HR Management, Strategic Leadership and Change Management

Course Outline

Overview

Strategic HR Management is a comprehensive exploration of HR and the relationship with business. HR should be central to business decision-making as it is people who will deliver the goals of every initiative. This course takes participants on a journey into the business world and delivering performance.

This course embarks into the essential fundamental aspects of leadership on your career pathway. Set over the course using a combination of discussion debates, case studies, research and immersion sessions, you will explore experientially how to emerge more fully as a leader and to harness the workforce to transform.

By attending this intensive course, you will master leadership with a broad range of skills and knowledge that will excel your potential. By contextualizing the humanistic skills with your leadership skills you will discover the path of least resistance to achieve goals. In doing so you will leverage more time to grow the organization due to gains in the effectiveness and efficiency acquired.

The dedicated ability to foresee opportunities and create the future is naturally the terrain of strategic leadership. To shift paradigms that open incredible opportunities in innovation, success and empowering the workforce to grow and deliver. This course enriches your leadership map preparing you to transform your organization and its blueprint.

Change is ubiquitous and is often fraught with challenges however it is a necessary enabler in business. Get on the right side of change so chance is replaced with clear plans. By understanding how to mobilize perspectives and people through the change process, it will make the process more seamless.

The course will also include site visits to organizations relevant to the course so delegates can develop an understanding of how their contemporaries function in the real-world.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Agenda

• HR and Corporate Strategy
• HR Processes
• Organizational Development
• Leadership – The Pursuit of Excellence
• Key Leadership Qualities
• Decision-Making Skills
• Empowering the Workforce
• Influencing with Integrity
• Negotiating Skills for Leaders
• Leveraging your Strengths for Leadership Impact
• Leadership Strategy
• Leading and Enabling Change
• Managing the Change Process
• Understanding and Diagnosing the Need for Change
• Site Visits
• Action Planning

Target Audience

This course is suitable for:

• HR directors
• Heads of HR functions
• HR business partners
• Senior HR executives, managers, advisors and officers who wish to contribute to the development and implementation of HR strategy.
• Chief officers, Chairpersons, Board members, Company directors, Heads of Departments, and all those at the highest levels of an organization interested in developing an in-depth knowledge of strategic HRM.
• Senior Managers and High Performance Executives.
• Change Managers and Executives.
• Business Analysts and Compliance Roles.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

• The strategic nature of HR and Corporate Strategy.
• Stakeholder Management and Corporate Responsibility.
• High Impact HRM Policy and Practice.
• The process of formulating and implementing organizational development strategy.
• Leadership principles and apply them.
• Leadership styles and the psychological basis that underpins great leadership.
• High level decision-making approaches to deliver robust leadership strategies.
• Key aspects of leadership using a mixture of pragmatic and logical considerations.
• How to hone both your interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to increase influence and persuasion.
• How to debate and negotiate in a manner to get acceptance from stakeholders to proceed with the organization’s mission.
• How to activate the operational capacities of all strategic business units using influence, authority and power.
• How to overhaul corporate strategy and business plans.
• How to navigate internal and external forces by excelling leadership drivers.
• How to contextualize change and its affects to change management strategies.
• The power, effectiveness and utility of the change team and change agents.
• How to explore and inoculate the organization from change issues, challenges and concerns.
• A practical perspective into contemporary work practices in your field.
• How to implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.