Leadership-Driven HR - by David S Weiss (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Focusing on strategic solutions for HR, Leadership-Driven HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets--people and organizational processes. Leadership-Driven HR provides practical strategies for leveraging HR's role, priorities, accountabilities, and organizational design.

• Focuses on strategic solutions for HR, addressing current and ongoing concerns in the world of HR
• Dr. David Weiss is President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd., which leads innovative consulting and HR projects that generate effective strategy, leadership, innovation, and HR solutions for leaders and employees

HR serves a critical role in managing your most valuable assets. Discover new ways this department can create significant ROI for your business.

From the Back Cover

In today's highly competitive marketplace, many businesses are searching for new directions and are transforming their way of working. For a business to transform effectively, HR must transform with it--or faster.

Leadership-Driven HR is a breakthrough road map for HR to drive value for the business, guide HR to deliver value through leaders, and ensure that HR is driven to lead. It looks past the critiques of the ways that HR may have functioned in the past and instead looks toward what HR needs to become--forward-thinking leaders who actively shape the future instead of being reactive. HR needs to embrace this new reality rather than attempting to hang on to the way it was in the past. The past is gone. HR needs to shape its own future so that it can be of greater value to the business.

Businesses need Leadership-Driven HR in order to succeed. The challenge to HR is to unleash its own potential to gain insight and discover solutions for how to deliver value for the business. HR also needs to lighten up other work that is of a lower priority. When HR is effective at Leadership-Driven HR, it moves from an important internal service to an essential partner of the business that is highly strategic and important to the competitive and comparative success of the enterprise.

HR also must be able to articulate a compelling story of what HR is, how it delivers value to business leaders, and how all HR priorities eventually deliver value to external customers. Leadership-Driven HR tells that story to executives, business leaders, and HR professionals so that they will know how to transform HR to deliver value for the business.

About the Author

Dr. David S. Weiss is President and CEO of Weiss International Ltd., a firm specializing in innovation, leadership, and human resources consulting. Previously Chief Innovation Officer in a multinational consulting firm, David also teaches in three executive development programs at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the Schulich School of Business at York University, and The University College of Cayman Islands. His doctorate is from the University of Toronto, and he has Masters degrees in Education and Psychology from Columbia University.

David is also a Senior HR Professional (SHRP), an Institute Certified Director (ICD.D) with the Institute of Corporate Directors, an advisory board member of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP), and a past Director on the Board of the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. He has been honored with the "HR Leadership Award" at the Asia-Pacific HR Congress, the "HR Distinction Award" from HR Israel, the "Distinguished Lecturer" certificate from the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario, and the lifetime designation of "Fellow" from both HRPA and CSTD in Canada.

David is a highly sought-after executive consultant, educator, and keynote speaker who has presented at over 200 conferences and is the author or co-author of five other business books: Innovative Intelligence (2011), Leadership Solutions (2007), The Leadership Gap (2005), High Performance HR (2000), and Beyond The Walls of Conflict (1996). Leadership-Driven HR is his sixth book. For more information, visit www.weissinternational.ca and follow David@DrDavidWeiss.