Developing Strategic & Commercial Capabilities - A Toolkit for HR Business Partners

Introduction

The concept of the HR Business Partners (HRBP) was developed over 25-years ago and focused on four key roles: a strategic partner, a change agent, the employee champion, and an administrative expert.

There have been some tensions in adopting the role during this time, but the HRBP is now a more crucial touch point for business leaders than ever before.

HR have an opportunity, and responsibility, to help their organisation navigate the future by providing guidance on the capabilities needed to be successful over the next decade, as ways of working evolve, and new technologies emerge.

The HRBP will be the crucial interface to make this happen.

Presented by HR expert Dave Millner, this 3-hour box set will help current and prospective HRBP build the confidence to work with senior business leaders in a more challenging way and adopt behaviours and techniques that build credibility with them.

Rather than simply delivering HR outcomes and completing operational requests for support and help, this modular webinar will show you how you can make a real impact on business performance.

Agenda

The modules covered are as follows:

Module 1 - Changing Focus & Strategy Led Prioritisation

• Context for change
• The ‘now of work’
• Implications for the HR function and HRBPs
• Current HRBP operational focus
• Research and recent data relating to HRBP focus in their roles today
• Being strategic as an HRBP
• Moving from being a service station to a power station HRBP
• What is strategy?
• How to Undertake a HR SWOT analysis
• Prioritisation - alignment of HR to business strategy demands
• Examples and case studies

Module 2 - Being a Business & a People Partner

• Being commercial as a HRBP
• What being a commercial HRBP means
• Examples and case studies
• Assessing your commerciality
• Importance of data, KPIs, metrics and analytics
• The role of talent data, KPIs, metrics and analytical insights as a HRBP
• Definitions, examples, and case studies
• Focusing on business not people problems
• Identifying ways to scope out data based approaches
• Stakeholder management
• Stakeholder management frameworks
• Your behaviour and that of your stakeholders

Module 3 - Changing Your Behaviour to be More Strategic

• Building credibility and trust with business leaders
• Creating an impact on your stakeholders
• The trust equation
• Building trust with your stakeholders
• Examples and case studies
• Delivering results
• HR projects - approach and metrics to consider when delivering solutions
• Managing stakeholders’ involvement in change
• Examples and case studies
• Providing thought leadership to senior leaders
• Prioritising critical talent management strategies
• Coaching business leaders in HR and people challenges
• Behaviourally developing your stakeholders’ capability
• Case studies

This webinar was recorded on 6th November 2023