Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources or Learning and Development Practitioner

Activity 1 * briefly summarise the CIPD Profession Map (i.e. the 2 core professional areas, the specialist professional areas, the bands and the behaviours)

The CIPD HR Profession Map has been developed with the help of HR professionals around the world. Many organisations use the CIPD profession map to measure their HR capability, address areas for development, and to develop their employees within HR. The HR profession map is made up of ten professional areas, eight behaviours and four bands of professional competence (Bands and transitions.)

The Professional areas describe the activities you need to undertake and what you need to know for each of the 10 professional areas at each band level (Levels 1 – 4.)
There are two core professional areas; Leading HR, and Insights, Strategy and Solutions. The core areas are applicable to all HR professionals, even those just beginning of their HR careers. There are 8 further Specialist professional areas: Employee Relations, Service delivery and information, Organisation Design, Organisation Development, Resourcing and Talent Planning, Learning & Development, Performance and reward, Employee Engagement and Employee relations.

The behaviours describe the 8 key behaviours each HR professional needs to be successful within their role. Each behaviour is described across each of the band levels.
The eight behaviours are; Role Model, Curious, Decisive thinker, Skilled influencer, Personally credible, Collaborative, Driven to deliver and Courage to challenge.

Bands and transitions describe the four bands of professional competence and the three transition pathways which describe what HR professionals need to do in order to progress to the next band.
The four bands range cover the spectrum of roles within HR from HR