Business Partnering
CRF Learning: Business Catalyst: Reimagining HR Business Partnering – Online
This Open Programme is taking place online. The cost of the programme is £1,750 (+VAT) for CRF members and £2,625 (+VAT) for non-members.
Today’s HR Business Partners are expected to be business leaders first, HR experts second. Grounded in cutting-edge research, this programme is designed to support that shift, equipping HRBPs to lead with strategic insight and business relevance.
As AI, automation, and data-driven decision-making transform how organisations create value, HR must move beyond traditional delivery models to actively shape business strategy. This is not about stepping away from HR — it’s about using HR insight to deliver commercial impact.
You’ll shift your focus from traditional, bureaucratic HR to delivering measurable business outcomes, building organisational capability, and understanding how emerging technologies are reshaping the business landscape. With a strong emphasis on practical implementation, the programme will increase your influence and effectiveness by:
- Enhancing your ability to lead through disruption and innovation
- Developing deeper commercial and strategic thinking
- Ensuring faster and more effective delivery
- Improving influencing skills
The organisations that thrive today are those where HR is embedded in strategic decision-making — not operating from the sidelines. This programme is your catalyst for becoming a true business partner in an AI-powered world.
Benefits of Attending
This programme will examine the attitudes that differentiate great HRBPs and, by working through CRF’s Strategic HR Framework, will enhance your capabilities in a range of areas. Specifically, you will:
- Gain greater understanding of how your organisation operates, delivers value and drives success, thereby enabling you to be a more effective business partner
- Increase your credibility with customers by developing greater commercial acumen, business understanding and influencing skills
- Grow in confidence to challenge existing thinking through a robust model for effective HR
- Evaluate where you can add greater value to the organisation
- Build your overall capability ensuring you optimise your business impact.
Attendees will receive digital copies of all programme materials, relevant CRF research and a workbook to explore concepts, models and plan a programme for ongoing development.
Who Should Attend?
Attendees will be existing HR Business Partners, specialists moving into the role, or HR Managers preparing for a more strategic position. We expect all attendees to be technically proficient in HR.
Cost
The cost of the programme is £1,750 (+VAT) for CRF members and £2,625 (+VAT) for non-members.
Programme Dates
9-10 March 2026: Both days 9.00 – 17.00 GMT / 10.00 – 18.00 CET
The Programme in Detail
DAY 1
AM – The Role of the HRBP
- Clarity of HR’s purpose, vision and values
- Explore the core purpose of the HRBP: the role of the HRBP versus where most time and effort is spent
- Identify key attitudes of great HRBPs.
PM – CRF’s Strategic Framework for HR
- You will simulate a senior management meeting to explore your organisational analysis and understand key business inputs – business imperatives, external environment, internal climate, resources, etc.
- You will look at perspectives from other members of the management team to explore how HR can add value to these conversations and not simply respond to HR-related questions.
- You will then look at how to influence decision making and manage expectations to generate greater impact.
DAY 2
AM – CRF’s Strategic Framework for HR (continued)
- In the second half of the simulation you will explore the business analysis carried out on day one and its implications for HR.
- This will include:
- The assessment of capability versus organisational challenges
- The necessity of evidence in decision making
- The value of communication, involvement and ownership
- The importance of prioritisation and measuring business outcomes, versus HR processes.
PM – Future and on-going development
We will work with you to create a longer-term and developmental career agenda for yourself and colleagues.
Faculty
Nick Holley
Director, CRF Learning
Nick Holley as Director of CRF Learning has responsibility to provide development for HR teams and senior professionals. Prior to joining CRF, Nick spent 10 years at Henley Business School where he was a visiting professor and Director of the Centre for HR Excellence. He has developed and delivered HR capability programmes for organisations across the UK and Europe, and internationally.
