When you first start out as an advisor in your HR career, your job is to deliver the transactional HR services that enables the business to be successful. This foundation of sound HR products and services can allow HR Consultants to manage HR offerings so that business operations can be effective and achieve outcomes. Managers in the business are looking to their HR consultants to be proactive about improvements and potential.

When you make the step towards being a true business partner your business leaders are wanting you to be a thought partner and thought leader. Your job is to Think, your attention is on Strategy and the business leaders are looking for you to Co-create the future with them.

My experience of many HR functions is that they do not evolve through this model. Many stay in the area of delivering transactions and/or managing operations. They cite volume of work, requirements of policy or business demands, and I wonder if there could be more to it.   

What if it was just a comfort zone thing?

What would happen if you decided, today, that you were going to step up and really make a difference?

If you are in HR - how are you evolving your career and offering to be the HR business partner your leaders are looking for?

If you are not in HR - how are you leveraging your HR professionals to bring about real change in your organisation?