Discuss three current or future trends impacting the HR profession. What opportunities and challenges might these trends present for HR and for the organization? As a human resource professional, what new skills and/or competencies would you need to further develop to adapt to these trends and to continue to be successful in your role? Use the resources provided to support your ideas.

Three Current Future trends impacting the HR Profession

A modern, dynamic, and network organization - most companies are striving for a more flexible and dynamic reorganization and leaving behind the hierarchical structures of the past in order to be able to respond quickly to changes in the market. Businesses are being organized around small work teams that are set up quickly, work together for one or two years, and then move on to other projects within the company. 

Employees are learning all the time - provide employees with adequate skills and knowledge, experience, and company training and development managers are developing more flexible and curated learning models that can be used in real-time, all the time.

Talent acquisition - companies are continuously on the look-out for professionals specialized in new areas of economic activity that emerge almost overnight. To recruit the best employees, human resources leaders are using social networking, new cognitive technologies.

The skills and /or competencies would one HR professionals need to have to develop to adapt to these new trends and to continue to be successful in your role as follows;

? Have an effective Vision, Be a strategic thinker, Become a great communicator, Become tech-savvy, Be flexible on the Job Rule, Understand the numbers, Be a full partner, Take risks, Inspire others.