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Strategic Business Partner
Strategic Business Partners (SBPs) develop partnerships with leaders, based upon access, credibility and trust. They partner with the organization’s leaders to define, align and implement people initiatives that support business goals. Through the contributions they make, Strategic Business Partners earn and keep a “seat at the table.”
Why is Strategic Partnering Important Now?
Converging trends and performance pressures are causing executives to seek more sophisticated and comprehensive support. In response to these needs, some team members assume the role of Strategic Business Partner (SBP). Strategic Business Partners work with an organization’s leaders to define, align, and implement people initiatives that benefit the business. When the partnership is optimized, SBPs contribute to the formation of business strategies and plans at the enterprise level.
Whether internal client partnerships are ongoing or project-based, strategic partnering is becoming a key accountability for HR, Learning and OD. Professionals. The accountabilities of the strategic partner are depicted in the figure.
Strategic Business Partnering Services

| Access: |
Identify and gain “face” time with your clients |
| Credibility: |
Confidence in your capability to deliver results to the business |
| Trust: |
Confidence in your integrity and reliability to achieve results in support of the business |
Our proven, practical, “how-to” Strategic Business Partner services are based on the research and practices of Dana and Jim Robinson, authors of Strategic Business Partner.
SBP Services include:
Exemplary Performance provides transformation services, workshops and coaching to Human Resources (HR), Learning and Organization Development (OD) professionals to transition to operate in a more strategic manner in order to benefit the business.
Strategic Partnering Process
What is Strategic Work?
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