Recently, Human Resource Executive Online (a great publication worth reading) republished a interesting checklist from Bloomberg Businessweek listing “What CEO’s Expect from CHRO’s”.

I’m kinda in love with this list, so if you’re HR, (even without the lofty title of CHRO), check it out. Ensuring that you’re focusing your time, energy and efforts on these activities is a great way to position yourself within your organization as an HR/Business Leader.

What CEO’s Expect From CHRO’s

• Collaborating to design and communicate a Vision for the company.

• Building a pipeline of qualified, energized people to fuel the company?s growth.

• Selling the company to the “talent population”, in person, via traditional media and online.

• Reinforcing a culture that emphasizes ingenuity over irrelevant, one-size-fits-all metrics.

• Teaching all employees, starting with the CEO, to tell the truth at work.

• Shifting the HR function away from a break/fix model to an embedded function in every business segment.

• Installing just enough HR process to meet the company’s regulatory compliance needs but not so much that people are stymied or infantilized.

• Building a culture of collaboration that fuels every important program at the company.

• Asking team members every day for input on business activities, their own careers, and life in general — not via a sterile, once-a-year employee engagement survey.

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
September 19, 2012

What would you add to this list?

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