The HR Business Partner Seminar
Categories: HR Management
The HR Business Partner Seminar

*** Please note that this course will take place in London but the exact venue will not be confirmed until 4 weeks prior to the course start date. ***

Overview

Course duration: 1 day.

Winning ways to become successful as an HR business partner

As HR moves away from being an operational function to becoming a strategic business partner, many HR professionals have to change the way they work. Research indicates that HR professionals require a core skill-set in order to carry out their role effectively. This one-day seminar will equip you with the skills and knowledge to fulfil this significant role.

This course is run in partnership with JSB.

Is it right for me?
Designed for senior personnel and HR professionals and HR business partners.

What will I learn?
By the end of this seminar you will be able to:
- Understand what is meant by ‘HR business partnering’ and its impact on your day-to-day work
- Adapt key competencies for a successful transition from operational to strategic HR
- Develop a new set of competencies: including business acumen, change management and relationship building
- Understand how other organisations have successfully implemented partnering

What will it cover?
Operating as an HR business partner: classifying the characteristics
- Exploring what HR partnering is: its various forms and how to use it
- How partnering differs from traditional HR
- What does it take to become an effective business partner: key skills, knowledge, attributes and values
- Recognising the benefits of partnering for yourself and your organisation

Getting HR into the heart of the business: knowing the business inside-out
- Equipping yourself with an in-depth knowledge of your business
- Interacting with the business to identify needs: understanding your immediate business team and their drivers
- Delivering to the business: understanding the bigger organisational context and the future vision and strategy of the company

Approaches to help you assess your priorities as a business partner
- Analysing where you are now, where you need to be and how to get there
- Your structure and staffing issues
- Lessons learned from organisations that have successfully implemented partnering

Using key techniques for building relationships as an HR business partner
- Working alongside managers in the business: forming excellent relationships
- Building strong networks, both within and outside business
- Using relationships as your communication channels within the business: keeping you informed and ahead of events

Making a connection between activity and achievements: measuring your contribution to the business
- Offering innovations and ideas for change: adding value to the business
- Measuring the impact of HR initiatives against business results
- Knowing what innovative HR practices other firms are using: adapting those to your organisation

Building credibility: influencing decisions as an HR business partner
- Increasing your credibility within the business and enhancing your career opportunities
- Influencing decisions as an HR business partner
- Further courses to consider
- Strategic HR: Developing Your People and HR Strategy
 
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Key Details
Duration1 day
 
£525
per delegate