Strategic Business Partner Skills for HR

Helping HR Professionals Reach Their Full Potential

Is your team prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s HR function? To implement talent strategies, evaluate talent metrics that guide line executive decisions and tailor talent management systems? HR is increasingly a strategic partner in business. Does your team have the skills it needs to make sure your organization competes effectively in talent?

Build Your Own Capacity with PDI

When your team partakes in PDI’s Strategic Business Partner Skills programs you gain valuable tools and insight that not only helps your team build capacity, but increases the effectiveness of your organization’s entire HR system.

Our programs include hands-on practice using the Boudreau and Ramstad’s book Beyond HR, the HC BRidge® Framework and tools in an applied business setting.

You’ll find:

  • Sessions that address real, work-place challenges. 
  • Insight into the strategic future of HR and current trends. 
  • Practical tools that increase your team’s effectiveness. 
  • A supportive learning environment with HR peers. 
  • New concepts and approaches that work with your organization. 
  • A focus on HR development and value to the business strategy. 

PDI’s Strategic Business Partner Skills models can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization.

Choose from:

  • Strategic HR Business Partner Workshop – A three day case-based program that teaches the concepts, skills and tools needed to enhance the role of a strategic HR business partner. 
  • HC BRidge® Action Learning – Participants attend a one-day session where they learn the concepts of the HC BRidge® framework.  PDI offers supporting workbooks and worksheets that translate the concepts from the book Beyond HR into practical and relevant tools for real-world application with business line leaders. 
  • Delivering Impact as an HR Leader – A one-day program designed for the entry to mid-level HR professional whose current role tends to be more tactical. Emerging HR leaders will learn to take a more strategic approach to diagnosing and solving talent issues. 
  • Strategy Fundamentals – A half-day primer on business strategy concepts designed to prepare HR professionals to participate more fully in their business unit planning processes. 
  • HR Business Partner Consulting Skills Workshop – PDI’s internal consulting model is the foundation for this workshop that provides participants with the diagnostic tools needed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of individuals, teams, and organizations and provides the hands-on practice and coaching needed to develop or enhance their skills. 
  • Customized HR Development – PDI will also develop customized programs designed to meet the specific development needs of an HR function.