain.
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Capable of building enough internal credibility such that they become a "goto" sounding board for all things that matter to the business.
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Capable of building a psychologically safe organisation where people can raise issue, problems, concerns, including differing with authority without censure.
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Capable of ble employee organisation.
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Able to build a reward system that natures value sharing. it relabuilding a memoraexperience within the
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Capable of developing talent using scientifically proven approaches for identifying talent and for evaluating the impact of talent interventions.
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Capable of being a two-way bridge between employees and the leadership of the organisation.
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Someone who understands numbers and can use these to present credible information
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Excellent presentation skills
Excellent communicator, capable of customising all communications to suit the needs of each audience.
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An honest individual with whom everyone in the organisation can trust and share information.
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Capable of handling and defusing conflict among different interest groups within the organisation.
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Excellent report writing skills that enable them to present written material in a way that everyone understands.
Nguwi is an occupational psychologist, data scientist, speaker and managing consultant at Industrial Psychology Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, a management and HR consulting firm. https:// www.linkedin.com/in/memorynguwi/ Phone +263 24 248 1 946-48/ 2290 0276, cell number +263 772 356 361 or e-mail: mnguwi@ ipcconsultants.com or visit ipcconsultants. com.