An Introduction to HR Strategy

An Introduction to HR Strategy is the right course for you if you're an HR practitioner with little or no previous experience within HR strategy and would like to understand the fundamentals.

By the end of An Introduction to HR Strategy you'll be able to:

• Gain access to tools to help assess organisational priorities and goals to identify critical areas of work
• develop a business-focused, robust strategy
• gain tips and tools to help you tackle problems and issues that need to be addressed
• have all of the information and tools necessary to write and eventually implement a strategy.

• Criteria for an HR strategy
  • what are the essential elements of a good strategy?
  • good and bad HR strategies
  • sources of information for your strategy
  • creating alignment

• Content of an HR strategy
  • nine areas you must cover
  • examples of HR strategy documents
  • essential tools, techniques and templates to help draft your strategy

• Overcoming problems and issues
  • creating a strategy when you don’t have an organisational business plan
  • how to put a value on different elements of the plan to create a business case
  • handling a cynical internal market
  • unearthing other strategies from a reticent peer group
  • why HR strategies fail

• Implementing an HR strategy
  • key questions
  • key actions
  • key performance indicators.