Our Human Resource Business Partner Certification (f-HRBP) training course is designed to equip HR professionals with the necessary knowledge and competencies to become a global strategic business partner. Upon completing a capstone project that illustrates evidence of successfully applying the HRBP competencies in your organization, you will be awarded a professional certification from ARTDO/ITD World.
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Why organizations need HRBP training
ITD’s HR Business Partner training is designed based on recent changes to the role of HR in organizations. Nowadays, executives are expecting HR to demonstrate their strategic contribution and value to the organization and the business. A significant part of that expectation requires major HR Transformation in their delivery model as well as mindsets. A part of this mega shift is the emergence of a role called the HRBP (Human Resource Business Partner) role.
While HR transformation is sometimes a term in search of meaning, it usually means a fundamental re-chartering of what the organization’s HR Department is to do, why it exists, and what efforts it undertakes. CEOs have continually stated that they want a more proactive HR Department that operates at the strategic rather than tactical level.
“For HR to master a new role, centered on deliverables with new patterns of behaviors, both learning and unlearning needs to occur. Learning means appreciating new alternatives; unlearning means letting go of the past.”
Prof Dave Ulrich, co-founder of HR Consulting firm RBL
Introduction to Certified HRBP course
The Human Resource Business Partner Certification (f-HRBP) is designed to meet the above needs of businesses. Exclusively for those working in the field of Human Resource Management, the course helps equipping people with important knowledge to take on the position of HRBP in the company.
Our HRBP training course describes how to reinvent and fundamentally transform HR in an organization, describing various strategic choices for a new HR so as to transform HR into a true business partner. To meet the challenges of the future, HR practitioners must move beyond technical professionals to becoming true HR partners and strategic change agents.
“It (HRBP) is not a model, it is a mindset. Lots of companies have a business partner model, but the partner is the same as an HR generalist.”
Guy Ellis, co-founder of consulting company Courageous HR
Why should I attend this HRBP training course?
ITD World’s certified HRBP training is designed to equip participants with the mindset and competencies necessary to take on the role of HR as a strategic partner. By attending this workshop, you will be energized and have a reformed HR professional persona:
- Self-belief in your personal ability to make a strategic difference to the business.
- Belief in the strategic value of the HR function.
- Confidence to have a strong point of view and express it even if it proves unpopular.
- Knowledge and experience of the business and its intricacies and an ability to communicate in business terms.
- An ability to build long-term, credible and trusting relationships with business (clients) and with HR colleagues.
- A focus on delivering business outcomes through leveraging the whole HR function and acting as a strong role-model for the rest of the HR team.
Who should attend this HR business partner certification course?
- Vice Presidents,
- Directors,
- HR Managers,
- OD Practitioners, and
- Senior Executives responsible for HR functions
Course objectives
- Define the term HR transformation and mega trends impacting that transformation.
- Reflect on and identify strategies to address the key megatrends.
- Define the term human resource partnering.
- Describe and summarize unique choices in HR transformation and HR partnering.
- Examine in depth what Talent Management is and how it can become the focus of HR transformation.
- Come up with a blueprint of a Strategic HR transformation and partnering plan and implementation.
- Strengthen your personal credibility by building a set of partnering competencies that will make a difference to the business in strategy, change management, and organizational development and performance front.
- Establish an effective HR Metrics and Analytics framework that provides critical business insights to the human capital model of the enterprise.
- Deliver a differentiated and distinct integrated talent management capability to the enterprise.
