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Master Class Strategic HRM

This master class gives you the right insights and tools to turn HR policy into a strong strategic added value for your organization.

Language

Dutch

First start date

16.11.2026
Price
€7.800

Location

Antwerp, Belgium

Trainings days

9 days

Language

Dutch

First start date

16.11.2026
Price
€7.800

Location

Antwerp, Belgium

Trainings days

9 days
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Master Class Strategic HRM
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Curriculum

Curriculum

Upon completion of this masterclass, you will be able to:

  • Navigate strategically: Translate overall business strategy into a robust HRM policy that remains effective in a complex environment.
  • Act in an evidence-based manner: Ground your decision-making in data analysis and scientific frameworks, enabling you to advise and intervene with analytical sharpness.
  • Orchestrate organizational design and change: Act as a guide in redesigning work processes and structures, supported by a pragmatic understanding of technological tools such as AI.
  • Create integrated impact: Speak the language of integrated business management and position HR as an indispensable value creator at decision-making level.
  • Make well-founded decisions: Replace intuition with unwavering professional confidence, supported by the best available academic and practice-oriented insights.
  • Build a compelling HRM business case: Develop a concise and convincing HRM business case and defend it with the necessary evidence.

Your programme at a glance

The curriculum of this programme forms a coherent and internally consistent whole, divided into two crucial development phases. We begin with the module HR as Policy Architect, focusing on the full scope of the modern HRM professional in order to strengthen your authority across the entire breadth of your role.

This solid foundation is translated in the second module, HR as Strategic Partner, into analytical sharpness, organizational design and future-oriented transformation. Through this sequence, you develop both the foundation and the strategic capabilities required to successfully defend, guide and implement organizational change and innovation.

MODULE 1: HR as Policy Architect

The full scope of the HRM professional, enabling you to manage the entire breadth of your responsibilities with authority.

Theme 1: HRM as a Strategic Lever
  • Strategic Vision: HRM in 2026: the shift from people management to strategic and sustainable HRM.
  • Business Alignment: The synergy between HRM and business strategy.
  • Evening programme: Networking dinner.
Theme 2: Talent Management
  • Future-oriented policy: Methodologies for strategic workforce planning.
  • Talent management: The targeted development of competencies and talent within the organization.
Theme 3: Motivation & Wellbeing
  • Drivers of engagement: Motivation and wellbeing viewed through the lens of reward policy, leadership and job design.
  • Evening programme: Selection of peer learning themes (deep dives).
Theme 4: Performance & Careers
  • Performance management: New approaches to performance management.
  • Sustainable career management: Facilitating growth and employability.

MODULE 2: HR as Strategic Partner

Analytical sharpness, organizational design and the transition towards the future. You are better equipped to strategically defend, guide and successfully implement major changes and innovations.

Theme 5: Organization(al) Design
  • Organizational design: Designing agile and future-proof organizational structures.
  • Evening programme: Peer work facilitated by faculty.
Theme 6: Technology & Employer Branding
  • Employer Branding 2.0: Talent attraction in a changing labour market.
  • AI in HRM: The pragmatic and supportive application of AI within HR practice.
Theme 7: Transformation & Social Dialogue
  • Leading change: The HR professional as the director of transformation processes.
  • Stakeholder management: The dialogue with social partners and strategic stakeholders.
  • Evening programme: Peer work facilitated by faculty.
Theme 8: HR Analytics & Future Exploration
  • HR Analytics & ROI: Analytical sharpness and quantifying the financial impact of HR.
  • HR Future Labs: An exploration of the latest and future developments in the field.
  • Evening programme: HR Challenge.

FINAL EVENT: Culmination of the Programme

  • Presentation & Defence: Presentation of the deep dive HR themes and the personal business case to a professional jury from practice.
  • Certification: Official certificate ceremony and closing networking reception.

Start the registration procedure

We only accept a limited number of candidates. We advise you to start the noncommittal application process as soon as possible. Registrations will be closed once the maximum capacity has been reached.

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