TL;DR: Deb Muller shares that HRCI is focusing on employee relations as a new strategic HR function and is gathering input from HR professionals about the learning and development they need. Rebecca Trotsky adds that this is a great opportunity to strengthen ER education and connect it with broader HR initiatives.
Three Key Takeaways from the Video: How Can HRCI Help?
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HRCI is elevating employee relations as a distinct and important HR function deserving focused education and attention.
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Employee relations is foundational and closely linked to strategic areas like diversity, equity and inclusion.
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HR professionals are encouraged to share their training needs to shape relevant, modern learning opportunities for today’s workforce.
Video Transcript: How Can HRCI Help?
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Deb Muller:
Hey Rebecca, how are you?
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Hey Deb, I’m good. How are you?
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Deb Muller:
Good. Time for Two Minute Matters. You ready to start the clock?
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Excited.
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Deb Muller:
You want me to start it?
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Yeah, let’s go.
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Deb Muller:
Okay, go. Alright, so you may not know this—I think I mentioned it to you—but I was asked by the board of HRCI, which is the Human Resource Capital Institute (many of you get your accreditations there), to meet with them and just do some generative thinking talking about employee relations.
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Deb Muller:
I’m so excited that they’re understanding and seeing employee relations as a new function, a new category that requires consideration. They really are going to put this at the top of their agenda.
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Deb Muller:
As I was thinking about it, learning more and thinking about my discussion with them, I wanted to ask our ER pros out there—the leaders that have their PHR or SHRM-CP—what do they want more of? What could they have used more? What kind of learning or development could HRCI, which is really the renowned institute for HR, be providing to the community?
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Oh, that is such a great opportunity. It’s very exciting.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see what we hear. I suspect that a lot of focus is obviously on things like investigations, handling very specific issues within the realm of ER.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
And it’ll be curious to get feedback from people because I feel like there’s an opportunity for us to connect what we do much more closely to things that we think of as strategic, like employee relations or diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
But ER touches so many parts of HR that it feels foundational. It feels like the kind of thing that needs a lot more bolstering in terms of education and how we talk about it. So this is a great opportunity.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Particularly now because the workforce is so different than it was, certainly when I went to school or when I was raised in HR and doing ER. So I’m really excited about the conversation.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
I’m so thankful for them for reaching out.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
And so if you have ideas or thoughts on your own training or what you need, put them in the comments, send me a DM because I want to include that and make sure all of your voices are heard when I have this opportunity. What a great chance to do this.
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Deb Muller:
I love it. And that’s exactly two minutes. We’re getting good at this.
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Rebecca Trotsky:
Alright, so… goodbye.
