HR professionals feel unprepared for emerging challenges driven by AI, sustainability, skills shortages, and digital adoption.

HR Success Blueprint serve as a guide for HR professionals to navigate this future.

1. Skill set

✦ T-Shaped HR Competency Model describes the five core competencies regardless of role or level and leadership skills.

2. Toolset

✦ Given the hesitance to engage with digital technologies, if we aren’t willing to experiment as HR, we will not leverage any benefit these tools could provide.

3. Mindset

✦ Data shows that 62% of HR professionals always aim to see how different concepts fit into the larger context, yet this does not always translate into action.

✦ The HR professional mindset will be characterized by:

Curiosity

Paradoxical Thinking

Problem-Solving

Analytical Thinking

Working with Complexity

4. Heartset

✦ HR professionals must fearlessly champion diversity, inclusion, and equality, even when faced with resistance, knowing that this is essential for progress.

5. Professional Identity

✦ The HR professional needs to rediscover their identity as part of their professional journey. This entails a more dedicated focus on understanding “why you chose a professional career within HR?” “what is the contribution you want to make?” and above all, what “type of HR professional do you want to be and become.”

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”

Reflect back on your life for a moment and think of all the times you put a ton of energy into planning something, only for it never to happen the way you intended it to.

Ways to approach the planning and execution process:

and it really depends on your experience and personality.

1️⃣ Fluid - Go with the Flow:

is akin to being highly fluid and adaptable, like water. You find the best path in that moment and redirect, depending on where circumstances dictate. In other words, there is no concrete plan … you take it as it comes.

2️⃣ Craft Putty - Build it, execute but re-stretch and form around as needed:

a plan is in place, but it’s ‘malleable', like putty, and can be re-formed to match the circumstances.

3️⃣ Hardened Steel – Build it, Drive It and don’t Veer off Track:

the plan is ‘the word’, and veering off track is out of the question. Obstacles are meant to go through, not around, and the focus is on getting to the desired outcome (goal) without deviation from the plan.

Flow is when you’re so invested in a project that you lose track of time. When you feel “in the zone”.

To achieve flow, you need 3 things:

1. Realistic goals

2. Your skills match the opportunities for action

3. Complete focus is on the activity

Flow happens when your skill matches the difficulty of the task.

How to Do It:

Define the goals of the activity. Create a major goal and as many subgoals as needed

Find ways to measure progress. Create mechanisms to track your progress

Concentrate on the task at hand. Dedicate your full attention to the task. No multitasking is allowed

Develop the skills needed to make progress. Make an effort to improve every skill required

Keep raising the stakes. Once you achieve your goals, go back to step 1 and create even bolder goals

🔽 Creating Flow Out of Chaos 🔽