Understand Top HR Trends and Priorities for 2016

HR leaders must develop a strategic plan that enables the organization to have the top-level talent and programs in place to achieve organizational goals.
Filtering through fads and staying on top of key HR trends that are appropriate for your HR functions is always a challenge.

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Critical Insight

Respondents rated strategic HR departments as effective 2.4 times more frequently than tactical HR departments.
Performance Management and Talent Management were seen as the least effective HR functions.
The top emerging trends for 2016 are: encouraging managers to hold frequent engagement conversations, creating manager accountability for performance coaching, and improving the candidate experience.

Impact and Result

Use the data and feedback gathered in McLean & Company’s HR Trends and Priorities for 2016 to inform your HR strategic plan this year.

This report will help you:

Benchmark your HR team’s effectiveness and budget against the results of our research.
Understand the top trends and priorities for 2016.
Pinpoint areas of misalignment between HR and non-HR respondents.
Learn how to identify the areas that should be the top priority for your own organization.
Harness the insights of 582 survey respondents.

Our individual function reports will help you:

Gain deeper insight into the effectiveness, priority, and trends for the areas which make up each HR function to inform your HR strategic plan.

Understand Top HR Trends and Priorities for 2016 Research & Tools

1. Understand the Top HR trends and priorities for 2016

Inform the organization's 2016 HR strategic plan.

2. Gain deeper insight into the trends and priorities for 2016

Plan which areas HR should focus on in the upcoming year.

Workshop: Understand Top HR Trends and Priorities for 2016

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Understand HR Trends & Priorities for 2016

The Purpose

To understand:

Current trends in HR.
Current incongruences between HR and non-HR respondents.
How you benchmark against your peers.

Key Benefits Achieved

Gather the necessary data for your HR strategy.
Reveal areas of improvement or optimization.
Gain insights from the top five most frequently implemented HR trends.

Activities

Outputs

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Use the data and feedback gathered in McLean & Company’s HR Trends & Priorities for 2016 report to inform your HR strategic plan.

An understanding of the top HR trends and priorities for 2016.

About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

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Call 1: Review the HR Trends and Priorities for 2016 report with an analyst, and discuss the implications for your organization.

Contributors

McLean & Company conducted an extensive HR Trends and Priorities survey that captured input from 582 respondents on their organizational metrics, HR effectiveness levels, and anticipated HR trends and priorities for 2016.