Team workshop for all your Business Partners

Bring your HR, Finance and IT teams together in an interactive workshop to get them to re-think, challenge and share together how they can work more effectively with their stakeholders and with each other.

This 3-hour in-house virtual program is tailored to your team and is designed to bring business partners from different central functions together to make business partnering work even better – or to build their appetite for some new development.

Reinforce the value of business partnering
Challenge their thinking
Develop practical skills

It’s highly interactive and we will tailor it to reflect your organisation’s context, priorities and maturity in business partnering.

Who is this workshop for?

What will I learn?

Participants will share, challenge and explore:

What business partnering means for them and why it’s important – the context and business case
Latest thinking and research on BPing in different functions – relating that to their own experiences
The 7 Enablers of business partnering
Adding value at a higher level – clarifying what that looks like
Participants’ perspectives on their challenges and priorities and what the business needs from them
Some practical tools
The bigger picture of making business partnering work.

Subsequent workshops could include some of the following – how to:

Make a greater contribution to business decisions and at a more senior level
Become more business savvy and credible in the business
Define and pitch more effectively for their function’s priorities that are critical success factors for business
Become trusted partners and advisors to business leaders
Make tangible and visible contributions to business success.

Facilitators

This workshop is facilitated by Deborah Wilkes, co-founder of Enable-HR International, and our team of expert HR facilitators and coaches. Find out more about our team.

What are the outcomes?

Participants will leave the program with a deeper understanding of what business partnering means and how to move to the next level

Improved openness to change and to shifting how they operate
Practical ideas to help them to try new approaches with stakeholders
Improved teamwork between central functions
A clear foundation for further development, if you choose.

What do I get?

Insights from the latest research, thinking and trends in the world of HR.
Workbook to use during the workshop with tools for you to use back at work.

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3-hour in-house virtual workshop

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

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