“We can’t keep saying the world around us is changing and carry on delivering HR in the same way.”
This is one of my favourite quotes and how I chose to open my speech at the Surrey and North Hampshire CIPD event on Saturday.
I was invited to deliver a workshop on the changing world of HR and wanted to emphasise to the audience of HR professionals that the world around us is changing which means we need to change our strategy.
I asked the delegates to identify the current and future impact on their role and to contemplate how AI, technology and automation has a direct impact on their market.
According to Forbes, just 45% of companies in the UK have started to implement basic automation in HR yet PwC claim 74% of the 10,000 employees they surveyed are ready to learn a new skill.
For every company not willing to change there are hundreds if not thousands of employees getting ready to find another company who will.
My message is clear, we can’t be scared of change, we need to embrace it if we are to survive in a changing world and retain the professionals needed to make it happen.
