At the latest WITCHES & WITCHERS Think Tank - Summit #9, September 24th, 2020 we also explored and compiled current HR Roles. We concluded that the sheer number of HR Heads roles/responsibilities have been increasing in recent months. With this comes the emotional, physical, and physiological burden. We all see this change.

This compels us to question the status quo to make sense out of it.

Why is it happening? What is the meaning of it? What is the root cause of this? Is this effective from the organizational viewpoint? What does it whisper to us about the kind of leadership we can rely on right now?

Human Resources Head Roles in COVID Pandemics Times:

1. EDUCATOR - accelerated learning facilitator
2. CRISIS LEAD - enabling value creation in protracted crisis
3. WELLBEING CHAMPION - recharging overheated personal batteries
4. PHYSICAL OFFICE AMBASSADOR - inviting & tempting people to appear physically in the workplace 
5. EPI-CENTER OF THE ORGANISATION - connecting the functions falling apart 
6. INSPIRING POWERHOUSE - inspiring everyone to renew himself continuously in the new reality every day
7. Q&A AVATAR - providing answers to questions no one else is willing to respond to
8. PAN-HELP DESK - helping in everything just for the sake of empathy, care, love
9. SAFETY OFFICER - juggling tenths of safety balls - of different colour and size
10. DIRECTION SETTING LEAD - ticking the “true north” when all the compasses get broken
11. DECISION-MAKING CATALYST - juicing discussions & choices to executable decisions 
12. GATEKEEPER - clearing leaders’ pre-decision for safe execution
13. INFO UNTANGLER - making sense of abundant and contradictory information nuggets 
14. INTERCOOLER - cooling emotions for ideas to become usable for real application
15. FEAR MANAGER - monitoring and optimizing the fear level
16. ON-AIR CHIEF EDITOR - clearing all outgoing information for sending
17. RESILIENCE BEACON - personal resilience role model 
18. SURVIVAL LEAD - “we will survive” flag bearer. 

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