Course details

Overview ?

The Course

This program deals with the latest innovations and direction of today’s Human Resource Departments. This essential program will provide you with the best in new techniques, processes and direction that leading HR departments need to take to be world class.

Rapid and radical change is affecting the whole of the world. Some parts of the Middle East are facing significant challenges in terms of growth and competition. In other places the key to prosperity as an organisation is seen as controlling costs and maintaining market competitiveness. In these circumstances, companies are increasingly searching for a source of competitive advantage through HR.

The Structure

Module 1 - Leading Strategic HR Transformation

Module 2 - The Business of HR

The Goals

You will learn how to:

Master the new HR strategic process
Be able to transform strategic requirements into HR objectives using the 6 S model
Be able to create HR strategic action plans to achieve business objectives
Be able to provide innovative predictive information
Have practiced business information interviews and presenting results
See the big picture for the future of employment and performance through people
Build your professional confidence
Identify the context for change – the economic and social changes that are driving employment change
Identify current employment practices and establish an agenda for change
Look at international developments in employment practices
Establish a series of best practices covering such issues as Leadership and Management Style, Recruitment and Retention, Performance Management, Work Organisation, Equal Opportunities, Industrial Democracy, Employee Relations and Communications, Consultation and Involvement

The Benefits

Upon completion of this seminar, you will know how to:
Use a strategic model to build an HR strategy, and know where strategy fits into corporate business
Be able to use the 6 S process to translate strategy into HR action
Write business action plans to delegate strategic tasks
Build and produce high level management information
Know what HR trends to report on and be able to master emergency planning
Do executive briefings to gather and disseminate information
Show the added value of HR to your business
Translate current trends to maximise Human Capital investment

Those attending the programme will return to their organisation equipped with up to date knowledge of the full range of issues which are involved in the development of the HR function as a competitive advantage.

Delegates will be able to develop an operational response to the issues raised by the strategic issues as there will be a concentration on practical steps.

The Results

Demonstrate the HR strategic model to others
Perfect high level interviewing skills
Develop social skills for use at executive level (via EQ measurement)
Future focus
Manage a HR team to produce strategic results
Be able to deliver strategic objectives on time and on budget
Demonstrate self development and CPE record
Self starting to achieve business objectives
Demonstrate leadership qualities
Demonstrate fiscal control and creating ROI
Be able to improve HR practices
Demonstrate self development
Set and achieve business objectives for performance management
Demonstrate leadership qualities
Demonstrate the HR strategic model to others
Perfect high level behavioural interviewing skills
Role model use of the disciplinary process
Manage a HR team to produce results

The Core Competencies

Practice at developing strategic thinking using the 10 step model
Forward planning
Analytical thinking
Creativity and step innovation
Writing outlines for the 6 S process
Mastery of the construction of Business action plans
Use and mastery of HR statistical packages
Personal presentation skills
International HR law
Manpower planning
Use and mastery of different leadership styles
Personal presentation skills
International HR law
Manpower planning
Practice strategic planning
Forward planning
Review recruitment and selection
Use performance management tools
Review the use of competencies
Mastery of the construction of Business action plans

The Programme Content

Module 1:

Leading Strategic HR Transformation

The Formulation of Strategy, How it Works – The Process Explained

Introductions and program objectives
Why taking HR to executive level is such a good idea – greater opportunities, bigger job – long term security & its what world class businesses want
Where strategy fits with the Vision, mission and operating plans
Traditional approach to strategic planning
The new HR model -10 steps needed to form a HR strategy
The strategic model how it works

Translating Strategic Requirements into Business Action Plans – Including the Formation of HR Budgets

The formation of Strategic objectives and how to translate them into the HR 6 S model
Building Business actions plans
Building Strategic action plans – getting others committed; No SAP – what can happen
Producing Executive financial information – unit costs and spend analysis.

Mastering Predictive Trends & Management Information – Getting the Big Picture

Why executives need predictive information
Executive must be good at predictive information – trend analyse
Software for predictive planning and trend analysis
Other predictive factor to review, succession planning, emergency planning

Key Performance Factors – Maximising Human Capital

Measurement tools –organisational maturity, corporate culture etc.
Relationship between performance and competence
Valuing human capital – how to do it
Critical performance indicators
Presenting at executive level

Understanding and being able to Act on High Level HR Trends

World trends – employment, inclusion, new employee expectations
World business trends – leadership, team working, employment/ supervision ratios
Changing Trends relating to HR

Module 2:

The Business of HR

The Context for Change

The big picture – Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organisation, single currency, social changes etc
The strategic response
Leadership and management style
Recruitment and retention