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Top Qualities and Characteristics of Great HR Leaders

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The Top Qualities and Characteristics of Great HR Leaders 1-HR must be a leader, not simply a Business partner. You have to be out in front and going first, but when you do  go first “there’s no manual to read, there’s no book to  read, there’s no one to benchmark against … so if you are  the first organization doing something, it’s difficult …  there’s some risk involved,” 2-They’ve worked in Business. What causes success in HR, and the No. 1 thing was knowledge  of the Business. “If you’ve worked in Business, you are  automatically more credible … your ideas are listened to  because you have worked in the trenches with employees.” 3-Your top goal should be to increase productivity  You should be able to give advice on how to improve  productivity (and) take advantage of productivity  opportunities.” You need to be proactive. Seek out problems and  opportunities, he says; don’t just wait for things to  happen. 4-You make fact-base