35 pages / PDF
HRCF Diagnostic Companion
Interviews, focus groups, surveys, scoring guidance and facilitated activities to examine the HR service system. Use this to explore demand, services, ownership, processes, capacity and governance.
View PDFA4 / Strategy & planning
Understand the business.
Make your advice count.
Bring business understanding, sound evidence and practical people advice together. Your HRBP toolkit, companions, ebook, diagnostics and learning options in one connected collection.
Your HR Delivery directories
Explore our approach. Find your starting point.
A4 / HR Business Partner Toolkit
Turn business understanding into better people decisions.
Effective HR business partnering connects organisational priorities with decisions about work, capability and delivery. Use this collection to understand the business, test the problem, shape a credible response and follow through. Start with a defined assignment and select the tools that help you move it forward.
For HR business partners, HR leaders, internal consultants and practitioners establishing or developing a partnering role.
Your working library
HR Business Partner Toolkit
Explore the complete toolkit, then use the supporting document alongside the guides and examples.
Complete practitioner toolkit
319pages
76practical tools
A complete practical library of 76 tools: practitioner guides, reusable worksheets, fictional worked examples, diagnostic methods and workplace development guidance. Navigate five delivery stages, with a further 12 tools dedicated to developing your practice.
Open the complete toolkit28 pages / PDF
Inside the HRBP Toolkit
A 28-page preview of selected guidance, visual tools and worked examples. See how the library supports diagnosis, advice, implementation and development before exploring the complete toolkit.
View supporting document84 pages / PDF
Working Forms and Visual Canvases
All 76 worksheets in one companion. Stable tool codes link each form to the instructions and fictional worked examples in the full toolkit. Browse the form that fits your current decision.
View PDF58 pages / PDF
HRBP Development Guide
A 24-week pathway with 12 modules, workplace practice, mentoring, a capstone and evidence reviews. Use its 12 development tools to plan and review continuing growth alongside your role.
View PDFPDF resources are in English. Read on screen: Actual view on desktop and full width on mobile.
The thinking behind the tools
The HR business partnering delivery route
Five stages organise the toolkit around a real business assignment. Move from understanding the brief to reviewing contribution, returning to earlier stages as new evidence changes the question.
- 01
Discover
Agree the mandate, understand business priorities and establish the partnering relationship.
12 tools - 02
Diagnose
Gather evidence, examine the HR service system and test possible causes.
16 tools - 03
Design
Compare options, shape a people plan and make a credible case for action.
14 tools - 04
Deliver
Agree owners, handovers, resources and communications; support implementation.
12 tools - 05
Review
Examine contribution, stakeholder experience and learning before deciding what comes next.
10 tools
Develop your practice throughout
12 additional tools support self-review, observed practice, mentoring, a capstone and 30/60/90-day transfer. The 24-week development companion is a work-based pathway; the three-day HRBP programme below offers facilitated development in a shorter format.
This is the toolkit’s delivery route. The ebook uses a separate six-activity learning cycle: Understand, Contract, Investigate, Advise, Enable and Review. The HRCF diagnostic examines the organisational HR service system; it does not score an individual HRBP’s competence.
Explore the route in the toolkitA connected framework
Strategy-to-Value System
A supporting framework for connecting business priorities, capability needs and accountable people actions in HR business partnering.
Read & diagnose
Build understanding.
Test the evidence.
Read The Effective HR Business Partner for depth, use the diagnostic companion to examine the HR service system, and explore a focused perspective on the partnering role.
Ebook
The Effective HR Business Partner
Develop commercial understanding, sound judgement and influence through practical cases, working resources and a twenty-four-week development programme.
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Diagnostic manual
HRCF Diagnostic Companion
Examine the HR service system, its operating conditions and delivery capability. Use the findings to inform business partnering priorities; this is system diagnosis, not an assessment of an individual’s competencies.
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Long-read article
Partner, Policeman or PowerPoint?
Explore what the HR business partner role is for and how its contribution can go beyond administration and presentations.
View PDFShort insights
A useful idea.
A sharper question.
The HRBP Role in Saudi Arabia: Trusted Advisor or Messenger Service?
Consider how business partners build credibility through useful judgement, constructive challenge and shared accountability.
Read insight
What the CEO Should Expect From HR: Evidence, Risk Insight and Delivery
Understand the evidence, business-risk insight and delivery expectations that make HR advice valuable to senior leaders.
Read insight
HR Data That Leaders Should Actually Care About
Choose workforce evidence that improves decisions rather than reporting only what is easy to count.
Read insightLearn & apply
Put knowledge
to work.
Explore a focused one-day introduction or build wider professional capability through a related development programme.
One-day workshop · In-house
An introduction to effective HR business partnering
A one-day, in-house introduction to clarifying business needs, testing assumptions, offering practical advice and agreeing responsibilities.
Related development programme
HR Business Partners
Three days. Assess role capabilities, practise advisory conversations and develop a business-aligned people plan with priorities, measures and owners.
Explore the programmeRelated development programme
Change, Consultancy and Project Delivery
Three days. Strengthen internal consulting, diagnosis, options appraisal and change delivery so advice leads to practical implementation.
Explore the programmeA practical starting point
Choose your next step.
- 01
Agree a real question
Choose a business challenge, clarify the decision owner and agree what useful progress would look like.
- 02
Read and investigate
Use the relevant guide and ebook chapter. Gather proportionate evidence and consider alternative explanations.
- 03
Structure the advice
Use a working form to compare options and responsibilities. Learn from the specificity of the fictional examples.
- 04
Apply and review
Agree the action, examine what changed and capture the next question or development need.
Need help applying it?
Work with HR Delivery to turn the evidence and tools into a response suited to your organisation.
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