The Advanced HR Business Partner Programme
The financial crisis and subsequent belt-tightening has expedited a rapid evolution in what business is looking for from HR and raised needs which challenge both the 'hardware' and 'software' which HR has spent the last few years embedding. There is a risk that some of the structures, skills, processes and tools which have been established, could end up being left high and dry by a shift in the environment.
Those HR professionals who can rise to the challenge by implementing HR strategies that are driven firmly from the business strategy, navigating the political and commercial terrain and finding more pragmatic, flexible and measurable ways to deliver value will potentially gain more credibility in the next two years than they have had in the previous ten. Both senior and aspiring HR professionals need the skills and behaviours to be able to do just that.
Who is the programme for?
This programme is designed for senior or high-potential, aspiring HR professionals. It has been completely revised to offer a real contemporary understanding of what HR is all about and insights that participants can immediately apply to drive their own success and the success of their business.
"A brilliant course. I feel really inspired to take learning forward"
Darren Ging, HR Business Partner - Equifax
"I most liked the political intelligence work that gave me real insights into why I do what I do"
Marie Stephenson, Head of HR Group Corporate Centre - Standard Life
Programme content
The Advanced HR Business Partner Programme has been completely revised in 2011 in the light of insights from research by the Henley Centre for HR Excellence and feedback from clients. The revised programme is highly practical and will focus on helping participants operate in a new way for a new environment, ensuring:
- they have more to say that is relevant to, and makes a difference to, their business
- they are listened to. The Advanced HR Business Partner Programme has been completely revised in 2011 in the light of insights from research by the Henley Centre for HR Excellence and feedback from clients. The revised programme is highly practical and will focus on helping participants operate in a new way for a new environment, ensuring:
- they have more to say that is relevant to, and makes a difference to, their business
- they are listened to.
Participants will work on four challenges:
Each day will focus on one of the three outer circles whilst individual coaching, provided throughout the programme, will help people relate them to their own personal challenge.
Prior to the programme participants will be asked to connect with their own business to understand its key commercial and strategic challenges and to collect 360 degree feedback in order to understand how they are perceived against each challenge. At the end of the programme participants will be asked to present to a 'Board' on how they will address these challenges. This output will enable them to demonstrably operate in a new way from the moment they return to work.
Benefits to the individual
Benefits to the individual
By the end of the programme you will:
- understand how HR is, and could, support and enhance the business imperatives of your organisation and rise to the new challenges
- understand how to integrate your functional HR strategy into that of your organisation
- understand your own effectiveness and have had the opportunity to develop your own skills and behaviours in key areas with expert and independent coaching
- enhance your ability to influence and challenge business decisions
- improve personal effectiveness by developing your coaching techniques.
Benefits for the organisation
The organisation will gain an HR professional who:
- can contribute more effectively to the overall business agenda
- can develop an HR agenda that will support business goals
- is personally more effective in contributing to business decision-making and supporting the senior team.
- is able to focus more on impact than process and develop pragmatic and cost effective solutions.
Programme Directors
Nick Holley & Nick Kemsley, Co-Directors, The Henley Centre of HR Excellence
* Note: Prices include all residential costs, but exclude VAT
