Are you an HR professional doing valuable work, but still not seen as strategic enough?
Where are you on the shift to strategic HR? Take the free HR Self-Check and get your score in the 9 areas that shape a strategic HR role, plus your next step in each.
Start the free HR Self-CheckWhat you'll get
Your overall stage
Your score in each of the 9 areas
Illustrative scores. Every area also shows what your score means and a next step.
- Your overall stage: Operational Mode, In Transition, Emerging Strategic Voice or Strategic Partner.
- Your score in each of the 9 areas, so you see your strengths and growth areas at a glance.
- A next step for every area: what your score means, and a practical action you can take this week.
The 9 areas you'll be scored on
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
- HR Strategy & Business Priorities
- Business Case, Budget & Impact
- Trust & Influence
- Personal Brand & Presence
- Energy, Boundaries & Purpose
- Relationships & Support
- Future Readiness & Career
- Voice & Courage
Sound familiar?
- Your days fill with urgent requests and other people's problems, and the HR strategic work keeps moving to next week.
- You know what the organisation needs and you have the experience to deliver it, but not the support to act.
- Recruitment, appraisals, wellbeing: valuable work, yet leaders don't see any of it as strategic.
- When things get tight, you take on work that isn't HR, and you don't push back.
- A new leader or a restructure has pushed HR further from the top table, and HR is treated as a cost to manage rather than a partner.
- You're trusted and well liked, but your role stopped growing a while ago, and you've quietly made peace with it.
You're not alone, and it isn't a question of capability. It's usually a question of where your time, voice and energy are going.
Who it's for
HR managers, HR business partners, HR, People & Culture leads who want to move from keeping things running to helping shape where the organisation goes.
It's also for HR professionals preparing for their next, more senior role, who want to start thinking and working strategically before the promotion comes.
Whether you lead a team or you're the only HR person in the building.
Created by
I'm Elli Matsouka, executive and team coach, strategic advisor and founder of Elli & Co.
I believe HR deserves a real voice where the organisation's direction is set. I built the HR Self-Check to help you see where you stand today, and take your next step towards that voice.
The experience behind it:
- 20 years in and around HR, with organisations across Europe and the Middle East
- Former Consultant at Deloitte and EY, on leading roles
- Former EMEA HR and Development Manager at a multinational group
- EMCC Senior Practitioner in executive and team coaching
- Board member of the European Association for People Management (EAPM)
Ten minutes. 45 statements. A clearer view of your next step.
Start the free HR Self-CheckYour answers are confidential. Individual results aren't shared with anyone; only combined, anonymised results are used to build benchmarks.