Chapter 9Coaching Your Business Partner

Florence Plessier and Monica Bortoluzzi

We thank the many HR professionals and the HR business partners who have shared their experience with us, in particular, Philippe Brun and Michel Laborie in Europe and Jerry Yap and Praneet Mehrish for their Asian perspective. We also thank David Schlesinger for his contributions to our thinking.

There are plenty of challenges to adding coaching to your repertoire as a human resource business partner (HRBP), but our experience across hundreds of organizations is that your impact can be dramatically increased in this way. We have seen both business performance and people involvement improved when the HRBP is willing to take on the challenges associated with the ...

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