DAY ONE

Adopting a strategic mindset

• Understanding the Prepare/Partner/Perform framework
• Adopting a strategic mindset and skill set
• Assessing yourself on the strategic continuum
• Working through a strategic lens

Analyzing business data to create insights and guide decisions

• Understanding the importance of business data to HR
• Asking critical questions
• Identifying internal and external business factors
• Measuring business impact with business metrics

Aligning overall talent strategy to business priorities and objectives

• Understanding HR’s pivotal position
• Aligning talent strategy to business strategy
• Increasing your relevance to business
• Describing types of business strategies
• Varying talent strategies according to business strategies
• Documenting priorities and measurements
• Communicating with the Talent Measurement Value Approach
• Aligning HR interventions with talent and business strategies

DAY TWO

Consulting with clients to determine issues and root causes

• Reviewing a day in the life of an HRBP
• Understanding consulting types: reactive vs. proactive
• Using a consulting model
• Creating a questioning strategy
• Determining root cause
• Collecting data and preparing insights
• Collaborating with partners
• Sharing findings with clients
• Developing recommendations
• Working with CoEs

Communicating progress to gain champions and influence positive change

• Creating change through people
• HCI’s Change Management Model
• Understanding resistance to change
• Making the case for change
• Communicating about change

Creating solutions that drive impact and change

• Understanding your role as an HRBP
• Developing HR interventions
• Identifying the impact of talent optimization on business
• Using the appropriate talent management solutions holistically
• Aligning business issues, talent issues, and solutions

DAY THREE