Human Resources Skills: HR as a Business Partner

Audience

• HR directors and managers
• HR business partners

Skills Gained

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.

Course Outline

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

Human Resources Skills: HR as a Business Partner / CM025776