Socrates hr

WHITAKER_DRAFT

Going GreekLessons in HR Partnership

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”- Socrates

Creative Property of John Whitaker, PeopleResults™

Role of HRBP

Listen

Question

Visualize

Challenge


Current State

What is the “role” of Human Resources?

Administrative

Tactical vs. Strategic

Essential vs. Necessary

...of the HR Business Partner?

Company Cop

Policy Reader

Team-member


ListenThe Socratic method is founded on the principal of attentive listening...

Over-emphasis on our “own” information

Increase our awareness as a “guest” in the conversation

“Wind puffs up empty sails.”

- Socrates


Question...and the ability to ask simple, meaningful questions

“tell me more about what interests you...”

Target the heart, not the hands

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” - Socrates


VisualizeBring the conversation out of the present...

Vision looks at tomorrow, sight looks at today

Problems exist in the here & now

Solutions look to the future

Our vision allows us to work outside our state in life

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato


Hyperlink

Breakout groups

Role-play, HRBP & Business Leader

What “exit” did you take?

“Benjamin Franklin was a proponent of establishing Junto’s for the purpose of collaboration.”


Teach

Aristotle believed leadership to be congruent with action...

Model the actions you want repeated

Practice the qualities you want modeled

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” - Aristotle


Challenge

Substantial change comes in two forms

Generation of a skill

Elimination of a fault

“Change in all things is sweet.” - Aristotle