Strategic HR Business Partnering Team Event

‘Strategically effective HRBPs can improve employee performance in their business units by 19% to 25%. Increases in profitability average 9%.’
Gartner 2023

This applies to HRBPs who operate ‘strategically’, and this is the core conundrum of business partnering. What does ‘strategic business partnering’ look like? And how can you achieve this kind of impact in your organisation?

The answer is a powerful mix of business acumen and relationship skills. Bring your HR team together (virtually or face-to-face) to share, debate and develop skills to:

Get the ‘business’ into business partnering
Build a strategy for raising the level at which you partner
Raise the impact of partnering conversation by conversation

Who is this for?

This will appeal to HR leaders who want to challenge and inspire their team and unite them around the challenges and priorities that drive business success and value.
Participants will be SHRBPs, HRBPs and others who partner with client groups – everyone in HR needs to partner.
We have a version of this program that applies to business partnering in Finance, IT and other central functions.
We partner with HR leaders to lead their teams along a journey towards higher productivity and effectiveness.

What will I learn?

Depending on your needs, topics can include:

The leader’s commitment to support and enable the team
Building a compelling vision and strategic narrative for their journey
The beliefs and mindsets that underpin making the shift to the next level
How to move up a level in partnering; identifying opportunities to take and new practices to use
The full potential of business partnering and what it can deliver for the HR team as well as for the stakeholder
HR Advocacy and Inquiry
4 Modes of Business Partnering – moving towards more strategic conversations with senior stakeholders
Business acumen and how to use the language of the business rather than HR jargon
Your organisational goals and priorities, and how HR can respond more strategically to this – your ‘why’ for what strategic partnering can deliver
Latest thought leadership on strategic business partnering and how it creates value.

Facilitators

This workshop is facilitated by Deborah Wilkes, co-founder of Enable-HR International. Find out more about Deborah.

What are the outcomes?

We will work with the HR leader to clarify your desired outcomes, which could include:

Greater clarity about organisational context and the opportunities for HR to make a greater contribution
Improved openness to change
Deeper understanding of business partnering (which applies to every HR role) and how to build stronger stakeholder relationships
Getting the team onto the same page
Clarifying key challenges that you want them to tackle
A clearer vision of success and how to get there
Improved team spirit, engagement and morale
A strong foundation for further learning and development.

This program can create a strong foundation for HR transformation; please contact us to discuss how this is achieved.

What do I get?

Whether virtual or face-to-face, this program includes:

Preparatory coaching for the leader of the team and help to clarify the current situation of the team and the desired outcomes, style and content of the event
Communication, agenda and pre-work reflection for participants
Highly interactive workshops using dynamic online tools where work can be shared and continued after the event
Post-session assignments, e.g. guided conversations and co-coaching
Workbook with practical tools and tips including our unique concepts for HR
Latest research, thinking and trends in HR

Watch our webinar on this topic here

Format:

One 3-hour virtual workshop with assignments. A full day and face-to-face options are available.

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