Meet Rachel Lee 👋
Rachel is a Principal HRBP with 15 years of experience, passionate about enabling business success through talent strategy and leadership transformation.
Insights from Rachel Lee
1) On Culture: What’s one thing you or your team does regularly to build a strong, positive workplace culture?
Company values are the foundation that guides our decisions on how we hire, reward, promote or even fire. Embedding values across critical aspects of the employee experience is the only way to maintain a strong and consistent culture as a company scales.
2) On Impact: What’s one HR initiative you led or supported that made a clear impact on your team or company? What changed because of it?
Through implementing Pay for Performance globally, the initiative enabled people managers to make better data-driven decisions about performance and potential. This led to a differentiated reward strategy which improved the business performance and the retention rate.
3) On the Future: What’s one key skill or mindset you think every HR professional in Singapore will need in the next 5 years - and why?
HR is a role that can be quite inward-focused. HR professionals should embrace thinking outside in, look ahead and plan for how AI will change the landscape for their business and workforces.
4) What’s one HR initiative or practice you believe more companies should adopt to build stronger teams or workplaces — and why?
A strong workplace is one where employees are aligned to the vision and collaborate with each other to achieve mutually-aligned goals. Implementing clear goal setting such as OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) is essential to achieve this.
5) What’s one piece of advice you’d give to someone just starting their career in HR or people leadership?
To young leaders starting out their leadership journey, self-awareness is a critical ingredient that is essential to your overall effectiveness as a leader.
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