Successful HR Business Partnering – an intensive 2 day event for HR professionals
15 and 16 October 2009, Central London
Only £900 (+VAT) per delegate
Many organisations have adopted the title of ‘HR Business Partner’ without a fundamental reappraisal of the role, its requirements and its outputs.
This fundamental programme will debate, discuss and develop:
- The interaction of the Business Partner role with ‘the business’
- The linkage to Centres of Expertise and Shared Services
- The challenges between immediacy and the short term versus a more strategic perspective
- The skills and knowledge required to upskill into this pivotal role
This programme will:
- Use and apply the latest research from the Corporate Research Forum ensuring in-depth, relevant and up-to-date thinking on the HR Business Partnering role
- Be highly participative and skills based with opportunities to practice skills in a small group environment
- Contain pre-work on organisation business diagnosis prior to programme
- Provide a follow-up meeting six months after the programme
Attendance is suitable for:
Those with experience of most operational aspects of human resource management including an understanding of Resourcing, Employee Relations, Development, Performance and Reward. It would also be beneficial for those with a specialist background who wish to broaden their role.
What are the learning outcomes?
- I will be able to demonstrate how the HR actions as a business partner are relevant to my business in terms of linking HR actions to business outcomes
- I will be able to articulate clearly and succinctly how my business functions and how it creates value
- I will understand and will have practiced writing a people plan
- I will understand how the theory of consulting skills - including contracting with a line manager - is applied to my role
- I will take stock of my own competencies against what the research tells about those that are needed together with some initial thinking about bridging gaps
- I will understand just how change is successfully implemented and how it applies to my context
- I will have practiced and reviewed my impact and influencing behaviours
- I will have completed a personal development plan highlighting gaps and actions to reduce the gaps
Programme leader : Graham Prentice
Graham Prentice is an international HR Director with 30 years HR experience working in a variety of organisational settings. His breadth of HR work has covered both specialist and generalist positions working in a country as well as a global corporate centre. He recently was the Global Head of HR for Nestlé Nutrition covering 4 business units, operating in 60 countries. He is fully conversant in working in a complex matrix organisation in multi-cultural environments but also the challenge of a small business.
Course overview
Day 1 9am – 5pm | Day 2 9am – 5pm |
Introduction of learning objectives and design principles | Review of yesterday – key learning and insights |
Introductions to each other | Contracting and consulting skills Part 2 Practice |
How the HR function has arrived at business partnering | Research input (including CRF) on what competences are needed What does research say about the competencies needed?’ What gaps do delegates see and how will bridge the gaps – output will be built into later session on development needs |
What is the Mental model held by the delegates My mental model of what a business partner is and does? | Break |
CRF Research input Conclusions from the CRF report Configuring HR for Tomorrows Challenge | How do I manage Change? Part 1 Understanding how change really works Some tools and techniques applied to practical examples including - Change impact and “Whats in it for me” - DVF change model –Beckhard and Harris - Depths of change analysis – Ackerman and Anderson - Making change personal and meaningful |
Break | Lunch |
Business understanding and HR Outcomes part 1 How well do you know your business and the HR outputs to drive value – using some tools | How do I manage Change? Part 2 Practicing using the tools |
Lunch | Learning set discussion |
Learning set discussion – intro to learning sets, what are they and why do we use them | Impact and influencing skills as BP Practice the skills |
Business understanding Part 2 Finish off session on business understanding and link to HR | The key 6 essentials to your development plan as a Business partner |
Break | Action planning to address the gaps |
HR People Plan Being clear what your deliverables are as a business partner i.e. what does your people/HR plan look like? Can you articulate succinctly the value add? | Building on gaps already identified |
Contracting and Consulting skills part 1 Contracting with the line and consulting skills – input and practice using delegate cases | Completing your development plan |
Learning set discussion and review of day 1 | Program review |
Close | Close |
Booking information
Spaces on this programme are striclty limited. To book a place for yourself or colleagues, please call 020 7470 7106 or email us.
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Bespoke programme
To tailor this programme for your own organisation, please call 020 7470 7106 or email us.