The Advanced HR Business Partner Programme
Duration
A successful senior HR business Programme Content
3 days
partner needs to first understand
• Understanding business commercial drivers.
Dates, fees & booking
• Translating business strategy into functional
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the overall business agenda.
HR strategy.
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We often hear that ‘the majority • Developing operational HR plans.
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of senior HR business partners
• Developing insight into mindsets and behaviours.
Programme Director
• Building influence.
Nick Holley, Executive we see cannot enumerate the
• Supporting and challenging senior leaders.
Director, Henley HR
value they add’. Only when this
Centre of Excellence The programme is highly practical and will focus on the
is understood can they focus on learning approach below:
This programme
is residential. how their HR agenda can actively What’s the idea?
Expert input from
support the business and add What does this
leading thinker
Does that work
mean for me? in practice?
both competitive value and Individual relevance Practitioner
and next steps: benchmarking
people advantages in its delivery.
relevance, measures
What do we think
and challenge
about this?
It is the HR business partner who
Community of
practice conclusion
begins with the relevance to the
business who will succeed.
Programme benefits
• Understand how HR supports and can enhance the
HR business partners also require the emotional
business drivers of your organisation.
intelligence and behavioural skills to get people
working effectively: to support a senior management
• How to integrate your functional strategy into that of
team and, more frequently, its business leader.
your organisation.
• Increase your understanding of the role of your own
The context may require different approaches, but
HR function in driving your business.
successful HR business partners combine strong
integrity, values and the ability to challenge with
• Understand your role as a full member of senior
the judgement to use them appropriately. ‘Being an
teams and how to support other senior executives.
acceptable nuisance’ requires a high degree of self
• Enhance your ability to influence and challenge
confidence and self awareness combined with focus,
business decisions.
political savvy, courage and resilience and, of course, • Improve personal effectiveness by developing your
understanding of the science of HR. coaching and facilitation techniques.
Supported by our robust research into what drives
and is expected from HR today, this programme
Is this programme for you?
will provide individuals with the necessary skills
to understand and contribute to overall business This programme is targeted at senior and high
decision-making. It will focus on translating business potential HR business partners who are about to
strategy into a people strategy and provide insight or have recently moved into their first HR director
into how to move this into an operational plan; it role. We would expect participants to be regularly
will also cover how you can support, and become working as part of a senior business team where
an indispensable part of, senior management teams their commercial and influencing skills are critical to
and boards. their own, and their team’s success.
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