HR Workshop
HR professionals, people leaders, HR business partners
Help HR teams and people leaders surface engagement signals, align on people priorities, and generate ideas for improving the employee experience.
Workshop Goal
The Problem
Help HR teams and people leaders surface engagement signals, align on people priorities, and generate ideas for improving the employee experience.
What You'll Achieve
- Surface current employee engagement and culture signals
- Reveal where HR priorities diverge across the team
- Generate ideas for people programs and initiatives
- Align on the top HR priorities for the next cycle
Facilitator Value
Safe For The Office™ handles the technology, timing, and participant experience. You focus on the conversation.
Workshop Timeline
A step-by-step structure for the full 60-minute session.
- Icebreaker Experience 8 minCreate psychological safety for honest HR conversation.HR topics can feel sensitive. Start with something that signals this is a safe space.
- Team Polls 15 minSurface current views on engagement, culture, and people priorities.HR polls are the diagnostic core of this session. Pause on every surprising result. Ask: "What is this telling us?"
- Idea Storm 15 minGenerate ideas for people programs, policies, and initiatives.Encourage ideas at all scales — from quick wins to long-term programs. Do not filter during this step.
- Priority Poker 15 minAlign on the top HR priorities for the next cycle.After reveal: "This is what we said matters most. What does our current roadmap say? Are they aligned?"
Facilitator Guide
Key Notes
- HR topics require psychological safety. Establish it explicitly at the start.
- Polls are the diagnostic core. Spend time on surprising results.
- Idea Storm should include quick wins and long-term programs — both are valid.
- Priority Poker output should be compared to the current HR roadmap.
- This session works well as a quarterly HR team alignment ritual.
Discussion Tips
- What does this result tell us about how employees are experiencing the organization?
- Which HR initiative would have the biggest impact if we actually did it?
- What are we not measuring that we should be?
Closing Prompts
- "What is the one people priority you are committing to this quarter?"
- "What is the one thing employees need from HR right now that we are not delivering?"
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