Business+HR Strategic Alignment
Strategically aligning the HR function with the business goals to ensure they deliver maximum value
Great people build great organisations. An effective, supported, respected, and aligned HR function enables you to leverage your talent. Transform HR from a cost centre into a value creator.
Many organisations experience a problematic relationship between HR and business leaders where they do not understand or leverage the value that HR can add. This costs organisations money. Driving front-line performance is the priority. Your people are your biggest cost.
We develop HR’s capabilities to drive organisational performance.
We understand the potential of your HR function to increase your people’s performance and therefore business results. We build the strength of HR’s strategic alignment with the business, its agility, and its responsiveness through our Strategic Alignment Programme.
We start with your business goals and challenges and use our evaluation tool to reveal how stakeholders view HR’s priorities, and how well they’re doing against these. We help you to clarify the role that HR needs to play to respond to organisational needs, and support leaders in achieving that. We work with HR leaders to align the wider HR team, to inspire them and direct their efforts towards what truly adds value.
How strategic is your organisation’s HR function?
The quality of the interaction between HR and the rest of the business is vital. By researching the perceptions of HR’s priorities and effectiveness, we can get your HR function aligned with your business goals. We develop them as true partners in business success, inspire them, and direct their efforts towards what truly adds value.
Our Business+HR Strategic Roadmap uses an online survey to find out:
a) How leaders regard the relative importance of HR’s activities to business success, and
b) How effective HR are regarded to be in those areas.
We ask business leaders as well as HR leaders, so that we can generate robust and collaborative discussions about how HR can become business-led.
We realise that the full Strategic Roadmap solution might be out of reach for some HR leaders so we’ve developed a ‘self-drive’ guide that uses the same key principles and steps.
Download the free ‘self-drive’ guide here
HR should be at the heart of your organisation – because it’s your people who deliver success.
Strategic alignment starts at the top. We help organisations to deepen their understanding of:
- what drives business success within your context, and in particular
- what drives the human performance outcomes that deliver the results you need.
We then focus in on how the HR function can play an even stronger role in this. Our Business+HR Strategic Alignment Roadmap provides a framework to consult key stakeholders on priorities and then we help you to build shared understanding, collaboration and visibly aligned leadership.
To what extent does the culture of your organisation support the achievement of the goals of all stakeholders? We work with organisations to clarify how culture impacts on their success, and deploy people analytics solutions to reveal how to make culture a strategic advantage.
This often involves enabling HR to play their full role in partnering with the business and also developing all leaders to support and inspire their teams, and promote D&I and belonging.
Workforce planning should be a strategic activity that’s part of any organisation’s embedded routines. Given the costs involved, the deployment of people should be managed with the same rigour as financial planning.
We work with your HR team to build and win support for strategic workforce plans which then become consolidated into business planning. This in turn creates the foundation for continuous and collaborative partnering between HR and line leaders to manage costs proactively.
Creating the conditions for people to deliver the performance your organisation requires is complex. Every aspect of leadership, organisational clarity, culture, reward and operational management come together into a single result. Do individuals do what you need and want them to do?
HR have a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the required performance is delivered across the organisation. They create that through a Business+HR leadership partnership. We enable HR to build the framework, culture and leadership of performance.
We know from experience that every organisation is different. We’d welcome the opportunity to explore the challenges you’re facing in your particular situation, so contact us to arrange a virtual coffee.
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The Seven Enablers
The Seven Enablers were identified in Enable-HR’s research into what drives excellence in HR and business partnering.
We researched what businesses want from HR and business partnering, and distilled this into the activities and behaviours that drive successful relationships and results. Enable-HR provides a framework to understand and evaluate how HR operates, and then to align, develop and inspire HR people.
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Organisations we’ve worked with
