Developing your HR Strategy
As organisation’s corporate objectives are changing HR must adopt a ‘big picture’ approach and be able to widen their exposure, identify organisational needs and implement appropriate interventions accordingly. This seminar will equip you with the skills and knowledge to develop an effective HR strategy which is linked to overall business strategy and delivers results.
Who Should Attend:
HR Directors and Managers, HR Policy Advisors, Employee Relations Managers, Communications Managers, OD Specialists
Seminar highlights
- Develop an HR Strategy that aligns with your organisation's goals and delivers success
- Assess latest thinking on the people and performance link: HR interventions that make a difference
- Become a business partner and learn how to develop your strategic influence
- Get tailored input and consultancy advice on how to develop HR strategy for your organisation
- Share knowledge and experiences with HR colleagues tackling strategic HR issues
The Speakers
Angela Qureshi, Director - Consulting and HR Strategy, Credos Angela Qureshi is an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, having extensive experience at two blue chip consulting firms, Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large University. Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University. Angela is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments.
The Programme
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
10:00 Strategy, HR management and strategic HR management: concepts and realities
- What is business strategy and strategic HR? What are alternative views and approaches and what models can be drawn from?
- Examining the importance of HR strategy and the changing role for HR professionals: latest thinking and current realities
- How strategic are you?
A practical activity to assess the role your HR function currently takes
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Getting in touch with your business: widening your exposure
- Achieving a solid appreciation of the big picture and needs of your organisation
- What are your company’s business and corporate objectives?
- Assessing the current state of the market or environment in which you operate: who are your stakeholders and competitors?
- Recognising your business drivers and values to link them to your HR strategy and to match to people interventions successfully
12:30 Lunch
13:30 The people and performance link: how HR can drive business success
- What HR interventions make a difference? Latest research on critical people and organisation issues
- Moving from a list of HR activities to an integrated approach to deliver organisation success 14:15 Becoming a business partner and developing strategic influence
- Assessing the challenges to becoming a business partner
- How to develop strategic influence in your organisation: achieving early consultation and shaping strategy creation
- Enhancing your personal influencing skills
- Establishing and sustaining credibility: what successful HR leaders do – research findings and current realities
- What influence do you have? A practical activity to assess the current issues and barriers you face and what you can do to increase your influence.
15:00 Tea
15:15 Business planning for your HR function
- Analysing your resources: comparing your HR staffing and time allocation to your identified critical people issues
- Developing objectives for your HR function and the interlink with HR strategy
- Developing your HR team: approach, ethos, qualities and skills
- Marketing and promoting the HR function: changing perceptions and building credibility across the business
- A practical activity to review where you are currently and determine ways forward
15:45 Developing an HR strategy that is owned by your organisation
- Exploring the scope and content of HR strategies: alternative models and case study examples
- Involving key players to ensure meaningful identification of issues and achieving buy in
- How to ensure the HR strategy is a living document owned by your organisation
- Capturing and communicating the HR strategy
- Exploring what can go wrong: identifying and overcoming barriers
16:15 Action planning
- Your key actions to be implemented on returning to work
16:30 End of seminar