Being an effective Business Partner requires a new mindset and a new set of skills, built around a consultative approach, and drawing on the credibility to influence at a senior level and to think strategically. Drawing on Roffey Park’s 2009 research, this new programme will help you to develop the skills and behaviour necessary for your HR role to significantly contribute to the success of your organisation.
Combining an in depth appreciation of HR Business Partnering, with the skills of internal consultancy, this practical course covers all the essentials for being an effective Business Partner.
What you’ll gain from the programme
As well as benefiting from Roffey Park’s unparalleled expertise in business partnering, you will gain from the shared learning of other HR professionals from different sectors. You’ll come away with:
- An understanding of the Business Partner model, and an appreciation of what that means for your own organisation
- Confidence and credibility in successful partnering
- Increased commercial awareness
- The ability to initiate and implement an HR strategy
- Capacity to influence at senior level Develop a network of Business Partners from different organisations.
Programme content
Day 1: HR Partnering with the business
- The Business Partnering approach plus the competencies and attributes necessary for success
- Making HR strategy work for your part of the organisation
- Enhancing the HR value proposition for your organisation
- Enhanced commercial awareness.
Day 2: Core consultancy skills
- The Consultancy Cycle – behaviours, tools and skills for every phase from contracting to disengagement
- Roles consultants play - developing effective client/consultant relationships
- Effective influencing – being influential without line authority
- Building personal credibility and impact
- Understanding and working with organisational politics.
Day 3: Practical skills
Application of the skills and knowledge gained through a case study, using professional actors.
Day 4: Embedding your learning
Day 4 will take place on a date agreed by the course participants, approximately 3 months after the first three days. It provides the opportunity to benefit from the support and challenge of fellow participants on the actions you’ve taken following the course, as well as to adding to your learning, and practicing the facilitation and feedback skills you’ve gained. Subject to participants’ requirements, the day can either be held at Roffey Park or be a web conference.
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
Alex Swarbrick
MPhil (Econ), BSc, FCIPD