Courses Accredited
by
University of San Diego
Receive (CEU) Credit for each completed workshop

Strategic HR Planning and Management:
The Systems Thinking Approach™

Delivered by
Many Centre Partners

Creating the People Edge

A three-day workshop

This Booklet Includes:
- Workshop Purposes
- Workshop Benefits
- Workshop Agenda
- Workshop Participant Notebook Table of Contents
- Testimonials
- Related Products
- Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)
- Workshop Booking Information

Workshop Attendees

Strategic HR Planning and Management

The workshop is designed for both private and public sector organizations:

Senior Executives with responsibility for the Human Resource function

Human Resource Executives and Managers

Organization Development and Training Professionals

 

Workshop Purposes:

Strategic HR Planning and Management

  1. Participants will link their people issues to their Corporate Strategic Plan and core strategies.
  2. Participants review the changing People and HR trends, issues and roles in achieving people as a competitive business advantage.
  3. Participants will discuss and build consensus about the four “people management” roles in the organization of senior management, managers, human resources and the employees themselves.
  4. Participants understand The Systems Thinking Approach that forms the A-B-C-D-E foundation for the Strategic People Edge Management Model and its differences from a HR Strategic Plan.
  5. Participants understand the six People Edge best practice areas and assess their organization against them.
  6. Participants understand and assess how to integrate a Leadership Development Program as a key part of Creating the People Edge.
  7. Participants understand how to design, build and sustain the People Edge with emphasis on developing and implementing their Strategic People Plan.
  8. Participants discover how to institutionalize an Executive/Employee Development Board through the related roles of senior management and HR executives.
  9. Participants have the opportunity to identify and work on solutions to their tactical people edge issues, both during the workshop and on breaks, lunches and after hours.

Workshop Benefits:

Strategic HR Planning and Management

  1. Learn to develop the simple Systems Thinking A-B-C-D-E phases to building an HR Strategic Plan to “Create the People Edge”
  2. Learn how to align your HR plans and practices with the shared corporate vision, values and core strategies
  3. Target the six natural areas of powerful People Edge Best Practices from extensive research in Systems Thinking
  4. Discover the six natural Leadership Competencies every organization must have—and thirty skills found nowhere else in the literature or field—explore our web-based 360° assessment tools
  5. Learn the four new 21st Century roles in successful people management today—including new HR and Senior Management roles
  6. Discover innovative recruiting and retention strategies for the 21st Century
  7. Discover the leverage of Succession Planning into ten other HR programs to ensure long-term business success
  8. Tie Leadership Development, HR Planning and Succession Planning to your Strategic Plan to “create your people edge” as a competitive advantage in the marketplace
  9. Discover HR's relevance to the triple bottom line; your employees, customers and stake holders
  10. Decide how to get started—an Employee Development Board to partner with senior management

Top

Workshop Agenda:

Strategic HR Planning and Management
- Day 1 -

Day 1 Topics
8:30

Section I: Introductions and Overview
    Welcome—Introductions—Workshop purposes
    Wants—Expectations
    Agenda

9:15 Section II: Executive Briefing—Phase E
    Strategic People Issues List—hot topics
9:45     Strategic Human Resources—trends/environmental scan
10:15 Break
10:30     Four Roles in People Management for the 21st Century
11:00     Executive Development Board
        • Two types of HR plans—which is right
11:30     Systems Approach—A-B-C-D-E
        • Three goals and three premises
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Section III: Strategic People Planning—Phases A, B, and C
    Plan-to-Plan (Step #1)
        • Strategic HR Management framework
        • Key Stakeholders
        • Parallel Involvement Process
        • Planning Team make-up
        • Timetable/Tailoring
2:45 Break
3:00     Business Scanning (Step #2)
        • Corporate strategic direction
        • Core Values
        • Stakeholder expectations
        • Environmental Scan
4:30 End of Day One (one-on-one consultation)
Homework: Values Audit

