Foundational to Thought Leader

Lets deep dive into how to assess what is the HR capability maturity of the org. This framework helps us assess the needs of our customers.

if you are not familiar with the HR capability model, please refer to https://rlohani.medium.com/hr-capability-maturity-model-42e0fceedbf1

Foundational —

The world of HR and compliance is evolving fast. As companies graduate from micro business ( under 10 ) to small business ( under 50) to medium ( under 500) and then keep growing the legal and compliance needs grow fast. If your top concerns are around being complaint, ensuring the processes are documented and are leveraging manual ways to ensure compliance then you are building the very foundation of the HR craft. This is the most exicting part of the journey as you are laying the foundation and will help the business be protected from legal issues.

Top of mind for HR leader

• Are we compliant
• Are we our processes documented
• Are people following them

Constraints

• HR department are just being established
• Limited budget
• In house expertise on every module might not exist.

Focus —

• Establish the HR practice and document the process.

Functional —

You have all the processes documented and established. The focus shifts from building process to consistently adhering to them. The HR leaders think more about the scale, consistency and being data driven. The HR leaders leveragage the processes in foundational step and automate the processses to drive more effectiveness.

Top of mind for HR leader

• Are our processes scaling?
• Are we able to support the business decision makers?
• Do we have the right data to be more data driven?

Constraints —

• Functional headcount growth surpassing HR headcount

Focus —

• Automation and tying all the processes together.

Center of Excellence

You have all of the HR processes documented and most of them automated. You have a strong team of specialists who can are taking care of running the day to day business. You have an enablement team that is helping rest of the enterprise learn, understand and leverage the HR tools and data.

Top of mind for CHRO

• Are the processes well understood and self-serve.
• Are teams empowered to make the right decisions
• Do we have the right guardrails to protect our teams
• Are our people, aligned, excited and galvanized.

Constraints

• Lack of employee experience platform on the market to meet your objectives.
• business needs and skills evolving at a very fast rate.

Focus

• Help the business grow

Thought Leader

You start to go deeper in the conventional wisdom, you start to spend time deep diving in the best practices and ensuring industry HR practices are headed in right direction. You work with the HR provider to influence their roadmaps.

Top of Mind for CHRO

• Are we building the most modern employee experience
• Are we helping the industry evolve and embrace modern.

Constraints

• Very few HR platforms that practice “customer as co-creator”
• HR practices are slow to evolve

Focus

• supercharge the business with growth while influencing the industry.

Lets summarize the above and add how Paylocity can help you be more successful.