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Systematically Develop Your HR Organization

Create a simplified HR training and development process that addresses both HR-wide and individual employee development needs.

  • It is often unclear what competencies an HR organization should develop to achieve its priorities.
  • Development plans for effectively developing an HR organization in the selected competencies often don’t exist, are overly complicated, or do not accurately target the selected competencies.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • Effectively develop your HR organization by keeping it simple. Identify HR-wide and individual competency gaps, then provide employee development opportunities using a variety of learning methods to increase the likelihood of adoption and success.

Impact & Result

  • Use McLean & Company’s three-step process to identify the competencies key to delivering on the HR organization’s priorities, assess the HR team against these competencies, and create a training and development plan to address competency gaps. Weigh time, budget, and the size of the competency gap when determining how to address each gap.

Research & Tools

1. Identify required future HR competency

Identify key HR priorities and define competencies for each role.

2. Assess current HR competency

Assess HR against selected competencies and evaluate the results to prioritize competency gaps.

3. Plan to address competency gaps

Tailor competencies and development opportunities to develop an action plan that will address HR competency gaps.