The Top 4 HR Priorities in 2021
 The
pandemic has changed many things in the world of work,
and the Intrapreneurship Academy at The Cable Center,
in partnership with C2HR,
was interested in understanding the 2021 priorities
of human resources (HR) professionals across the connectivity
industry. The HR Priorities Survey was conducted in
the first quarter of 2021.
Given
the fact that the pandemic is top of mind, it is not surprising
that new concerns related to employee health and safety
were identified among the top four concerns. Cultivating
leaders from within and engaging high performers in a
distributed workforce were also cited as paramount for
ensuring organizational success. Let’s take a deeper
look at how industry employers are investing in people
development as a way to engage and retain top talent and
impact organizational success.
Leader
Preparedness and Resilience
In
today’s operating environment, people leaders
are concerned by a lack of skills required to address
and navigate change. Building internal innovation in
periods of uncertainty requires leaders to hone agility,
resiliency, creative problem solving, collaboration
and responsiveness. While 58% of people leaders
note that the way their organization operates has changed
significantly, only 24% of HR professionals believe
their leaders are prepared with the necessary skills
to respond.
Innovation
on the Inside
While
corporations increasingly prioritize internal innovation
as a vehicle for future business growth, people leaders
acknowledge that their organizations lack systemic
tools that build in-house expertise and capabilities
to usher innovation. This shift to deriving innovation
from inside necessitates intrapreneurial leadership
and process. In addition to spurring internal innovation,
training opportunities are a key strategy for talent
retention, with a focus on programs that have real-world
applications and deliver measurable impact.
Traditionally,
organizations have invested in acquisition capabilities
or business development efforts. Equal investment in
employee innovation capabilities pays off in multiple
ways: It stimulates regular innovative behaviors that
become entrenched in culture, retains high performers
and creates intuitive innovation. People Development,
HR and L&D leaders are now in a prime position to
stimulate growth and capture talent in the process. To effectively seize internal innovation opportunities,
people leaders must harness the intrapreneurial talents
in their teams to equip them with the tools, capabilities,
processes, and mindsets to successfully advance corporate
innovation. An investment in internal intrapreneurship
processes and capabilities yields an equally powerful
result to the pursuit of external sources of innovation,
such as acquisition and strategic partnerships.
Developing
Leaders for Impact
Intrapreneurial
leaders are defined by their ability to adapt to change,
take risks, elevate ideas to executives, identify and
solve problems, practice financial literacy, teach collaboration,
build consensus and navigate the changing workplace.
Among them, workplace navigation and collaboration are
the most desired soft skills for leadership development
in 2021.
Intrapreneurship
Academy enables organizations to derive innovation from
the inside, even with a distributed workforce. Our high-impact,
virtual training opportunities fill the gap between
the desire to drive innovation from within and the need
to have an innovation leadership with defined processes
for bringing new ideas to market.
Our Driving
Intrapreneurship course offers a deep dive into the principles of intrapreneurship
and the process of innovation to enable your high performers
to drive innovation, change, and success within your
organization.
Leading
With Agility is a highly engaging and interactive course to empower
your emerging leaders to thrive in an environment characterized
by unplanned change.
About
the Intrapreneurship Academy
Intrapreneurship
Academy provides a vibrant community for resource and
idea sharing, and a place for your intrapreneurs and
innovators to create measurable impact through educational
programs and conferences. For more information, visit www.intrapreneurshipacademy.org.
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