Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, including the BBC, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good. She created Disruptive HR having grown frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the way people were being led and developed. She now runs the agency to help business leaders and HR functions to do things differently and has worked with numerous blue-chip companies all over the world.

What are the needs of the future? This book is a must read for those HR leaders that want more out of their careers and don’t want to sit back and accept indifference. Nothing is usual anymore, therefore we need to take action to prove our worth. We need to be the go-to experts for everything involving human beings in an organization. So, for those that are serious this book is your first step towards the future in HR.

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroduction to the second editionPart I What’s wrong with HR? Chapter 1 HR is dead (long live HR)Chapter 2 How I got here Part II The way HR should be: The EACH model Chapter 3 Employees as adultsChapter 4 Employees as consumersChapter 5 Employees as human beings Part III Reinventing HR Chapter 6 RecruitmentChapter 7 InductionChapter 8 Employment rules and policiesChapter 9 Managing performanceChapter 10 RewardChapter 11 Training and developmentChapter 12 Talent managementChapter 13 Leadership developmentChapter 14 Employee engagement and communications Part IV Making it happen Chapter 15 Turning old HR into new HRChapter 16 The HR team of the future About the authorNotes

Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, including the BBC, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good. She created Disruptive HR having grown frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the way people were being led and developed. She now runs the agency to help business leaders and HR functions to do things differently and has worked with numerous blue-chip companies all over the world.

What are the needs of the future? This book is a must read for those HR leaders that want more out of their careers and don’t want to sit back and accept indifference. Nothing is usual anymore, therefore we need to take action to prove our worth. We need to be the go-to experts for everything involving human beings in an organization. So, for those that are serious this book is your first step towards the future in HR.

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroduction to the second editionPart I What’s wrong with HR? Chapter 1 HR is dead (long live HR)Chapter 2 How I got here Part II The way HR should be: The EACH model Chapter 3 Employees as adultsChapter 4 Employees as consumersChapter 5 Employees as human beings Part III Reinventing HR Chapter 6 RecruitmentChapter 7 InductionChapter 8 Employment rules and policiesChapter 9 Managing performanceChapter 10 RewardChapter 11 Training and developmentChapter 12 Talent managementChapter 13 Leadership developmentChapter 14 Employee engagement and communications Part IV Making it happen Chapter 15 Turning old HR into new HRChapter 16 The HR team of the future About the authorNotes

Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, including the BBC, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good. She created Disruptive HR having grown frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the way people were being led and developed. She now runs the agency to help business leaders and HR functions to do things differently and has worked with numerous blue-chip companies all over the world.

What are the needs of the future? This book is a must read for those HR leaders that want more out of their careers and don’t want to sit back and accept indifference. Nothing is usual anymore, therefore we need to take action to prove our worth. We need to be the go-to experts for everything involving human beings in an organization. So, for those that are serious this book is your first step towards the future in HR.

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroduction to the second editionPart I What’s wrong with HR? Chapter 1 HR is dead (long live HR)Chapter 2 How I got here Part II The way HR should be: The EACH model Chapter 3 Employees as adultsChapter 4 Employees as consumersChapter 5 Employees as human beings Part III Reinventing HR Chapter 6 RecruitmentChapter 7 InductionChapter 8 Employment rules and policiesChapter 9 Managing performanceChapter 10 RewardChapter 11 Training and developmentChapter 12 Talent managementChapter 13 Leadership developmentChapter 14 Employee engagement and communications Part IV Making it happen Chapter 15 Turning old HR into new HRChapter 16 The HR team of the future About the authorNotes