Human Resources Skills: Cost effective HR

Course Overview

This intensive one-day programme will provide you with innovative yet practical examples of how other organisations are utilising their HR resources and practices to maximise the value generated. It has been specifically designed to challenge your "comfort zones". 80% of HR Professionals have started or are being forced to consider initiatives to contain HR-related "costs". Efforts to do so however too often remain focused on only a few initiatives such as downsizing, reduced training spend, outsourcing or service centres. Although such initiatives may show some initial cost savings, there is frequently a failure to look at the complete picture and make strategic changes that ultimately have a positive effect on true "value".

This course will show you how to:

• Understand the true "costs" of your people management policies and processes
• Review innovative yet practical alternatives
• Turn your "costs" into valuable assets
• Logically show HR "value" in contributing to business performance

Skills Gained

This course will help you:

• Focus your attentions to enable you to prioritise resources
• Understand HR workflow and the true VALUE that they bring
• Ensure efficiencies are maximised within your team
• Have greater influence and control over budgets
• Ensure HR is a key agent for change
• Effectively measure HR value and success

Course Outline

Focus your resources

• Key issues facing HR teams today
• Achieving business led HR solutions
• HR the service provider?
• Value driven HR?
• Case studies identifying success
• Best practice and beyond

Challenge your 'comfort zone'

• Competitive strategies and HRM
• Stakeholder analysis
• Determining value and interventions
• Recruitment and selection
• HR transactions
• Talent management
• Performance management
• Learning and development
• Using your 'head and your heart'
• The 'enemy within'

Abandon your 'comfort zone' and maximise success

• Identifying choices in the resource based organisation
• Prioritising choices
• High performance work practice
• Link from HRM to performance
• Repositioning HR
• Creating solutions
• Gaining commitment from others
• 'Champions' of change
• Blocks and barriers - the 'art of possible'
• Empowering and engaging the line manager
• HR capabilities and leadership
• Credibility, effectiveness and efficiency

Track your success

• Credible and realistic workforce measurement
• The metrics challenge
• Benchmarking with others
• Effective benchmarking
• Alternative approaches
• Quality initiatives

Your action to success

• Making your plan a reality
• Anticipating problems
• Overcoming problems with integration
• Making the difference - correlating HR success to business success

Human Resources Skills: Cost effective HR / CM024936