Human Resources Management (HR Professional)

Introduction:

This program deals with the latest innovations and direction of today’s Human Resource Departments. This essential program will provide you with the best in new techniques, processes, and direction that leading HR departments need to take to be world-class.

Rapid and radical change is affecting the whole of the world. Some parts of the Middle East are facing significant challenges in terms of growth and competition. In other places, the key to prosperity as an organization is seen as controlling costs and maintaining market competitiveness. In these circumstances, companies are increasingly searching for a source of competitive advantage through HR.

Targeted Groups:

Human Resources Managers
Business Partners
Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders
Specialists
People who want to gain great HR skills to enhance their profile and career

Conference Objectives:

At the end of this conference the participants will be able to:

Master the new HR strategic process
Transform strategic requirements into HR objectives using the 6 S model
Create HR strategic action plans to achieve business objectives
Provide innovative predictive information
Have practiced business information interviews and presenting results
See the big picture for the future of employment and performance through people
Build their professional confidence
Identify the context for change – the economic and social changes that are driving employment change
Identify current employment practices and establish an agenda for change
Look at international developments in employment practices
Establish a series of best practices covering such issues as Leadership and Management Style, Recruitment and Retention, Performance Management, Work Organisation, Equal Opportunities, Industrial Democracy, Employee Relations and Communications, Consultation and Involvement
Use a strategic model to build an HR strategy, and know where strategy fits into corporate business
Write business action plans to delegate strategic tasks
Build and produce high-level management information
Know what HR trends to report on and be able to master emergency planning
Translate current trends to maximize Human Capital investment
Do executive briefings to gather and disseminate information

Targeted Competencies:

Practice at developing strategic
Planning
Analytical thinking
Creativity and step innovation
Writing outlines for the 6 S process
Mastery of the construction of Business action plans
Use and mastery of HR statistical packages
Personal presentation skills
International HR law
Manpower planning
Use and mastery of different leadership styles
Review recruitment and selection
Use performance management tools
Review the use of competencies

Conference Content:
Unit 1: The Formulation of Strategy, How it Works – The Process Explained:

Why taking HR to executive level is such a good idea – greater opportunities, bigger job – long term security & its what world-class businesses want
Where strategy fits with the Vision, mission and operating plans
Traditional approach to strategic planning
The new HR model
10 steps needed to form an HR strategy
The strategic model how it works

Unit 2: Translating Strategic Requirements into Business Action Plans – Including the Formation of HR Budgets:

The formation of Strategic objectives and how to translate them into the HR 6 S model
Building Business actions plans
Building Strategic action plans – getting others committed; No SAP – what can happen
Producing Executive financial information – unit costs and spend analysis.

Unit 3: Mastering Predictive Trends & Management Information – Getting the Big Picture:

Why executives need predictive information
Executive must be good at predictive information – trend analyze
Software for predictive planning and trend analysis
Other predictive factors to review, succession planning, emergency planning

Unit 4: Key Performance Factors – Maximising Human Capital:

Measurement tools –organizational maturity, corporate culture, etc.
Relationship between performance and competence
Valuing human capital – how to do it
Critical performance indicators
Presenting at executive level

Unit 5: Understanding and Being Able to Act on High-Level HR Trends:

World trends – employment, inclusion, new employee expectations
World business trends – leadership, team working, employment/ supervision ratios
Changing Trends relating to HR

Unit 6: The Context for Change:

The big picture – Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organisation, single currency, social changes, etc
The strategic response
Leadership and management style
Recruitment and retention