HOW EXCEPTIONAL BUSINESS PARTNERS DELIVER VALUE (PART 1)

The Acquire Group was delighted to host a panel event for over 50 leaders across multiple functions to discuss the role of the Business Partner and how they can effectively deliver value to the business’ bottom line.

We were fortunate to have a truly high calibre panel comprised of two leaders who operate in business partner roles – Steve Reid, HR Director at oOh! Media and Peter Knott, Finance Director at BAI Communications. In addition, we had two former business partners who are now in operations roles and are business partnered themselves – Karen Bozic, GM Retail at Caltex and Anne Jackson, Head of Grocery at Goodman Fielder.

The panel shared their insights on how talented functional leaders can truly partner with the business by employing a new set of competencies and in particular how critical attitude and approach is to being successful.

In the first part of this video, we explore these insights from the business partner’s perspective where Steve and Peter discuss what they have learned about how to make an impact and how the role has evolved. The expectations of BPs has shifted from them being reactive and purely a supplier of information to being more proactive and actively participating in the decisions being made because they take an ownership mindset of ‘this is my business and I’m equally accountable for it’s success’. The boundaries of the role are what you make them and in order to build trust and credibility, you need to operate outside of your position description, confidently express opinions and speak the language of the business.

In the second part of the video, Karen and Anne share their insights as operational executives who rely on business partners to help them and the organisation be successful.

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