Open learning events

We continually develop open workshops, roundtables and free webinars to enable HR people at all levels to succeed in the changing world of HR.

Our virtual workshops and webinars can also be run in-house. Please contact us if this is of interest to your organisation.

Webinars

How to present HR’s value to the business

Tuesday 20th January 2026

Explore a 6-step process to prove and present the value that HR drives in your organisation. You will learn how to develop your business acumen and your insights, and how to dig deeper into how your organisation works – and therefore open up new opportunities to leverage HR’s work.

Next Generation HR – a turning point

Recording from 18th September 2025

Research has proved that strategic partnering can deliver a 9% increase in profitability. But what does strategic partnering really mean and how do you get there? And how do you lead this across your HR function?

How to build One HR Team

Recording from 21st August 2024

Getting the best results from all of your HR talent depends on how well they work together. We had amazing feedback from this webinar where we explored different HR operating models (especially Ulrich) and how to get your whole HR team lined up behind your organisation’s priorities and delivering results together.

How to build a united, business-led HR Team

Recording from 30th July 2025

Today’s business context demands a shift to ‘next generation’ HR – a function that partners and influences strategically and is seen to deliver business value. To achieve this, the whole HR team must be lined up behind your organisation’s priorities and delivering results together. In this webinar we open up your thinking about how you can lead HR into a new future where HR is led by business needs.

How to lead HR for maximum strategic impact

Recording from 28th January 2025

The second webinar in our series ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work’. We explore the challenges of how to lead a business-led and united HR team and clarify HR’s operating model and priorities with Asad Husain, 4 x CHRO, who shared his real-life experiences and how he achieved results.

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

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.

How to make your organisation a force for good

Recording from Friday 8th November 2024

What is your business for? Should its purpose be the context for your HR strategy? With Sarah Gillard, CEO of Blueprint For Better Business and Rupert Brown, a former CPO, 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.

Priorities for a new CHRO

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.

How to build HR’s strategic influence in today’s landscape

Recording from Tuesday 17th September 2024

How does a CHRO get the function to where they want it to be? This one-hour webinar 4xCHRO Asad Husain and Deborah Wilkes will explore how to create a platform from which HR can lead and influence, win the mandate to elevate the function, and get that on track.

How to influence senior leaders

Recording from 11th April 2024 webinar

Win support for HR’s priorities by understanding the needs of senior stakeholders and creating alignment. Take a structured approach, and build skills, strength and confidence.

Build your strength as a HR Business Partner

Recording from 12th October 2023 webinar

In HR it’s important to have robust conversations that can lead to solving the tough problems or co-creating more value. During this webinar we looked at how we can help Business Partners in HR to:

‘Reach in’ to build your inner strength and resilience;
‘Reach out’ with confidence to build stronger and more productive relationships with key stakeholders.

What is strategic business partnering – and how do we ensure it delivers value?

Recording from 18th July 2023 Webinar

During this webinar we shared the latest thinking and real-life experience of how Business Partners (not just in HR) can:

Get ‘business’ into business partnering
Make the case to senior leaders and win their commitment
Change the partnering conversations and change the impact.

Workshops

How to position HR as a strategic partner through influence

Tuesday 10th February 2026

A 2-hour virtual workshop for HR leaders and Business Partners who want to boost their influence and credibility with business stakeholders and be seen as their ally. We’ll give you practical tools and techniques to transform how you present HR’s value, build a solid reputation, and be seen as a true partner to the business.

Increase your impact in HR Business Partnering 2-hour workshop

Tuesday 27th January 2026

This 2-hour virtual workshop is a highly interactive session which will challenge your thinking as a HR Business Partner, and give you new skills. It provides practical tools to:

get the ‘business’ into partnering, and build alignment with the organisation’s priorities;
build more trusting and productive relationships with key stakeholders that open up opportunities for HR to add more value.

How to build a business-led HR strategy

In order to align HR’s activities to business priorities, HR has to turn its traditional approach upside down. This virtual workshop will equip and inspire you to deepen your business acumen, build strategic relationships with senior stakeholders and align and market HR’s strategic priorities in a way that wins support from business leaders.

Strategic HR Business Partnering Team Event

How do we partner more strategically with stakeholders and deliver even more value for our organisation? 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

How to increase your HRBPs’ impact in HR Business Partnering

Challenge your HRBPs’ thinking and give them a boost with this complimentary 2-hour virtual workshop. This highly interactive session provides practical tools to:

get the ‘business’ into partnering, and build alignment with the organisation’s priorities;
build more trusting and productive relationships with key stakeholders that open up opportunities for HR to add more value.

Strategic influencing skills for HR leaders

In this 3-hour virtual workshop we will tackle this in three ways:

Envision how you want to be seen as a leader;
Strengthen your business acumen and how you get this across;
Develop powerful skills and behaviours so that you can be influential and business-credible in key situations.

How to be a business ally

To be recognised as strong allies in delivering business success, HR have to get close to business leaders. In this 3-hour virtual workshop we’ll explore how to:

understand how your organisation works in order to create value
speak the language of the business
tackle the issues that worry business leaders.

Align and inspire your HR Team

This 3-hour virtual team event helps HR leaders to re-energise and re-focus their busy teams. Use this team session to:

Learn latest HR context and thought leadership
Reinforce your organisation’s priorities
Explore how HR needs to respond to these
Share perceptions of challenges
Build clarity and commitment to actions.

How to make Agile HR work for you

Agile HR ensures that HR is able to support the business quickly, responsively and with people at the centre of all progress. This 3-hour virtual workshop sets out the potential of Agile HR, the reality of making it work, and a clear path forward.

Targeted coaching special offer

We’ve researched what drives great HR and worked out how to evaluate it, and are offering a targeted one-to-one coaching package. Come away with practical ideas, tools, and inspiration that you can apply immediately, as well as real clarity about what you’d like to develop further. All for a special offer price of £99.

In-house Development Programs

Our in-house development programs range from standalone workshops, which deploy every opportunity for preparation and follow-up of learning, to tailored multi-media virtual or face-to-face programs that are designed to make the most of the investment in participants’ time together. Find out more about our development programs here