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 HR Business Partnering 

Building credibility and commercial impact as a business partner

Operating as a business partner requires a mindshift in approach and a new set of skills, built around a consultative approach with the ability to influence at a senior level and to think strategically. This programme will help you to develop the necessary skills to contribute to the wider development of the organisation.

The programme’s focus covers commercial awareness, influencing skills, credibility and presence, organisational politics and the implementation of strategy. As well as learning from Roffey Park’s expertise in this area, there will be shared learning from other HR business partners from different sectors. Participants will come away with a framework and tools for effective business partnering which will ensure they align their role with the needs of the organisation and give them the confidence to really make a difference.

 Why should you attend this programme?

  • A theoretical underpinning of the demands of the Business Partner role
  • A framework with which to provide effective organisation interventions
  • Increased commercial and global business awareness
  • Confidence building in influencing at senior level
  • The ability to activate and realise an HR strategy
  • Be more confident and credible in carrying out your partnering role
  • Develop a network of Business Partners from different organisations. 

Programme content

Module 1: HR Partnering with the business

  • The benefits, competencies and attributes of the partnering role
  • Making HR strategy work for your part of the organisation
  • Enhancing the value that HR contributes to the organisation
  • Influencing effectively and managing upwards
  • Building personal credibility and impact
  • Understanding organisational politics
  • Developing enhanced commercial awareness.

Module 2: Core consultancy skills

  • What are consultancy skills and how can they be used effectively?
  • The consultancy cycle – a chance to practice this actively
  • Developing effective client/consultant relationships
  • The importance of contracting – informally and formally
  • Keeping your clients engaged
  • Dealing with resistance
  • Understanding and working with organisational politics.

Core Consultancy Skills is also available as a separate programme.

Who is it for?

You are a HR practitioner at middle to senior level with a range of operational experience, with either a generalist or specialist background. You are in or about to begin a Business Partnership role and recognise the need to develop the skills to support the organisation’s wider aims and objectives. The demands of your role are changing from operational and maintenance of service provision to one of influencing the direction of the business and working in closer partnership with key decision makers.

Programme Director

Gary Miles
MA (Oxon), FCIPD