she said. “For an HR leader, it’s been like a kid in a candy
shop. It’s been a chance to really look at what makes sense,
what we’re trying to achieve and forget how everybody else
does it and really think about what’s right for us right now.”
Earning the CHRE designation has provided a
strong grounding for large strategic projects like
the acquisition.
“It’s about the breadth of experience that’s been
built up over a career. And it’s really those experiences
that have helped me be able to have an impact here at
Corus,” she said. “I do think that HR designations are
very important.”
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HR professionals are experts about people, and why
people do what they do – but more importantly, they
are experts in how to best organize and motivate and
reward and lead people to bring out the best in them, says
Fullerton. And that requires a high baseline of expertise
and skill.
“We can only be successful as an organization if every
single person in the organization is successful. So how
do we, as a leadership team, live towards that? How do
we achieve that strategic objective from a people and
culture perspective?”
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“I THINK THE CHRO ROLE, AND HR ROLES IN GENERAL, ARE BECOMING
INCREASINGLY DEMANDING – AND IT’S IMPORTANT THAT HR AS A
PROFESSION NOT ONLY KEEP UP, BUT STEP UP TO THE INCREASINGLY
COMPLEX, DEMANDING WORLD THAT THEY’RE OPERATING IN.”
– NORM SABAPATHY, CHRE
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