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Program Professional Framework

Strategic HR, Business Partnering, and Employee Engagement (ACHRM)

Program Overview

HR adds strategic value when it works as a genuine partner to business leaders and when employees are engaged with the organisation's goals. This programme connects the two: it covers the Ulrich HR model and the business partner role, translating business plans into people priorities, consulting and influencing skills, and the design and analysis of engagement surveys. Participants learn to identify engagement drivers, build action plans with line managers and track progress with measurable indicators. Discussions address how business partnering operates in GCC organisations undergoing transformation and nationalisation programmes.

Learning Outcomes

✓Analyse a business unit plan and derive the people priorities that support it.
✓Apply the Ulrich model to clarify the roles of business partners, centres of excellence and shared services.
✓Use a consulting cycle to contract, diagnose and agree interventions with a business leader.
✓Design an engagement survey and interpret results by driver and population segment.
✓Develop an engagement action plan with owners, timelines and success indicators.
✓Present people insights to leadership in a concise, business-focused format.

Target Audience

HR business partners and HR managers
Employee engagement and culture specialists
HR leaders redesigning their operating model
Organisational development consultants

Detailed Program Modules

01Strategic HR and the Business Context

Reading business strategy and value drivers
Linking people priorities to business outcomes
HR's role in organisational transformation

02The HR Business Partner Model

Ulrich model: partners, centres of excellence and shared services
Role clarity and common failure points
Building credibility with business leaders

03Consulting and Influencing Skills

Contracting and diagnosing people issues
Stakeholder mapping and influence strategies
Challenging leaders constructively

04Understanding Employee Engagement

Engagement, satisfaction and commitment
Key drivers: leadership, growth, recognition and purpose
Engaging national and expatriate workforces

05Measuring Engagement

Survey design and pulse surveys
Analysing results and identifying hotspots
Linking engagement to retention and productivity

06From Insight to Action

Action planning with line managers
Communicating results and actions to employees
Tracking progress and reporting to leadership

Training Methodology

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

Applied Project & Assessment

Applied Project

Participants act as business partner for a selected department: they analyse its plan, review engagement data from their organisation or a GCC case, and deliver a people plan with three priority interventions, an engagement action plan and review indicators.

Assessment

Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by Alzette University in Strategic HR, Business Partnering, and Employee Engagement (ACHRM)

International accreditation: European Institute for Human Resources Management (EIHRM)