3 attributes HR must develop to enter the Boardroom

HR and its current capability has been a hotly-debated topic recently. 

O2's HR Director, Ann Pickering, recently remarked that HR should stop asking for a seat in the Boardroom, claiming that they are “not just appointed to a Board for their functional expertise, they have to have collective cabinet responsibility for the whole business.”

In this vein, Tim Edwards, Senior Consultant at Korn Ferry Hay Group, revealed to HR Grapevine the three attributes that CEOs wish their HR Directors had - the Navigator, the Strategist and the Innovator - and explained how they might go about living them.

“The ‘earning the seat at the table’ metaphor is often used to describe what HR professionals need to do to establish their business credentials with senior leaders,” commented Edwards. “But what we’ve found is that CEOs are not just willing to pull up a chair, but have actually laid a ready-made place for the right person who can help them manage the people risks in a global market.