DEFINING OUR LEGACY

We are finally close to 2021! Many of us cannot wait to celebrate the end of this chaotic, often lonely, and heart-breaking year. At this time of the year, we often plan our New Year's resolutions. Will I lose weight? Learn a new language? Finally, finish an article or a book I started writing? 

Today, I ask Linked:HR members two (hopefully provocative) questions:

• Imagine the year 2021 will define your legacy. Others will remember you by what you do this ONE year. What will you DO? What specific actions will you take? 
• Now, consider the HR field. Imagine that 2021 will determine how OTHERS see HR. Whatever we do next year will define HR for good. Would that change the way you do your work? Should it change how we even define HR? For example, should we call ourselves something else? Rephrase our priorities? Review our competencies?

Life is messy. We work, support our families, handle personal and health crises. Often, our days are too busy for any of us to worry about legacies. Those of us lucky enough to be relatively young and healthy feel we can postpone those thoughts for later. There will always be another year. Another opportunity. Another go. Today, I hope we pause and think of ways to grab the next year - and make it matter.
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Happy New Year, colleagues! 

Happy Growing!

Dr. Cris Wildermuth
Community Chair, Linked:HR
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