What you'll learn?

Utilizing a Strategic Frame of Reference to Develop an HR Strategic Plan Supporting Your Organization’s Business Plan

Strategic Business Partner vs. Traditional Role of HR

Developing Your HR Frame of Reference

Drafting Your HR Department’s Mission Statement

The Challenges and Significance of the Internal Service Provided by You and Your Department

What is Value to Your Internal Customers?

The Challenges of Delivering HR Services vs. Producing Products

What is Value and How Can We Deliver Greater Value to Our Internal Customers?

The differences between manufacturing and service-providing jobs like HR?

Creating a ‘SWOT’ for Your HR Department

Closing Any HR Service Gaps: a Process to Cause Your Internal Customers to Feel That They are Receiving What They Need & Expect

Understanding Your Customers’ Expectations

How Do Your Internal Customers See You? An Internal Customer Report Card

The Gaps Model of Service Delivery

Creating Standards of Performance

Performing to Your Standards of Performance

Avoiding False Expectations

Questions Upon Which to Build Your Service Improvement Plan

Improving HR's Service through an Importance/Performance Matrix

The Aspects of Your HR Service Most Important to and Valued by Your Internal Customers

Quality The Most Important Dimensions of HR Service

A Model for Strategic Leadership

Drafting Your HR Department’s Vision Statement

Aligning Your HR Processes with Your Organization’s Business Plan

Organizational Success Factors - with Samples

Employee Competencies - with Samples

Utilizing Talent Management Practices

Utilizing Your HR Processes to Enhance Employees’ Competencies

Effectively Carrying Out Your Daily Role as a Coach and Counsellor - to Your HR Team, Managers, and Employees

When and How to Coach?

When and How to Counsel?

Common Coaching and Counseling Opportunities

Crafting Your Frame of Reference

Overview of the webinar

The role of the HR business partner is more important than ever, now that there are more demands on HR to add value. And more leaders are realizing that by making better use of their employees, they can better achieve the profitability goals of the business.

In addition, more of the transactional HR work is being outsourced, so HR is not only able to focus more on the strategic side of the business but is also being asked to make a strategic contribution and develop people strategies that clearly add value to bottom-line results. This is the role of the human resources business partner.

A strategic HR business partner works closely with other business leaders influencing strategy, steering its implementation, and making the best use of the organization's people. The HR business partner role is more of a consultative role. Human resource business partners have clients within the organization to whom they provide services and build relationships focused on the vision and objectives of the organization with much less focus on compliance and administration.

Why should you attend?

  • business leaders want HR to be making visible, meaningful contributions to the business strategy
  • HR professionals want to be managing the organization's HR processes so that they have a significant impact on the success of their organizations

Unfortunately, however, there are many HR departments that are seen as processing transactions vs. turning their internal customers' strategies into the HR department’s priorities in order to deliver desired outcomes

Today's HR business partners need to be:

  • internal customer focused - knowledgeable of their customer's expectations and needs
  • strategic - offering services aligned with their customer’s expectations and the business strategy
  • change-oriented - continuously improving those HR services for their customers’ benefit
  • and technically competent

 Making the significant transition from the traditional to the strategic HR role is best accomplished by adhering to an HR Internal Service Improvement Process that involves:

  • identifying HR's primary customer(s)
  • seeking customer feedback utilizing a SWOT analysis, Internal Customer Report Card, Service Level Agreements, and/or I/P Matrix
  • sharing that customer feedback with the employees in the department
  • creating a strategic service improvement plan based on that customer feedback
  • developing standards of performance for key HR Moments of Truth & processes
  • recognizing and rewarding customer-oriented behavior from HR department employees
  • and keeping the HR Internal Service Improvement Process ‘alive’.

Who Will Benefit?

  • HR Professionals New to the Field - seeking a comprehensive view of the subject with multiple initiatives and techniques they can apply immediately
  • Experienced HR Professionals - Seeking a Refresher


About the speaker

Pete Tosh

Years of Experience: 35+ years

Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines: • Implementing Strategic HR Initiatives • Maximizing Leadership Effective