Strategic People Partner
Are you a small to medium sized business with a great HR operations team, but looking for something more when it comes to aligning your people and culture initiatives to your business strategies and achieving your desired business outcomes?
Do you need someone you trust to give you independent, objective advice about your people challenges?
Honest, independent advice to the CEO, senior executive team or Board
If you are not big enough to hire a senior people and culture manager, but you require support to align your human resource initiatives to your business strategy then you may benefit from adopting our strategic people partner model.
As your people partner we work in your business for a defined number of hours or days each month, you decide how much or how little you need. The work we do with the CEO and the senior executive group during these times may include:
- Developing your strategic people plan to facilitate the realisation of your business strategy and deliver a high performing culture
- Providing support to your HR operational team to implement the plan
- Providing trusted advice to the senior executive group on business matters effecting the people processes and systems and culture, acting as a sounding board or devil’s advocate as required
- Provide the employee context, opportunities and constraints for executive and strategic business decisions, and as required contribute to strategy development, ensuring the protection of your people assets
- Analysing your existing pool of talent and ensure supply effectively meets future business needs – workforce planning and succession planning
- Identification of gaps in organisational and employee capabilities, developing and implementing new policies, systems, technologies or disciplines to meet both employee and business needs
Enabling the HR team to provide improved support and service to the business by reviewing and updating your HR systems and processes – enabling, for example: recruitment processes that deliver minimum time to hire with high quality candidates, reductions in administration associated with delivering services, improved performance management systems and remuneration systems that are aligned to business outcomes.
Mentor, coach to your executive team
Do you have a senior executive that has accountability for the human resources function, but doesn’t have a background in human resources and needs some upskilling in this area?
Do you have members of your senior leadership team that need some support in managing and leading their team?
At Harnessing Talent we provide executive coaching for senior leaders. We have formal and informal programs to help new executives get up to speed in the human resource and people space. We can provide support to senior leadership on people-related issues, such as management style or team effectiveness.
You can use our coaching expertise on it’s own or as part of our strategic people partner relationship.