Aaron Hoos

In this third of nine installments, Learn.com explores the critical link between training, HR, and strategy.

In this second of nine installments, Learn.com explores the critical link between training, HR, and strategy.

The alignment/misalignment of training, HR, and strategy is a huge, huge problem. Businesses have strategies and they try to implement them but don’t always dial HR (and their training) into the same loop. So HR hires to fill conventional roles while strategies falter.

In this 9 part video, Michael Sabbag of Learn.com explores the idea of aligning training, HR, and strategy. Here’s the first installment.

The Business Diamond Framework™ is a new way of looking at a business.

There are many different kinds of businesses but all of those businesses perform the same four functions to achieve their unique ends. Those four functions can be depicted like this:

“Leadership” represents the vision-casting and management of decision-makers. “Value-Add” represents the input-side of the business’ supply chain, which might include information or raw materials. “To-Market” represents the output-side of the supply chain, which includes marketing, sales, distribution, and other steps to bring a completed product or service to market. And “Support” represents the critical but non-revenue-generating functions of the business, which usually includes payroll, reception, HR, and other departments.