HRBP Master Classes

HR and OD Business Partnering has it’s own set of unique challenges. Since 2015 we have run the HR Business Partner Summit and in 2018 started the OD (re) Design Conference to discuss specific OD challenges.

Now our virtual and online Master Classes are designed to build your skills in being a high performance HR or OD business partner. They are a compliment to our Certificate in OR and Certificate HR Business Partnering which focus on building your technical knowledge. These focus on the soft skills around these areas.

As always with elephant workshops, we focus on outcomes so you leave with practical tools, techniques and real life learnings to use on the job. Check out the details of the Master Classes below and scroll down to register.

Master Class 1: Coaching Senior Leaders

For both HR and OD professionals.

Performance Coaching: Our guest presenter, bestselling author and coach Kathryn Jackson, is going to take you on a journey of discovery through how the coaching continuum works, how to adjust your coaching for different audiences (including senior leaders and challenging CEO’s!), how to use coaching for developing managers including the GROW model, and ways to create a coaching culture with your senior leaders so they role model coaching to their next level managers.

Developing your leaders strategic skills: then Nikki Peck from the Elephant team will take you through how to focus on developing problem solving and decision making for more complex issues with hidden root causes. You can use these skills yourself but also how to help your leaders develop their own skills to start making smart decisions.

About our guest presenter

Kathryn Jackson, Performance Coach & Author, CareerBalance

Kathryn is a strengths and research informed Behavioral Coach who uses a blended approach of coaching and consulting to influence lasting change. Her former employers have included Andersen’s, the Bank of Scotland and Ernst & Young, where she designed and delivered initiatives including leadership development, performance management and engagement.

Her New Zealand based coaching practice has been providing coaching, facilitation, career transition and outplacement services since 2006. Kathryn has a first-class honours degree specializing in HR and Organisation Behaviour and a Masters exploring Motivation at work, she’s a Fellow of the CIPD and is currently completing a diploma in neuroscience. For more about Kathryn click here.

Master Class 2: Building Business Knowledge

Online module

HRBP Models, roles and responsibilities – In this session run by Nikki Peck, you’ll uncover the different HRBP models and when each may work best and why. Find out the new structures HR teams are using to deliver. Discover the key HR Business Partner Competencies and what HRBP’s deliver within different structures and you’ll get the chance to analyse yourself.

Building Business Acumen – HRBP’s who are commercially astute and understand financial reporting can build more credibility with their business and add real value when working with senior leaders. Learn what business acumen is and how to develop it, and hone your financial acumen with guest presenter Conor Hill.

About our guest presenter

Conor Hill, Business Advisory Services, Manager, Wellington

Conor joined Baker Tilly in 2017 as a graduate out of Victoria University of Wellington. Since then, he has developed into an important cog working across the business advisory and tax teams. He deals with a wide variety of clients, from well-established enterprises, to brand new start-ups and professionals.

Conor has a comprehensive knowledge of accounting systems, tax compliance, tax law, and management accounting, alongside a love for solving problems.

Conor spent his early years in Auckland and was raised in several towns across the Waikato before moving to Wellington in 2013.

Master Class 3: Transforming your Delivery

Engaging your managers – In this first section you’ll learn some amazing practical tools and techniques, from the sales and marketing world that we believe every OD and HR Business Partner should know. Use them to engage managers and people leaders to be HR’s delivery arm. With guest presenter Rachel Klaver from Identify Marketing.

Design Thinking: Next uncover how you can use Design Thinking principles to change how design and deliver your HR initiatives. You’ll get some new ideas on how to develop ideas that really work so your HR programmes are successful and effective.

About our guest presenter:

Rachel Klaver, CEO, Identify Marketing

Rachel Klaver is CEO (Chief Excitement Officer) at Identify Marketing. She believes the sales and marketing team are either
the biggest reflectors of what is already going on in your business, or the biggest
proclaimers of highlighting what is not. They speak the voice of your business to other businesses, creating a tone, culture and experience that
leads people to understand how your company works and operates. So how can we take
sales and marketing techniques to tell that story to our own people?
Rachel shares tips for using effective sales and marketing techniques to engage your managers with HR and really get your message accross.

Master Class 4: Being agile and resilient

Getting Agile and Building Resilience (online module) – In this Master Class you’ll cover tools and techniques to help you both develop your own resilience to deal with a VUCA world, but also to help grow this in your managers and your business. With guest presenter Maya Nova.

About our Guest Presenter:

Maya Nova, Mindfulness Coach

Maya is a mindfulness coach, mentor and speaker with over a decade of experience working with smart, busy people, helping them to regain clarity and balance and integrate mindfulness into their everyday life and work. She specialises in bringing mindfulness training to work, and collaborates with HR managers and executives to help them meet their goals.

She also delivers Mindful leadership programs and mindfulness training. She has worked with government organizations, businesses, community groups and individuals to help them achieve greater levels of productivity, well-being and happiness.

For more about Maya click here.

Dates and pricing

Our virtual Master Classes are 2 hours – from 10am – 12pm NZT, (8am – 10am AEST) via zoom. A few days before you’ll be sent a zoom link, and a set of handouts if you want to print off to take notes on. EARLY BIRD: NZ$495. FULL PRICE: NZ$625.

NFP discount – 10%. Book 2 people and save 10%. Book 3 and save 20%.

Online modules are also available for $195, with recordings of the sessions.

UPCOMING DATES:

Master Class 1: Coaching Senior Leaders = Thursday 17 July 2025.

Master Class 2: Building Business Knowledge = Thursday 18 September 2025 or available as an online module.

Master Class 3: Transforming your delivery = online module only.

Master Class 4: Being Agile and Resilient = online module only.

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About the Elephant team

We have a team of awesome facilitators, who are HR and change experts. They make our events interactive, practical and fun!

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What people say about attending:

Thank you for putting on a great event! You covered off some very key areas and made them very interesting.

Really helpful workshop, I am now planning my professional development based on snippets of this day.

A fantastic course overall. The fact that I came away with some essential knowledge meant I could come into work and confidently make changes

I really enjoyed it, there was a variety of content and some helpful tips and information

Wanting something a little more formal? What about our 12 month HR Business Partner Certificate? This has modules with assignments to complete, marked by our team, with personal feedback and coaching.

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