How HR Can Provide Even Greater Value

November
18
2025 (Tuesday)
Time 08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes
13 Days Left To REGISTER
Id: 210112
Instructor
Pete Tosh
Live
Recorded
Live + Recorded

Overview

78% of HR professionals struggle with the perceived value of HR’s worth, and 58% say that their organization’s leaders don’t fully recognize the value of HR’s contribution.

Yet, the HR function, more than other functions, engages in and affects the operation and execution of all business functions. HR functions intersect with other business functions. Therefore, properly aligning the HR strategy with the organization's business strategy is critical to the organization's mission.

HR's role bridges the gap between HR practices and the organization's unique needs. By customizing strategies and collaborating closely with business leaders, HR can evolve into a driving force behind the company's continued success. HR is asked to contribute strategically and develop people strategies that add value to bottom-line results.  

HR can provide even more value by: 

  • Recognizing that value is defined by the receiver 
  • Appreciating the business context
  • Delivering outcomes through individual talent and organization capability
  • Developing and executing on a HR Value Proposition

 

An HR Value Proposition is a strategic framework that outlines the unique value the HR function brings to an organization. The HRVP aims to align HR activities with the organization’s goals and objectives, ensuring that HR initiatives contribute to overall business success.

By aligning HR initiatives with the overall business strategy, the HR value proposition improves workforce capabilities, boosts employee engagement, and ensures a competitive edge. 

Why you should Attend

All organizations are created to provide value - financial and/or non–financial - to their stakeholders. In light of today’s economic volatility and uncertainty, every aspect of business is being re-examined for its value in creating and sustaining profitable growth. 

Research shows considerable agreement between business leaders and HR professionals: 

  • Business leaders want HR to make visible, meaningful contributions to the business strategy
  • HR professionals want to be managing HR processes so that they have a significant impact on the success of their organizations

 

To successfully execute a business strategy, each function must align its departmental strategy with its overall business strategy. 

And HR intersects with all other departments, making it a vital part of any business strategy. As a business strategy changes, it affects its people strategy. So, as a business’s priorities evolve, so do its people's priorities.

To add value to a business, HR must be able to support and enable the execution of strategy through building organizational capability. It comes from an intimate knowledge of the business strategy and the organization's capabilities. HR's great advantage in this area is that all methods are executed by people who must be supported, trained and equipped to fulfill the strategic vision. This is the fundamental role of HR, and its relevance cannot be underestimated. The primary role of HR is to build organizational capability to support the execution of business strategy.

Implementing a system for measuring and reporting the impact of HR initiatives, coupled with a feedback loop involving business leaders, ensures a continuous cycle of improvement and alignment. By leveraging analytics and feedback mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of HR programs and policies continuously, HR professionals can make any necessary adjustments in real time instead of just executing standardized HR programs.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Utilizing a Strategic Frame of Reference
    • Being a Strategic HR Leader
    • Drafting Your Team’s Mission
    • The Two Key Business Objectives
    • Everybody Has a Customer
    • HR Providing Greater Value
    • Utilizing a SWOT and Then Applying a Filter
    • Completing Your Team’s Customer Report Card
    • Utilizing an I/P Matrix
    • Five Most Important Dimensions of HR Service
    • Drafting Your Team’s Vision
  • Aligning Your HR Processes with Your Business’ Strategy
    • Organizational Success Factors - with Samples
    • Employee Competencies - with Samples
    • Utilizing Your HR Processes to Achieve Your OSFs through Employee Competencies
  • Developing an Organizational Succession Plan
    • Succession Planning Defined - Why Bother?
    • Career Planning Interviews
    • Performance Management - Identifying Promotability and Readiness
    • Assessment Instruments
    • GE 9-Box Grid
    • HiPo Development Interventions
    • Talent Review Meetings
    • Stay Interviews
  • Utilizing Metrics to Gauge Your HR Processes
    • Benefits of HR Metrics and Dashboards
    • What is Measurement 
    • Determining What to Measure Within HR
    • Five Ways to Measure Any HR Process
    • Ten HR Metrics That Impact Your Business’ Strategy
  • Three Questions Defining Your Success at Aligning Your HR Processes

Who Will Benefit

  • HR Manager or Director
  • CHROs
  • CPOs
  • HR Mid-level Managers
  • HR VPs

Speaker Profile

Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:

Implementing Strategic HR Initiatives: Executive Search, Conducting HR Department Audits, Enhancing Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection Processes, Installing Performance Management Programs, Conducting Training Needs Assessments, Installing HR Metrics, etc.

Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness: Facilitating Team Building Initiatives, Designing and Facilitating 360 Performance Assessments, Executive Coaching, Measuring and Enhancing Employee Engagement and Performance, etc.

Strategic Planning: Facilitating Strategic Planning Events, Establishing Succession Plans, Installing Business Performance Metrics, etc.

Enhancing Customer Loyalty: Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Facilitating Customer Advisory Councils, Developing Standards of Performance and Scripts for Key Customer Touch Points, etc.

The Focus Group has provided these consulting and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Pete has worked closely with the leadership teams of organizations such as Exxon, Brinks, EMC, State Farm, Marriott, N.C.I. YKK and Freddie Mac to :

• Align corporate organizational structures with their strategic initiatives - while insuring value creation for their customer bases.

• Ascertain customers’ primary needs and perceptions of organizations’ performance relative to that of their competitors.

• Develop and implement customer loyalty enhancement processes - based on specific customer feedback - that delivered sustainable advantages in the marketplace.

• Implement performance management programs, executive coaching, compensation systems and other HR processes to strategically direct and reward desired employee behavior.

Prior to founding his own firm 25 years ago, Pete had 15 years of experience -at the plant, divisional and corporate levels - in Human Resource and Quality functions. Pete held leadership positions - to include the V.P. of Human Resources and Quality - with Allied Signal, Imperial Chemical Industries, Reynolds Metals, Charter Medical and Access Integrated Networks.

Pete also frequently develops and facilitates a variety of leadership development programs including: Strategic Planning, Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader, Strategic HR Management, The Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection, Employment Law and Utilizing HR Metrics. Employees from over 3,000 organizations have benefited from Pete’s experience and perspective. Pete is co-author of Leading Your Organization to the Next Level: the Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth.

Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry College and Masters degrees in both Business Administration and Industrial Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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