How To Improve HR's Function From Tactical To Strategic

Many people who work in HR happily handle hiring, orientation, payroll, benefits, and more, yet secretly yearn to help the company grow by making more strategic decisions. If this is you - and you would like to shift your focus to working more strategically in HR, then this is a must-attend training program!

In it, you will learn how to change your focus from simply doing tasks to being part of the strategic direction HR must go in to drive bottom line results for the organization.

Learning Objectives:

By attending, you will learn how to align HR's activities with strategic objectives. Specifically, you will learn about:

• HR's role in the contemporary environment
• The key roles and functions of a strategic HR leader
• The issues that HR owns and doesn't own
• How to identify and focus on management-level HR functions and responsibilities
• Why some projects get accepted and others don't
• How to create a strategically-aligned HR department
• How to improve relationships and minimize conflict with other functional groups
• HR's role as a "Chiropractor" in managing the organizational backbone
• Tips for generating influence in the organization to get things done

About Your Speaker:

Natalie Ivey is President and CEO of Results Performance Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in leadership and employee development training and continuing education programs for the HR profession.

Ms. Ivey is an author and a national public speaker with more than two decades of leadership and HR management experience with Fortune 500 organizations. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources certification (SPHR). Ms. Ivey is a nationally-known speaker on a variety of topics within the HR profession and is known for her "tell-it-like-it-is", direct approach to teaching HR education.

Ms. Ivey routinely works with individuals, small businesses, and larger corporations to address destructive leadership behaviors and organizational dysfunction. She designs customized training programs to help employers correct poor behaviors, minimize legal exposure, and improve performance and profitability.

HRCI Credits

This program has been approved for 1.5 re-certification credit hours for HRCI's PHR and SPHR designations through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for re-certification credit.

SHRM Professional Development Credits

This program is valid for 1.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP designations. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.