Strategic HR Management and Leadership Excellence (Online)

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 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.

HR and Corporate Strategy

• The Meaning of HR Strategy
• HR Approaches to Organizational Development
• Business and Corporate Strategies

HR Processes

• Stakeholders and Corporate Responsibility
• High Impact HRM Policy and practice
• Line Management responsibilities

Organizational Development

• The Tools of Organizational Development
• The Importance of Culture
• Developing an Effective Culture

Persuasion and Influence

• The Key Ethical Persuaders
• Assertiveness
• Emotional Intelligence
• Empathy and Resilience

Leadership – The Pursuit of Excellence

• Excellence in Leadership
• Mission to Be the Best
• Managing Change by Raising Standards
• Leader board Comparative Analysis

Key Leadership Qualities

• Leadership Characteristics and Traits
• What Makes Great Leaders
• Psychological Mindset of Leaders
• Leading with Ration, Logic and Emotions

Decision-Making Skills

• The Decision-Making Process
• How to Skilfully Persuade
• Team-led Approaches to Decision-Making
• Structured Critical Thinking

Managing Stakeholder Expectations

• Principles in Engaging Stakeholders
• Aligning from Grassroots to Boardroom
• Mobilizing Stakeholder Support
• Managing Expectations

Empowering the Workforce

• Blanchard’s Situational Analysis and Leadership Relatability
• Person Centred Leadership and Succession Planning
• Fielders Contingency Theory
• Developing a Performance-led Workforce

Influencing with Integrity

• Mastering Humanistic Communication Skills
• Leadership Accountability
• Approaches to Transparent Leadership
• NLP the Art of Influence PACE + LEAD Models

Negotiating Skills for Leaders

• Creating Win-Win Outcomes
• Developing a Flair for Negotiation
• Proven Negotiation Methodology and Techniques
• Understanding Interests, Positions and Benefits

The Politics of Leadership

• Understanding the Ethical Framework
• Diplomacy Skills
• Handling Difficult Scenarios

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning

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.

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 how to 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 implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.