Becoming an Effective HRD
Becoming an Effective HRD focuses on the high-level behaviours and skills that research has identified successful HR Directors have. Building on your technical competence, the programme will increase the impact you have on organisational performance.
You will develop your capability to plan, implement and evaluate HR initiatives, alongside your strategic and commercial thinking to increase your personal impact as part of the leadership team.
You will develop your capability to plan, implement and evaluate HR initiatives, alongside your strategic and commercial thinking to increase your personal impact as part of the leadership team.
Location
Date
Two-Day Residential:
17-18 May 2027
28 June 2027
Price
About this Programme
The purpose of HR is not simply to ‘do HR’ but to build the capability of the organisation to deliver its strategy and create value. Building this capability as an HR Director requires a blend of technical HR, business and interpersonal skills.
This programme takes a business-centric approach to enhance your understanding of how HR delivers value. It will improve your capability in planning, implementing and evaluating HR initiatives and support you in managing key organisational relationships. You will develop the skills to drive conversations that go beyond ‘what do you want HR to do?’ to ‘how HR can best deliver value to you’.
This programme takes a business-centric approach to enhance your understanding of how HR delivers value. It will improve your capability in planning, implementing and evaluating HR initiatives and support you in managing key organisational relationships. You will develop the skills to drive conversations that go beyond ‘what do you want HR to do?’ to ‘how HR can best deliver value to you’.
Who Should Attend?
Attendees will typically be the Head of an HR Centre of Excellence / Expertise, Head of an HR Shared Services Operation or a Senior HR Business Partner. You should be aspiring to your first HR Director role, be new in position as HR Director or be looking to significantly increase your effectiveness and business impact as an existing HR Director.
Benefits of Attending
COURSE DIRECTOR
Nick Holley
For over two decades, he has worked with HR Directors, CHROs and executive teams globally to help HR operate at the centre of business strategy, not at its margins. His work focuses on future-back organisation design, strategic workforce planning, board-level influence and the shift from HR functional leader to enterprise architect.
As designer and lead faculty of CRF’s Becoming an Effective HRD programme, Nick brings together cutting-edge research, real-world experience and a direct, stretching facilitation style that prepares participants for the realities of operating at HRD level.
He is known for helping senior HR leaders think bigger, act braver and step confidently into enterprise leadership.
Prior to joining CRF, Nick spent 10 years at Henley Business School where he was a visiting professor and Director of the Centre for HR Excellence. He has developed and delivered HR capability programmes for organisations across the UK and Europe, and internationally.
As designer and lead faculty of CRF’s Becoming an Effective HRD programme, Nick brings together cutting-edge research, real-world experience and a direct, stretching facilitation style that prepares participants for the realities of operating at HRD level.
He is known for helping senior HR leaders think bigger, act braver and step confidently into enterprise leadership.
Prior to joining CRF, Nick spent 10 years at Henley Business School where he was a visiting professor and Director of the Centre for HR Excellence. He has developed and delivered HR capability programmes for organisations across the UK and Europe, and internationally.
Patrick Jones - Course author
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