#6 – Importance of the Entrepreneurial HR Partner & Necessary Skills for the Future with Rusty Lindquist
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Rusty Lindquist, Biography
Rusty is the Vice President of Thought Leadership at BambooHR where he where he speaks, writes, and teaches about high-impact people practices, and how to help HR deliver the value their organizations most need.
Rusty has spent 18 years as head of product and strategy in technology companies in the learning and development, and technology industries. He is a husband, a father of seven, and someone who loves life and loves sharing knowledge.
BambooHR is a leading HR technology company whose innovations are designed to accelerate the evolution of HR in small and medium businesses by setting them free to do great work.
Follow Rusty on LinkedIn , Twitter or on his website Life.engineering
Rusty’s Secret to Success
Links to References Discussed
- Bamboo HR
- Elevate HR virtual conference (by Bamboo HR)
- Franklin Covey
- Canvas – learning management system
- Conference Board (research including on CEO concerns)
- Harvard Business Review (“it’s time to blow up HR” article)
- Alfred Marshall, “godfather of modern day economics”:
- “organizational power flows to the department that solves the biggest problems”.
- Time, Talent & Energy (book)
- 16 Elements of Success – link to Rusty’s LinkedIn page where he profiles his work
- The Game of Work (book)
- Drive, by Dan Pink (book)
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Show Notes
- 1:50 Intro to Rusty
- 3:50 Rusty’s background, and how he landed at Bamboo HR
- 7:40 Some significant transformations in HR over the last 5 years
- 12:01 Why / where is the disconnect between what the business needs & what HR provides
- 15:00 The burden of responsibility of HR of selling its value to executive leadership
- 16:15 The title of the head of HR, and why it typically differs from the head of a business
- 18:43 Where will the next 3-5 years take HR
- 22:50 How do you screen for “energy”
- 26:28 Do people run out of energy, or is it a mid-fire on the hire
- 32:20 The gig economy, and how it plays into excitement, engagement & retention
- 36:10 The 16 elements of success
- 50:00 What are the limiters or challenges for success
- 52:53 What advice would you give someone going into HR
- 54:30 Advice for an HR veteran trying a new way
- 59:10 How gamification & AI will impact HR
- 1:01:01 Rapid fire questions including:
- What’s your favorite resource you like referring people to
- What’s one of the biggest wastes of time
- How do you filter out all the noise out there
- Favorite non-social media App you use
- 1:08:55 Rusty’s speech at the SHRM 2018 Conference
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