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In a constantly evolving business environment, where change and innovation are commonplace, strategic leadership is essential to an organization’s growth and competitiveness. Successful companies that are ready to better align HR executives with their strategic leadership teams incorporate learning opportunities like Developing HR Capabilities in Strategy, Leadership and Change. Through this program, mid- and senior-level HR executives become equipped with the relevant and critical strategies and skills necessary to position themselves as strategic partners within their organizations. 

Participants can expect to enhance their capabilities in strategic contribution and learn to build credibility. At the conclusion of the program, executives will be able to identify and invest in organizational and individual actions that create value. HR professionals will return to the workplace ready to contribute in a leadership role, make impactful decisions and collaborate on business challenges in an effective, strategic manner.

The fee covers all program materials, program-related meals and housing in a private room at the Inn at Darden for the specified program dates.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Audience

• Directors of organizational development.
• General managers and mid- to senior-level HR executives ready to further understand their value as HR leaders in achieving and influencing overall organizational goals.
• HR professionals from large companies who are likely to have senior HR roles in the near future.
• HR specialists seeking to expand their human capital capabilities to drive business results.
• Senior HR professionals who want to develop the capacity to work as part of a leadership team in designing and executing strategic plans. 

Participants Say…

Recently Attending Organizations

• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• Cabot Corporation
• Clipper Windpower
• Freddie Mac
• Ghana Cocoa Board
• Grupo Entero
• Harris Corporation
• Hooker Furniture Corporation
• Mission Essential Personnel
• Novo Nordisk A/S
• Polymer Group, Inc.
• PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, TbK
• Raytheon Company
• SAIC
• The Teaching Company 
        

Benefits

This intensive HR program provides an in-depth exploration and understanding of the strategic role of human resource management in achieving business objectives and gaining competitive advantage. Participants will expand their knowledge and increase their competence to better serve a dual role in their organizations as members of senior management teams and leaders of the HR function. Executives will become key players in building their firms’ cultures, and will:

• Be prepared to deliver value and drive business strategy through HR.
• Investigate the complex topic of change management, and explore what is required from all personnel if the organization is to succeed in dynamic business environments.
• Learn to maximize and communicate HR's strategic value across their organizations.
• Take home both new perspectives and methodologies to contribute to top-management team discussions about the strategic direction of their companies.
• Realize what it takes to transform the HR role into an integral, bottom-line-enhancing business asset.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Topics

• Choosing Strategic Priorities
• Creating Competitive Advantage
• Designing Effective Selection Systems
• Enterprise Perspectives
• Framing HR Capabilities
• Influencing Strategic Decisions
• Strategic Alignment, Thinking, and Mapping
• Talent Management and Human Capital Architecture
• The Role of HR in Change/Change Consulting
• The SELF Model: Balancing Strategic, Ethical, Legal and Financial Perspectives 
• Value Creation and Core Capabilities

Special Features

• Learn/Do: From the first day, time will be spent actively framing HR capabilities. Throughout each day, business cases help drive healthy discussion in full-group debriefs and small team discussions.
• Application Workshops: Application workshops are intermixed to support the Darden “learn-do” practice of putting ideas into action.
• Business Challenge Team:You become part of a Business Challenge Team, working with your team each day to gain even more perspective and value from the other integrated exercises, and practice applying the learning.
• Action Planning: Through the action planning component that helps you shape your strategy, you design a solid idea of next steps to take home, share and implement.

Faculty

Jared Harris
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Erika Hayes James
Professor of Business Administration

Scott A. Snell
Faculty Leader; E. Thayer Bigelow Research Professor of Business Administration