Strategic HR
Power up your HR
HR can only make a real contribution when we have organised and developed ourselves. Our programmes on Improving HR Contribution and Impact will help you enhance your business by powering up HR.
Book your place on one or more of these learning programmes to improve HR’s operations and the performance of your business:
- Strategic Partnering to improve HR Credibility and Contribution Study Group: now open, join by 25 October, runs to 10 December 2021
- HR Transformation for Creating Value Study Group: now open, join by 25 October, runs through to 10 December 2021
Two of Our Autumn study groups
Enrol on the Strategic Partnering course to explore strategies and adopt planning tools which will help achieve greater impact through business partnering. Once you have enrolled, join the study group by 25 October. The study group will run through to 10 December.
JON INGHAM
Academy Director
Join the HR Transformation course to review best fit opportunities to develop new HR structures, processes, cultures, HR practitioner skills, and client relationships. Once you have enrolled, join the study group by 25 October. The study group will run through to 10 December.
JON INGHAM
Academy Director
About Jon Ingham
All Academy programmes are delivered and facilitated by Jon Ingham, a former international HR Director who now works as a strategic HR trainer and consultant. Jon has also written several articles, book chapters and books on the future of work and of HR, including ‘Building Better HR Departments’ (with Dave Ulrich, 2016) and ’The Social Organization’ (Kogan Page, 2017).
Jon has frequently been recognised as a leading thinker on HR, was one of HR Magazine’s Movers & Shakers in 2019 and one of Human Resource Executive’s Top 100 Global HR Tech Influencers in 2019 and 2020.
Strategic HR Partnering and Transformation
An introduction from Jon Ingham
Course Brochures
Click on the image to download the brochure. Once you have enrolled on the course you can now join the autumn Study Group – sign up by 25 October.
Click on the image to download the brochure. Once you have enrolled on the course you can now join the Study Group – sign up by 25 October.
Based on trainings previously delivered face-to-face, courses provide content through pre-recorded video and other materials.
Study groups provide opportunities to reflect, learn socially, and plan application of content within your organisation. Regular Zoom calls are held during the study groups to help connect with other participants.
Learning forums and social chat rooms provide broader learning opportunities too.
strategic hr
Gold Membership provides you access to all strategic HR courses in the Academy. We are planning to launch 12 courses during this, the inaugural year of the Academy. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to enrol on up to four study groups to help you engage in your learning and you will have access to the Member Zone to exchange ideas and make connections with other Academy members.
Group Gold has all the benefits of individual practitioner Gold Membership and has the additional benefit of costing less per person for a group of practitioners within your organisation.
Flexible Learning Opportunities
There are a number of options for developing your team’s HR capabilities:
- 1 person on 1 course, studying independently or as part of a study group
- 1 person on multiple courses (Gold Membership) or multiple people on multiple courses (Group Gold) – as above
- Multiple people on 1 course with a bespoke in-house study group. All Academy programmes can be delivered face-to- face, usually in one or two day programmes or on Zoom/Microsoft Teams, often in 90 minute sessions spread over several weeks (contact us to arrange)
- Consultancy: please contact us if you require consultancy around any of the course topics
All Academy Courses
HR and Competitive Advantage
You will gain: - Clarity in how HR can be more strategic and why the prevailing idea about this topic condemns HR to remain a support function; - The confidence to have more impact based on understanding why HR deserves to be seen as the main driver of competitive success; - Two key tools to think about the value HR can provide, to ensure that in everything we do, we provide as much value as possible.
HR Transformation for Creating Value
Leverage the opportunities of this training which reviews best fit opportunities to develop new HR structures, processes, cultures, HR practitioner skills, and client relationships. It will also review the opportunities provided by digital technologies, not just in the service centre, but also to increase the effectiveness of specialists and business partners, or people working in similar, strategic roles.
Organisation Design for Modern Compelling and Effective Working
Learn how organisation design can provide the best possible opportunity to implement business strategies with a conducive environment for employees and teams to maximise their contribution.
Performance Management Re-engineering
Attend this course to understand how performance management can be re-engineered – to have a true and significant impact on business performance.
Process Design in both HR and the Business
Business process design is the fundamental building block of good organisation design. This course provides a methodology for business process design and gives participants experience in applying the methodology to one or more of their organisation’s business teams. Attend this course to better understand how effective processes can be created and how to facilitate the development of better processes within your own HR team and with your business teams. Key topics covered include: The need for holistic and best fit design for HR processes Effective approaches for implementing process design with your business teams.
Putting People First for Meaning and Performance
This course will be ready for the April 2024 Study Group. Learn how to develop strategies to create an organisation which meets your employees' expectations as well as the needs of your business. See that this will create the competitive advantage your company needs. Know that you've helped all the people who work for your company to achieve their potential and meet their other personal goals. And be part of the future of HR.
Reward Innovation: True Transformation vs Timid Tinkering
Build a case for change. Attend this training to review the opportunities to renew reward within a transformed approach to HR and in order to deliver cost savings and improved results in our businesses.
Strategic Partnering to Improve HR Credibility and Contribution
Catch-up with the latest thinking on strategic HR business partnering and to fully understand the approach, the role and the job.
Work and Job Design improving Wellbeing and Productivity
Learn how to reinvent roles and jobs to improve productivity and to develop jobs, engagement and productivity in your own organisation
Linkedin Academy Showcase
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