Learning Stream 2
People-Centric HR
Developing a truly people-centric approach is HR’s top challenge for today. This includes but goes well beyond developing a compelling employee experience. People value positive experiences but they do not come to work for the experience of work. Therefore, to be truly people-centric we need to help our people meet their own individual objectives too.
The Strategic HR Academy ‘People-Centric HR’ learning stream currently offers four programmes. The course supporting each programme will be launched shortly before the relevant study group.
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‘Putting People First for Meaning and Performance’ is the first of the four learning programmes in this stream.
Putting people first aims to help employees achieve their own objectives. It contrasts with the traditional approach to engagement in which employees are encouraged to achieve the company’s objectives. However, this has not been working that well. Currently, just 41% of employees agree that senior leaders act in their best interest (from the 2021 Gartner Hybrid Work Employee Survey). For as long as this is the case, employees are not going to fully commit to their employers.
Book now and join the study group which starts 11 October.
Study groups span over 2 months and consist of asynchronous chat and four one-hour Zoom calls per study group. These groups let you learn alongside other HR practitioners, sharing your insights and experiences, and further expanding your understanding.
To book onto a study group, first enrol on the relevant course. You will then be able to join the study group which starts 11 October.
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Focusing on employee experience provides a potentially smarter approach to meeting employee and organisational needs than HR’s traditional emphasis on engagement and leads to other major benefits too. The approach centres on ensuring that employees can contribute fully and easily in order to generate positive results for an employee, the groups they work within, and the employing organisation as a whole.
Enrol today and join the study group beginning 11 October.
More People-Centric HR Programmes
The Strategic HR Academy offers these additional learning programmes enabling you to rise to the challenge of people-centric HR. The courses in these programmes focus on helping employees become the best people they can be – for themselves as well as their employer.
The Strategic HR Academy offers four learning programmes enabling you to rise to the challenge of not only creating people strategies around our people and together with people but also extending these strategies beyond aligning with business objectives, to help our people meet their own individual objectives too.
Study Group runs 11 October - 3 December
Performance of a business and fulfilment of your employees' potential depends on each person's ongoing wellbeing, especially during peak periods and as things change. Learn how to design your organisation and its work to enable this optimal form of employment.
Study Group runs 17 January - 10 March 2022
This course presents leadership as a relationship focused on the individuals and groups or networks being led. It explains how the way we lead and manage people needs to be redefined and reorganised, with people in leadership positions selected and developed differently too.
Study Group runs 28 February - 21 April 2022
Covering insights from pyschology, sociology, anthopology, biology, ecology, cognitive neuroscience and behavioural economics, the course will provide the underpinning knowledge that practitioners need to develop strategic and people-centric HR approaches.
Study Group dates to be announced
even more value
The most cost effective way of attending all four people-centric HR programmes is to take out Gold Membership. Individual Gold Membership costs just £898 and includes up to four study groups and as many courses as you like during the year-long membership. With new courses being added each month Gold Membership represents great value for money – and Group Gold is even more cost effective!
Here to support you through each study group
Orientation
Introduction and initial Zoom call
Section 1
Section 2 and 2nd Zoom call
Section 3
Section 4 and 3rd Zoom call
Section 5
Summary and final Zoom call
How to join a study group
To join any study group you first need to enrol onto the relevant course. Visit our courses page to do this. Once you have purchased your training course (or if you have Gold, Platinum or Partner membership) you will have access to the Member Zone and you will be able to join the associated study group. Silver membership is automatically provided with each course enrolment.
Jon Ingham
Academy Director
About Jon Ingham
All 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.
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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