The HR Business Partner

09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
10:00 - Operating as an HR business partner: classifying the characteristics
· Exploring what HR partnering is: its various forms and how to use it
· How partnering differs from traditional HR
· What does it take to become an effective business partner: key skills, knowledge, attributes and values
· Recognising the benefits of partnering for yourself and your organisation

10:45 - Getting HR into the heart of the business: knowing the business inside-out
· Equipping yourself with an in-depth knowledge of your business
· Interacting with the business to identify needs: understanding your immediate business team and their drivers
· Delivering to the business: understanding the bigger organisational context and the future vision and strategy of the company

11:30 - Coffee
11:45 - Approaches to help you assess your priorities as a business partner
· Analysing where you are now, where you need to be and how to get there
· Your structure and staffing issues
· Lessons learned from organisations that have successfully implemented partnering

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Making a connection between activity and achievements: measuring your contribution to the business
· Offering innovations and ideas for change: adding value to the business
· Measuring the impact of HR initiatives against business results
· Knowing what innovative HR practices other firms are using: adapting those to your organisation

14:15 - Using key techniques for building relationships as an HR business partner
· Working alongside managers in the business: forming excellent relationships with managers in the business
· Building strong networks, both within and outside business
· Using relationships as your communication channels within the business: keeping you informed and ahead of events

15:15 - Coffee
15:30 - Building credibility: influencing decisions as an HR business partner
· Increasing your credibility within the business and enhancing your career opportunities
· Influencing decisions as an HR business partner

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

16:30 - Close of seminar