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HR STRATEGY COMMUNICATION GUIDE

CEB Corporate Leadership Council

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Introduction
What It Does:
The HR Strategy Communication Guide provides tips to help you communicate your HR strategy effectively to all stakeholder groups.

How to Use It:


Review the tips and guidance provided in this guide to understand how to tailor your communication for each stakeholder segment.

Instructions:

Slide 3 - Tips to Communicate Strategy Effectively


• Review the tips provided on this page to customize your communication for different stakeholder groups.

Slide 4 - Identify Supporters and Resistors to your Strategy Plan


• Use the diagnostic questions at each step to identify supporters and resistors among business partners and finance staff members.
• Review potential action steps for each type of stakeholder listed in the Action Plan column.

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Tips to Communicate Strategy Effectively

Stakeholder Communication Tips

 Conduct one on one discussion with each BU head.


Business Unit Leaders
 Customize the presentation to indicate benefits of the strategy for the relevant business.

Executive Committee  Provide high-level overview of the HR strategy and its alignment to the corporate strategy.

 Find high-impact leaders who can be champions to help build support for the HR strategic plan.
 Identify people likely to resist change and target them proactively.
HR Leadership  Segregate the team into smaller groups for communicating strategy plans.
 Personalize presentations for each group to tell them exactly what they must do to support the
implementation of objectives.

 Explain the changes to minimize uncertainty and describe how the strategy relates to the business
HR Staff plan and organizational direction.
 Assess employee-related factors that may impact strategy execution.

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Identify Supporters and Resistors to Your Strategy Plan
4 Action Steps
Evangelists and Supporters:
Yes
3a Evangelist ■ Work closely with evangelists to pilot the
Support strategy or showcase their efforts.
Strength of Support
■ Keep evangelists and supporters in the
■ Will they proactively room when conversing with critics/
support/defend the blockers to prevent the latter from
strategy? grandstanding.
Supporter
2 No
Yes
Posture

■ Are they likely to be Critics and Blockers:


in favor of the
1 No Critic ■ Spend one-on-one time with critics and
strategy?
blockers early on. Influencing strategies
Influence
■ Historically, have 3b include:
they responded well Strength of –Seeking their input
■ When they speak, do to change? –Making reference to evangelists
Opposition
people listen? ■ Would they have Oppose
–Socializing
something to lose ■ Will they proactively Blocker –Logical persuading
■ Do they have the ear
from the strategy? move against the
of people who can Yes
strategy rather than
make things
merely complain?
happen?
■ Are others Neutral and Low Influence
constantly asking to Indifferent Stakeholders:
include this person in Neutral
meetings/follow- ups? ■ Prioritize less time with neutral
stakeholders, as they are unlikely to
actively support or block you.
■ Likewise, spend less time on
Low Influence stakeholders with low influence who are
No
less capable of affecting your rollout
efforts.
Source: Fiserv Inc.; CEB analysis.

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