We’ve all heard of HR Business Partners (HRBPs), but I think there’s something fundamentally misunderstood about the business partner model. As an HRBP, I come across this misunderstanding frequently. We’re “strategic”, sure, and “embedded” with the management more than others on the HR team, OK, but HR’s partnership with the business doesn’t begin and end with an HRBP. To gain a better understanding of the business partner model, we need go back to Human Resource Champions (

As an HR Business Partner who handles a high volume of employee relations cases each week, becoming a certified mediator and conflict resolution trainer has given me a powerful set of tools to meet both the day-to-day needs and long-term strategic goals of my employer. It’s also provided me with a leading edge skillset that will help to future-proof my career going forward into an ever more rapidly evolving workplace full of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity

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