Senior HR Business Partner: Catalyst for Cultural Change

Course objectives

• Diagnose organisational culture from behaviour, systems and decisions rather than stated values
• Contract clearly with senior stakeholders about the role you are playing
• Build credibility and influence without formal authority
• Identify the systems that reinforce current behaviour and the levers that change it
• Challenge an executive constructively and keep the relationship intact
• Sequence a culture intervention so early work builds the mandate for later work
• Recognise which cultural problems the human resources function cannot solve alone

Who should attend

• Senior human resources business partners and human resources managers
• Heads of human resources and organisational development leads
• Internal consultants and change practitioners
• Experienced business partners preparing for a wider remit

Course outline

1. 01What culture is in practice: behaviour, systems, decisions and what gets tolerated
2. 02Diagnosing the current state without relying on an engagement survey alone
3. 03Contracting with a stakeholder: the conversation that prevents most later problems
4. 04Credibility, influence and the difference between being liked and being listened to
5. 05The systems that reinforce culture: reward, promotion, performance and hiring
6. 06Challenging power constructively, and choosing which battle to have
7. 07Sequencing an intervention to build mandate as it goes
8. 08Measuring cultural change in something other than sentiment

Scheduled sessions