In this update:
- New episode in the series “Talking HR Trends with Natal and Tom
- 11 HR Trends for 2021: The video
- The Personal User Guide
Talking HR Trends with Natal and Tom
Multifunctional HR … End of silos?
In this episode of “Talking HR Trends with Natal and Tom” the conversation is about how HR can work in a multifunctional way, crossing borders and breaking silos. Solving complex issues benefits from a multifunctional approach, looking at all the stakeholders of an organisation, including wider society.
Watch one of the other episodes
11 HR Trends for 2021: the video
Pepe van de Kerkhof shot a nice video with a summary of the 11 HR trends for 2021. The blogpost “11 HR Trends to take into account for 2021” gives more detail.
The Personal User Guide
I like the Personal User Guide. With a BIG-5 personality test your Personal User Guide is created, and you can use it to guide others on how to best deal with you. And you with them.
I quote the designers of the Personal User Guide: “Making and sharing your user guide will help you to:
- Be real with each other.
- Make blindingly clear expectations your common reference point
- Draw a social contract on how you can relate
- Show how you want to build trust in communicating
- Show, not sell, transparency
- Reduce wasting time and move quickly to richer and more efficient discussions.
- Share your weaknesses by putting them on the table
- Turn working with user guides into an exercise in self-awareness.
- Become more predictable and authentic to your team members.
- Show your respect towards your team members for what they do but most of all for who they are

Two screenshots of My Personal User Guide. Person B is fictitious.
You can create your own Personal User Guide by clicking here, or on the button below.
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