This program consists of 4-hour sessions that take place virtually or in person over 5 weeks. In these sessions you will cover:

• The Strategic (HR) Leader: The goal of this session is to understand and apply key characteristics of strategic thinking and planning within an organization. Participants will be able to articulate the characteristics of strategic thinking and strategic leaders, leverage natural strengths while addressing and developing weaknesses related to thinking and acting strategically, identify and create an effective team of stakeholders to support HR strategy development, define Strategic HR Leadership for their organization, apply strategic thinking to the full employee lifecycle, and develop a plan to ensure their focus stays on strategic work.
• Building Strategy: The goal of this session is to develop skills applying core strategic planning models and tools to the HR function. Participants will be able to use a S.W.O.T. analysis and Star Model to identify critical areas of focus, include Strategic Workforce Planning considerations into strategy creation, build a detailed action plan to support strategic objectives, articulate the most impactful people metrics (KPIs) for their organization, analyze the current state of HR data analytics for their organization, and create a plan to evolve their organization’s use of HR data analytics to drive strategic decisions.
• Organizational Culture: The goal of this session is to understand and engage in stewarding organizational culture from an HR leadership position. Participants will be able to, define the core elements of organizational culture, partner with leadership to define and communicate while driving their organization’s culture, address culture and values gaps specific to expectations and reality, demonstrate the ability to create programs and initiatives to support culture and embed key behaviors, develop the team’s role in helping steward culture through HR process and support, and coach senior leaders to support organizational culture through 1:1 discussions and program design.
• Talent Management: The goal of this session is to provide the tools and resources necessary to establish a successful talent management program. Participants will understand and leverage the essential elements of an effective Talent Management program and process, develop a plan for identifying categories of employees for talent management purposes including High-Potential, apply the fundamentals of strategic succession planning to their organizational context, implement an effective development planning process that supports long-term succession management success, and incorporate succession management metrics (KPIs) into overall HR and business strategy.
• Organizational Consulting: The goal of this session is to develop skills for partnering with stakeholders to solve complex organizational challenges. Participants will be able to identify and leverage key consulting behaviors with internal clients, coach others to leverage an organizational mindset when building programs and addressing business issues, utilize core Organizational Development concepts when navigating large scale challenges, apply Organizational Design principles to support strategic success and operational excellence, develop the HR team to approach work with a consultative approach and organization-wide perspective, and learn how to coach leaders & employees toward higher levels of personal accountability and self-reliant problem solving.