Course description
This course is one of our eight Core Behaviours Introductory Programmes, which aim to provide you with the defining behaviours of our profession.
Commercial drive is important for people professionals to demonstrate as it highlights their commitment to deliver result that create value for organisations. The people function needs to be customer and business-focused so they can prioritise the people issues, opportunities and risks that will have the most impact on the performance and success of organisations.
Through cutting-edge learning content, this course will help you to explore your role in supporting organisations in meeting their objectives. By taking you through the different types of organisations and why they exist, and how and why value is created, it will help you to better understand your own organisation. You’ll also look at how people practices help organisations drive sustained commercial success and value.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Is this course right for me?
This course is relevant and challenging for all people practitioners, at whatever stage of their career journey. You’ll be an HR, L&D or OD practitioner looking to develop the behaviours required to put forward a business case and deliver on your organisation’s goals from a people perspective.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- understand the sector your organisation operates in, its business model and where value is created and lost
- prioritise people practices, opportunities and risks that drive sustained commercial success and value for people
- partner with customers to understand their current and future needs, and contract effectively
- develop and present robust business cases using evidence to demonstrate a return on investment
- take responsibility and demonstrate commitment to delivering business outcomes and benefits
- demonstrate resilience in the face of setbacks, uncertainty or ambiguity and finding a way forward
- enable business change through an understanding of culture, capability and structure while mitigating people risks and maximising benefits.
Training Course Content
This programme includes the following sessions:
- Getting started with commercial drive
- Understanding your organisation
- Focusing on business outcomes
- Working with your customers
- Making the business case
- Demonstrating commitment
- Showing resilience
- Enabling change
Course delivery details
This course has eight lessons, which you can access flexibly. Available fully online, you can work through the lessons at your own pace and in whatever order you choose.
Each lesson is 30-45 minutes long and includes individual reflective and community activities to support the embedding of your learning into practice.
You will be able to access the course for 12 months from purchase and the CIPD Learning Hub will remain accessible to you for 24 months.
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Expenses
Course Price: £450.00 exc. VAT