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From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor: Success Strategies for Today's HR Professional
HR Leaders, do you have a seat at the decision-making table? If you feel like your role in HR is disregarded, or ignored, you can change that perception and become a trusted advisor in your corporation. As an HR professional, you have a great contribution to make; this book shows you how to demonstrate the value of your HR expertise within your company.From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor is written for especially for HR professionals. In this book, you will journey inside companies in a variety of industries and learn how HR professionals can stop being perceived as roadblocks or gatekeepers and start becoming appreciated, respected and trusted advisors to top leadership. Using the book's unique Bridge Model, you will learn the behaviors and practices you need to demonstrate your business contribution and become a leader in your corporation."...A much needed, easy to read guide for anyone who wants to be a valued and respected HR leader..." - Bruce Tulgan, author of It's Okay To Be The Boss, founder and chairman of RainmakerThinking, Inc."...An effective resource that demonstrates how to build credibility and link key HR objectives to top business objectives. Readers will learn how it is possible to not only get the coveted 'seat at the table', but a reserved one". - Suzanne Coonan, Vice President Human Resources, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
218 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2010
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December 14, 2010
Human Resource professionals have long been the butt of workplace jokes and cartoons. It's difficult to rise above that sort of typecasting, but there is a new book out that might help. From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor: Success Strategies for Today's HR Professional, written by Andria L. Corso, may be just what HR professionals need to learn how to develop trust and communication skills with employees.
From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor is a blueprint for success if you're a human resource professional who wants to become more than a negative force to employees. Rather than dreading a meeting with you, you want employees to enjoy and even pursue advisory time and be unafraid to express their opinions.
Part of the path to become a trusted advisor to employees concerns behavior and another part is about policies that you put into place. Corso is the principal owner of a successful consulting firm - C3 - Corso Coaching & Consulting and developed the strategies for her new book after she read an article about why employees hated HR people.
She realized that despite all of the efforts to turn around the opinions about HR professionals, the goal had yet to be reached. All the books about HR skills, competencies and management styles haven't worked to change the reputation and negative feedback of employees in the workforce.
Corso has written a comprehensive guideline that includes templates, checklists, forms and tip sheets that readers can use to develop their own methods or follow the yellow brick road of Corso's methods. You'll be able to download each of these forms from Corso's online website after purchasing the book. Whether you're an HR professional or a business leader, you'll want to keep it handy on your desk and refer to it periodically.
Find out how to build credibility and how to blend HR departments with other departments in the business so that you all have the same goals and objectives. You'll also learn behavior patterns and practices that will change the way employees view your profession and transform you into a trusted advisor rather than a negative gatekeeper.
You'll learn how to stop being perceived as a roadblock and to begin the steps that will turn you into a trusted advisor who is appreciated and respected for the leadership they bring to the business.
From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor: Success Strategies for Today's HR Professional, should be a must-read for HR professionals and business owners or leaders who have an HR team. Corso skillfully leads you through samples of a variety of industries and explains how HR professionals are being viewed - and why employees have developed these viewpoints - whether negative or positive.
Review by Lauren Smith
This review covers From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor by Andria L. Corso.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Success-G...] A Success Guidebook for HR Professionals
From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor is a blueprint for success if you're a human resource professional who wants to become more than a negative force to employees. Rather than dreading a meeting with you, you want employees to enjoy and even pursue advisory time and be unafraid to express their opinions.
Part of the path to become a trusted advisor to employees concerns behavior and another part is about policies that you put into place. Corso is the principal owner of a successful consulting firm - C3 - Corso Coaching & Consulting and developed the strategies for her new book after she read an article about why employees hated HR people.
She realized that despite all of the efforts to turn around the opinions about HR professionals, the goal had yet to be reached. All the books about HR skills, competencies and management styles haven't worked to change the reputation and negative feedback of employees in the workforce.
Corso has written a comprehensive guideline that includes templates, checklists, forms and tip sheets that readers can use to develop their own methods or follow the yellow brick road of Corso's methods. You'll be able to download each of these forms from Corso's online website after purchasing the book. Whether you're an HR professional or a business leader, you'll want to keep it handy on your desk and refer to it periodically.
Find out how to build credibility and how to blend HR departments with other departments in the business so that you all have the same goals and objectives. You'll also learn behavior patterns and practices that will change the way employees view your profession and transform you into a trusted advisor rather than a negative gatekeeper.
You'll learn how to stop being perceived as a roadblock and to begin the steps that will turn you into a trusted advisor who is appreciated and respected for the leadership they bring to the business.
From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor: Success Strategies for Today's HR Professional, should be a must-read for HR professionals and business owners or leaders who have an HR team. Corso skillfully leads you through samples of a variety of industries and explains how HR professionals are being viewed - and why employees have developed these viewpoints - whether negative or positive.
Review by Lauren Smith
This review covers From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor by Andria L. Corso.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Success-G...] A Success Guidebook for HR Professionals
May 3, 2011
Though I am able to agree with some of the reviews that say this book is a bit redundant, I also believe that there is some very helpful information within the pages. The author speaks about why people hate the HR profession not as a means to scare us away, but to prepare us for the reality of this profession. If we didn't know what we were up against, we'd have no idea how to fight back. I think that this book had some good topics that was discussed throughout the book. I don't believe that we should say that all of the techniques are necessarily infallible, but most of them should certainly help people who work in the HR field to progress up the corporate ladder.
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