Business Strategy

Today’s leaders expect HR Business Partners to understand how the business creates value and bring insight into how people, organizational capabilities, and ways of working drive business performance. This course helps HRBPs strengthen their ability to engage credibly in strategic conversations and translate business strategy into workforce and organizational implications.

Using a practical, research-informed approach, participants explore how organizations compete, define customer value, and make strategic trade-offs in dynamic business environments. The course examines core competencies, strategically critical activities, and the roles that create the greatest business impact. Participants also examine how talent systems, organizational capabilities, and ways of working may need to evolve as organizations pursue growth and respond to external change.

Through guided reflection questions and applied discussions that build across sessions, participants connect course concepts directly to their own organizations and strategic challenges.

• Understand target customers, customer value propositions, and the strategic trade-offs organizations make to compete effectively
• Identify strategically critical activities, core competencies, and roles that drive business performance
• Apply frameworks such as Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity (AMO) to evaluate whether talent systems support strategic performance
• Anticipate how growth opportunities, external shifts, and changing business priorities may reshape talent, organizational capabilities, and ways of working