Make your HR Team the Driving Force Behind the Business

• Understand the role of HR in supporting business
• Understand how role of HR has changed due to the pandemic
• Pick up skills to become an effective HRBP
• Demonstrate effective internal consulting skills.
• Demonstrate business acumen and an awareness of the financial drivers of company performance.
• Develop a business case and implementation plan for your organization to transition to the HRBP structure.
• Be able to align your HR organization with the strategic direction of the business.

Who should attend:

• HR professionals with at least 3 years of experience
• Independent business owners to help them understand and design HR strategy

Program benefits:

*Earn 12 PDCs on course completion

Session 1: Introduction - Role of HR Business Partners

• Discussions around why HR as a function exist.
• Key outcomes expected from HR - Business’s expectations and Employee expectation
• Dave Ulrich’s Perspective

Session 2: Understanding Business

• Understanding important elements of business, their linkages and the environment in which they operate
• Understanding Business Strategy - define, leverage and align the infrastructure elements to effectively execute the value proposition
• Understanding how to satisfy customer needs to get competitive edge and provide economic returns
• Strategic options that provide differentiation and are key levers for competitive advantage.

Session 3: Understanding Work / Understanding Talent

• What defines Work and the key outcomes expected
• Outcomes required
• Workflow and role interfaces
• Resources required
• Process used
• Talent/ Capabilities required - key drivers for individual and organizational capabilities
• HR’s focus on building and sustaining competitive edge
• Talent management through building competencies
• Defining HR Strategy - Elements that constitute HR strategy
• Building a framework to define the organization’s HR Strategy

Session 4: Execution Skills/ Consulting Skills

• Challenges to executing HRBP role
• Key skillsets required
• Consulting role of HRBP - what it takes
• Diagnostic Toolkit - Elements of an organization that must be aligned for success

Session 5: Influencing Skills and Change Management

• Communicating with Impact
  
• Understanding your audience
• Skills to influence the audience
• The HRBP’s role in planning and implementing change
• Resistance to change
• The Change Management Process

Session 6: Employee Management

• Managing Employee Expectations
  
• Being an effective bridge between Employees and Management
• The importance of dealing with transactions effectively
• Summarizing and wrap up