19 - 23 May 2025
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Hotel : Grand Hotel Amrâth Amsterdam
Cost : 5250 € Euro
The way forward for today’s HR professionals is to contribute to the business at a strategic level. The Chartered Institute of Personnel has published numerous articles on the new business needs for HR – all indicating the new need – for HR to be a strategic partner.
The question is - How to do it – this program will provide the answers and will give you both the skills and knowledge to make a difference and to make the transition from a provider to a strategic partner. The latter is, of course, an added value activity and as such is normally higher paid. Making the transition to the executive level requires a different skillset and also mastery of the strategic process.
This program will help you 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
Following the completion of this unit, 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 maximize Human Capital investment
This seminar will provide you with the skills to enable you to:
Demonstrate the HR strategic model to others
Perfect high level interviewing skills
Develop social skills for use at the executive level (via EQ measurement)
Future focus
Manage an 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
Practice at developing strategic thinking using the 4 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
Day 1
The Formulation of Strategy, How it Works - The Process Explained
Introductions and program objectives
Why taking HR to the executive level is such a good idea – greater opportunities, bigger jobs – long term security & it's what world-class businesses want
Where strategy fits with the Vision, mission, and, operating plans
A traditional approach to strategic planning
The new HR model - 10 steps needed to form an HR strategy
The strategic model how works
End of the day review
Day 2
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 action plans
Building Strategic action plans – getting others committed. No SAP – what can happen
Producing Executive financial information – unit costs spending analysis
End of the day review
Day 3
Mastering Predictive Trends & Management Information – Getting the Big Picture
Why executives need predictive information
An executive must be good at predictive information – trend analyze
Software for predictive planning and trend analysis
Other predictive factors to review, are succession planning, emergency planning
End of the day review
Day 4
Key Performance Factors – Maximising Human Capital
Measurement tools –organizational maturity, corporate culture, etc.
Relationship between performance and competence
Valuing human capital – how to do it
Critical performance indicators
Presenting at an executive level
End of the day review
Day 5
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
End of the day review