Making HR a strategic business partner - the masterclass
How can HR executives ensure that people management really is on a par with finance, production, marketing and IT in the executive boardroom? What are the pitfalls to avoid and the quick wins to pursue? How do you deal with prejudice, organisational inertia and the discomfort that comes from change? By adopting a business partnership approach and consciously aligning HR with business strategy, HR will be empowered to create competitive advantage by harnessing your organisations most valuable resource: its human capital. Using case studies, focusing on what successful business partnership could look like within your organisation and drawing upon comments and feedback from senior business leaders, this programme will help you understand what it means to be a strategic business partner and how to develop practical solutions for achieving business partnership.
Programme
What is a strategic business partner?
What is the value and contribution of HR?
What do CEOs and CFOs want/ expect of HR?
Comments from senior business leaders help you understand what they require of HR
How do you get there?
What does success look like?
What is the role of HR?
Understanding how your business creates value
A review of some examples and case studies
What are the business's priorities?
Is the performance management process aligned with business's priorities?
Are people rewarded for the right behaviour?
Developing a route map for change
Improving the reputation of HR
Making HR look and act like a business within your organisation
What is the language of your business?
HR driving productivity not just cutting costs
HR professionals as business people contributing to the strategic deliberations of the senior management team
What is the right HR service delivery model for you?
Transactional efficiency - getting the basics right
Change agent - the art of persuasion
Strategic partner - a business person who knows about people
Outsource/in-source - on-shore/ offshore?
Workshop discussions with peers to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of different strategic decisions around the HR business model
Implementing changes to way HR operates
Tips and hints on implementing sustainable change
Recruiting for the new HR
Improving the currency of HR
Staying ahead of the game - predicting rather than following business needs
Understand and demonstrate the contribution HR makes to the business
By the end of this masterclass you will have the knowledge, the confidence and the motivation to make HR a strategic business partner within your organisation - and be able to present your ideas on the subject with confidence.
Benefits of attendingAt the end of the masterclass you will be able to:
1. Understand what it means to be a true business partner
2. Make the business case for change
3. Develop a route map to achieve this goal
4. Review your service delivery model
5. Improve or restore HR’s reputation and credibility within your organisation
Above all, this masterclass will help you see the way ahead – for HR within your organisation, for HR generally and for you specifically.
Feedback from past delegates'Very informative and practical. Has given me some food for thought. The event provided an excellent opportunity to network with HR professionals in the public and private sector'
Julie Ojaghi, HR Business Partner, Government Office for Yorkshire & the Humber
'Very useful and thought provoking. Engaged audience' Laura Hopson, HR Director, PEM
'Good presentation - putting issues across in a clear manner'
Owen Golding, Training Manager, Edwards Geldard
