Beyond non-negotiable HR with Sandra Cunha
- Author
- Lisa Mitchell
- Published
- Wed 10 May 2023
- Episode Link
- None
“HR leaders have a skillset that is difficult for others: difficult conversations, radical candor. So I also see us as teachers.”
- Sandra Cunha
Has your L&D team ever been asked to pretty up a PowerPoint? Eek! HR can fall into the police/administrator role very easily - if we let it. In today’s episode, my guest makes a passionate case for how Talent and HR teams can and must add value beyond transactional and administrative work, and beyond the 15% non-negotiable risk management and employment law “stuff.”
My guest is Sandra Cunha. Sandra’s career has spanned recruitment, training, and communications roles in the fitness and quick-service restaurant industries, but a passion for learning and people development has always been what drives her. As part of Tim Hortons HR and Corporate Wellness team and later Operations Training, she developed facilitator certifications and employee engagement programs. Working with a third-party vendor, Sandra helped Tim Hortons build learning plans for new initiatives and/or compliance for the company’s thousands of restaurant locations internationally. In 2017 she joined MOVATI Athletic’s Learning and Development Department and later moved to the People and Culture team where she built the Talent Acquisition group, as well as introduced the internal communications and employee engagement functions. Today, as MOVATI’s Vice President of People and Culture, Sandra sees herself as an advocate first for the company’s 1,900 field-based and 100 corporate employees, championing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as well as investments in employee learning and development.
In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you’ll discover:
- An example of helping your internal clients understand that the non-negotiable areas of HR comprise only around 15% of what HR/Talent teams do
- Ideas for mining a lot of rich HCM data and making decisions on what to action
- A case for HR as a successor to the CEO chair
Links
- Sandra Cunha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scunhactdp/
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