Developing People, Organisations and HR Strategy

Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives

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 doest it take to become an effective business partner: key skills, knowledge, attributes and values
• Recognising the benefits of partnering for yourself and your organisation

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

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

Using key techniques for building rela-tionships 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

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

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

Action planning

• Your key actions to be implemented when returning to work

Close of seminar