After decades of dealing with stagnant practices, burnout, and competing agendas, HR might be tempted to trade in the old family minivan for a flashy new race car and just put the pedal to the metal. A car’s a car…right? While we’re big proponents of “start by starting”, without the skill, confidence, and ability to take tight turns or use the paddle shifters (you’re still with us, right?), you’ll run into problems. Building fluency and comfort with the fundamentals is how your HR team can level and go full speed ahead.In this miniseries, Brave New Work’s Rodney Evans is joined by friend-of-the-pod and Ready OG Sam Spurlin to dive into how HR can become more resilient, efficient, and equitable.Today, on episode 3, Rodney and Sam are joined by Future of HR team member Meg Saxby for part one of a two-part conversation. They dig into our new maturity model, our assessment, and the six key capabilities every HR department needs to learn, strengthen, and evolve to succeed in the future of work. Welcome to the Future of HR.This episode focuses on the three capabilities necessary for reaching Level 3: Adaptability and Experimentation Contracting and Communications User Design and Decentralization -----------------Learn more about The Future of HR at our websiteCurious where your company sits on our 5-stage maturity model? Take our assessment and find out!Have a burning HR question for Rodney and Sam to answer? Email us at fohr@theready.com.Ready to get started moving your HR department into the future? Email us at fohr@theready.com or hello@theready.com.-----------------00:00 Intro and Check-In: Your 20-year old self comes to work. How would we know?04:27 Purpose of the Future of HR Assessment07:21 Importance of the Key Capabilities10:14 Key Capability 1: Adaptability and Experimentation11:23 Key Capability 2: Contracting and Communications13:42 What makes contracting hard to learn17:40 Using contracting to combat burnout24:27 What good structured communications look like26:22 Key Capability 3: User Experience and Decentralization28:37 Taking UX seriously in HR32:00 Using MVPs to fuel decentralization34:08 Balancing decentralization and risk mitigation38:42 Wrap up: Send us your burning hot HR questions!