As an HR Manager, how will [you] drive results?

Human resources managers can uniquely drive business results by innovating creative ways to cost-effectively build the organization. Having an effective workforce in place when the rest of the organization has needs accelerates achieving corporate goals.

Increasingly, HR isn’t just about administering benefits or settling employee disputes — it’s about driving business results through effective people management. To wow your interviewer(s), discuss the core initiatives you’d implement at the prospective company, how you would measure success and how the initiatives would impact the bottom line.

The best mindset of any manager is to identify opportunities to have an effect on the ability of organizations they manage to drive business results.

The connection between organizational functions and business results is easy to see for operations, product line, marketing, sales and other familiar functional managers.

When it come to human resources managers, the same is true, but perhaps a little less visible.

Human resources managers can uniquely drive business results by innovating creative ways to cost-effectively build the organization. Having an effective workforce in place when the rest of the organization has needs accelerates achieving corporate goals.

Drive for Results. Definition. Motivated by success and passionate about working and achieving higher results. Persists to complete tasks / responsibilities, even in the face of difficulties, is optimistic and tenacious all through.
Motivated by success and passionate about working and achieving higher results. Persists to complete tasks / responsibilities, even in the face of difficulties, is optimistic and tenacious all through. Operates with personal ownership and looks for ways and means to improve performance all the time. Displaying a strong commitment to making service performance improvements and a determination to achieve positive service outcomes for the students and staff.

PROFICIENCY LEVELS: Drive for Results

LEVEL I•Takes actions that lead to the delivery of set service targets.•Shows determination to meet the objectives set by others.•Keeps track of and measures outcomes against own standards, over and above those set by others.•Takes actions that lead to quantifiable service improvements.•Encourages others to find ways of delivering services that will better serve the needs of customers while meeting local targets.

LEVEL II•Sets self and others stretching goals, over and above those required to meet national standards and targets, where these will help to improve local services.•Takes the necessary actions to meet these goals; identifies and applies measures to track and quantify achievement.•Overcomes obstacles to achieving goals and uses failure as an opportunity to learn.

LEVEL III•Shows determination to achieve goals over time; resists any pressure to be deflected from this attainment.•Prepares to challenge others and address poor performance where this is impacting on effective service delivery.•Takes calculated risks, based on learning and experience, to achieve longer-term service improvements.