Developing People, Organisations and HR Strategy

Becoming a business partner and developing strategic influence

• Assessing the challenges to become a business partner
• How to develop strategic influence in your organisation: achieving early consultation and shaping strategy creation
• Enhancing your personal influencing skills
• Involving key players to ensure meaningful identification of issues and achieving buy in
• Establishing and sustaining credibility: what successful HR leaders do
• Current realities: research findings and case studies
• 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

Aligning your HR function to deliver HR strategy

• Analysing your resources: comparing your HR staffing and time allocation to your identified critical people issues
• Measuring the value added of your current activities: incorporating latest thinking on key performance indicators, service standards and quality measures for your organisation
• Considering the pros and cons of outsourcing
• eHR: are you making the most of it?
• Devolving to the line: alternative views and how to do it successfully

Assessing your ability to deliver: this session will include a practical activity to review where you are currently and determine ways forward.

Benchmarking and business planning for your HR function

• Developing objectives for your HR function and the interlink with HR strategy
• Critical success factors and the balanced score card
• Developing your HR team: approach and ethos, qualities and skills

This session will include a practical, business planning activity for your HR function, and benchmarking analysis, building on your framework HR strategy from day one.

Working on case studies: learning from experience - how other organisations developed HR strategy

• Exploring how leading organisations have successfully implemented HR strategy to have an increased involvement and contribution in shaping corporate strategy

Developing an HR strategy that is owned by your organisation

• How to ensure the HR strategy is a living document owned by your organisation
• Marketing and promoting the HR function: changing perceptions and building credibility across the business
• Exploring what can go wrong: identifying and overcoming barriers

Action planning

• Your key actions to be implemented when returning to work

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