HR’s 2025 professional development toolkit


To operate effectively in today’s turbulent business landscape, HR practitioners will benefit from developing their full suite of HR capabilities, as per the Australian HR Capability framework. Explore HRM’s HR professional development toolkit.

As the demands on HR practitioners continue to evolve, the Australian HR Capability Framework (AHRCF) provides a clear guide for building the skills needed to navigate today’s complexities with confidence. Whether it’s fostering strategic leadership, driving workforce performance or embedding inclusive practices, the AHRCF pillars offer a roadmap for deepening HR capabilities in meaningful, measurable ways.

As we step into a new year, it’s the perfect time for HR practitioners to reflect on their development goals and curate a professional development toolkit that aligns with these pillars, ensuring they are equipped to meet organisational challenges while driving their own career growth.

AHRI members can assess their capabilities against the AHRCF and receive personalised development recommendations using the Capability Assessment Tool, which is accessible via the member dashboard. Learn more about this below.


Maximise the value of your HR strategies and initiatives to the broader business and help drive sustainable growth by drawing on these resources. They tackle areas such as developing commercial acumen, becoming an HR leader and developing practical skills such as producing board materials and thinking with a commercial mindset.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


One of HR’s essential roles include enabling organisations to operate compliantly and efficiently, by facilitating the successful uptake of new technologies, systems and innovations. These resources will set you up to meaningfully interpret workforce metrics, facilitate the adoption of new technologies and lead your organisation through complex change.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Develop your confidence to not only meet evolving health, safety and wellbeing regulations, but to help contribute towards a more sustainable, healthy workplace culture. These resources will equip you with knowledge across psychosocial safety and trauma-informed HR, as well as strategies to take care of your own mental health.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:



Deepen your ability to nurture an inclusive, respectful and high-performing organisational culture that moves both people and business outcomes. The resources below explore best-practice diversity, inclusion and equity practices, advice for fostering neuro-inclusive environments and guidance on building strong, ethical culture leadership behaviours.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Demonstrate HR’s impact and ensure the organisation’s workforce practices and capabilities are strategically connected with its broader business objectives. The resources below will sharpen your skills across key areas of workforce redesign and planning, and provide practical strategies to carry out complex processes, such as a redundancies.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Apply these resources to develop your proficiencies across attracting, engaging and retaining talent, and implement effective strategies to foster a high-performance culture. These resources focus on skills such as building a capability framework, and topics such as adjusting to a shifting talent market and effective employee engagement strategies.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Enhance your relationships with key stakeholders, from creating mutually beneficial partnerships with the executive team to supporting capability across the business. These resources will help practitioners hone their skills in managing stakeholder pushback, as well as discovering practical steps for moving into an HR leadership role.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Not sure where to start?

Check in on your current skills and receive development recommendations through AHRI’s Capability Assessment Tool, exclusive to AHRI members.

Example in action

Isabelle is an HR manager and has worked across recruitment, compliance and policy implementation for most of her 15-year career. She’s refined her workforce effectiveness and talent management skills, but is looking to add more capabilities to her toolkit to prepare herself to move into a more senior HR leadership role. After using AHRI’s Capability Assessment tool, she learns that she needs to lean into the Culture Leadership and Business Strategy pillars of the AHRCF.

 

The Australian HR Capability Framework is freely available for any HR practitioner to view. AHRI members can access a career-stage breakdown of each skill and knowledge area, as well as the Capability Assessment Tool and individual report.

 

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HR’s 2025 professional development toolkit


To operate effectively in today’s turbulent business landscape, HR practitioners will benefit from developing their full suite of HR capabilities, as per the Australian HR Capability framework. Explore HRM’s HR professional development toolkit.

As the demands on HR practitioners continue to evolve, the Australian HR Capability Framework (AHRCF) provides a clear guide for building the skills needed to navigate today’s complexities with confidence. Whether it’s fostering strategic leadership, driving workforce performance or embedding inclusive practices, the AHRCF pillars offer a roadmap for deepening HR capabilities in meaningful, measurable ways.

As we step into a new year, it’s the perfect time for HR practitioners to reflect on their development goals and curate a professional development toolkit that aligns with these pillars, ensuring they are equipped to meet organisational challenges while driving their own career growth.

AHRI members can assess their capabilities against the AHRCF and receive personalised development recommendations using the Capability Assessment Tool, which is accessible via the member dashboard. Learn more about this below.


Maximise the value of your HR strategies and initiatives to the broader business and help drive sustainable growth by drawing on these resources. They tackle areas such as developing commercial acumen, becoming an HR leader and developing practical skills such as producing board materials and thinking with a commercial mindset.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


One of HR’s essential roles include enabling organisations to operate compliantly and efficiently, by facilitating the successful uptake of new technologies, systems and innovations. These resources will set you up to meaningfully interpret workforce metrics, facilitate the adoption of new technologies and lead your organisation through complex change.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Develop your confidence to not only meet evolving health, safety and wellbeing regulations, but to help contribute towards a more sustainable, healthy workplace culture. These resources will equip you with knowledge across psychosocial safety and trauma-informed HR, as well as strategies to take care of your own mental health.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:



Deepen your ability to nurture an inclusive, respectful and high-performing organisational culture that moves both people and business outcomes. The resources below explore best-practice diversity, inclusion and equity practices, advice for fostering neuro-inclusive environments and guidance on building strong, ethical culture leadership behaviours.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Demonstrate HR’s impact and ensure the organisation’s workforce practices and capabilities are strategically connected with its broader business objectives. The resources below will sharpen your skills across key areas of workforce redesign and planning, and provide practical strategies to carry out complex processes, such as a redundancies.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Apply these resources to develop your proficiencies across attracting, engaging and retaining talent, and implement effective strategies to foster a high-performance culture. These resources focus on skills such as building a capability framework, and topics such as adjusting to a shifting talent market and effective employee engagement strategies.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Enhance your relationships with key stakeholders, from creating mutually beneficial partnerships with the executive team to supporting capability across the business. These resources will help practitioners hone their skills in managing stakeholder pushback, as well as discovering practical steps for moving into an HR leadership role.

Click on the tiles below for more detail:


Not sure where to start?

Check in on your current skills and receive development recommendations through AHRI’s Capability Assessment Tool, exclusive to AHRI members.

Example in action

Isabelle is an HR manager and has worked across recruitment, compliance and policy implementation for most of her 15-year career. She’s refined her workforce effectiveness and talent management skills, but is looking to add more capabilities to her toolkit to prepare herself to move into a more senior HR leadership role. After using AHRI’s Capability Assessment tool, she learns that she needs to lean into the Culture Leadership and Business Strategy pillars of the AHRCF.

 

The Australian HR Capability Framework is freely available for any HR practitioner to view. AHRI members can access a career-stage breakdown of each skill and knowledge area, as well as the Capability Assessment Tool and individual report.

 

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