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In a recent HR webinar, I asked three highly revealing polling questions. Here they are: What have you done to show your value? Nobody knows that you're doing a great job unless you tell them. It's not that they don't care about you; it's just that they're running 75mph and barely have time to pay attention to anything but their own work. What effort have you made to get noticed by delivering a report or giving a workshop? Unfortunately, only 21% of respondents said that they created a strategic plan. As Mary Kay once stated, "most people spend more time planning their vacations better than their career." Or, as I might add, their HR department. How excited are you about the HR opportunity on a scale from 1-5 (5 being very excited)? Half of the respondents described themselves as fairly "excited." Unfortunately, some 43% were just "ok or worse" with HR. Most organizations find the whole idea of HR boring. My guess is that is not the case at the 7% of companies where people said they were very excited about HR! I believe that if 7% can be excited, so can the 93%. It's simply a choice. What have you done in HR lately that goes beyond administrative or compliance requirements? What have you done to help improve the quality of the workplace (getting rid of poor employees and replacing them with great ones is a start), increasing performance management (having a performance management system that actually works), boosting retention, and giving greater love to that 20% of your workforce that produces 80% of results? What are you helping your company do to become more creative, innovative, and interesting? What's stopping you? I often ask this question in workshops and in webinars. Time is always the most common response (one of those buts again), followed by the company or management. A survey of HR That Works members found that 84% of respondents said they would make better use of the service if they had more time. Time management is a major issue! Go to the time management training on HR That Works. Watch the two videos and then start putting them into practice. I would recommend that you start by tracking where your time is going and then eliminate five hours of the uncool, un-valuable work you do every week.

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