In the new economy, companies will have to continue to change — to be flexible and adaptable — in order to experience success. All of these changes deliver a new set of priorities. The quality of a company’s people and how they are organized to implement strategy will be the keys to adaptability. The workshops in this group address the knowledge, skills and tools HR professionals will need to support their organization’s strategy and manage the HR function effectively.
Senior & Top Management Level
Strategic HR: Aligning Your Strategy to the Business
One of the most value-creating roles an HR department can fulfill is helping an organization's leaders build a workforce that is capable of implementing the company’s strategy. Read more
Organization Development: Driving and Supporting Strategic Implementation and Change
An organization’s structure, people processes and policies can be the greatest help or the greatest hindrance in achieving strategic objectives, depending on how well they are configured to that organization’s strategic requirements. So many change efforts fail, not for lack of effort but for lack of focus and alignment. A focused, systemic approach to organization development is needed to keep the change effort on track and realize strategic goals. Read more
Strategic Change Communication
Your organization is planning a major change, which may be structural or strategic and you are responsible for helping senior management communicate the change and getting people to commit to it. The change is complex and there are different stakeholder groups with different interests, different perspectives and various reasons for supporting or resisting the planned change.
How do you get everyone on board and pulling together to make the change happen? The better you can do that, the more likely it is your organization can achieve its change objectives and get value out of them.
This workshop will help you build a clear and convincing change message and communication plan, tailored to different stakeholder groups.
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Mid-Career Management Level
Managing the Learning and Development Function
How do you design and implement training and development initiatives that create value for the company? How do you ensure training leads to performance improvement and better workplace results? How can you partner with the other HR and line functions for more effective training? Read more
Influencing and Consulting Skills for HR Professionals
Too few organizations recognize the strategic importance of engaging HR in high-level business decisions. As an HR professional, you must position yourself as an expert internal consultant.
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The Full Programme for HR High Potentials - Part I & Part II
This workshop is built around two 4-day modules, but also includes virtual events and virtual coaching from your facilitator, who is an experienced former senior manager. Over several months you will work on your HR related business project, applying what you have learned and benefiting from the coaching and experience of your facilitator and your fellow participants. You will execute your business project and you will learn the different management disciplines you need to successfully manage other projects in the future. Read more
Compensation and Benefits: Dealing with New Demands, Expectations and Needs
Salary, compensation and benefits systems need to be more flexible for a diverse workforce, more tailored toward strategic objectives and their requirements, and more performance-based. Organizations would like to move away from the expected rises in base pay, and use bonuses or similar to drive profits and goal achievement. All this is easier said than done. Employees and organizations are increasingly looking at non-financial “quality of work life” rewards and recognition as a win-win way to increase the value of the total compensation package. Read more
Talent Management
Every organization relies on human talent to execute its business strategy. The ability to attract and retain the right people is one of the most critical enablers of business growth. But: Do you have the right talent, with the right competencies to execute your organization’s business strategy? What are the key success factors and key competencies to execute your strategy? How can you find, attract, develop and retain these people? How will you fill key roles for the future? Where will your talent come from, and how will you make sure that you are the preferred employer?
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Effective Hiring Skills
Start building an effective hiring strategy now. By using performance-based hiring principles you will get better results, minimize hiring mistakes and build better teams. This MCE workshop will help you build and implement an effective recruitment strategy that will pay dividends to your organization. Read more
HR Management: The HR Business Partner
How does HR add value to the business? What are the functions of HR, what is best practice? How do HR functions connect to the business strategy? How can you better align HR functions to business strategy? Read more