HR Professionals

Our complete offering for HR professionals is as a result of a partnership between the National School of Government and the HR Transformation Directorate, Cabinet Office. This partnership ensures that our core programme is focused on the key issues being raised by HR professionals across the Civil Service.

As an effective learning partner, we help create high-quality opportunities for development which includes working with carefully selected external providers to ensure high-calibre provision. We also provide tailored support to individual organisations, either directly or through sourced providers.

Our development programme is grounded in both the Civil Service HR and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) professional standards, and builds on a sound understanding of the evolving role of HR in organisations and the Civil Service context. Although designed for HR professionals, many of the opportunities will also be of relevance to other delivery managers interested in getting the best out of the people in their organisations.

Development Programme Summary

Supporting HR professional recognition through professional qualifications and accreditation

The National School offers academic courses to support the development of HR professional skills. All map across to the HR professional standards. Many are already accredited by the CIPD and others have the accreditation in progress. . MA in HR Strategy and Change in conjunction with Kingston University . MSc in Human Resource Management and Development in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University . Certificate in Personnel Practice

Building HR expertise and partnerships

Our Senior Civil Service (SCS) HR Transformation workshops focus on the key capability gaps identified by HR directors and are aimed at senior delivery and HR managers. Past workshops have focused on the HR value proposition, led by Dave Ulrich, and designing dynamic organisations, led by Jay Galbraith. Future SCS workshops are in the process of being developed. We also offer a range of HR expertise programmes, including Employment Law, Managing Change, Diversity Excellence Model™, and Employee and Organisation Support (welfare).

Facilitating HR professional communities to share good practice

The aim of professional communities is to build individual skills and corporate capability in key HR areas by sharing learning, experience and expertise. The communities that are currently being established are: . Organisational Design . HR Business Partnering. To register your interest and find out more, email jean.meyrick@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk Additionally, we run a series of HR Business Partner Workshops in collaboration with develop uk who have extensive practical experience of HR business partnering and whose work spans a range of sectors.

Providing in-house HR development through tailored support and consultancy

We offer tailored support on people issues to your organisation. Past subjects and clients have included programmes for business partners in the Immigration Service and the Ministry of Defence, seminars for the senior HR directors of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and consultancy facilitation in the Fisheries Research Service. To speak to us about any aspect of tailored support or consultancy, contact jean.meyrick@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk

Learning from HR action research

We participate in action learning projects to share lessons and good practice across the public sector. Most recently, we were a partner in the Fit for Business project that was run in conjunction with the CIPD, the Development Partnership, and the Employers' Organisation. The findings from this project have been published as a CIPD report. To find out more about action learning, contact jean.meyrick@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk

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