HR in the future organizations

I have just been listening to this podcast from Jacob Morgan interviewing Pat Wadors, Senior Vice President of Global Talent Organization at LinkedIn.

While I totally recommend this one (tho it is a little bit long, is tremendously interesting), I want to highlight a couple of thoughts and ideas.

1. HR is changing from hiring/firing people + negotiating benefits to a wider and more flexible concept. HR now is about treating employees BEAUTIFULLY. Not just «good» or «fair»: beautifully. This is  influencing leaders and help people to achieve their aspiration. It is also about guaranteeing the alignment of the company’s values and making things happen in the daily culture.
2. The vision of HR is to inspire people to change the world: your team, the employees working for the company (and candidates too), the customers, etc.
3. The mission of HR is to enable high performance healthy company scale. The health status is reached by creating a fun atmosphere of inclusion, where the employee feels recognized and wants to be engaged.
4. We are in a talented world. Every company wants the top people working for them, so they have to first attract them and then retain them. The only way to do it is to come honest to the candidates/employees: to offer the right things for their career and to be able to keep those promises in the future. However HR can not always control every single detail, so the company needs to be prepared and have a plan for unexpected situations where the employee might eventually leave.
5. The key tools to retain people are empowerment and accountability.
6. Everyone deserves a great leader, and HR has the perspective and tools to get closer to that ideal situation.