HR Masterclass – For Future HR Leaders and People Managers

Why Select this Training Course? 

The key role of human resource departments in any organisation is ensuring the right and qualified personnel are assigned to key leadership roles and perform at their optimal best. HR managers and leaders are at the core of any company’s success. They are tasked with strategising and leading talent drives.

The Rcademy HR Masterclass – For Future HR Leaders and People Managers course will help HR personnel understand their roles and responsibilities and how to design and execute processes that propel business performance. Participants will learn about growing trends in HR, workplace budgeting in difficult times and skills necessary to lead HR teams. Focus is also given to recruitment and retention of workers, influencing the workforce and talent mobility.

What are the Best HR Qualifications in 2024?

From managing employee mental health challenges to creating a comprehensive ESG framework, the roles of human resource personnel have evolved over the years, with HR professionals ramping up their employment criteria for potential workers. To compete in today’s professional environment, future HR leaders and managers must possess the latest qualifications obtainable in the industry. Some of the top HR qualifications include:

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualifications: The CIPD’s HR qualifications are among the most popular qualifications required of potential HR personnel. The qualifications are offered in three levels: CIPD Level 3 Foundation in People Practice, CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management, and CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management.
• The Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in HR
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) qualifications

What are the Essential Skills for Human Resource Management?

A dedicated and qualified HR manager is the backbone of any successful organisation. They build efficient and safe workplaces by balancing employee relations and business-related needs and demands. Their duties include conflict mediation, employee training and applicant interviews. HR managers perform everything a business requires to function optimally. Therefore, they must possess certain essential skills to handle their duties effectively. These skills include:

• Tech savviness
• Organisation
• Communication
• Ethical action
• Negotiation
• Empathy
• Commitment

Who Should Attend?

The following persons should attend the Rcademy HR Masterclass – For Future HR Leaders and People Managers course:

• Management officerstasked with providing administrative assistance and managing queries from employees
• Human Resources officers
• Managers and supervisorstasked with overseeing the smooth running of an organisation
• Senior leadersvested with leadership roles and managerial responsibilities
• Business ownersresponsible for building a healthy and efficient workplace environment
• Company/Organisational directors

What are the Course Objectives? 

This Rcademy HR Masterclass – For Future HR Leaders and People Managers course is designed to help participants achieve the following outcomes:

• Understand how to build an excellent team and be an outstanding leader
• Learn how to manage the evolving change processes effectively
• Understand the rudiments and importance of emotional intelligence and other leadership competencies
• Recognise the best practices and latest trends in human capital management in 2024
• Understand how HR teams can gain increased value in the “new economy”
• Learn workforce budget planning in difficult times
• Manage personnel engagement, productivity, and well-being in a hybrid work environment
• Learn how to lead in a diverse and multicultural work setting
• Understand the rudiments of employer branding

How will this Course be Presented?

This training course is participant-based and specially curated to meet their expectations while growing their skills and knowledge. Different techniques and approaches that ensure active learning by participants will be employed to deliver the training. The course will be delivered by experts in the field with years of practice and experience. The modules are designed from extensive and in-depth research on the subject.

The Rcademy HR Masterclass – For Future HR Leaders and People Managers offers theoretical and practical learning by providing lecture notes, slides on the subject, real-life scenarios, and lecture notes. Participants will partake in presentations, quizzes, seminar workshops, and constant feedback on the lessons taught to gauge their satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Human Resource Management and Strategic Leadership

X-raying relevant challenges 

• Organisational assessment

Self-assessment 

• Human resource management and the 4Cs of leadership
• The value of capacity-building in strategic implementation
• Human resource management and retention
• Human resource management and customer relations and satisfaction
• Human resource management and innovation
• Human resource management and employee performance
• The role of strategic leadership in HR

Module 2: Employee Experience and Recruitment Trends for 2024

• Building an organisation where employees want to work
• The integrated employee lifecycle
• Building moments that matter across talent processes
• Excellent employee experience as central to recruitment, attraction, and retention
• Defining the outlook of a good employee experience using workplace culture, technology, and benefits

Module 3: Talent Mobility

• Recognising talent and appropriate role/task delegation
• Motivating individuals to contribute their optimal best
• Aligning employees’ goals with the company’s objectives
• Applying the right personnel with the right skills in the right place and time
• Designing and executing the right talent search plan

Module 4: Robert Katz’s 3 Skills for Leaders’ Leaders

• Technical skills
• Conceptual skills
• Interpersonal skills

Module 5: Human Resources as a Strategic Partner

• HR and strategic management
• HR, succession planning and knowledge management
• HR and strategic leadership
• Meeting today’s employment challenges and pressures
• Current perspectives on the strategic alignment of HR function with business objectives
• Designing techniques to heighten productivity and sustain employee relations

Module 6: Influencing the Workforce

• Encouraging employees to share creative ideas
• Cross-training employees
• Breaking the silos
• Facilitating cross-functional and cross-departmental collaboration

Module 7: HR Best Practices for Navigating Unexpected Economic Downturns

• Hybrid and flexible working environment
• Employ data-driven decision
• Investment in employee wellbeing (financial, physical and mental health)
• Cost optimisation
• Inclusion and diversity

Module 8: Workforce Budget Planning in Difficult Times

• Strategic workforce budgeting plan
• Avoiding over-hiring in good times and layoffs in turbulent times
• The key to workforce planning (right personnel, right place, right time, and right skills)
• Collaborating with the finance team for HR budgets

Module 9: HR Knowledge Management

• Defining and characterising collated data
• Competitor analysis and knowledge utilisation
• Connecting with customers for feedback
• Learning from self and competitors
• Collaborating with existing and previous employees

Module 10: The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Covid-19 on Employment

• Before and after AI workforce systems
• The impact of change on organisational design (O.D)
• How to right size
• Use of digital footprints
• Covid-19 and the growth of remote work
• The need to address universal basic income
• Mastering process design

Module 11: Transparent Pay and Rewards Using Re-Engineered Processes for Appraisal

• Utilising technology to collate performance data
• Automation of bonus allocation
• The new role of performance automation
• Understanding performance management
• Automating the entire reward process

Module 12: Managing Down

• Building confidence and skills to achieve mutually acceptable outcomes
• Fostering motivation and competence in staff and sub-leaders
• Overcoming inhibitions about delegation
• Monitoring and measuring staff progress and performance
• Using available resources more effectively to attain desired results
• Clarifying best practices and level of authority to select when delegating