HR business partner consulting skills

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As organisations of the future take shape, HR Business Partners will be the driving force behind tasks like talent management, workforce flexibility, strategic planning, and tech development.

They’ll also support top-level executives in defining the company's purpose, improving employee experience, cultivating leadership, and simplifying organisational processes.

GRIST's program for HR Business Partners is tailored to foster the consulting skills that help in establishing strategic partnerships required to deliver measurable outcomes for the business.

Participants will learn key consulting skills from understanding business and stakeholder needs, creating effective solutions, plans for effective project implementation, influencing business leaders and measuring success.

‘Your ability to hire, retain, train, and redeploy people is not going to be easy going forward. That’s why HR is so important.’

— Josh Bersin; HR Global Industry Analyst

Key components

  • The consultant mindset

  • Building trust

  • Understanding the client / stakeholder

  • Communicating value & gaining agreement

  • Creating effective solutions

  • Influencing without authority

  • Working with ambiguity

  • Personal effectiveness

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Program outcomes for participants

To develop HR Business Partners who can:

  • Understand stakeholders wants and needs

  • Design effective solutions

  • Communicate the benefits of the solutions clearly

  • Building key internal relationships

  • Delivering measurable value to the business through their solutions

  • Become a trusted resource, invited to participate in business initiatives from the onset.

Program duration

  • Face to face workshops, or

  • Virtual spaced and paced workshops, or

  • Leader-led implementation with support resources

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