Secrets Revealed: Top Habits Of Highly Successful HR Departments

Any HR professional knows that there is never a lack of work in their department. From replying to an employee’s question about benefits to following-up with a manager on how to best restructure her department, there seems to be fewer hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks that HR needs to do.  And this is the perfect reason why it makes sense to stop, assess, and understand what highly successful HR departments do – to focus, to produce results, and to achieve success.

This course provides a realistic discussion about the features of today’s dynamic business environment – one that demands HR to be agile and strategic while delivering specific compliance and productivity results. By understanding the successful habits of fine-tuned HR departments, you will glean information that can help transform your own HR department to run more smoothly.

• Review the current context and business environment in which HR operates
• Describe the areas of opportunities for HR to add value to their organizations
• Explore the strategic features of a successful HR department
• Identify actions that HR departments can take immediately to provide relevant and valuable business support
• Review examples of best practices And much more

Today’s complex and fast-paced business environment has meant more responsibilities and actions for HR departments. More legislative requirements, multi-faceted workforce factors, and ever-changing leadership directions demand that HR keep up (at the very least) or become obsolete and irrelevant.

These demands for time, policies, programs, and initiatives have spelled out a clear message to go in the opposite direction: to simplify and focus on what will most efficiently and effectively drive business-required results needed from HR.

• Chief HR Officers (CHROs)
• Vice Presidents of HR
• Directors of HR
• Any other HR professional
• Directors, Vice Presidents and other leaders who oversee the human resources department

Melveen Stevenson is the CEO and founder of M.S. Elemental, LLC, a human resources and business advisory firm. As a certified HR professional with a background in accounting and finance, she helps companies to navigate the human resources “jungle” of compliance, human capital, and leadership challenges. In doing so, she empowers companies to strengthen their infrastructure from the inside out, specifically through leadership development, operations, training, employee engagement, and executive coaching.

Melveen speaks on key topics to empower companies with the latest research and best practices for increasing engagement, enhancing leadership presence, and optimizing diverse workforce groups.

Over the last 20 years, Melveen has held leadership positions in human resources operations, supply chain, and talent management at international companies in food manufacturing, medical devices, and consumer products. She has spent most of her career in California, and has expertise in the state’s complicated employment regulations.

Melveen is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP) and the Human Resources Certification Institute (SPHR).  She is also a faculty member at California State University-Dominguez Hills.