HR Warrior Development

If you want to succeed in business – and in life – you’ve got to make a serious investment in yourself. Whether you’re leading a team of twenty or working solo, you need to be the leader others want to follow.

Undertaking any significant changes in HR can be exciting — and unsettling. Project failure is a real possibility. In fact, a study conducted by the Project Management Institute shows that only 69% of businesses achieved their project’s original goals, while 15% of projects were classified as failures.

These days it feels like if you blink, you’ll miss an important development in business. Business paradigms have changed — and will continue to do so. Traditionally, a company’s value has come from its tangible assets: holdings, property and inventory. Massive companies such as Google, Amazon and Uber have proven that this isn’t the only place value lies. There is true power in intangible assets.

Layoffs are a common experience — 40% of workers report having been laid off at least once and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 1.6 million workers were laid off in July 2023 alone.

Providing HR for a small business can mean running a one-person show. Human resources can be a stressful job even when you’re adequately staffed with experienced people, but in many small businesses, HR duties are handled by one person or simply handed off to anyone with an administrative job title.

From day one of employment, the human resources department plays a vital role in a worker’s organizational experience.

HR Career Development in the New Future of Work

At the heart of Dr. Ohlrich’s work is to improve the environment of organizations which in turn improves the lives of employees. Whether it is coaching and training leaders, performing cultural assessments or helping develop HR professionals into HR Warriors, she wants all to reach their potential.

If you’re an HR professional, you know the job can be stressful and exhausting. The challenge is that few of us ever consider self care.

In our latest episode, HR expert Keri Ohlrich discusses the misconceptions surrounding the HR profession. Despite popular perception, Keri talks about the significant impact that a skilled HR team can have on staff and business development.