
Transform administrative HR duties into strategic partnerships by aligning the organization's mission, vision, and values with business strategy; explore talent acquisition, onboarding, performance, and development through case studies.
This lecture contrasts strategic HR with administrative and transactional practices, illustrating how strategic initiatives, including workforce planning, training needs analysis, and employee engagement, drive organizational performance and measurable outcomes.
Learn to become a strategic partner by understanding your organization's mission, vision, culture, and values and aligning them with strategy to guide decisions on customers and geographies for competitive advantage.
Align organizational strategy with HR strategy by linking vision and mission to employee engagement, agile practices, and talent development through a case study on customer excellence.
Break down HR strategy into current state, desired outcomes, and the steps to reach them, turning goals into SMART, diversity-focused action plans with policy, recruitment alignment, and leadership accountability.
Conduct job analysis to set clear employee expectations, align descriptions and specifications, and support development. Coach, train, or reassign staff using interviews and feedback during performance cycles.
Learn to define a recruitment strategy that addresses turnover costs and onboarding timelines, and craft engaging job postings highlighting benefits and values to attract top talent.
Define onboarding as an ongoing process that aligns new hires with the company, from pre-boarding through day one and beyond, emphasizing culture, compliance, and training.
Align departmental goals with organizational aims through continuous performance management, coaching, and constructive feedback, while training managers to set targets and provide timely, two-way feedback.
Define training need assessment to determine what training is needed and who needs it, using job analysis and data from current roles, not assuming training solves all problems.
Define strategic HR practice by evaluating training through Kirkpatrick's four stages—reaction, learning, behavior, and results—to align interventions with business objectives, secure manager buy-in, and extend learning beyond training.
Transition hr from an administrative function to a strategic partner by engaging in strategic planning, job analysis, and recruitment strategy, while aligning onboarding, performance management, and training to cost savings.
As businesses and societies face unprecedented uncertainty, collaboration, sustaining communication, capacity, and culture within the workforce are required like never before. Organizations must strategize to keep employees inspired and enabled and to maintain business continuity. Doing so will require a cohesive approach in business and people strategy and a focus on reskilling the workforce and there the role of strategic partner comes.
As a strategic partner, you sit with the leadership team and advise them to build organisational strategy, aligning the organisational strategy with human resource strategy and breaking down the human resource strategy into achievable actionable plans. This course will provide you insights into the Strategic Responsibilities of HR and you can step up from administrative duties to HR strategic roles. This course will give you step by step strategy insights at four phases of the human life cycle in the organisation; Phase 1- Talent Acquisition; Phase 2- Onboarding of Employees and Phase 3 – Performance Management, Phase -4 Employee Development.
No matter what industry you belong to, what geography you are from, as a strategic partner you have to devise business models that deliver the results around these three phases, so let’s learn how we can build a holistic HR strategic model for competitive business and step up from administrative duties to HR strategic planner in our organisation.