055: Redefining HR: Embracing Modern People Practices To Fuel Business Success With Lars Schmidt

Impact Makers

Since it’s a new year, I’m already hard at work on achieving the goals that I set for myself, and my businesses in 2021. And one of my goals this year is to read 24 books.

Thankfully, I’ve got some good friends who are helping to fill my reading list with books that they’ve written, which were set for January 2021 release dates.

I spoke with my best friend Laurie Ruettimann about her new book, Betting On You, which released a couple of weeks ago in Episode 53 of the podcast, and today, I’m chatting with my friend Lars Schmidt about his new book - Redefining HR - which releases worldwide on January 26, 2021.

I really enjoyed my conversation with Lars, and he has a great grasp on how leaders in all areas - not just human resources - should approach building strong and capable organizations through implementing modern people practices.

Lars Schmidt is the Founder and Principal of Amplify - a firm that helps progressive people leaders and companies navigate the future of work.

Long interested in emerging work trends, tech, and people practices, his curiosity fueled a career that has afforded him the privilege of solving complex talent challenges for some of the biggest brands in their respective fields including NPR, Ticketmaster, SpaceX, Duo Security, and Hootsuite. He's always been drawn to HR leaders who operate at the leading edges of the field, who embrace 21st Century HR, and who are redefining people practices through their vision, experience, and approach.

Lars has long worked to accelerate the evolution of Human Resources' capabilities and impact through efforts like co-founding the HR Open Source initiative, by contributing regular columns for Fast Company and Forbes, and also writing books, including Employer Branding for Dummies in 2017, and his latest book - Redefining HR, which will release worldwide on January 26, 2021.

Redefining HR provides a framework for leaders to build modern and world-class people teams, enabling them to create people centric organizations that lead to long-term success.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:​​

• Lars’ transition from recruiting leader, to employer branding expert, to HR and People Operations community leader and curator.
• How Lars and Ambrosia Vertesi applied the Open Source concept to create a platform for HR leaders to share case studies, templates, and learnings to accelerate innovation.
• How curation of resources, experts, and the work of others can be an important part of building credibility, and a personal brand.
• 7 communities Lars suggests where HR and people leaders can get learning and development opportunities.
• 5 visionary leaders in the HR and people space Lars suggests that others follow and learn from.
• 3 skills that Lars believes modern people leaders need to master or develop in 2021 and beyond.

People & Resources Mentioned In This episode:

Amplify Talent

Redefining HR

Book -> Redefining HR: Transforming People Teams to Drive Business Performance by Lars Schmidt

Podcast -> Redefining HR

Newsletter / Blog -> Redefining HR

Book -> Employer Branding for Dummies by Richard Mosley and Lars Schmidt

Lars Schmidt LinkedIn

Lars Schmidt Twitter

Lars Schmidt articles on Fast Company

People Geeks - a Culture Amp community

Workhuman

HR Open Source Community

Hacking HR

DisruptHR

Google Rework

Bersin Academy

Redefining HR Episode 37 - Reddit VP People & Culture, Katelin Holloway

Redefining HR Episode 40 - Spotify CHRO, Katarina Berg

Redefining HR Episode 28 - VaynerMedia Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver

Erin L. Thomas, PhD - Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging and Talent Acquisition at Upwork

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