Before You Hire Your Next CHRO: Know About Skills That Separate Leaders from Administrators

PESTEL forces are rewriting the talent playbook and why traditional HR skills won’t save your business. Sensing and sense making is going to be foundational.

Every day, new forces - political shifts, economic shocks, social upheavals, technological disruptions - send the business models in unexpected directions. The old HR playbook of "hire, train, manage, retire" is obsolete.

What makes it challenging is the intense pace at which these expectations are getting built into the role of the CHRO. Very soon the headhunters will assess you on the skills that are given in the matrix below. There are skills that are simple to build and have immediate payback. Then start to add the skills are needed immediately but are complex to build. They will take time and energy. Then create a plan to add the future facing skills that are easy to build before you move to the complex ones.