Business partner practitioner
Build your impact as a business partner by working more effectively with leaders to drive performance and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Perfect for:
You’ll learn how to:
- understand what business partnering looks like in practice today
- build the mindset and skills to be an effective business partner
- use practical tools to improve how you partner with the business
- grow your confidence and credibility with stakeholders.
About this course
Course length: three consecutive days
Delivery: Online classes, and self-directed learning
Suitable for: People professionals who want to strengthen and develop their business partnering skills
Topics covered
- business partnering as an evolving role
- strategic partnering and how to add value
- business acumen and developing solutions
- using data and influencing skills
- consulting and coaching in a business partnering role.
What to expect from this ‘CIPD business partner practitioner’ course
This course is designed for people professionals who want to become more effective and confident business partners. It focuses on building practical skills you can use straight away in your role.
You’ll learn how to understand business strategy, build commercial awareness, use data to support decisions, and influence stakeholders. You’ll also develop your consulting and coaching skills so you can add real value to your organisation.
What you’ll need to do on this CIPD ‘business partner practitioner’ course
This is a three day course delivered either face-to-face or virtually. You’ll also receive additional materials to support your learning after the course.
What you’ll get on this course
At the end of this CIPD business partner practitioner course, you’ll receive a certificate. To receive your certificate, you must attend 100% of the course.
You’ll receive a resource pack to support your ongoing development.
Taking part in this course gives you access to the CIPD Learning Hub for 12 months. Here, you can access your course content together with other valuable resources and tools. When you finish your course, you can enjoy an additional 12 months of access to other resources on the Learning Hub.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this ‘business partner practitioner’ course, you’ll be able to:
- Explain what effective business partnering looks like in a modern organisational context
- Apply strategic thinking to align people practices with business priorities
- Use business acumen to understand your organisation’s model, drivers and value creation
- Build a structured approach to partnering using practical frameworks and tools
- Develop solutions that address business needs and deliver measurable impact
- Use data and insight to inform decisions and demonstrate value
- Build strong, credible relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation
- Influence and challenge effectively to support better business outcomes
- Apply coaching approaches to support leaders and manage challenging conversations
- Create a personal action plan to strengthen your impact as a business partner
Team bookings
Interested in booking this course for your team? We offer group bookings solutions for teams of four or more people.
When your teams learn with the CIPD, they get direct access to the latest professional research and insights.
And through courses co-created with industry thought leaders and practitioners, they’ll build the skills and confidence they need to inspire action, influence change and drive business value.
We offer a wide range of Learning and Development solutions to suit employees at every level – whether in HR, L&D, OD or wider people management.
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