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Strategic HR Management

with HR4Business
Human Resources have a strategic pursuit
The role of Human Resources is shifting. HR leaders drive their efforts to transform their role and agenda by complementing the operational HR activities with strategic HR, directly connected to the value the organizations bring to their people, clients, and stakeholders.
Becoming a strategic business partner involves broader knowledge and capabilities for you as an HR professional. To manage the transformed role and agenda, you have to understand the organization’s strategy and business model and your contribution to organizational performance. In addition, a handful of personal qualities help you build and gain organizational buy-in.
Strategic HR Management (SHRM) consulting provides HR leaders and professionals the support to increase the strategic importance of HR function within the organization. The purpose is to prepare HR to develop an integrated approach with a significant and measurable impact within their organization, bringing tangible and sustainable benefits to both people and business.
What we do: Elevating potential
Companies need organizational excellence to operate in their competitive business environment and transformational climate. The continuous effort to achieve the needed standards of excellence includes how the organizations interact with their people – culture, learning and development, talent, succession, performance, engagement, rewards, collaboration, among others. These are pillars in HR.
Through our strategic HR management consulting, you raise the standards of your HR practice and elevate your potential. You learn how to initiate the agenda regarding people and workplace topics, define the strategy and results, run programs with a positive impact on people and culture, calculate ROI, develop new competencies that help you gain organizational buy-in, and acquire business knowledge that enables you to become a partner in strategy execution.
Strategic HR
Work hand in hand with executives, senior leaders, and every manager in strategy execution
  • HR policies and strategies formulation
  • Assessment centers for key positions (career planning, selection, promotion, rewards)
  • Talent management (acquisition, engagement, development, and retention)
  • Succession planning and management
  • Performance management
Operational HR
Perform daily work by balancing the business needs with people experience for a sustainable organization
  • Recruitment, selection, onboarding
  • Employee relations
  • Compensation and benefits
  • Offboarding
  • HR procedures formulation
  • HR operations and processes improvement
HR capability development
Raise the HR standards and enable people and the organization’s capacity for transformation
  • HR function audit
  • HR structure and service delivery models
  • HR competencies development
  • HR team coaching
  • HR team mentoring
How we help
Our strategic HR management consulting consists of specialized solutions and guidance, built on organizational psychology and behavior knowledge, research-based insights, and 20-year background and hands-on experience in HR management and business.
We combine our business understanding and perspective with a systemic approach and tailor it to your HR team’s needs and organizational unique context and culture. We enable you to learn in an open and safe climate how to build a strong and high-performing HR team, move your profession and business forward, and deliver your people strategy while aiming for business impact.
We connect people strategy with business performance
Understanding how to strategically manage human resources in line with the organization’s future direction is a necessity. We work with you to embed the people strategy in the organization and within the business. A relationship-focused effort fosters engagement, business performance, and growth.
We support HR teams to professionalize and improve performance
High-performing HR teams live and breathe professionalism and credibility. Research points out that “professional” and “credible” are the two essential attributes for HR among business leaders and HR professionals (Insync, 2015). We work with you to help your work and results become an expression of professionalism and commitment to raising your standards of knowledge, capability, and delivery.
We support HR teams to position themselves for competitive advantage
Positioning for competitive advantage requires getting experience as a business person. We work with you to fully integrate the HR activities with the work of the organization, help the company better serve its people, clients, and stakeholders, and make HR a trusted partner for the business.
What to expect
Our approach to strategic HR management consulting focuses on guidance and tailor-made solutions.
We adapt based on your specific focus areas.
1
Discover and define together your HR and organization’s goals and focus.
Understand the model of the organization and business HR is supporting.
2
Work together to connect the HR with the business goals.
Analyze your HR capability to determine the strengths and areas for development.
Define and discuss potential options and solutions.
3
Design, develop, and describe the personalized solutions that support your HR and organization’s specific needs and according to your culture.
Plan according to the goals to achieve and formats that are always tailor-made.
4
Deliver the solutions with operational excellence and the best client experience.
Monitor the progress and how HR delivers on its vision of adding value to people and business.
5
Check with people at all levels to hear their thoughts on the delivery of the solutions.
Measure the results, follow-through, create actionable plans to sustain the impact relevant for HR, people, and organization.
You will experience a systemic and structured approach to strategic HR management with a tailor-made plan for you. We create an open and safe climate to support you on strategic HR, operational HR, and HR capability development. We rely on specific hands-on and energizing experience and real-life situations, from the initial interaction, through engagement, to follow-up and support to ensure the long-term impact is felt and measured by HR and within the organization.
We partner with forward-thinking and conscious leaders and organizations
We have developed strategic and long-term partnerships with national and multinational forward-thinking companies in Automotive, Manufacturing & Materials, Retail & FMCG, IT/Technology, Healthcare, and Utilities/Public services.
We work together with them to ensure that their HR teams raise their standards, increase their capability, deliver the people strategy, and aim for business impact. By making sure they invest in strategic HR management, we contribute to a positive impact on organizational development and performance as a return for both individuals and businesses.
Our expert
“Business leaders are looking for a strategic partner to help them navigate the dynamic people-related challenges. The time has come for HR to join them and be their partner: develop capabilities, reflect on, assess, and redefine your mandate to create and deliver value to people and business.”
Carmen Nicula PhD
Carmen Nicula is a Senior Consultant, Trainer, Executive Coach, and Facilitator of leadership and management-focused professional development programs, with a 20-year background in business and human resources.
Carmen works with you as a strategic and long-term partner to deliver on HR4Business promise: to enable you, through strategic HR management consulting and genuine care for every interaction, to work towards elevating your potential and becoming a high-performer – lifelong, with more certainty, and well beyond your challenges – while transforming it into a return in business, for life.
Meet Carmen Nicula
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Ready to talk about your strategic pursuit: raising the HR standards, increasing capability, delivering people strategy, and aiming for business impact?
We work with forward-thinking and conscious leaders and organizations that want to prepare for the future.
Together, we are elevating your potential and are future-ready.
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