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By: Stephanie Sloan on February 11th, 2015

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Last Friday, HighRoad U welcomed Tom Morley, Founder and President of Snowflake Consulting to our Friday webinar series.  Tom joined us to discuss the basics of human capital, current trends in human capital theory and how successful organizations are making the most of this most valuable resource. 

Tom's first comments out of the gate don't come as a great surprise: Human capital is one of those things that keeps us up at night.  Its easy to see bad human capital at work in the form of disgruntled staff with outdated skills, watching your best staff leave while the worst seem to stay forever.  So what does it look like when an organization has found its way to the sweet spot with human capital? Tom walks us through human capital in context and its effect on our organizations as well as human capital at work in practical terms. Here are some key takeaways, which will give you a glimpse at how good this session was and why you need to check it out on-demand at the U!. 

 Human capital can do a lot for you if you realize: 

  • Human capital touches every aspect of an organization, and everything touches it: Making operational changes almost always has human capital implications, and vice versa.  If you embrace this fact and use it to your advantage you can move forward.

  • There are almost always multiple alternatives to every organizational problem involving human capital. This is why answers can't be found in a generic article about "Top five things you can do to improve…"  these lists are always too high level and mostly useless, you need to know your organization and know there are always multiple solutions 

  • Having multiple options supports creative solutions, take the time to think through the impacts.  Understanding integration will avoid unintended consequences. 

  • Don't forget the capital. Remember you are dealing with people as capital but be mindful of and remember that they are human. Human capital actions should conform to your organization's values, as well as be cost effective 

  • Its an investment that needs to deliver returns: People aren't a costly inconvenience but a key driver of business results, make smart investments based on attributes that deliver organizational performance 

  • You should optimize human capital contributions: aggregate costs and benefits of change are important. Don't look at human capital as single aspect of business, how it works within the entire system, so that what you do has a positive impact to your organization OVERALL.
Check out this entire presentation on demand atHighRoadU!
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