In order to be a great HR professional, you need to be a businessperson first. The Hewitt Academy for Strategic HR offers three modules that teach fundamental business skills and the critical role HR plays in driving business performance:

• BIZ101: What HR Needs to Know About Business
• BIZ102: Building Shareholder Value Through People
• BIZ103: Winning People Strategies

After completing these courses, HR professionals will be able to engage line managers in meaningful discussions about the business and financial outlook. They will appreciate the critical role HR can play in helping the line manager to achieve the desired results.

By understanding the factors that determine your company's success, you will not only be able to speak to your CEO in the language of business, but you will be able to align your people and processes to drive results.

In this course, you will:

• Learn the three most important things about business - how companies make money, ensure good cash flow and achieve meaningful growth
• Experience what it feels like to be a business leader as you run your own business
• Improve your own personal effectiveness by building the essential skills needed to engage business leaders in meaningful conversations

Current research shows that as a HR professional you account for more than 20% of business results. Learn how to turn the common 'people are our most valuable asset' rhetoric into reality.

In this course, you will:

• Understand which HR practices matter most in building shareholder value
• Practice building compelling business cases to ensure your company takes the right actions to drive business results
• Build the most important skill for HR professionals - credible activism

Most CEOs will preach about the value of people, yet the brutal truth is very few companies are actually managing their workforce as a strategic asset. All too often people strategies simply state the obvious and are so generic that they are rendered meaningless.

In this course, you will:

• Join forces with other participants as you form HR teams to drive the people practices of competing businesses
• Use the Hewitt Improving Business Results Through People model to develop an aligned people strategy -- which gets the right people, in the right jobs, doing the right things
• Learn how to create a unique people strategy which allows your company to execute on complex business strategies