What is Business Partnering? To understand business partnering we’ll start by identifying who are Business Partners. This may help you determine whether you are one or should become one. Here’s a start: Business Partners are practitioners of critical business functions like HR, Finance, IT, Legal, Project Management, and others. They’re internal consultants. These professionals act...
As a Human Resources (HR) or Support Services professional, you have expertise that is critical for the survival and growth of your organization. You have expertise, and you can offer it by playing anyone of three consulting roles at work. Unfortunately, you may often find yourself being underutilized, overworked with transactional tasks, and being told...
As far as buzzwords go, “flexibility” is now rivaled in prominence only by the novel work model it is so often used to describe: hybrid work. Together, these words have taken over the way we speak about the future of work and constitute a whole series of new ways to think about the further integration...
Having a hybrid work schedule is one of the few things a majority of workers agree on these days. In one survey, for example, almost 70% of US firms say they plan to adopt some form of it. In other countries, the demand from workers is at least as high. Plus, there are plenty of...
Returning to in-person work can be a tricky process that comes with a complicated mixture of feelings. Whether you’re excited or anxious about reentry, you can expect being around other people to require a lot of energy that you probably haven’t had to expend in a while. Why is in-person interaction such a drain, and...
