HR’s Reinvention: Moving from Benchmarking and Best Practices to Guidance By | Dave Ulrich | Speaker, Author, Professor, Thought Partner on HR, Leadership, and Organization Like other functions (and organizations, leaders, and individuals), HR needs to continually reinvent itself to realize its potential for creating, delivering, and capturing value. Recently, we have had conversations with thoughtful HR trendsetters. They almost all propose reinventing HR through benchmarking and best practices. Benchmarking reports how well HR is doing against a standard (global, industry, or historical norm) to build on strengths or to overcome weaknesses; best practices suggest how to improve by learning from others. Both have had a long history in shaping the HR profession and both will continue to be important, but we must take them a step further. Now is the time to reinvent HR by pivoting from benchmarking and best practice to guidance. Instead of improving by comparing oneself to others and by adapting what others do well, we must move beyond these descript... https://human-engineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GA-Dave-1.png https://human-engineers.com/hrs-reinvention-moving-from-benchmarking-and-best-practices-to-guidance/?feed_id=7773&_unique_id=60bcaab64d29f https://human-engineers.com/hrs-reinvention-moving-from-benchmarking-and-best-practices-to-guidance/?feed_id=7773&_unique_id=60bcaab64d29f