Business Partnering
Zoom Interactive Event: Business Partnering In A Crisis
In responding to the coronavirus, we need to be thinking and preparing across three time horizons:
- Survival – In the short term how do we ensure our organisations continue to operate?
- Reset – In the medium term how do we reset our strategy to reflect a changed external environment?
- Thrive – In the long term how do we prepare our organisations to thrive when we come out of this into what will be a new normal?
In this webinar we will explore what this means for HRBPs who will be at the sharp end of dealing with the crisis.
- How can we help leaders and managers operate from a position of caring? If we don’t, people will remember how they are treated today.
- Employee engagement will become strategically critical. How do we drive engagement and feel the pulse of the organisation, so leaders understand how people are feeling – not just what they’re doing?
- How can we coach leaders and managers to help them and their people deal with the challenges of social isolation and remote working?
- How can we engage in ‘reset’ conversations and begin to translate these into the new skills and culture we will need to thrive in the future?
- How can we work across HR to begin to build this future capability?
But also, how do we support our HRBPs? They are facing the same challenges and we have to support them so they can support the business – who cares for the carers?
Who is it for?
This webinar is aimed at HR Business Partners who are dealing with the crisis.
Speakers
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.
Catherine Taylor
People Director, British Sugar
Catherine has worked within a range of highly successful, multinational companies, including Unilever, RS Components, Mercedes-Benz and Marston’s Plc. Throughout her career, Catherine has gained a breadth of experience across factory, distribution, sales, retail, head office and corporate environments. Starting as a Graduate Trainee with Unilever, she was promoted into a number of positions within the company, to become HR Director for the merged Diversey and Johnson Wax. Following this, Catherine became Head of HR for RS Components, where as a Board member, she led the strategy for establishing a high performance, customer-focused culture that enabled the business to deliver measurable improvements and improved financial results. At Mercedes-Benz, Catherine was responsible for the HR function across the Group companies, including Mercedes-Benz UK, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and Mercedes-Benz Retail Group. After joining the team in 2008, Catherine transformed an outdated function and operating practices of old ‘personnel,’ with no presence on the Board, to a truly integrated business partner. This business partnering ethos was reflected by Mercedes-Benz being award-winning: HR Magazine’s 2011 HR Director of the Year, Personnel’s Today’s HR Rising Star, the Training Journal’s Learning and Development Professional of the Year and gaining the National Training Award – Greater London Winner, the first for the automotive industry. Mercedes-Benz Retail Group also featured in the Top 30 of the Best Workplaces in 2013 and 2014.
At the start of 2015 Catherine joined Marston’s Plc, a FTSE 250 listed company that’s one of the country’s top pub businesses and leading brewer of premium cask and bottled beers. As Group People Director she was responsible for working with the Board and the HR team to maximize return on Marston’s people investment, for both the Company and their 14,000 employees based in a multi-site organisation of 6 manufacturing sites and 1600 pub outlets Under her leadership Marston’s was named as the Best Macro Employer in the West Midlands under the National Apprenticeship Awards and the HR team as Best HR team in Hospitality. Catherine has recently moved to lead the HR function at British Sugar. British Sugar is the sole processor of the British beet sugar crop, working in partnership with over 3,000 farmers to produce around 50% of the sugar for UK customers as well as exporting around the world. It is part of AB Sugar – a business segment of Associated British Foods plc (ABF). ABF is a diversified food, ingredients and retail group with 130,000 employees in 50 countries.
