It seems the cry of any human resource professional organization in recent years has been for human resource professionals' to stake their place at the strategic planning table. One of the best ways to ensure a place at that table is to show what human resources does to support the profitability of the organization. Employee development = facilitation of new ideas = increased profits. Yes, there is a connection between it all.
Employee development is not about a staid development program. You know, the one that is executed in a perfunctory manner and no one remembers when it was developed? It is about an adaptable and open conduit for the flow (in both directions) of development. As you will hear in the interview below of Brad Anderson, former CEO of Best Buy, this can be referred to as "bottom up leadership". Anderson supports the "collapse of distance between the person who can see the customer need" and those at the top.
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