How to position HR as a strategic partner through influence

A practical and interactive workshop to build stronger connections, credibility, and partnership with business stakeholders.

Do you want to get into a more strategic position in your relationships with key business stakeholders?

This workshop gives you a 5-step roadmap to achieve that. We’ll start with the bigger picture – it’s vital to understand your business context and what drives success in your organisation, and we’ll share how to build your business acumen.

In practice, changing the way you operate with stakeholders happens conversation by conversation, and so we’ll then look at how to elevate individual relationships. We’ll provide tools and techniques for that and enable you to relate them to your own context with some prework and a workbook.

When you put business acumen and HR advocacy together, you have a winning formula to make explicit links between HR’s work and business results. When you can do this as a united HR team, you can leverage HR’s impact even more.

As a result, you will achieve a lasting shift in your stakeholder relationships that will enable you to build greater influence and deliver more impact in your HR work.

Who is this workshop for?

This webinar is for HR leaders, HRBPs and all HR professionals who have business stakeholders.

What will I learn?

How to become more business savvy and credible with business leaders, and use business language rather than HR speak
How to shift relationships with business leaders – change HR’s narrative, and HR’s conversations
How to advocate more effectively for the HR priorities that are critical success factors for business
How to build your reputation and influence as a partner in business success
How to get your HR team lined up behind business priorities.

Please note: We will ask you to do some prework (30-60 minutes) in advance of the workshop so that you can make the most of your time.

Facilitators

This workshop is run by Deborah Wilkes, CEO and Olga Mukhina, Senior Consultant

What are the outcomes?

Awareness of the common obstacles that keep HR in catch-up mode — and how to manage them
Clarity on where HR adds real business value and how to prove it
Greater skill and confidence in advocating HR’s value with business stakeholders
A practical roadmap to strengthen HR’s voice in your conversations with business leaders – as an individual and as an HR team
Greater confidence and practical techniques to strengthen your position as a trusted business partner
The ability to use business language and arguments that help you influence decision-makers
Inspiration from discussions and fresh perspectives to implement in your day-to-day work.

What do I get?

Participative sessions and practical discussions to explore their relevance to your situation
An interactive workbook with online resources
Ideas that you can implement immediately
Q&A with facilitators to expand participants’ thinking, with the opportunity to email questions afterwards.

Please note: We will ask you to do some prework (30-60 minutes) in advance of the workshop so that you can make the most of your time.

Date:

Tuesday 10th February 2026

Time:

12:30pm UK

Format:

2-hour virtual workshop

Format:

2 hours

£60.00

This virtual workshop can also be run in-house. Please contact us if this is of interest to your organisation.

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