This document discusses the importance of employee engagement and the evolving role of HR. It notes that CEOs have rated human capital as their top challenge for three years. As the war for talent intensifies, companies must optimize, engage, and retain existing employees. While HR currently spends little time as a strategic partner, organizations with engaged workforces are more productive and profitable. The document calls on HR to up their game and take on a more strategic role, as their skills are critical to meeting current business needs.

1. Employee Engagement

2. CEO’s rate human capital
as their top challenge
3 years in a row
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3. BUSINESSES
PEOPLE DO
don’t create value;
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4. War for talent
is increasingly
a defensive game.
Forcing us to optimize, engage, and
retain our existing human resources.
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5. HR’s Focus
HR spends less than 15% of its time as a strategic
business partner, and spends most of it’s time
dealing with the implementation and
administration of HR policies and practices.
But when HR is involved, organizations function
better, and are much more successful.
-Forbes
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6. Nearly one half of
respondents rated their
HR department as “not
ready” to reskill itself to
meet today’s business
needs.
Only 8% of HR leaders
have confidence in
their HR teams
skills and abilities to
meet business
demands.
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7. Evolution of HR
Business
Value
H
L
Strategic
Micro Small Mid Large
Operational
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8. Evolution of HR
Business
Value
H
L
Strategic
Micro Small Mid Large
Operational
HR viewed as a cost center
Transactional HR High-Impact HR
HR as a strategic investment

9. Companies with an engaged
workforce outperform their
competition, with
21%higher productivity
22%higher profitability
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10. HR Professionals’most
important issue in 2015:
Culture and Engagement
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11. UP THEIR GAME
RIGHT NOW
perhaps more than in the last 20 years
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are some of
THE MOST IMPORTANT
Roles in business, forcing HR to