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Developing a Strategic HRBP Mindset

Workshop to boost HR’s strategic, relational and emotional skills.
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  • Duration: 1 day
  • Regular price: $485
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Course outline

Duration : 1 day

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In a constantly evolving professional environment, HR professionals are called upon to go beyond their traditional operational management role to become strategic and influential players. Organizations rely on them to support transformation, influence decisions, and embody a high value-added posture.

This immersive one-day workshop, delivered in an experiential format and integrating AI, enables HR professionals to strengthen their relational, emotional, strategic, and technological skills. Through interactive activities, role-playing scenarios, and peer exchanges, they will refine their HR posture, enhance their impact, and actively contribute to sustainable and human-centered organizational performance.

Audience

HR Professionals

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

  • Analyze organizational dynamics to identify their role and opportunities for strategic leadership.
  • Assess their current HR posture and formulate a future posture aligned with strategic and ethical principles.
  • Identify and leverage their influence, emotional intelligence, and communication tools to increase their impact.
  • Apply persuasion techniques and implement negotiation strategies adapted to complex contexts.
  • Manage sensitive situations with assertiveness and diplomacy by mobilizing relational and emotional skills.
  • Build a personal and transferable action plan to strengthen their credibility and influence within the organization.

Teaching method

  1. Self-Awareness and Course Material
  2. Learning Together

The workshop is highly interactive, enabling participants to:

  • Enhance their level of engagement.
  • Share and learn from the experiences of fellow participants.
  • Apply concrete workplace examples to reinforce learning.
  1. Learning in Action

Experiential activities foster the awareness essential for sustainable change, enabling the emergence of actionable insights.

At the end of the workshop, participants commit to themselves, their team, and their manager. This commitment involves integrating the learned principles into their daily routines, thereby ensuring the optimal transfer and application of knowledge.

Contents

Understanding and Mastering Organizational Dynamics

  • Decode the current challenges of the HR profession
  • Analyze roles, power structures, and levers of action within your organization
  • Assert your HR stance and become a strategic partner

Communicating with Impact and Emotional Intelligence

  • Discover the principles of effective communication
  • Practice the 6 active listening gestures (Otto Scharmer model)
  • Explore the 4 dimensions of emotional intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
  • Build trust-based relationships and influence positively

Strengthening Your Power of Influence

  • Distinguish between influence and hierarchical authority
  • Identify your personal levers: credibility, visibility, and power
  • Learn the 5 influence approaches and their HR applications
  • Become a key player in strategic decision-making

Mastering Persuasion and Negotiation

  • Integrate the pillars of persuasion (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
  • Apply Cialdini’s principles to persuade ethically
  • Practice negotiation techniques through real-life cases
  • Gain buy-in and create win-win solutions

Managing Sensitive Situations with Assertiveness

  • Assert your HR stance in complex contexts
  • Build a concrete and transferable action plan
  • Engage in cross-feedback to strengthen your impact
  • Navigate tension zones with confidence and leadership

Surround yourself with the best

Janet Lough
Janet Lough
Trainer
Janet Lough is a skilled, dynamic, authentic trainer, facilitator, and bilingual coach. She has over 25 years of knowledge and experience in management, training, communication, operations, strategy, and leadership in the non-profit sector and in entrepreneurship. This enables her to better understand her client’s business reality.
Claude Fortin
Claude Fortin
Trainer and Strategic Advisor
Holder of a master's degree in public administration, Claude worked for 30 years in the Quebec health and social services network. As a strategic advisor, his renowned approach to managing issues that are related to complex organizations and challenges that these businesses are facing is contextualized and modern. He supports organizations in achieving their business objectives and advices companies on the strategy to adopt according to the desired organizational evolution.