SIMPLIFICATION

Simplify your HR solutions to deliver efficiencies, excellent employee experiences and exceptional business outcomes

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How complex are your HR solutions?

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Simplification is a game changer in removing legacy complexity which drives significant waste into our HR operations, slowing down performance and results, holding our organisations back.

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These six secrets will help you simplify your HR solutions, delivering efficiencies, excellent employee experiences and exceptional business outcomes.

 

1.Focus on what's adding value

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As HR functions everything we do must add value. Successful transformation is as much about removing what you don’t need as creating what you do need. Take a fresh look across your landscape, assess all your HR solutions and your book of work. Anything not adding value for your people, business or customers has got to go.

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Simplification Tip

 

Make the shift from a focus on completed activities, to focusing on the value you've delivered.

 

 

2. Play on the same team

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Employee experiences often cut across HR teams and different functions. Remember we all work for the same organisation with the same business strategy and goals - play on the same team. Bring together teams cross functionally to work as one, blending rich functional expertise with diversity of experience and thought. This helps create the best possible solutions, effective employee experiences and exceptional business outcomes.

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Simplification Tip

 

Bringing together teams cross functionally creates the best possible solutions that cannot be conceived in isolation.

 

 

3.Stop starting and start finishing

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As HR functions we have a full agenda - we want to do it all to deliver for our people and organisations. But as we keep adding new projects and initiatives, it’s easy to make the mistake of not removing anything and our book of work becomes enormous. It's critical to remember that we can do anything - but we can’t do everything. One simple approach that makes a significant difference is to stop starting, and start finishing. Understand what your people, business and customers are telling you, what your data is telling you about their pain points, and the value you can add by resolving them. Prioritise these items, align resources accordingly and work in collaboration until they’re complete, then move on.

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Simplification Tip

 

Remove what you don’t need, create what you do need – but only if it adds value.

 

 

4.Challenge everything

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We carry so much legacy complexity within our individual organisations. It's easy to find ourselves weighed down with processes, ways of working, rules and limiting beliefs which have been in place for years because we believe they need to be there. If we take a fresh look at our solutions, often we find it’s perception versus reality built up over time and there is a better way.

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Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Analyse every element of your HR architecture - your policies, processes and technology solutions to determine what is truly required. Decide what stays, or goes.

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Simplification Tip

 

Work in collaboration to constructively challenge everything. Remove unnecessary process and together shape streamlined, effective solutions that are compliant, and built with the employee experience at the core.

 

 

5.Be data driven

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If we're not taking a data driven approach we're guessing, doing what we think we need to do, or perhaps what we've always done. Data makes the invisible - visible, and helps us connect the dots. Use your data, insights and the voice of your people to understand their reality against your perception, and use the findings to shape your path to success.

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Simplification Tip

 

Get your data working hard for you. Take the time at the outset to build strong foundations, set up comprehensive data and feedback sources to track back against your baseline and guide your way forward.

 

 

6.Never stop

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Simplification is never done. This isn’t a project you can put down and mark as complete - if you do, over time you'll find yourself right back where you started as items you've carefully stripped out, and new elements get added back in. Create a culture of continuous improvement with teams empowered to constructively challenge, to be constantly on the look out for opportunities to streamline and improve. Measure your success continually against the data and refine your HR solutions as your organisation, and the world around you evolves.

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Simplification Tip

 

Simplifying a particular solution or process end-to-end only needs to be done once. It's then about maintaining your new solution and protecting what you've worked so hard to refine. Don't let your hard work go to waste.

 

 

Focusing on these six strategies will help you remove complexity and simplify your HR solutions delivering efficiencies, excellent employee experiences and exceptional business outcomes.

 

Are you ready to realise the power of simplification?