- Leverage AI and people analytics to elevate HRBP contributions, from descriptive reporting to predictive and prescriptive insights, and apply the Cognitive 6Rs framework to thrive as a future-ready HR leader in the digital era
Course details
MODULE 1 – HR TRANSFORMATION
- HRBP In Strategic HR & Organization Transformation – Becoming A Capability Designer
- Ulrich’s 4 Quadrants of HR Work
•• Strategic Player, Administrative Expert, Employee Contribution, Change Agent - HRBP Role In Building Organization Capabilities
•• Capacity + Ability = Capability - Symbiosis Between Line Manager and HR for People Management = Clarifying Roles & Responsibilities
- HR Transformation Is Not for HR – 5 Key Lessons form the Alight 2020 Research
MODULE 2 – HRBP MINDSETS & COMPETENCIES
- HR as a Competitive Advantage – HR Transformation with Outside-In HR
- Ulrich’s RBL HRCS 5 Competencies
- Simplifies Complexity/Advances Human Capability/Fosters Collaboration/Accelerated Business/ Mobilizes Information
- Agile HRBPs Mindsets – FLAG Framework
- HRBP Integrated Competencies Model) HRBP + OD = HR Business Strategist
MODULE 3 – CHANGE IN DIGITAL AGE
- Leading Change in A Digital Age
•• Squared Pace, Squared Impact, Agile Change - 6 Digital Change Leaders Persona (Gartner Assessment)
•• Adventurer. Ambassador, Clarifier, Cartographer, Attractor. Curator
•• HRBP’s Role in Digital Change - Digital Transformation Strategy
•• Dx – What Change, Why & Who Change, What & Who Change - Designing The Digital 3Ws Transformation
•• Digital Workforce, Digital Workflow, Digital Workplace
•• Design the Future With Eoyang’s Adaptive Action: What Patterns, So What, Now What
MODULE 4 – CHANGE FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS
- Leading Successful Change – Change Capability?
•• Ready, Willing, Able & Sustainable
•• The ADKAR Model
•• The Kotter’s 8-StepS Change Model - Future Visioning
•• McKinsey’s 7 S Model
•• Draw Your Future – See It, Believe IT, Act On IT - Forming Powerful Change Coalitions
•• Mapping Your Change Community
•• Analysis of Power vs Interest in Community - Overcoming Change Resistance
•• Lewi’s Force Field Analysis
•• 4 Dimensions of Change Dialogue - Building On The Change
- Sustaining Change As New Normal
•• 5 Critical Successful Factors For Institutionalizing Change
MODULE 5 – ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT (OD)
- OD As Internal Consultants?
•• Peter Block’s 7Cs of Flawless Consulting
•• 5 Levels of Organization Vitality/ Health - Conducting OD With Proper Process (Inquiry, Insights, Actions)
•• 3 Phases of Design Thinking (Research, Plan, Implement)
•• Hx, Sx, Dx, Tx for OD Total Care - OD Tools & Techniques
•• ARM – Action Research Method
•• ODI (Organization Development Interventions) Cycle - OD Begins With Questions, Not Solutions
•• The 4Ds approach to AI (Appreciative Inquiry)
•• Marillee Adams: Learner Questions, Judger Questions, Switching Questions
MODULE 6 – LEVERAGING AI TO ENABLE STRATEGIC HRBP CONTRIBUTIONS
- 4 Stages of Analytics Capability
•• Descriptive/ Diagnostic/ Predictive/ Prescriptive
•• Working In Business/ Evaluating Business/ Working On The Business/ Enabling the Business - Foundation of AI – Exploring Metrics Requiring New Data Bases
•• Changing the Analytic Logics – From Traditional to Advanced
•• Bersin’s 4 Aspects of Data Acquisition vs Operational & Strategic Analysis - Fundamental AI vs OD Competencies for HRBPs – Same vs Similar vs Hybrid
- Foundational Cognitive 6Rs for AI & Digital Era
•• Reframing/Reflecting
•• Referencing/Reasoning
•• Relating/Reinventing
Meet ITD’s Certified HRBP Trainer
Our Certified HRBP training is delivered by master KC Yan, a Human Resource Practitioner with extensive experience in manufacturing and service industry, with a number of leading global MNCs
- Senior Principal Consultant at ITD World with over 40 years of international experience.
- Ex Sr Human Resources Director, Asia-Pacific and Japan of Freescale Semiconductor, Swiss Reinsurance and Motorola.
- Headed the human capital function responsible for 23,000 employees across 12 different countries in the AP region.
- KC managed cross functional projects leading teams from the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa as Global HR Senior Leadership Team member.
- Held different roles from Supervisor to Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations Manager before moving into Human Resources, OD, Learning & Development and HR Business Partnering.
- Transformed business strategies into executable human capital change initiatives that showed in strategic results.
- Certified Coaching & Mentoring Professional and Masters in Industrial Management from University of East Asia, Macau.
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Date: 05-07 AUGUST, 2026
Venue: Novotel Saigon Centre, 167 Hai Ba Trung, Xuan Hoa Ward, HCMC, Vietnam
Fee: 1000 USD/pax.
If you are inteterested in joining the program & would like to learn more, please contact ITD Vietnam via +8428 3825 8487, or fill in the form here. Our team will get back later for a FREE consultation on how we can help you.
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