Your level of understanding of the business determines what kind of person you can become

A long time ago, I saw an interview with almost the most expensive poster designer in China. In the interview, he mentioned how he grew from an ordinary poster designer to what he is today.

Technology is not actually the most important thing. The most important thing is that every time I receive a job, I spend several months carefully studying the script, understanding the details, and then going to the filming site to communicate with the director. I must stand from the perspective of the movie and convey the story of the movie, "he said.

Upon hearing his interview, I instantly resonated with him.

I think he made it clear that the essence of career advancement is often determined by your level of understanding of your business when your professional skills have reached a certain level.

The level of understanding of the business determines what kind of person you can become. The more you understand the business, the more valuable you are.

HR professionals who understand the business will become increasingly valuable

Employees in any position should be familiar with the company's business. The three most important things in a company are human finance, but in many companies, HR is not present during meetings.

Why? It's because most HR professionals don't understand the business.

If you are working with a boss and do not understand business strategy, then you cannot control the boss. In the end, you became an administrative staff member. When your abilities are not enough, you cannot gain trust, and in recruitment, you do not have veto power.

David Yurich believes that business is the starting point of human resources. Finance, HR, and the boss need to have a separation of powers. Without this separation of powers, any company centered around the boss lacks organizational capabilities.

But the reality is that there is a shortage of truly good HR professionals, and most HR professionals believe that they are only responsible for recruitment and do not need to understand the business. Assuming that HR does not understand the business, it is also difficult to recruit suitable people. As Ren Zhengfei said, "HR does not understand the business. When recruiting employees, they choose lingerie models, but the people they choose will not fight. We want warriors, not perfect flies

HR's clients are internal, so HR must understand the company's business. If you understand the business and have your own thinking, you will find that you know better what your clients want, and your involvement can also support the business department.

When you have this level of thinking, you distance yourself from ordinary people, and the appreciation speed can even be 10 times faster than others. Enterprises do not lack HR, but they lack truly excellent HR, especially during low periods. Only HR who truly understand the business have core competitiveness.

You can only be more valuable if you truly understand the company's business and use your expertise to assist it. So in the future, HR professionals who understand business will become increasingly valuable.

The Triple Realm of HR

Generally speaking, HR has three levels of expertise. The first level is to work from the perspective of the backend, that is, one's own perspective.

For example, when the business leader tells you that someone is about to resign and needs to be hired, the sooner the better. Then HR started recruiting without stopping.

You see, this is the backend perspective, where you do whatever others ask you to do without your own thinking. This kind of HR value is relatively low.

The second level is the mid-range perspective, which is the business perspective.

For example, if you partner with a business leader and have a business perspective, familiar with business processes and rules, you can know what key nodes affect the business and what abilities the recruited personnel need to possess.

Business is constantly changing, and you also need to know what potential the recruited person needs to possess, as well as which type of person has stability in this position. By doing these things, you can attract good people.

This is the mid-range perspective, which requires you to understand the business, and the requirements for you vary depending on the level of the partner.

If you partner with your boss, then you need to understand strategy; If you partner with the general manager, you need to understand the part from strategy to execution; If you partner with grassroots cadres, then HR needs to understand the business of grassroots cadres.

The third realm is the front-end perspective, which is the market perspective.

When you have a deep understanding of the industry, the business, and the needs of your customers, you can also perceive changes in the market and be proactive.

When you have a strategy and goals, you can know how many people to recruit and what kind of people to recruit, so as to reserve talents and make plans in advance.

In "The Legend of Chu and Han", after Xiao Heyue retrieved Han Xin, he was entrusted with the important task of escorting food and supplies to Han Xin.

Xiao He ordered Han Xin to transport grain and supplies to a certain location within five days, with few vehicles and a large amount of grain, making the situation very difficult. During the execution, Han Xin guessed the next destination of the Han army based on their combat intentions and marching routes, and delivered the grain in batches in advance.

As expected, the troops strategically advanced, and Liu Bang sent someone to quickly deliver the food to another place for Xiao He. Xiao He is extremely anxious because he cannot deliver it at all. At this moment, Han Xin came out and said, "It has been delivered

HR is a department that supports business and also needs to have such thinking. HR with front-end thinking is highly sought after by all business leaders.

So the ability to understand the business determines what kind of person you become.

HR needs to move from business to business

Understanding the business is important, so how can we understand it? It's best to come and go within the business. If you just sit in the office and daydream, it's very dangerous.

The Japanese business guru Kazuo Inamori once told a story.

Many years ago, Kazuo Inamori and a group of people went to meet with the founder of Honda, Soichiro Honda, and the cost of a two-day course was particularly expensive. After arriving, they first took a shower at the hot spring villa, then changed into yukata and sat on the tatami, waiting for the arrival of Motoda Munichiro to give a speech.

But when Honda Soichiro came in, Kazuo Inamori and others were stunned. I saw Soichiro Honda wearing a greasy work uniform. He had just returned from the work site and didn't look like he was going to give a lecture at all.

When Honda Soichiro saw these people sitting upright, he immediately cursed, "You fools, how can you learn how to manage here? The most effective place to manage is in the factory. If you don't work hard, coming here to listen to lectures and soak in hot springs is a waste of time

After being scolded, Inamori and Futon felt a sudden enlightenment, and later he also believed that in order to solve the problem, he must return to the scene. Similarly, HR needs to understand the business and also return to the site.

Therefore, HR emphasizes to come from the business and then go to the business.

Therefore, if you want to run business, attend the company's business meeting, and mix with the business team. To understand what kind of people your customers are, integrate with them, and be truly customer-oriented. I will look what the customers look like. Slowly, the feelings will naturally merge together, and everyone will give you face. When you don't understand, they are willing to teach you.

When you really go deep into the business, understand the business, train yourself, and let yourself have front-end thinking, you can become a valuable business HR.

Information source: Enterprise management