HR Business Partner Program

This six-day process is for HR professionals who want to move beyond operational tasks and become a strategic thinking partner to leaders. We add relationship and communication skills, coaching methods and an organizational development toolkit, working through participants' own cases.

When does it start?: Spring 2027
Participation fee: HUF 490,000 + VAT

Length 6 days

Development format training program

How it works In-person group training

Venue GROW Training Room

What is the program about?

6 in-person training days, with practice assignments, readings, videos and questionnaires between sessions.

An HR role pulls in two directions. One is the day-to-day operational work; the other is what leaders increasingly expect: a thinking partner who understands how the organization works and doesn't just run the processes. The HR Business Partner Program prepares you for this second role.

What you take away: a partnering and advisory communication toolkit for working with leaders; practiced coaching skills: active listening, questioning techniques, empathy; an organizational development mindset and the basic tools of diagnosis, with which you can launch a development process on your own; the HR toolkit for change management. By the end of the six modules, your own HRBP role takes shape, along with a personal development plan.

Who is the program for?

For practicing HR Business Partners, HR leaders and HR generalists with at least two to three years of experience. It is especially timely if you need more confidence and greater weight in your day-to-day discussions with leaders.

When is it worth starting?

your next career step is a strategic HR role, but your toolkit for it is still incomplete
so far you could mostly respond to leaders' requests by carrying them out, without an advisory alternative
you are interested in how the organization works as a system, but you lack the methods for diagnosis and for launching development processes.

How we work

Across six one-day modules, we cover what the HR business partner role requires: from HR operating models, through partnering communication with leaders, core coaching skills and organizational development diagnosis, to the HR toolkit for change management. The trainers teach from the practice of their own consulting specialties, and the case studies come from GROW's real projects.

Thanks to the assignments between modules, everyone arrives at the next session with their own experience. Ördög László, one of the program's trainers, describes the motivation behind this work: “When the pieces of the puzzle come together. When I discover a connection. When I uncover another layer in the workings of the self, the group, the organization.”

What brought the program to life?

Growing in the HR role matters to anyone who is looking for new challenges within the profession and building their career deliberately. It takes specific skills and a particular mindset to offer HR solutions that create real value for leaders. The program supports this process of development and experience: it provides guaranteed opportunities to practice and develop the skills, introduces the most important models and tools, and brings the quality you know from GROW's training programs. We have organized the modules around a few key competencies and areas of knowledge so that learning is structured and easy to follow: we work on leadership, partnering communication and coaching skills, on systems, process and strategic thinking, and on the organizational development mindset and toolkit, because these form the foundation of a value-creating partnership with leaders.

Why GROW's program?

We have been working in HR consulting for more than thirty years.
We build our broad consulting experience into the training through case studies and examples.
We have expertise in program design: we know how to put together a development program quickly, as an engaging process that translates into practice.
Our open programs, the Train-the-Trainer Program, Integrative Coach Training and the Integrated Leadership Program, have been running successfully for years.

Module topics

Training days run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

HR operating models and the challenges of the role: HR operating models, your individual organizational context, the competencies of the HR role, HR as the leader's partner, creating a personal development plan.
Partnering communication and cross-generational collaboration: DISC-based communication, connecting with different leadership styles, assertiveness with leaders, conflict management and giving feedback, cross-generational collaboration, supporting leaders in managing generational differences.
Confident presence: assertive communication with different levels of the organization, running effective meetings, the structure of an impactful presentation, practical tips.
The organizational development mindset and diagnostic tools: process thinking, systems thinking, strategic thinking, setting up a diagnosis and situation analysis.
Coaching skills with practice: active listening, questioning techniques, empathy; practice case work on your own topics, in small groups.
The HR toolkit for change management: the role of HR in change, supporting individuals and groups, methodologies and tools, working through a specific case, gaining leaders' commitment, building a partnership, working through your own case.

Participants receive a certificate on completing the program.

Venue and contact

Venue: GROW Training Room, 1037 Budapest, Montevideo u. 3/A.

If you have questions or would like to apply, contact Almási Éva: +36 30 411 4143, almasi.eva@grow-group.com