What is the Business Catalyst: Reimagining HR Business Partnering Programme?
What makes this programme unique:
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.
- Understand the strategic implications of AI and emerging technologies and how to leverage them to enhance organisational performance.
What You Will Gain
Develop deeper commercial and strategic thinking
Improve influencing skills
Ensure faster and more effective delivery
Enhance your ability to lead through disruption and innovation
The Programme in Detail
This programme is delivered in person, in London, across 2 full days.
DAY 1 – 12 October 2026
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 – 13 October 2026
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.
Who Should Enrol?
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.
Investment
CRF Member: £2,250 (+VAT)
Non-Members: £3,375 (+VAT)
Programme Dates
- 12 – 13 October 2026: 9.00 – 17.00 each day
Venue
FORA – The Bloomsbury Building
10 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SL
Testimonials
The programme challenged me, made me think differently, and I walked out with a new perspective on everything I’d learnt before. The value I got in the programme in the 2 days dwarfed the impact that several years of CIPD qualifications had given me…
Adam Merrin, Talent Manager – UK & International Talent Management, BAE Systems
BAE Systems
The course itself was thought provoking, informative and hit the mark in terms of why HRBPs are a valuable part of any business and how we as professionals can develop this even further.
Sinead Hyland, Senior Manager, Transformation, BT Group
BT Group
I have learnt a great deal from the training. It has helped me understand what I need to do, how I need to think and what I need to say when making that step up from HR Generalist to BP level. Now the exciting part…to put it into practise! The 2 days were truly amazing.
Marnie Bird, HR Generalist, Sonnedix
Sonnedix
This programme is led by Nick Holley, Client Learning Director, CRF
For over two decades, he has worked with HR Leaders globally to help HR operate at the centre of business strategy — not at its margins. His work focuses on future-back organisation design, strategic workforce planning, board-level influence and the shift from HR functional leader to enterprise architect.
He is known for helping senior HR leaders think bigger, act braver and step confidently into enterprise leadership.
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.
Investment
CRF Members: £2,250 (+VAT) per person
Non-CRF Members: £3,375 (+VAT) per person
Fees include all learning materials, food and refreshments throughout the programme day.
Please note: travel and accommodation are not included.
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