The HR Value Proposition

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Developing HR Professionals

To what extent do we invest in our HR professionals through training and development?

ULTIMATELY, all change is personal. Faced with changing realities and increasing stakeholder demands, HR professionals need new roles and competencies. Roles define what we do and who we are, and competencies define how we do our work. But knowing what to do and even how to do it does not ensure that it will be done well. Personalizing change and making it real requires learning and development. In this chapter, we describe some of the underlying principles of learning, then review how training and experience can sustain or build better HR professionals.

Principles of Professional Development

Unlike adolescent learning, which ...