In today’s workplace, HR professionals are at the forefront of managing rapidly evolving demands. From navigating shifting organisational priorities, to championing employee wellbeing, the pressure on HR teams seems to have never been greater. But amid these challenges, an important question emerges: How do HR professionals ensure that they, too, are supported and looked after?
We have found that frustrations can revolve around several key issues impacting HR:
- Managing Work-Life Balance: HR leaders are juggling numerous responsibilities and at times struggle to maintain their own wellbeing and work-life harmony, they went into the profession seeking to support others.
- Prioritising Employee Engagement: As the workforce becomes more diverse and expectations rise, HR must focus on cultivating genuine engagement and motivation, but how to do that…
- Handling Stress and Role Satisfaction: High stress levels and low role satisfaction among HR teams is commonplace and can lead to burnout and reduced effectiveness.
- Developing Leadership Agility: Making sound judgements and embracing big-picture thinking is crucial for driving organisational success, yet where is the time and focus on nurturing such skills?
Why HR Professionals Importantly Need To Start with Self.
HR professionals play a vital role in fostering healthy organisational cultures, yet they are not immune to the very challenges they seek to resolve. Addressing our own engagement, morale, and personal resilience is essential, not only for our own wellbeing but also for the positive impact we are then able to have on others.
Bringing Clarity Through Values-Based Assessment
The Judgment Index assessment is the online version of the Hartman Value Profile (HVP), a pioneering tool developed by Dr Robert S. Hartman Ph.D. in the early 1960s to assess and quantify judgement. Garnering substantial attention in workforce selection and development, this tool produces numerical scores with impressive predictive value. Unlike traditional IQ tests or personality assessments, the Judgment Index uniquely focuses on judgement — the critical ability to balance intrinsic (people-oriented), extrinsic (task/process-oriented), and systemic (big-picture) values.
Our values-based online assessment only takes approximately 15 minutes to complete, delivering accurate insights, measurable results, and sparking important conversations. This enables management, peers and human resources to understand what truly drives engagement, motivation, and resilience within the people they work with and seek to support.
Comprehensive Insights Unlike Any Other Reports
With over 70 different individual and group reports, the Judgment Index provides deep insights into key business practices such as management, customer relations, recruitment, training, coaching, promoting, re-assigning, and retaining employees. These reports can be customised to empower organisations to make informed decisions, align talent strategies, and cultivate strong leadership pipelines.
Judgment Index Australia also offers specialised training for coaches, HR professionals, and managers to help them fully understand the common uses and benefits of these assessments, ultimately enhancing their ability to support and develop their workforce effectively.
The simplicity of the reports and their presentation, however, means you don’t need to undertake the specialised training, it’s only an option for those that want to go deeper and take their Environmental Social Governance (ESG) to the next level.
How Our Values-Based Assessment Helps HR Professionals Support Self and Others.
Our tool and the resultant reports provide a comprehensive understanding of the unique individuation of how we view the world, providing key insights to challenges and stressors that we all face, including:
- Self-awareness of stress and role satisfaction levels to prevent burnout.
- Clarification of potential work-life balance barriers to enable targeted intervention.
- Recognition of leadership qualities identified by Yale research as essential for navigating complex workplace demands.
- Insight into the personal and professional ways we each view the world, to help individuals and organisations optimise engagement and support performance.
Moving Forward: Supporting Those Who Support Others
Today’s HR trends highlight the necessity of prioritising HR professionals’ wellbeing alongside their organisational responsibilities. Through leveraging tools like our values-based assessment and the in-depth insights available when they are incorporated into a strategic plan that focuses on the long-term outcomes, organisations can better understand these challenges and foster sustainable performance.
Supporting HR professionals in this way can create a stronger, more engaged HR team and lead to healthier employees overall, along with more resilient organisations in the long-term.
If you’re interested in learning more about how you can better support your HR team, create more purposeful leadership, and improve psychological safety, do get in touch with us as we’d love to share with you what we’ve learnt over the 40+ years of research into our human condition.
