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Build Credibility and Become a High Impact, Strategic Partner to Your Stakeholders
Imagine being the person your organization turns to when they need solutions to their toughest challenges. Today’s businesses expect HR to do more than manage policies and put out fires. Organizations need HR professionals who can anticipate challenges, design people-centered solutions, and act as trusted advisors to the business.
HCI’s Strategic HR Business Partner Certification equips you with the mindsets, skillsets, and frameworks you need to elevate your role and deliver measurable business impact. This intensive three-day program transforms the practices of today’s most effective organizations into actionable strategies you can use immediately.
Our Prepare/Partner/Perform/Amplify framework helps you gather insights, examine challenges, engage stakeholders, and co-create meaningful solutions that align with organizational priorities. By pairing it with innovative AI solutions, you will explore how AI can amplify each step of the framework. You will also have the chance to apply what you learn to a real business challenge, practicing scenario planning and peer consulting in a highly interactive environment.
Not only will you leave with the skills to anticipate workforce and organizational needs with greater confidence, but you will have the know-how to partner more effectively with your organization and apply AI and analytics in practical ways. You will shift from being reactive to proactive and strategic, and be prepared to tackle your organization’s most pressing challenges while advancing your own career as the kind of partner leaders want at the table.
What You'll Learn
Prepare
Work credibly with clients to support organizational strategies
Partner
Develop collaborative relationships that impact business outcomes
Perform
Implement and measure effectiveness of talent management initiatives and solutions
Amplify
Work with AI and analytics tools to enable deeper insights, solutions, and performance
What to Expect
- Select virtual or in-person training dates and times that fit your schedule
- Finish your HCI program with a free toolkit, access to additional videos and research, and a set of skills that you can use on the job immediately
- Access log-in information, certification materials (participant guide and toolkit), and the exam in your MyHCI profile
- Chat and interact with faculty and peers in person or via Zoom
- Earn your HCI certification by attending all the sessions, completing all classwork, and passing the multiple-choice exam with a score of 80% or higher
- Renew your HCI certification every three years by obtaining 60 credits
Attend this certification program and earn 19.5 HCI, 19.5 HRCI, 19.5 SHRM, and 18 ATD recertification credits
Earn Your Human Capital Strategy Credential
Build the in-demand strategic capabilities you need to advance your HR career and lead the future of HR in only 18 months. You'll take three core programs and two strategic accelerators as well as complete mentoring and an advised portfolio project. Graduates of this program demonstrate a breadth of HR knowledge and capabilities to bring wherever they go.
Course Outline
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Day One
- Introductions
- Course Overview
- 4-P Model
- The Big Picture
- Business Problem or Talent Problem
- Strategic Mindsets
- What “more strategic” looks like
- What “more strategic” sounds like
- Planning to be more strategic
- What HR does with business data
- Activity: Business Problem Identification
- SWOT Analysis
- Activity: SWOT Analysis
- The Big 3 financial statements
- Income
- Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow
- Tips for having financial conversations
- HR’s Pivotal Position
- Business Strategy/Strategic Initiatives
- Activity: Connecting HR to Business Priorities
- Types of Business Strategies
- Activity: Your organization’s strategy
- Strategy Example
- Skills Assessment
- An Afternoon in the Life of HR
- Consulting: Reactive vs. Proactive
- Consulting Model
- Consulting Model: Identify Issue and Clarify
- Questioning Strategy
- Activity: High Gain Questions
- Consulting Model: Collect Data and Prepare Insights
- The Five Whys
- Running Five Whys in Groups
- Activity: Root Cause Identification
- Making Evidence-Based Decisions
- Video: Brian Ong “What Kind of Data Do We Look For?”
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Day Two
- Consulting Model: Prepare for Client Meeting
- Consulting Model: Share
- Findings with Clients Findings are not Recommendations
- Why sharing findings matters
- Framing the findings
- Activity: Visualizing Data
- When a leader doesn’t align…
- Activity: Managing leader disagreement
- Consulting Model: Develop Recommendations
- Guiding Principles
- Working with CoE’s
- Recommendation Elements
- Holistic Solutions
- Acquire the Right Talent
- Engage Your People
- Develop Your Workforce
- Optimize Your Talent Strategy
- Activity: Deep Dive into Quadrants
- How one action impacts the whole
- Scenario 1
- Scenario 2
- HRBP Role in holistic solutions
- Creating change
- HRBP’s three Roles
- Architect
- Broadcaster
- Coach
- Activity: The Three Roles
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Day Three
- Video: Dan Heath “Why is change hard?”
- Bridge’s Transition Model
- Change Challenges
- Communicating about Change
- Understanding Resistance
- Activity: Overcoming Resistance
- Your role in implementation
- When implementation fails
- Video: Brian Ong “What should we be considering”
- The Analytics Value Chain
- HR Solutions
- Talent Management Value Approach
- Activity: Value Approach
- Measuring Business Outcomes
- Activity: Business Outcomes
- Storytelling
- Scaling Solutions
- Activity: Scaling Solutions
- Best Practices for Scaling
- Using AI to Power Strategic HRBP Consulting
- What do we mean by “AI”
- What AI is and isn’t
- What insights look like
- AI Insight summary and discussion
- HRBP AI Lab
- Activity: Insight Creation and Advisory
- Activity: AI Output with Gaps
- Activity: AI Assisted Root Cause
- Turning Patterns into impact
- 3-2-1 Action Planning with Pair/Share
