The HR Manager Infrastructure Audit | Leadership Reset in Practice
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The HR Manager Infrastructure Audit
Are your managers struggling—or are the systems around them making leadership harder?
Managers are expected to lead through change, develop talent, manage performance, and deliver results. But when they struggle, the issue may not be their capabilities. It may be the expectations, processes, and organizational support shaping how they work.
The HR Manager Infrastructure Audit Opens in a new tabhelps HR and people leaders assess the conditions that support – or hinder – effective management, identify critical gaps, and prioritize changes that could make the greatest difference.
Part of Workhuman's Leadership Reset in Practice series, this guide builds on insights explored in The Leadership Reset documentary, offering practical tools to help managers and HR leaders turn leadership insights into action.
Watch The Leadership Reset documentary to explore the ideas behind this guide.
What you'll learn:
- Evaluate manager support: Assess eight critical areas, including role clarity, capacity, feedback, recognition, and visibility.
- Identify organizational barriers: Uncover where unrealistic expectations, fragmented processes, or information gaps make leadership harder.
- Prioritize meaningful improvements: Identify the most consequential gap and determine an organizational change to test.


Dennis Keohane
Dennis Keohane is Manager of Content Strategy & Insights at Workhuman, where he spends his time shaping content strategy, guiding editorial planning, and exploring emerging topics HR leaders don’t know they’ll need to be experts in next year. When not in the content strategy trenches, he’s usually reading, writing, or chauffeuring his kids around New England.

