Workshop on Leadership Skills Development for HR Professionals

Program overview:

This program is designed to equip HR leaders with the insights and thinking needed to bring HR to the boardroom and take its rightful place at a strategic level. Business strategy can’t be executed if you don’t have the right people, equipped with the right resources. in the right place. HR leaders can act as credible activists, capability builders, facilitators of organizational change and key players in executing business strategy. The ability to present convincing arguments at the highest level for investment in people in terms of training, development and associated HR activities demands professionals who are regarded as highly competent and respected for their knowledge and visible contribution to the bottom line. This course will equip participants with the necessary influencing skills and confidence.

For whom:

This program is designed for Middle to Senior Level HR professionals seeking to improve their personal and organizational leadership performance

Learning objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• list the contribution of HR to the overall success of the organization;
• define leadership and list the qualities of effective leaders;
• differentiate between Management and Leadership;
• link HR functions to the organizations’ critical success activities;
• develop critical skills needed for strategic decision-making and implementation;
• develop logical and persuasive and skills; and
• show that HR Professionals and their functions are competent and respected.

Course outline:

 Day One: HR Functions, relation to other functions and the operating environment

• Development of HR from welfare to business partner
• Specialist functions,
• Building bridges with other functions
• Understanding the internal environment,
• Understanding the external environment
• Case Study: Analyzing the Operating Environment

Day Two: What is Leadership, Management versus Leadership, Styles of Leadership?

• Defining Leadership,
• Differences between Management and Leadership
• Understanding and applying different styles,
• Making the transition from Manager to Leader,
• The HR Manager’s Dilemma – A Case Study

Day Three: Importance of a Professional persona, placing the HR function at the forefront

• Marketing the HR function,
• Enhancing personal image and gaining respect
• Becoming an expert communicator
• Practical class session in presentation skills (Individual Presentations)

Day Four: Strategic Thinking and Decision Making

• Strategic versus tactical thinking,
• Models of decision-making
• Summarizing information into meaningful argument
• Presenting a logical argument
• Understanding and dealing with disagreement and objections 

• Dealing with conflict and confrontation,
• Case Study in Decision Making

Day Five: Analyzing data to understand trends and make

accurate forecasts

• Turning HR Data into information to understand trends
• Making numbers easy to understand,
• Presenting data
• Making forecasts based on analyzed information
• Case Study: Human Resource Planning and organization

 Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and case studies will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.