Build your strength as a HR Business Partner

We already know that partnering is about building trusting relationships – and that sometimes you want them to deliver more. In HR it’s also important to push forward and push back, to have robust conversations that can lead to solving the tough problems or co-creating more value. This demands:

  • Inner strength, confidence, and courage, built on self-awareness, combined with
  • High levels of skill and sensitivity in managing critical conversations so that you achieve the desired outcomes.

 

Following their previous highly successful webinar, Marion Hewitt and Deborah Wilkes teamed up again to combine these two threads into a unique formula of self-knowledge and behavioural skill that will set you up for success in your most challenging stakeholder relationships.

HR’s responsibility to manage the human element can create dilemmas that can make HR emotionally challenging as well as intellectually complex. HRBPs have to respond and adapt every day to challenging situations, and their credibility rests on demonstrating not only empathy but also business understanding. This webinar provides practical approaches to build your strength and confidence on the inside that will come across on the outside:

Reach in: Increase your awareness of your personal strengths and optimise their level of use for inner confidence.

Reach out: Draw on your inner resources to increase your impact and get your true value across to your stakeholders so that you tackle challenges and opportunities together.

This webinar is for HR Business Partners who want inspiration as well as practical approaches to help them to manage challenging situations and stakeholders.

We recognise that the HRBP role can be demanding on a personal and human level and they experience situations that require empathy, and also objectivity and firmness. This requires a unique mix of self-awareness and behavioural strength which is what we will explore in this webinar.

  • Where your strength comes from and how to access it.
  • CIPD ‘Professional Courage’ – what does it mean?
  • Managing the conversation

The facilitators for this webinar were Marion Hewitt, Protea Solutions and Deborah Wilkes, Enable-HR

Date:
Recording from 12th October 2023 webinar

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Other upcoming webinars and workshops

Elevate your HR Business Partnering

Date: Tuesday 30th June 2026
HR Business Partnering is a complex role and it’s vital to build clarity about what’s required. This interactive 3-hour virtual workshop will use our Seven HR Enablers model to challenge and develop your thinking as an HRBP.

How to make HR business partnering deliver value

Date: Recording from Wednesday 3rd June 2026
The HRBP is at the front line of the relationship between HR and the business. They gain valuable insight into what the business really needs from HR and how to ensure that interventions land well. In this webinar we explore the full range of factors that set up the HRBP for success and provide a clear pathway for success.

1:1 Clarity Session: Take a step back in order to think forward

Date: Scheduled by agreement
Would you like space and help to think more critically about how you’d like to move forward? In this complimentary 1-hour 1:1 virtual conversation, one of our highly experienced HR leaders will be your sounding board, support your critical thinking and enable you to think more clearly about how you want to move forward.

AI in HR – Senior HR Leader Roundtable Discussion

Where are you in your AI journey? Join senior colleagues in an informal, confidential group where we will explore potential pathways for AI integration. We will debate AI in both HR’s own processes and also the implications for HR across the wider organisation.

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