Strategic Human Resource Planning

Take charge of your career. Transform from being operationally reactive to strategically proactive.

This cutting-edge program will help you build and implement a business-focused HR strategy and develop your HR unit as a truly strategic business partner.

Together with world-renowned HR thought leaders, you will explore your business strategy and examine the cultural, capability, and talent requirements necessary to make your strategy a reality. You’ll investigate the ways your workforce can have a major impact on your firm's performance and learn how to identify who creates value in the firm, and where and how they play this role. You'll emerge with a roadmap to create customer and business value through HR.

Who Should Attend

HR managers responsible for the design and implementation of HR strategies

Business managers who recognize that the right talent in strategic roles is the only way their organization will succeed

Vice presidents and directors of specialty functions within HR

HR generalists

Let’s discuss how this program can help you achieve your goals.
Contact us at rossexeced@umich.edu or call 734-763-1000​

This fast-paced five-day program brings together a diverse group of professionals who are focused on getting the most out of their human capital. You’ll map your HR operation to the organization’s strategic goals and develop an implementation plan to drive results. The program combines action-learning activities, simulations, group discussions, team exercises, lectures, case studies, and projects.

Day 1: Business strategy: value creation

Day 2: Linking value creation to effective HR Strategy

Day 3: Workforce strategy: key elements for success

Day 4: Aligning your HR practice: metrics

Day 5: Finalize your return to work plan for change

A customized strategic plan to shape workforce planning and HR operations

Metrics to assess and demonstrate the value of your HR operation

Tools to ensure every employee creates customer and economic value for your firm

Methods to align HR practices with your organization’s strategic priorities

Actionable understanding of linking business strategy to workforce strategy and HR strategy

Build frameworks to create strategic workforce planning, identify strategic positions, develop talent targets to impact the success of the business

Expanded knowledge of research-based best practices in HR

Increased confidence in your ability to implement strategic HR initiatives that drive organizational growth

Learn from Michigan Ross, #3 Global Provider, Financial Times Open Enrollment, 2020.


Tuition & Fees

Includes:

  • Tuition
  • Accommodations in Michigan Ross' first-class, full-service Executive Learning and Conference Center (pending availability)
  • Continental breakfasts, lunches, coffee/snack breaks, and selected dinners in our exclusive Executive Dining Room
  • Program materials and resources

Fee is payable in advance in US dollars, is net of any tax, and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy.