How to lead HR for maximum strategic impact

Get your HR function lined up behind business priorities and performing as one united HR team.

One HR team model

Explore how to lead an HR function that’s known for adding business value.  This means driving stronger teamwork across your HR function and representing them with the leadership team.

In today’s demanding context, getting the best results from all of your HR talent depends on how well they work together.

 

More about our webinar series ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work’.
As a CPO, you want to add value strategically.  In order to achieve this there are many capabilities to master – intellectual, behavioural and emotional.  This webinar series will cut through to the reality of achieving success as a top leader in HR. These interactive sessions will equip and inspire CPOs to navigate a world of increasing change and complexity.  We will hear from accomplished CPOs and invite input and questions from our audience to ensure that each webinar is practical, relevant and rooted in today’s challenging context. Find out more.

Our first webinar in this series was ‘As CPO, how do I lead through complexity and manage my anxiety?’ – The recording can be watched here.

CPOs, CHROs, HRDs and senior HR leaders who are new to the role or who want to refresh their thinking about their role as a leader and how their HR function operates.

HR leaders who are currently reviewing their HR priorities and operating model – either in response to pressure to reduce costs, or in order to refocus them on business priorities.

In this webinar we’ll explore:

  • What’s your agenda for your HR function?
  • How can you create strategic impact that’s valued by the business?
  • What 5 things do you want to deliver for the business?
    • How you can identify priorities and relevance
    • How you can execute them with excellence
    • How to build strategic influence as a result
  • How to build One HR Team that’s united and aligned around business priorities
    • Flexible, agile and responsive to business needs
    • Partnering strategically
    • Presenting one united face to the business
  • How to lead your HR function – and lead the organisation
    • Take time to think strategically – build your ability to choose the agenda
    • Strategic partnering and influencing the CEO
    • Courage and credibility.

This webinar is hosted by Asad Husain, 4xCHRO, and Deborah Wilkes, co-founder of Enable-HR International.

  • Greater clarity around how you want to lead the function and partner with the business
  • New ways of clarifying your priorities
  • Relevant and practical ideas about how to move forward with what you want to do as CPO and build your stature
  • Learning from hearing others’ experiences and challenges
  • Insight into how to deepen trusting relationships with the business leadership team
  • Ideas, tools and concepts to build into your own practice as a CPO
  • Stimulating, interactive webinar with fresh content to challenge and support your thinking.
  • Thought leadership from different perspectives
  • Practical, relevant input that relates to the reality of HR in organisations today
  • Ideas for running your own One HR Team event
  • Q&A following the webinar for anyone who wants to stay on, and the opportunity to email questions afterwards.

FREE

Date:
Tuesday 28th January 2025
Time:
13:00 UK
Format:
1-hour webinar, part 2 of the CPO webinar series

Other upcoming webinars and workshops

Webinar series: How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work

Date: Monthly webinars will be scheduled
Navigating the complex dynamics of playing a full role as a business leader while also leading the HR function presents many dilemmas. How can you as CPO forge a path that ensures that HR delivers business results while maintaining your personal resilience and integrity? Expectations of HR are rising, and these interactive webinars will be rooted in the reality of the challenges facing the CPO.

Recording: As CPO, how do I lead through complexity and manage my anxiety?

Date: Recording from Monday 2nd December 2024
The constant change in today’s business context and in the world of work presents a myriad of dilemmas for the CPO. In this interactive webinar you will hear from two highly experienced CPOs who share what they’ve learned about how to succeed, and how to look after their own self, in turbulent environments.

Recording: How to make your organisation a force for good

Date: Recording from Friday 8th November 2024
What is your business for? Should its purpose be the context for your HR strategy? These are big questions that go to the heart of an organisation’s right to operate. With Sarah Gillard, CEO of Blueprint For Better Business, Rupert Brown, a former CPO and Deborah Wilkes explore how to help organisations to rediscover their respect for their people, work for the common good, and turn this into a measurable formula for business success.

Recording: Priorities for a new CHRO

Date: Recording from Thursday 3rd October 2024
If you’re a new CHRO, or more established but want to reassess your function in today’s new context, this webinar is for you.  Two highly experienced CHROs share their strategic insights on HR transformation in a conversation with Q&A. They explore some of the dilemmas they’ve faced, and how they navigated their new roles and built relationships with business leaders and also their own HR teams.

Organisations we’ve worked with