HR May Not Be Your Friend - Part 2

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Effective managers need a good relationship with HR. But HR may be the hardest staff organization to have a good relationship with, because their incentives are often misaligned with everyday managers. Even if you have an "HR Business Partner," they work for someone else, and probably support other managers. This isn't inherently bad, but a smart manager knows to work with them, while understanding the challenges.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.1	This is Kate and this is Sarah.
0:04.8	Today's podcast, HR may not be your friend, part two of two.
0:09.7	The questions this cast answers are, is HR a resource I can use?
0:14.0	What can I do to work better with HR?
0:16.0	And what should I be careful of when dealing with HR?
0:19.2	If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:24.4	Did you know that all of our licenses come with discounts of anywhere between $50 to $150
0:29.3	that can be used for other products and trainings?
0:31.6	Get yours today by visiting us at manager dash tools.com forward slash licenses.
0:37.3	Part two, HR's taskings oughtn't be your top priority.
0:41.6	Exactly.
0:42.2	And this follows folks inevitably from the earlier discussion about HR being a staff
0:47.3	organization versus a line organization.
0:50.6	And this guidance applies to all staff organizations, not just HR.
0:56.4	Staff taskings are usually not as important as line, chain of authority, kinds of taskings.
1:04.5	It's far better.
1:05.8	If you're going to be late on something and things sometimes are late, it's so much better to be late in getting back
1:13.2	to finance or legal or HR or security than it is to take your eye off the ball when it comes to
1:20.2	your primary responsibilities as it pertains to getting your job done. Those things are ancillary to the purpose, not the purpose itself.
1:30.9	Focus on the purpose.
1:32.2	It can be tough too because sometimes staff invoke their line bosses authority and asking for things.
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