Business Partnering

Programme Overview

This 3 day intensive workshop is the perfect programme for those wanting to excel in a business partnering role. Whether IT, HR or Finance, your role as a business partner is to facilitate the successful delivery of change and drive value for your organisation. This programme will provide you with the skills required to operate as the conduit between your function and the business, so you are called upon to provide advise to your senior business stakeholders in creating the direction for the business transformation.

Programme P.O.S.T.

Purpose

To operate more confidently and credibly as a business partner, delivering improved and sustainable operational service.

Outcomes

By the end of the programme you will have acquired the skills to operate successfully as a business partner, including:

• Learned how to build strategic relationships that are founded on trust and credibility
• Developed your ability to generate confidence and display personal gravitas to create relationships at senior and executive levels
• Learned how to manage your business clients & stakeholders with positive intent, operating in a pro-active, long term and future orientated manner
• Developed stronger communication and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate the value you bring
• Understood how to modify your behavioural approach to work collaboratively and generate commitment, by specifically:

      Using thought provoking questions to analyse client issues and generate options
      Giving clear direction or advice to create sustained and improved operational service

• Developed your ability to facilitate the successful delivery of business change

Structure

• Interactive workshop
• Short theory inputs, followed by practical application sessions
• Live – giving and receiving feedback “in the moment”

Timing

3 days 09:00 – 18:00 each day