The Critical Friend role and integrating all roles in practice
FREE01 – HR & Sustainability
This CIPD Level 0 learning video, part of the FREE01 HR & Sustainability unit, explores the critical friend role and how people professionals integrate multiple responsibilities in practice. Covering assessment criteria AC 2.1, the video explains how HR practitioners support sustainability goals through interconnected roles including adviser, change agent, culture and behaviour influencer, governance guardian, employee voice champion, and communicator. By understanding the critical friend role alongside these complementary functions, learners gain practical insight into how people professionals drive organisational sustainability whilst maintaining strategic influence and stakeholder engagement.
Assessment Criteria 2.1
Explain the role of the people professional in supporting sustainability goals.
Indicative Content
Roles to include: adviser/consultant; change agent; culture and behaviour influencer; governance and compliance guardian; employee voice champion; communicator; critical friend.
What You'll Learn
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About FREE01 – HR & Sustainability
To develop learners’ understanding of sustainability as a people issue and the role people professionals play in embedding sustainable, ethical and responsible working practices.
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