Human Resources in the present, that is in 2024, are following several approaches to foster resilience, faster growth and align leadership within organizations. As Human Resources play a vital role in the growth of any organization it becomes important for them to focus on building strategies that promote healthy and successful leadership.
Here are a few Human Resources strategies followed by HR’s today to achieve leadership success:
Investing in developmental programs can turn out to be a great choice. Inculcating such programs can be a great source of educating employees about leadership and the qualities that one may possess to be a potential leader. In addition to this employees become more aware about team and collaborative work. Encouraging leaders to enroll in cross functional training to improve and foster collaborative work and decision making.
Feedback is the one thing which is helpful in every field, every department and in every individual's life. Providing or getting 360 - degree feedback for leaders, collecting feedback from peers, teammates and supervisors to enhance leadership qualities.
Conducting a feedback process on a personal level is just another way to improve individually.
Emotional intelligence is one of the most important aspects of human behavior. Being emotionally intelligent means understanding of yourself and others. An ideal leader has a high EQ. HR’s can inculcate training that help employees and leaders to work on developing their emotional intelligence.
A high EQ not only helps you build a better relationship with your employees or those working under you but it also helps in dealing with stress and tough situations. Conducting training, seminars or programs on the same helps organizational leaders to find new ways of dealing with their problems.
One can only be considered a great leader when they are adaptive and flexible. Accepting that change is a chance and rather inevitable is a quality that many leaders exhibit. While talking about a strategy to develop the above qualities, HR’s can experiment by, Scenarios planning and Crisis simulation where teams get to participate in activities that deal with crisis management and other related problems which in return gives them a hands on experience for the future, empower teams to make decisions by training the leaders to delegate effectively and appreciate their team.
A few more areas that HR should strategise in to inculcate successful leadership is by promoting work-life balance. Recent cases like “Wells Fargo employee death” show how an employee may get neglected and end up being dead. No one should exert themselves to such thresholds where their body can no longer respond. Work is important but what is more important is Life. Promoting work life balance in the workplace not only instills a sense of care but also tells the importance of separating work and life. Leaders should set boundaries for working hours to promote a sense of respect and advocacy in their team.
Being in a position of authority and responsibility makes it harder to deal with backlash as you are the center of attraction. This is why leaders are more often chosen on their quality of accountability and transparency.
When you are a leader your team's mistakes are your mistakes and your applauds are your teams applauds. This is why it is important for leaders to be transparent about their expectations and goals within the team.
Giving time to time pep talks and conducting regular “Leadership audits”(a strategy to be initiated by HR’s) to educate them on leadership aspects such as ethics, inclusivity and team satisfaction. These audits not only help in the present but also provide a great source of feedback in the future.
As not everyone is tech-smart hence conducting small scale trainings, seminars and activities on new technologies that can be leveraged to perform better leadership qualities. Taking help of predictive analysis to view who can be a great future leader in case of vacancy is just another great aspect of leveraging technology in the leadership domain.
HR’s can inculcate many such other activities and strategies to establish successful leaderships.
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