Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

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This sprint ended on July 1.

SPRINT 2.1: INVENTING MINI HACKS

During sprint 1.3, the hackathon team collaboratively developed and prioritized a list of almost 60 design principles to make our organizations more adaptable and fit for the future. We've synthesized these ideas into nine key principles you can read more about in a post entitled The Design Principles of Adaptable Organizations.

We are now beginning the second phase of the hackathon, where we will begin to develop a set of management hacks: radical, yet practical ideas for re-inventing core HR processes and practices to spur adaptability across the organization.

Sprint 2.1 will last over 3 weeks, ending on July 1, and is perhaps the most exciting and creative part of the hackathon. In this sprint, we will develop a set of "mini hacks" -- short yet provocative ideas for how we can overcome one or more of the enemies of adaptability we identified during Sprint 1.1 + 1.2, drawing inspiration from the key design principles of adaptability we identified during Sprint 1.3.

For this sprint we have three tasks:


TASK 1: Read A short guide to developing mini hacks by Michele Zanini and the hackathon guide team to learn how to invent your own mini hacks.


TASK 2: Invent your own mini hacks. Share your initial ideas for "hacking" HR and creating truly adaptable organizations. You could use this chart to find one or more places you are interested in hacking at the intersection of key HR processes and the key principles of adaptability. Submit as many mini hacks as you like.

Note: you must be logged in to submit a new mini hack or to comment on an existing mini hack.


TASK 3:  Mark your calendar to participate in the upcoming June 25 hangout featuring Dan Pink: It’s the People, People: A conversation with Dan Pink and Polly LaBarre on 21st Century People Practices.


This sprint ended on July 1.
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Realize that there is no need for a separate organization to manage "Human Resources." This is an outdated concept and it wrongly, unnaturally displaces responsibility for developing people from managers to bureaucrats. Put basic developmental tools in the hands of managers and demand high standards for your company's culture.

At...

By Patrick Malcor on June 19, 2022
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1.  TITLE: Role Not Position

 

2.  SUMMARY:

Positions (and accompanying titles) are reflective of the rigid, hierarchical, fear-ridden and overly centralized organizations that [irrespective of the organization and by themselves] both set-up and reinforce non-adaptive behavior. 

What if we did away with traditional positions (and related...

By Monique Jordan on June 11, 2022
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Operational organisation of the company is made of teams created to  answer a unique problem and are not permanent. The team is described by its purpose statement (Mission - the problem to solve, vision - orientations of solution and values - respected to make the solution acceptable and success criteria)...

By Julien Pascual on June 7, 2022

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Humans have an emotive response to stories that begins when we are young, they stretch and test the imagination. They helping people bring to life a situation and communicate its significance. Developing the capability to tell stories effectively is an important way for HR to influence and motivate.

Problem...

By Martin Couzins on June 20, 2022

We have given up on long and expensive recruiting processes. In our group we do it this way: we collaborate with all universities in our country and invite their graduate students to gain practice with us. We then offer the best ones - after a one day a week practice...

By Edna Pasher on June 8, 2022
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Building on the need to develop an ability to learn from failures, why not offer a prize to those who were able to articulate a corporate learning after a failure? A "Yearly / Quarterly Prize for Learning from Failure."

It coudl work like this: you were in a...

deb-seidman's picture

 A large part of creating adaptability is fostering awareness and understanding of opportunities and challenges that drive the need for adaptability.  Many companies have used rotation programs to provide entry-level new hires exposure to different parts of the business.  Once "settled" in an area, people build greater depth in that...

By Deb Seidman on June 11, 2022

Looking at the principles of Autonomy & Trust and Openess & Transparency, my mini hack aims to to establish the credibility and value of HR as a business partner by adapting the language and measurment principles of  the core business.  As long as HR continues to measure itself with the...

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Put HR flavour of the month into reverse. Look at everything you are doing and, unless you have evidence it is working in your organisation, stop doing it. 

And by evidence, I mean genuine, statistically valid, experimentally tested results. 

Of course, this also means, don't introduce any new initiative until...

By Nigel Cox on June 24, 2022
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Bosses aka “the man” frequently blur the line of sight to the customer forcing people to choose between meeting the needs of the boss or the customer. The fact that the boss doles out reward [raises, good evaluation, promotion etc.] and punishment [poor assignments, no raise or even firing] based...

By Monique Jordan on June 11, 2022

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