Becoming a True Strategic Partner Carrie Birmingham Carrie is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Becoming a True Strategic Partner

Carrie is highly focused senior HR leader with seventeen years of experience in HR, organisational development, and leadership

• development. She is passionate about creating business cultures

where people can do their best work because it benefits everyone. Having worked as Senior HR Leader for News UK for 6 years, she is comfortable with turbulent and challenging environments and has developed a skill in Crisis HR. Carrie is particularly good at helping leaders to engage staff by developing their leadership behaviours to motivate others. carriebirminghamconsult@gmail.com 07595294519

Carrie Birmingham

How do you develop leadership in HR?

A stated argument used to support a viewpoint

according to dictionary.com

Strategic HR is an approach to managing human resources that supports long-term business goals and

• utcomes with a strategic framework

according to CIPD

Simon Sinek - Golden Circle

WHAT Every organisation on the planet knows WHAT they do. These are products they sell or services they offer. HOW Some organisations know HOW they do it. These are the things that make them special or set them apart from the competition. WHY Very few organisations know WHY they do what they do. WHY is not about making

• money. That’s a result. It’s a

purpose, cause or belief. Its the very reason your organisation exists.

Systems & Processes: Best fit process, systems to build a strong infrastructure to deliver our tasks

OD Scope of Work

Environmental Context Effective Performance

Quality & Equality

OD Cycle

• Establish Rapport
• Define presenting issues
• Explore readiness for change
• Agree contract on outcomes, access, method
• Review goals
• Assess progress
• ID learning
• Plan next steps or

close

• Preparation - methods & models
• Collect & analyse data
• Prepare report, feedback process &

materials

• Engage client
• Intervene at appropriate level of system
• Frame the work
• Manage the system dynamic
• Hold the container
• Develop options
• Agree best fit with data
• Plan processes

It is easy to see the personal (captains of

• ur own ship) or cultural (ways of working
• n the ship) aspects of where we work but

rarely do we explore the system (the nature

• f the waters in which we all sail)

“There is currently a lot of hot air spoken about how, given the chance, HR can add value to the

• rganisation - much of it

spoken by HR practitioners who are

• utside the senior team’s

tent shouting to get in. However, get inside the tent and life gets a whole heap tougher.”

Words from the “Why” : David Fairhurst (2012)

In patient partnership OD Belief in the positive possibility of the human being

It’s a matter of people, Business matters, Business success matters But above all, its a matter of people

Words from the “Why” : David Fairhurst (2012)

The HR Wheel

Org/Job Design HR Planning Career Development Selection & Staffing Union & Labour relations HR Research & Info Systems Employee Assistance Training & Development Compensation & Benefits Performance Systems

Quality & Equality