HR Business Partner Development
Skills Evolution offers bespoke training and development to support the needs of your HR Business Partners. Many organisations are moving towards providing a more strategic and consultative role for HR. Yet individuals are often ill prepared for the challenges that they face in moving from an operational to a more strategic perspective.
Drawing on their experience of working with HR teams and research into what defines best practice for Business Partners, Skills Evolution Ltd have developed a range of solutions to help HR practitioners make a successful transition to Business Partnership.
The Book
"HR - The Business Partner: shaping a new direction" draws on case study material to help practitioners understand what is involved in operating as a Business Partner. The book includes practical tools and techniques to help facilitate the change in role and overcome the difficulties Business Partners face once they are established.
Copies of the book are available from http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780750664547
The Business Partnership Programme for HR Professionals
Skills Evolution offers bespoke training and development to support the needs of your HR Business Partners. Typically, this will begin by carrying out some diagnostic work, using focused interviews, group facilitated sessions and/individual diagnosis, to assess the training and development needs of the Business Partners and the function as a whole.
Following the diagnostic work, a range of solutions may be offered, which could include:
Development centres assessing against Business Partner competencies
Using either your own set of Business Partner competencies, or Skills Evolution's set of Business Partner competencies, we can tailor a development centre to focus on the competencies you are seeking to develop. Core areas are likely to be:
- Creating and leading change
- Delivering to the business
- Working alongside managers in the business
- Maintaining a business focus
- Self awareness and impact
We would recommend starting this process with 360-degree feedback from the business to give the Business Partner a benchmark for their development. To follow up on the development centres, we would also recommend One to one coaching to improve the skills and performance of Business Partners.
Modular Training for Business Partners
Skills Evolution designs and delivers bespoke training to support the Business Partner competencies. Typical modules include:
- Positioning yourself with your client and developing credibility
- Understanding and shaping the Business Partner role
- Key consultancy skills for Business Partner
- Advanced relationship skills for Business Partners
- Influencing and leading change as a Business Partner
- Reviewing and assessing Business Partner performance
The programme is led by either Jane Yarnall or Barbara Kenton, the authors of the book "HR -The business Partner: Shaping a new direction". They are interactive tutor-led programmes with elements of input, discussion and workshop. Further information on each of the modules listed is available on request.