AHRP-SHRM adds value to HR fraternity

The Association of Human Resource Professionals together with the Society for Human Resource Management India will be conducting a series of HR Competency based programs in the coming few months.

HR Business Partner program is scheduled for the end of August with the objective of providing knowledge and skills required to excel in the role of an HR Business Partner. The HR Business Partner program is a two-day workshop which will help HR professionals in aligning their functional knowledge to the business.

HR generalists or senior specialists with 4-12 years of experience in HR project/program management will be benefitted by this workshop.

Participants will be able to enhance their understanding of the HR Business Partner role and its key demands, frameworks to understand business and work involved in the business and tools for aligning HR strategy with direction of the organisation and business strategy.

6 core modules make up this program:

•  HR Business Partner Role
•  Understanding Business
•  Understanding Work
•  Understanding Talent Required
•  Defining HR Work
•  Executing HR Work

Total rewards in alignment which is also scheduled at the end of August/early September provides conceptual knowledge on Total Rewards and helps in aligning the rewards strategy to the HR and overall business strategy. It also helps link the rewards strategy to the value of work that is contributed by employees.

Mid to senior level HR professionals with a minimum experience of seven years are most suitable for this workshop.

The program will help participants understand the linkage of reward strategy to talent strategy of an organisation, concepts and practices of benchmarking reward practices, and understand the rewards philosophy; it’s structuring and design, the compensation planning process, its administration and broad understanding of the regulatory framework governing compensation and benefits.

The 6 modules that make up this program include:

•  Concept of Total Rewards Management
•  Defining a Rewards Strategy
•  Economics of Rewards
•  Reward Mix
•  Benchmarking
•  Determining the quantum for rewards

Instructional design is a two-day classroom workshop that aims at imparting five core Instructional Design (ID) skills to participants; determining learning needs, defining measurable learning outcomes, devising teaching methods, planning for content development and planning for evaluation of learning effectiveness. These core skills constitute the basic framework of ID that can help you design and manage learning regardless of the media. To ensure an effective skill transfer to the workplace, this program also provides a host of Job Aids, a comprehensive course book that serves as a go-to reference material long after the workshop.

Instructional Design – Communication and Effectiveness is for L&D professionals who have two-three years of experience or more in facilitation, training management, teaching, content development and e-learning design – who are looking for a systematic process-based approach to their work. Learning professionals who manage a team of vendors for design quality, will also find this program valuable.

At the end of the two day workshop, you will be able to: Use the given templates and Job Aids to write a comprehensive learning design document for the creation of an engaging learning intervention that balances both individual learning needs and workplace requirements, Identify concrete steps to be taken during the design phase to measure the learning effectiveness of a given learning intervention.

•  The program will broadly address:
•  An overview of ID
•  Identifying learning needs
•  Understanding learners
•  Writing learners objectives
•  Identifying and simplifying content
•  How we learn?
•  Devising an instructional strategy
•  Instructional techniques & media
•  Writing a design document
•  Developing content
•  Evaluating learning effectiveness

HR next workshop is driven by contemporary research and best practices carried out by SHRM in global and emerging markets, the HR Next workshop facilitates application of conceptual knowledge in the day-to-day routine at the workplace. This is most suited for generalists with two-four years of experience and HR professionals looking for an overview or a refresher course.

The outcomes of this program are that it will facilitate the application of knowledge rooted in an intensive conceptual framework, keep professionals up-to-date with the latest and best HR practices and focus on changing behaviour and impact on business, rather than on task-orientation.

The program content is spread across 6 key modules:

•  Value-added HR
•  Talent Acquisition
•  Learning Development
•  erformance Management
•  Compensation and Benefits
•  Employee Engagement

Empowering women leadership workshop focuses on new integrated women leadership approach that calls upon multiple perspectives (physical, managerial, psychological, cultural, political and spiritual). It also helps discover insights on the interplay of roles, priorities, choices, time and productivity management.

This workshop is suited for women managers, HR leaders and D&I leaders aspiring for leadership roles and get empowered.

Program Outcomes involve:

•  Reframe thinking and approach to leadership by leveraging multiple interconnected perspectives that broaden and deepen thinking and behaviour,
•  Take proactive steps to take control of health to achieve more
•  Flex management style to leverage team for better results
•  Become ‘Emotionally Intelligent’ and able to build productive relationships
•  Learn the art and science of power and politics
•  Become insightful on cultural differences and leverage diversity to achieve more
•  Learn to Live purposefully and mindfully
•  Start living a genuine life that one can truly call one’s own
•  Discover meaning, purpose and unity of life
•  Assess current Life Balance, Learn to Set meaningful goals and embark on action planning
• The program content is spread across the following modules:
•  What you can gain?
•  Women and Life balance
•  The Physical Perspective – How can their physical best transform the world around them?
•  The Managerial perspective – situational leadership, and team dysfunctions
•  The cultural perspective – Cultural orientation, leveraging diversity
•  The Psychological perspective –Psychological Perspective – Positive strokes, understanding our unconscious and Ego defence mechanisms
•  The political perspective – Building power and learning to play constructive politics
•  The Spiritual perspective – understanding purpose, meaning and unity
•  Archetypes – unleashing sheroes within