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Founder & CEO @wattsnextpx and @wattsnextgroup l People Experience Expert l Entrepreneur

Great HR ideas are rarely original. Which means… The best way to boost your culture is simple: Get your HR people around other companies’ HR people! This is one of the main reasons we exist at The HR Linc.

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Tim Dive

Director | Host of The HR Cartel Podcast | HR & Industrial Relations Practitioner | Small & Medium Sized Employer Advocate

6mo

I was having this conversation just yesterday with our Grad/Associate, and I truly believe this is why HR belongs external for most businesses out there (and creates a better HR profession). Over a period of time, exposure, experience, and being consistently tested is what makes a HR person great. Not workshops or more study. Put 2 x 10 year experienced HR people together, one who sat in a company's 4 walls and went through their training programs, and one who consulted widely to 500 SMEs, and you have two very different HR people. There isn't any example I've seen where sitting in a limited role in a HR team has ever developed a HR person's skills better than exposing that HR person to more incidents, more challenges, more ideas from outside of their own business, more operating models, more aggressive employee groups, just more of everything that a single workplace can't offer. HR people have to experience other worlds to become great.

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