Do you recognize this? A lot is expected of you. Anything which has to do with personnel is automatically thrown over the fence to you. By the management, the managers as well as the employees. You are constantly engaged in ad hoc activities, executive tasks and solving problems, which means you do not get to the strategic part of HR.
Fortunately, that doesn't have to be the case. You, too, can ensure that you get to the strategic part of HR. That you can better support the management and managers, delegate HR tasks more, develop (further) into an HRM strategist and become indispensable in the boardroom.
The great thing about HR is that you deal with so many facets of the organisation, that you can call on the help of others to help you carry out your tasks.
However, it does require that you actually do this.
Many HR specialist do not do this enough.
They do call in the help of an employment lawyer when things get too difficult legally, but often delegate too few HR tasks to others within the organisation and generally find it difficult to call in the help of an external HR expert, who can help them perform their tasks better, making them more time for strategic HRM, and who can help them design strategic HRM.
They find it difficult to delegate and seek the help of an external HR expert. They think they should be able to do it themselves without help.
That's a great shame. This way they will not get much further strategically.