When your HR generalist has a hard call, who do they actually go to — and is that person trained to answer it?
If someone asked you to produce the reasoning behind your last five HR decisions, could you? In writing?
Is your HR generalist getting better at HR judgment — or just better at asking you faster?
If you're a CFO and you've ever found yourself giving your HR generalist advice on a comp decision, a termination, or a policy call — I want you to sit with this question for a second: where did you learn to do that?
Not finance. Not the CPA exam. Not the MBA.
Today I'm talking directly to CFOs and business owners who've quietly become the mentor for their HR person — without ever meaning to, and without the background to actually do it well.
Here's what you'll get out of this episode: you're going to hear exactly how that setup happens without anyone deciding it should, why it puts both you and your HR generalist at risk, and three specific things to do differently starting this week — whether or not you ever bring someone like me in.
Because here's the thing. Your HR generalist — sharp, capable, doing real work every day — didn't sign up to learn strategic HR by trial and error under someone who's also learning as they go. And you didn't sign up to be the answer to questions you were never trained to answer. Somewhere between the two of you, the status quo just... became this. Nobody built it on purpose. Let's talk about how to build something better.
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