It’s over 25 years since the concept of the HRBP was developed by Dave Ulrich with the focus on four key roles, a strategic partner, a change agent, the employee champion and an administrative expert. There have been some challenges in adopting and evolving the role but the pandemic has reiterated the need for HR to get closer to the ever-changing business strategies and disruptions that drive increasingly demanding expectations of the workforce. These can relate to local remote working and hybrid strategies through to the development of new ways of working in an ever increasingly automated work environment. Whatever the challenge the HR function has to be closer to the business leaders and credibly deal with the wide-ranging issues that require support and resolution in an impactful way.

The HRBP has to become an even more crucial touch point for business leaders than ever before. That means dealing with an ever increasing need to demonstrate value and commercial insight and ensuring that the largely tactical, administrative function of the past becomes the strategic ‘added value’ function that focuses on resolving business problems, defining success of HR in commercial terms and builds the capabilities of the workforce so that they can deliver and support the achievement of the business’s strategies.

This is HR’s moment to lead their organizations in how to navigate the future. They have a real opportunity, and responsibility, to provide the whole workforce with guidance on the capabilities they will need to be successful over the next decade as change and new roles continue to emerge and evolve. HR has to be positioned ‘front and center’ as a strategic business driver to make this happen. The HRBP will be the crucial interface to make this happen – this opportunity cannot be missed!

This 2-day masterclass has been devised by Dave Millner based upon his deep experience and research into commercial HR functions, his 30 years global consulting work, his book called ‘An Introduction to People Analytics’ and the curation of “all things future” through @HRCurator. He aims to take a commercial, people-centric view of the HR function, assisting HR practitioners in how to utilize the key behaviors that make a real business impact and influence business leaders to embrace the people-centric approach that the pandemic has demanded. The programme will give participants the confidence to work with senior business leaders in a more challenging way, adopt behaviors and techniques that build credibility with them and make a real impact on business performance rather than simply delivering HR outcomes.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a sound understanding of the future demands that will be made of HRBP’s and through involving practical exercises and a range of different case studies, you will gain the practical skills in how to support business leaders in a more commercial and credible way. The format of the workshop will revolve around the principles of:

• Knowledge sharing of case studies and frameworks.
• Provide learning opportunities so that different techniques and ideas can be understood and tested out
• Focus on how these techniques can be used back in the HRBP role

The whole workshop is designed to build the confidence of HR practitioners in how to work with and challenge business leaders in the identification of business problems and their resolution in a more robust and proactive way.

Dave will provide you with a full range of frameworks and examples that can help you build your confidence when working with business leaders. There will be opportunities to explore and test out various ideas and to establish what may work for you. This course will involve live interaction on practical examples and case studies to gain an experience of how to use the various techniques that will be shared throughout the two-day sessions.