HR as a Strategic Business Partner

Many organisations have implemented an HR Business Partner organisational model, due to stakeholders’ requirement that HR takes a proactive role in both supporting current business needs and anticipating future business direction.

Research has however confirmed that the HR Business Partner model has rarely delivered the full ‘value added’ activities it promised. One reason is HR BP’s receiving little or no training on how to be ‘strategic’ or ‘change experts’. Another reason is often the poor championing of the HR BP role inside the organisation, resulting on unchanged expectation from line managers.

The pace of change in the modern business world is ever increasing, change is endemic globally. In recent times of economic challenges the need to change the way organisations operate, manage their people and perform is paramount. Developing your human capital and maximising your return on the people side of the business is a pressing need which, when done well, will enable you to ride the wave of change and sail on into more steady waters.

This HR as a Strategic Business Partner course explores some of the latest thinking in strategic HR, examining the implications and how you can apply these new ideas in a practical context