Business Strategy & Commercial Acumen
We believe the HR function can make a substantial contribution to business strategy and improving organisation effectiveness. To do this, HR professionals need to be commercial - understand their organisation's business model, how it makes money, and how to improve performance. There also needs to be a clear line of sight between business and people strategies. This category covers HR's role in developing and communicating business strategy, how to connect business and people strategies, and how to develop a business and commercial savvy HR function.
14 January 2020
Future Insight: Responding to Trends, Threats and Opportunities
This discussion paper outlines HR’s role in developing foresight and organisation capabilities around vigilance, future sensing, environment scanning, and agile decision making in the absence of full information.
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2020 CRF Learning Programme
CRF Learning is built on Corporate Research Forum’s 25 years of unparalleled HR experience. Our suite of HR learning and development programmes target enhancing the capability of the HR function and the people within it. We’re able to leverage our research and resources to help HR professionals rethink their whole approach to HR, making a fundamental difference to organisational performance. From human resources business partners, to HR directors, managers and facilitators, our 2020 CRF Learning Programme seeks to develop the individuals within HR, whilst also supporting the capability of the people function to deliver the organisational strategy. We can engage with organisations and human resources business partners on a bespoke basis, developing custom solutions tailored to the specific requirements and context of your organisation.
Read Event DocumentMay 31st 2019
CRFCast - HR Insights from the Corporate Research Forum: Agile HR: Sky UK Case Study with Tracey Waters
Tracey Waters, Head of People Engagement and Development at Sky UK, discusses how her team have deployed agile development techniques to transform their working methods and increase the business impact of learning and development. Tracey describes four behaviours that underpin Sky’s approach: being collaborative, iterative, data-driven and person-centric. We discuss some practical lessons learned from implementing agile.
Listen to PodcastMay 22nd 2019
Webinar: Harnessing the HR Technology Revolution
Explore the opportunities and pitfalls of the new HR technology landscape for organisations, featuring Rami Pukkila from Nokia, Ian Bailie of myHRfuture Academy, Nigel Guenole from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Gillian Pillans, CRF’s Research Director.
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CRFCast - HR Insights from the Corporate Research Forum: How to Connect with People in a Virtual World with Nick Morgan
Face-to-face communication is becoming rarer in the modern workplace, with ever more interactions taking place virtually. However, research shows that virtual communication is much less effective, and it’s hard to build trust that’s essential to effective relationships at work. In conversation with Nick Morgan, author of Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World, we discuss the pitfalls, how to improve virtual communication, and the role HR policies can play.
Listen to PodcastMay 2nd 2019
Webinar: Effective Performance Management - Discussing the Latest Practice
Gerry Ledford, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC will be discussing the latest research and practice in Performance Management with Hugh Mitchell, formerly Chief HR and Corporate Officer, Shell International.
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BUPA Digital Transformation: Turning Digital Inside Out
How can HR technology assist companies on their overall digital journey and digitilisation? Download this presentation from Bupa to learn about their jouney.
View PresentationMarch 6th 2019
Driving HR in the Digital World
Are you looking to undertake a major HR systems transformation? Take a look at AstraZeneca's example to help you on the journey.
View PresentationFebruary 22nd 2019
The Mindset of Breakthrough Collaboration
This presentation from Achieve Breakthrough looks at the power of collaboration in today's modern world and why, in the first place, we should collaborate in 2019. It considers the mindset necessary for successful collaboration and HR's role in shaping a collaborative culture.
Read Event DocumentFebruary 19th 2019
Harnessing the HR Technology Revolution
HR technology is a vast and rapidly changing field, touching every aspect of HR. As more and more processes become automated, technology plays an ever larger role in HR's efficiency and effectiveness. This report explores the opportunities and risks associated with HR technology and aims to provide HR professionals with the relevant information to develop HR technology capability within their organisation.
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