The HR Business Partner

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Gain access to the knowledge and and skills to operate as an effective business partner and benchmark your experiences against those of other organisations
Maximum 15 participants 1-day interactive seminar course
FULLY BOOKED - 17 Aug 2010
Edinburgh - 6 Oct 2010
London - 12 Oct 2010, 2 Dec 2010
London £550 + VAT

The HR Business Partner in brief:

According to the CIPD the Business Partner model is the most commonly adopted HR service delivery model, with almost 50% of organisations employing business partners in their ranks.

But operating as a business partner requires a vastly different array of skills compared to more transactional forms of HR service delivery.

It requires a much deeper and broader understanding of your organisation, the ability to work alongside all levels of management, greater self-awareness and impact, expertise in creating and leading change and the maintenance of a business focus. Not an easy set of skills to develop!

One of our most popular HR events, this expert seminar will help you build this skill set and benchmark your current experience against best practice and other organisation\'s activities.

This event is CPD accredited.

Designed for:

HR directors and managers, HR officers and advisors, HR business partners, compensation and benefits experts, resourcing specialists

Seminar highlights:

  • Understand what is meant by 'HR business partnering' and its impact on your day-to-day work
  • Gain a better understanding of the requirements of an HR Business Partner - and how to ensure smooth implementation
  • Adapt key competencies for a successful transition from operational to strategic HR
  • Develop a new set of competencies: including business acumen, change management and relationship building
  • Learn how other organisations have successfully implemented partnering: HR interventions that make a difference
  • Overcoming resistance and relaying a positive message

The Programme

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

Client testimonials

Very helpful in giving me what I need to support me in my new business partner role

—Stephen Dumbleton, Compensation & Benefits Adviser, Airbus UK

Effective content that is easily transferable back into the workplace

—Victoria Morgan, UK HR Manager, SThree Management Services

Full of good information and the trainer demonstrated she had a great deal of knowledge and experience in this area

—Joanna Moriarty, Associate Business Partner, SThree Management Services

Very enjoyable and informative

—Jo Knight, HR Officer, Babergh District Council

Really good seminar which has helped me to identify key areas for me to focus on in my business partner role

—Nicola Montgomery, HR Business Partner, Airbus UK

Interesting and helpful Enjoyable & useful – thanks!

—Emma Bowron, HR Advisor, GMPTE

Very informative & structured

—Laxmi Russo, People Manager, InBev UK

I thought it was a well focused and thought provoking day

—John Forrester, Compensation and Benefits Manager, London South Bank University

It was an enjoyable overview, great feel and non-threatening

—Abigail McElligott, HR Representative, Illumina

Excellent

—Sarah Gionis, HR Business Partner, International Financial Data Services

Informative, interactive, beneficial & relevant

—Janine, Dennis, Senior HR Advisor, IPC Media

Very informative, friendly & professional, a real benefit

—Karen Blackburn, HR Business Partner, International Financial Data Services

Very informative & interactive

—Natalie King, HR Manager, Wedlake Bell

Very impressed!

—Becki North, HR Advisor, Newsprinters

Very useful with a good balance between theory and making it live for personal development

—Alison Felton, HR Operations Manager, Chelmsford Borough Council

This was an excellent course, the trainer was very knowledgeable and very engaging

—Corinne Cunningham, HR Business Partner, Bedfordshire & Luton Partnership Trust

Very good and a lot of information gained

—Kerry Leather, HR Manager, Cadence Design Systems

Very good course, good balance of theory and practical exercises

—Julie Frost, HR Manager, International Financial Data Services

Very useful, very good insight into BP role

—Sally Zenonos, HR Business Partner, London Borough of Camden

Informative, re-energised my focus on business partnering and commitment to make a difference

—Sarah Carey, HR Advisor, Aston University

Venue details

Radisson Edwardian Mountbatten Hotel
20 Monmouth Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9HD

Tel. +44 (0)20 7836 4300
Fax. +44 (0)20 7240 3540
Email. resmoun@radisson.com

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Consultants

Our People

Karen Minto

Our People

Angela Qureshi

Karen Minto has many years’ experience of a range of HR functions and activities, and learning and development. Her current work is in both the strategic and practical areas of people management and leadership, and aligning these to business performance.

Karen works with BI Worldwide Ltd and has seen the company through a significant period of change. She has previously worked with BT in a number of roles, the last being in Global Services, supporting an international community.

Karen is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, and has gained a variety of additional HR qualifications and psychometric accreditations.

Key areas of expertise:

  • Appraisal Skills
  • Creating High Performance Teams
  • HR Strategy
  • Interviewing Skills
  • Leadership Skills
  • Recruitment and Selection

Angela Qureshi, Director - heads JSB’s Education sector and Strategic HR faculty. As an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, she has extensive experience at blue chip consulting firms; Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large University.

 

Angela’s current work includes: Delivery of a leadership development programme for senior managers, currently broadening to support a wider cultural change programme (ongoing); Supporting an HR department with a process of change to move towards a more strategically focused, business partnering approach to HR provision, encompassed by the whole function (ongoing).  Angela brings useful experience and latest thinking from her work in an extensive range of sectors including professional services and finance.

Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University.  Angela is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments.  She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

 

Key areas of expertise:

  • HR and organisation strategy
  • Business strategy development facilitation
  • Leadership, change management and organisation development
  • Management development skills
  • Performance management including objective setting, performance appraisal, training and development, motivation and reward
  • Operational HR including capability, discipline and grievance, sickness absence, case work, employment law for managers, recruitment and selection, role design and competency development

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Testimonials

“Very informative, friendly & professional, a real benefit”

— Karen Blackburn, HR Business Partner,
International Financial Data Services

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