Strategic Connections

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Envision Your Ideal Network

Strategic Connections: Link Up HR Leaders

At a large defense contractor, the corporate-level human resources executives envisioned a larger, more proactive role for HR professionals. They selected 16 up-and-coming HR managers from the four business units for a two-year leadership program. One executive said, “Serving more than 100,000 employees across the enterprise, these people need new ways to connect and collaborate to deal with new challenges. There’s no way to train people for the future, but if they build relationships across business boundaries, they’ll be able to create the synergy to cope with ever-changing issues.”

BUILDING NETWORKING relationships across internal boundaries and even outside the perimeters ...