174 | Free 5-Day Strategic HR Sprint (Struggling to Be More Strategic? This Will Help)

Hello, and welcome to this special surprise extra episode

because I have something really exciting to share with you that I

hope you're going to enjoy and find helpful and can't wait to take part in.

But before I tell you all about it, I'd love to start by asking you a

question, which is how confident do you feel about being strategic?

Is it something that you feel really confident about, or does

the idea of it feel a bit daunting?

Or do you just feel like there isn't enough time to be strategic because

you're so busy with everything else you've got going on at work?

If your answer to any of these questions is that you wish you felt

more confident or that you did have more time for being strategic at work,

I'd like to reassure you that you are absolutely not alone in feeling that way.

Over the years, I've coached and trained hundreds of HR and people professionals,

and being strategic is one of the things people tell me they lack confidence

in more than almost anything else.

I've had people describe it as their kryptonite.

Others have told me that just hearing the phrase "be more strategic"

makes them feel slightly panicky.

I've had someone tell me that they think they might be allergic to it,

and there are so many people who have said that they wish that they could

be more strategic, but they just don't know how they can fit it in.

Because by the time they've dealt with meetings, emails, employee

relations issues, and everything else that lands on their desk, they feel

like there's just no time left for strategic thinking and strategic work.

So if any of that sounds familiar to you, if you can resonate with

anything that I've been describing, I completely understand, and I

hope you feel reassured that it's not just you who feels like this.

I know that if you're listening to a podcast or watching a podcast, it's really

easy to think, "Oh, that's a great idea. I must give that a try later," only to then

get caught up with work and completely forget about it, or get distracted.

Because often we're doing other things while we're listening

to a podcast or watching one.

I know that I do.

I'm a big podcast listener myself.

I love listening to all kinds of podcasts while I'm in the car, or doing the

cooking, or putting my makeup on in the morning, and there are so many times that

I hear an idea and think, "Oh, I must remember that," or, "I must try that,"

and then I completely forget about it, unless I literally pause the episode there

and then and make some sort of notes.

So because I know that that's what I do, that it might be what you're

doing as well, I wanted to create something slightly different to help

So I'm really excited to share that to help you build your confidence and

your skills with being strategic, I have created the strategic HR sprint.

It is a five-day sprint to help you become more strategic in HR. And because

I know how busy you are, I've made it as realistic and doable for you as possible.

When you sign up to the free sprint, every morning for five days in a row,

you will receive an email from me, and it will have a video, if you prefer

to watch, or an audio to listen to, and they'll be really, really, really

short, so they're quick to listen to.

I'll try my absolute best to make them as concise as I can.

You'll also get a worksheet to go along with the ideas that I'm sharing that

day, and also an optional AI prompt for you to use to really help deepen your

learning and help you get to it more quickly and, and build your confidence

with AI at the same time, I suppose

Each day's activity is going to take you around 10 to 15 minutes, so it's long

enough to help you think differently and short enough that you can actually do it.

Throughout the week, so throughout the five days, we'll tackle some of

the biggest barriers to becoming more strategic, helping you understand what

being strategic really means, where you can have the greatest impact in

your role, and how to make strategic thinking part of your everyday work.

We'll also tackle one of the biggest barriers to being

strategic in HR, which is time.

Together, we'll look at practical ways to create more space for strategic

thinking so it doesn't feel like something you're always desperately trying to get

to, it's something that you are doing

my hope is that by the end of the week, you'll not only feel more confident

about being strategic, you'll also feel like you finally have a practical way

to make it part of your working week.

The strategic HR sprint starts on Monday the 13th of July, and I would

absolutely love you to join me.

You can sign up by visiting brightskyhr.co.uk/sprint, and I'll

also pop the link to it in the show notes if you're listening to the audio

version of this podcast, as well as putting it in the YouTube description

if you're watching the video version.

And if you know another HR professional who you think would enjoy taking part

and would really benefit from the sprint, please do encourage them to sign up too.

I would love this sprint to reach as many people it would

be helpful for as possible.

You could even commit to helping each other if you have got a friend in HR who

you think would like to do it as well.

So you can commit to helping each other get through the sprint and stick to it

by blocking 15 minutes in your calendar, so both of you choose the same time.

You can go through the sprint together and share ideas and bounce ideas around

afterwards, or you can just WhatsApp each other at the end of the day and

check on on how you're both getting on.

Or if you lead an HR team, why not encourage your team

to take part in it together?

It could spark some fantastic conversations, help everyone build their

confidence with strategic thinking, and strengthen the impact that your

team has across the organisation.

if you have any questions about the sprint at all, please do

feel free to drop me an email.

You can always reach me at hello@brightskyhr.co.uk, and I will

be very happy to help, or you can just leave me a comment underneath

the YouTube version of this podcast

Thank you so much for listening or watching, and I really hope I'll see

you in the Strategic HR Sprint soon