Business and Strategy

Today’s leaders expect HR Business Partners to deeply understand the business and bring insights on how people, technology, and organizational capabilities affect business outcomes. This course builds the foundation HRBPs need to engage credibly in strategy discussions, challenge assumptions, and help shape where the business is going - not just how HR supports it.

Using a practical, research-informed approach, participants examine how organizations compete, serve customers, and make strategic trade-offs. The course emphasizes the HRBP’s role in understanding business strategy, influencing strategic conversations, and translating strategic priorities into people and workforce implications.

• Understand target customers and the drivers of a strong customer value proposition
• Assess growth opportunities and where current capabilities may or may not translate
• Identify the organization’s repeatable formula for success in changing contexts
• Anticipate business shifts and their implications for HR strategy