Excellence in Human Resource Strategy and Management (10 Days)

Introduction:

The Human Resource Strategy and Management Excellence course will enhance participants' careers, job satisfaction, and organizational impact. This program equips them with the skills and attributes needed for professional growth and to positively influence their institutions, clients, and colleagues.

The course focuses on developing a human resource strategy that contributes to organizational performance. It covers the principles of HR strategy, explores various models, and uses case studies to demonstrate how a well-formulated HR strategy can enhance organizational effectiveness. Participants will learn to align HR practices with corporate strategy to achieve major organizational goals.

Objectives:

By the end of the Human Resource Strategy and Management Excellence course, participants will be able to:

• Manage personal development for a more fulfilling career experience.
• Build reliable networks based on trust.
• Communicate with honesty, clarity, and professionalism.
• Tap into creativity to discover and exploit resources.
• Develop emotional resilience to handle daily challenges.
• Take full responsibility for their success through self-improvement.
• Increase productivity by implementing smarter work systems.
• Resolve conflicts constructively with advanced negotiation tactics.
• Understand team dynamics, be an effective team player, and foster teamwork.
• Demonstrate initiative and leadership skills from their current position.

Training Methodology:

• Interactive Workshops
• Case Study Analysis
• Group Discussions
• Role-Playing Scenarios
• Simulation Exercises
• Expert Panels
• Peer Review Sessions
• Leadership and Team Building Activities
• Real-World Problem Solving
• Strategic Planning Exercises
• Skill Drills and Exercises

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Taking Charge of Your Career: The Journey Begins

• Develop your professional reputation.
• Create your unique value proposition and “brand.”
• Add value to your organization by producing desired results.
• Strategies for lifelong learning and development.
• Build professional networks with coaches and mentors.
• Avoid career pitfalls.
• Utilize available resources for career development.
• Achieve high performance and rewards of excellence.

Unit 2: Building Winning Relationships: Trust and Collaboration

• Understand win-lose/win-win implications.
• Develop win-win relationships.
• Define and build trust.
• Distinguish between responsibility for and responsibility to others.
• Establish your credo for relationships.
• Use valuing processes to strengthen others.
• Apply RAM (Relationship Asset Management) techniques.

Unit 3: Communication Skills for Today’s Professional: Your Message Power

• Empowerment through effective communication.
• Addressing different expectations and perspectives.
• Basic face-to-face communication skills.
• Enhance listening capacities.
• Types of communicative approaches.
• Deliver effective speeches and provide constructive feedback.
• Principles of positive influence and persuasion.

Unit 4: Creative Thinking and You: Key to Working Smart

• The II&T thinking process.
• Combining reasoning, feeling, and inspiration.
• Generating ideas and using inner wisdom.
• Assessing alternatives based on strengths.
• The Six Lens approach for optimizing brain capacities.

Unit 5: Emotional Resilience: Dealing with Life’s Challenges

• Understand responses to challenging events.
• Investigate patterns of response during key moments.
• Learn positive behavior and feeling choices.
• Address prejudices in perceptions.
• Transform disempowering beliefs into empowering ones.
• Practice balancing act and coping with changes and stressors.

Unit 6: Personal Accountability: Take Responsibility for Your Life

• Define personal responsibility.
• Evaluate readiness to accept personal responsibility.
• Explore choices and take ownership of outcomes.
• Understand the significance of personal responsibility and power.

Unit 7: Personal Productivity: Demonstrating Value-Added

• Manage time according to productivity goals.
• Set and achieve goals beyond SMART objectives.
• Use project management skills in daily tasks.
• Conduct effective meetings at all organizational levels.
• Grasp team philosophy and become a great team player.
• Learn steps involved in project management.

Unit 8: Conflict Resolution: The Road to Win-Win

• Define and manage unhealthy conflict.
• Understand five styles of managing conflicts.
• Use a model to respond to conflict situations.
• Identify and adapt your conflict style.
• Apply a three-step process for resolving conflicts.
• Develop negotiation skills.

Unit 9: Teamwork: A Blueprint for High Performance

• Compare high-performance teams vs. traditional groups.
• Identify elements that make high-performance teams.
• Learn various team structures and stages of development.
• Discover and maximize team members’ potential.
• Promote effective teamwork.

Unit 10: Taking the Initiative: Look for Leadership Opportunities

• Understand why initiative is valued.
• Lead from any position within the organization.
• Learn principles of effective leadership.
• Engage in leadership activities and delegate tasks.