Transforming Your People Practice

Programme Overview

This intensive and compact programme is designed for HR professionals who want to strengthen their strategic influence and practical impact across organisations. Over five intensive modules, participants explore how organisations are shaped, how people think and behave, and how the people professional can act as consultant, coach, mentor, and facilitator. The programme covers the entire employee journey—from attraction to exit—while integrating the latest insights in digital HR, AI, and inclusive practices. Practical activities and weekly supervision ensure continuous application, culminating in a workplace-based capstone project that turns knowledge into measurable results.

Who should enrol?

• Mid-to-Senior People Professionals

• HR Managers, Business Partners, or Generalists seeking to transition into strategic HR or People & Culture leadership roles;

• Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, or Organizational Development specialists looking to broaden their scope

Modules Structure

Module 1 – Shaping Organisations, Shaping Roles

Explore how organisational design, culture, and structure shape both performance and the role of the people professional. Gain clarity on strategic deliverables, stakeholder expectations, and how digital HR and AI are transforming practice. Learn to use KPIs and metrics to demonstrate value and impact.

Module 2 – Understanding People, Influencing with Impact

Dive into the fundamentals of human behaviour at work—needs, emotions, and motivation—and connect these to communication and consulting practice. Strengthen skills in assertiveness, feedback, and influence to position yourself as a trusted advisor within the organisation.

Module 3 – Enabling Growth Through Partnership

Develop your capabilities as a coach, mentor, and facilitator. Learn how to build trust, listen actively, and ask powerful questions to unlock employee potential. Explore group dynamics, conflict resolution, and mediation techniques to guide individuals and teams toward growth.

Module 4 – The Employee Journey: From Attraction to Exit

Examine the full employee lifecycle—from planning, attraction, recruitment, and onboarding to development, performance, engagement, and retention. Special focus is given to DEI practices and respectful exit processes, ensuring a positive employee experience throughout the journey.

Module 5 – From Knowledge to Impact

Bring everything together in a workplace-based capstone project. Apply insights and tools gained throughout the programme to a real-world challenge, share outcomes with peers, and reflect on how to sustain meaningful impact in your organisation.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Analyse how organisational design, structure, and culture influence the role and impact of the people professional.

• Position themselves strategically as HR advisers by engaging effectively with stakeholders and using HR metrics and KPIs to demonstrate value.

• Recognise core human needs, emotions, and motivational drivers, and apply this understanding to communication, feedback, and consulting practices.

• Apply coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and mediation skills to build trust, unlock potential, and manage group dynamics constructively.

• Design and manage the employee lifecycle end-to-end, with an emphasis on engagement, development, retention, and positive exit experiences.

• Translate theory into practice through applied projects, reflective learning, and peer exchange.

Modules Workshops:

• February 20-21, 2026

• March 13-14, 2026

• April 17-18, 2026

• May 22-23, 2026

• June 19-20, 2026

Weekly Practical Online Workshops:

• Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:30 CET (from February 26, to June 18, 2026) 

Graduation Ceremony:

• June 26, 2026 – Live in Zurich

Prerequisites for enrolment in this course:

1. Applicants must have completed a Bachelor's degree. 

2. Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in a people-related function.

Investment and Value

The tuition fee for Transforming Your People Practice reflects the depth of content, the intensive learning format, and the opportunity to apply concepts directly to the workplace. Over five months, participants engage in immersive two-day workshops, weekly practice-oriented supervision, and a culminating workplace project that ensures direct organisational impact.

• Programme Fee: €5,700

• Early-bird (until 10 January 2026): €5,000

• Group Discount (3+ participants from the same organisation): €4,800 per person

To support accessibility, the programme fee may be paid in three instalments spread across the duration of the programme.

This investment covers all workshops, online sessions, learning materials, and supervision for the capstone project. Travel and accommodation, where relevant, are not included.

Distinctive Features and Programme Strengths

Balanced Integration of Strategic and Human-Centric Skills Unlike traditional HR programmes that lean heavily toward compliance or processes, this programme blends strategic HR thinking (e.g., organisational design, KPIs) with people-first capabilities (e.g., coaching, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution). This balance reflects the evolving role of HR as both a business partner and a human-centred leader.

Role-Based Framing Modules are structured around professional identities—consultant, coach, facilitator—giving participants a clear, practical anchor. This identity-based design reinforces the idea that performance stems not only from what we do, but from who we are in the workplace.

Lifecycle-Centred Progression By covering the entire employee lifecycle through a module, participants gain a comprehensive, end-to-end view of people management, a differentiator rarely offered in comparable programmes.

Experiential Learning Hands-on projects, peer collaboration, and workplace-based assignments run throughout the programme. The final module integrates these experiences into a capstone project, ensuring participants consolidate their learning and deliver tangible organisational impact.

Soft Skills Emphasis Active listening, assertiveness, trust-building, and group dynamics are woven into the programme. These often under-represented competencies are critical for HR professionals acting as mediators, influencers, and change agents in today’s organisations.