Course Details

About the Course

L&DI designed this programme in partnership with HPC. This two-day programme is delivered online and provides you with the practical tools and capabilities to strategically re-position the L&D function within the business and to allow you to ask the questions that will drive solutions.

Using a mixture of the latest research, case-studies and real-play techniques, this programme will accelerate your shift to a strategic partner within the business.

This Strategic Business Partnering Skills for L&D programme, helps your internal client to sort out the root causes of performance problems rather than simply providing a training solution.

To be a true and effective partner you must act as a mirror for the client to help them clearly see their own problems. This enables a true strategic partnership that develops the most appropriate solutions, delivering real benefit to the business.

It is imperative to shift from “order-taking” and driving L&D initiatives on your own to a strategic partnership with the business. But this shift takes time, and a new set of capabilities and a change in how you interact with the business.

Who is the Course for?

All L&D professionals who want to take their performance to another level, and elevate their L&D function to business partners. This programme is developed for the L&D professional, Learning Specialist, and People Development Business Partnering roles.

Course Outcomes

By the end of the programme participants will:
o    Have the ability to advise and support the Organisation in delivering its strategic goals
o    Position L&D as a strategic function and business partner
o    Acquire the tools and communication skills to lead successful diagnostic, implementation, and review meetings
o    Grow confidence in their internal consulting ability and expertise
o    Develop commitment from business leaders and peers
o    Effectively deal and engage with resistance, difficult people, and conversations

Course Format

Day 1

•    Understanding the L&D Environment - Strategic Drivers, Policies, National & International trends

•    Business Partnering Skills

•    Model for Stakeholder Engagement (Consulting Process)

o    Personal Awareness

o    Building Relationships

o    Building Trust

Day 2

•    Model for Stakeholder Engagement (Consulting Process)

o    Strategic Influencing

o    Enabling Change

o    Stakeholder Commitment

•    Communication Skills of Consulting Conversation

•    Practical Application, Strategic Conversations with Actors