- Day 2 -

Day 2 Topics
8:30 Start Up—Day One Learnings/Issues
    Organizational Values Assessment Review
9:00     Ideal People Edge (Step #3)
        • People Vision
        • HR Mission
10:00 Break
10:15     Key People Success Measures (Step #4)
        • Link to Corporate Key Success Measures
11:15     Current State Assessment (Step #5)
        • SWOT consolidation
        • Tie-in Values Audit/Culture Change
        • Hr Functional/Personal Assessments
                • Hot topic area?
                • Day 2 Homework?
11:45 Section IV: Six People Edge Best Practices
    Current State Assessment (Step #5) continued
        • Input: Seven Levels of Living Systems
12:00 Lunch
1:00     Current State Assessment (Step #5) continued
        • Best Practices—HR Organization (from pre-work)
2:15 Break
2:30 Section V: Leadership Development
    Current State Assessment (Step #5) continued
        • Best Practices Leadership Assessment (from Prework)
3:45 Section VI: Strategic People Planning—Phase C and D
    Strategy Framework (Step #6)
        • Three-Year People Edge Plan
        • One-Year Action Plans
4:30 End of Day Two (one-on-one consultation)
Prep Certification Process

- Day 3 -

Day 3 Topics
8:30 Start Up—Day One Learnings/Issues
    Organize day: Hot Topics—Tactical (Step #7)
        • Concurrent session and Rounds #1, #2, and #3
8:45         • Round #1
9:45 Break
10:00         • Round #2
11:00         • Round #3
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Section VII: Phase D
    Plan-to-Implement (Step #8)
        • Engaging organization
        • Rolling out
2:30         • Review
4:00     Debrief
    Action Planning and Summary
        • Evaluation of workshop
4:30 End of Workshop

Top

Workshop Participant Notebook

Strategic HR Planning and Management
Table of Contents

Topic
I. Introduction
II. Executive Briefing—Phase E
III. Strategic People Planning—Phases A, B, and C
IV. Six People Edge Best Practices
V. Leadership Development
VI. Strategic People Planning—Phases C and D
VII. Phase D

Top

Workshop Participant Testimonials

Strategic HR Planning and Management

“I was impressed with Steve's breadth of knowledge of the field and his ability to present models/theories as appropriate to discussions.”

“Keep on simplifying complexity into concrete terms-that's the mark of a truly educated person!”

“Steve presented the topic very simply and directly. Well organized and flexible to meet needs of participants.”

“Your insightful comments and practical ideas for structuring a total reward system were thought-provoking and motivating. Your approach in planning reward systems would make better valuable time and expertise with us.”

“Very knowledgeable. Lots of good examples. Practical. Fun to be with. The course did not drag once!”

“Very good instructor with solid skills.”

“I am walking away with an idea of how we can approach developing leadership within our company.”

“Good connections between the systems thinking and the Competency Map.”

“Good Helicopter view of Systems Approach, Strategic Planning, and HR integration. Interaction with other high quality participants was very valuable.”

“Great job! Knowledge of presenters great…energy…flexibility…global perspectives.”

“In depth materials, variety of ways of delivering the content, opportunity for input from participants.”

“Wealth of rich, realistic, documented examples in plans, templates, models (integration of CSM and others), and supplemental materials. Variety of styles in different presenters.”

“It was great! Continue using the model on Systems Thinking. It was excellent using a real example (the Cable Company), which gave us great understanding of the complexities and how fundamental concepts really make things doable.”

Top

Related Products

Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)

 

Visit all of our
Haines Centre for Strategic Management Integrated Lines of Businesses
Founded in 1990 • Offices in Over 25 Countries  

Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Centre Consultant Services  |  Centre Training Services  |  Centre Executive Coaching
Systems Thinking Press  |  Systems Thinking Assessments | Stephen Haines Keynoting

Follow Us! RSS Feeds | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Steve Haines Live
Haines Centre for Strategic Management, 1420 Monitor Road, San Diego, CA, 92110 - (619) 275-6528 - www.hainescentre.com
© 2010 Haines Centre for Strategic Management