HR Business Partner Skills

Programme Outline

HR Business Partner Skills consists of 10 learning modules, a half day experiential module with professional business role players plus a 90 minute follow-up session 8 weeks after the last module has been completed.

The online programme is facilitated live over the course of six half days, each one comprising two 90 minute sessions with a 30 minute break in between. Two modules per day are delivered on days 1-5 with an experiential module on day 6. The classroom programme is delivered as a three-day programme. Both online and classroom programmes include a 90 minute follow up session, held online, in which participants track how they have embedded the learning from the programme.

Module One

THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF HR BUSINESS PARTNERING

Articulate the role of the HR business partner and how it adds value to their organisation

Module Two

PUTTING THE BUSINESS FIRST

Articulate their organisation’s business model and understand how to engage in commercial conversations.

Module Three

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

Module Four

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.

Module Five

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.

Module Six

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.

Module Seven

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

Module Eight

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

Module Nine

ENABLING CHANGE

Identify how to have a greater impact with change initiatives and the respective benefits of different approaches to change management

Module Ten

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.

After completing all modules, you will leave the programme having demonstrated your own, unique style and approach as an HR business partner.

This experiential workshop is an opportunity for you to incorporate your learning into a scenario that you will rehearse with a professional business actor, in the guise of a stakeholder of your choice. You will gain the opportunity to practice different ways of operating in safety and to enhance your impact with the support of others in the group who also develop from being part of the process.  Many participants state that this is the session where their learning ‘falls into place’ and they build the confidence to behave differently.

So often we disregard a new approach if we don’t get it ‘right first time’.   The 90-minute follow up gives you the opportunity to reflect and learn from your experience of enacting your scenario for real, to abstract the success and make adjustments, if needed.