Course description
HR business partners are HR professionals who work closely with an organisation’s senior leaders in order to develop an HR strategy that closely supports the overall aims of the organisation.
To be an effective HR business partner not only requires exceptional consultancy skills but also the ability to understand human resource strategy, a grasp of organizational culture, and the knowledge and skills to translate these into results.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This HR Business Partner Skills course is ideal for :
- HR business partners
- HR and personnel managers and practitioners
- All those in the HR department who are looking to expand their knowledge of the business partner role and those requiring a refresher
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of the HR Business Partner Skills, you will be able to:
- Have a deeper understanding of the HR business partner role and what a commercial and strategic business partner looks and feels like
- Develop your skill and confidence in demonstrating leadership and the ability to influence others using a range of approaches and HR/data analytics
- Have a greater understanding of how to think systemically and how OD can add value to the HR business partnering role
- Build skills in conducting challenging conversations and navigating organisational politics
Training Course Content
Day 1
The essential elements of HR business partnering
- Articulate the role of the HR business partner and how it adds value to their organisation.
Putting the business first
- Articulate their organisation’s business model and understand how to engage in commercial conversations.
Day 2
The steps to a partnership approach
- Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of operating as an expert and ‘hired hands’ versus a business partner.
- Describe the five stages of working as a business partner and how this approach supports sustainable change.
Speaking truth to power
- Define the components of influence and influencing behaviours.
- Understand how to tailor their approach to increase impact and effectiveness in influencing a stakeholder.
Day 3
Coaching approach
- Define coaching and how coaching conversations add value to the HR business partner role.
- Describe how to conduct a coaching conversation and understand the effective use of questioning and listening.
Working with politics, power and conflict
- Demonstrate how to make effective use of sources of power and how to navigate a political environment.
- Understand how to demonstrate a different mindset and approach to addressing conflict.
Day 4
Thinking strategically as a business partner
- Describe what it is to think strategically, how this differs from working operationally and identify how to leverage more strategic conversations with selected stakeholders.
Influential data analytics
- Articulate how to use data analytics to increase the value you add as a HR business partner.
- Identify how to analyse and interpret HR data to influence behaviour and decision making.
Enabling change
Identify how to have a greater impact with change initiatives and the respective benefits of different approaches to change management.
Day 5
Developing the organisation
- Describe how organisational redesign and restructuring increases an organisation effectiveness.
- Have a greater awareness of how to think systemically about internal structures,
- processes and relationships and the linkages between them.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of organisational development and design.
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