HR Business Partner skills

The steps to a partnership approach

• Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of operating as an expert and ‘hired hands’ versus a business partner. 
• Describe the five stages of working as a business partner and how this approach supports sustainable change.

Speaking truth to power

• Define the components of influence and influencing behaviours. 
• Understand how to tailor their approach to increase impact and effectiveness in influencing a stakeholder.

Coaching approach

• Define coaching and how coaching conversations add value to the HR business partner role. 
• Describe how to conduct a coaching conversation and understand the effective use of questioning and listening.

Working with politics, power and conflict

• Demonstrate how to make effective use of sources of power and how to navigate a political environment.
• Understand how to demonstrate a different mindset and approach to addressing conflict.

Thinking strategically as a business partner

• Describe what it is to think strategically, how this differs from working operationally and identify how to leverage more strategic conversations with selected stakeholders.

 Influential data analytics

• Articulate how to use data analytics to increase the value you add as a HR business partner.
• Identify how to analyse and interpret HR data to influence behaviour and decision making.

 Enabling change

Identify how to have a greater impact with change initiatives and the respective benefits of different approaches to change management.

 Developing the organisation

• Describe how organisational redesign and restructuring increases an organisation effectiveness.
• Have a greater awareness of how to think systemically about internal structures,
• processes and relationships and the linkages between them.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of organisational development and design.