Developing your HR Strategy

09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
10:00 - Strategy, HR management and strategic HR management: concepts and realities
· What is business strategy and strategic HR? What are alternative views and approaches and what models can be drawn from?
· Examining the importance of HR strategy and the changing role for HR professionals: latest thinking and current realities
· How strategic are you? A practical activity to assess the role your HR function currently takes

11:00 - Coffee
11:15 - Getting in touch with your business: widening your exposure
· Achieving a solid appreciation of the big picture and needs of your organisation
· What are your company's business and corporate objectives?
· Assessing the current state of the market or environment in which you operate: who are your stakeholders and competitors?
· Recognising your business drivers and values to link them to your HR strategy and to match to people interventions successfully

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - The people and performance link: how HR can drive business success
· What HR interventions make a difference? Latest research on critical people and organisation issues
· Moving from a list of HR activities to an integrated approach to deliver organisation success

14:15 - Becoming a business partner and developing strategic influence
· Assessing the challenges to becoming a business partner
· How to develop strategic influence in your organisation: achieving early consultation and shaping strategy creation
· Enhancing your personal influencing skills
· Establishing and sustaining credibility: what successful HR leaders do - research findings and current realities
· What influence do you have? A practical activity to assess the current issues and barriers you face and what you can do to increase your influence.

15:00 - Tea
15:15 - Business planning for your HR function
· Analysing your resources: comparing your HR staffing and time allocation to your identified critical people issues
· Developing objectives for your HR function and the interlink with HR strategy
· Developing your HR team: approach, ethos, qualities and skills
· Marketing and promoting the HR function: changing perceptions and building credibility across the business
· A practical activity to review where you are currently and determine ways forward

15:45 - Developing an HR strategy that is owned by your organisation
· Exploring the scope and content of HR strategies: alternative models and case study examples
· Involving key players to ensure meaningful identification of issues and achieving buy in
· How to ensure the HR strategy is a living document owned by your organisation
· Capturing and communicating the HR strategy
· Exploring what can go wrong: identifying and overcoming barriers

16:15 - Action planning
· Your key actions to be implemented on returning to work

16:30 - End of seminar