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Changing from HR to People

Sarah

We have changed our group name from HR to the People team and whilst we would like to reflect that in the HRBP team too, we are struggling to come up with an appropriate title.  A 'People Business Partner' just sounds a bit odd and many combinations of 'people' and 'partnering' risk us sounding like a dating agency!   Has anyone else has made this switch and come up with any creative solutions to this?

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  • What a great set of comments and actually very reflective of many of the issues we have been discussing internally.

    'People' as a team name has actually been adopted very quickly in our organisation (albeit with some initial amusement from our Finance colleagues who did joke about becoming the 'money' team) and as a knowledge-based organisation, sits much better culturally than 'human resources' which as Steve says, doesn't actually sound that 'human' when you reflect on it. As we move to a model of employment which is increasingly flexible and personalised, thinking of individuals as 'people' rather than 'resources' is definitely an approach that seems to be making sense and working well for us. It seems to be a much better reflection of the approach and experience we want people to have when they join the organisation (for example we don't have probationary periods any more and only very minimal policies and procedures and we want people to bring their own judgement and ideas to work rather than operating just as a resource within closely defined boundaries). The challenge though is that the term 'People' just doesn't work well when you start going down to the individual job title level so its been really helpful to see your various comments and suggestions on this - thank you.

    The irony in all of this, is that the term that would in fact work best to resolve all of these issues just from a naming perspective, is actually 'Personnel' - not something I thought I would be saying a few years ago when we were all busy rebranding ourselves!
  • in reply to Sarah
    Thanks for starting this off, Sarah... and welcome again :)
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