Dave Ulrich

The HR Business Partner model continues to evolve, shaping how organizations deliver value through their people. In this week's newsletter, I explore nine key evolutions in the HRBP concept - from a heightened focus on stakeholder value to the emergence of AI-enabled HR practices.

As our field rapidly advances, I invite you to reflect: Which of these evolutions do you see as most critical for HR's future impact? What other key trends are you observing? Your perspectives enrich our collective understanding, so please share your thoughts in the comments.

Join me in exploring how we can harness these developments to create ever greater value for all stakeholders through human capability.

The COVID epidemic flared into a pandemic and now may be moving into an enduring endemic with lots of metaphors about how to face the future: reboot, reimagine, reinvent, remake, reset, revitalize, and so forth.

I would like to capture this future with the word renewal, with the prefix “re” meaning again and again building on the things we’ve learned in the past and “new” meaning in innovative ways.

As #HR leaders, how can we take what we have already learned and move forward in innovative ways? This article outlines five competency domains identified in the HRC2S study to guide us moving forward.

#leaders #future

Decades ago, Martin Seligman (father of positive psychology) defined learned helplessness as the state of people (and animals) giving up when they can’t predict the outcomes of their actions.

Today, he has delineated learned hopefulness as the condition where people use agency—or the power to choose—to control their environment based on three beliefs:

• Efficacy: I can achieve my goals to make a difference in the world.
• Optimism: I can continue to do so in the future.
• Imagination: I can interrupt the past and imagine and pursue a wide variety of futures.

These brilliant insights help me personally and help me help others. With agency (in using the three factors), people replace helplessness with hopefulness and create a better future. Agency becomes a fundamental principle for people to take charge of their circumstances and reach their potential.

Business and #HR leaders who incorporate these factors into their personal work habits and organizations’ work processes will be more effective.

How can you apply these principles to give you hope?