Course Description
Whether you're a recently appointed HR manager, are new to HR or have a non-HR job with HR responsibilities, this course can give you the know-how you need. Understand essential HR functions and learn to develop an action plan to put to work in your organization.
This comprehensive seminar delivers a modern view of HR's role and will educate you and give you an opportunity to practice your skills in a variety of areas, including but not limited to:
- Legal responsibilities
- Talent Acquisition (Recruiting)
- Talent Assessment (Performance Management and Diversity)
- Talent Development (Coaching and Leadership Development)
- Talent Measurement (Compensation) and much more
How You Will Benefit
- Understand HR’s role as a vital contributor to your organization’s success
- Discover strategies to attract and retain top talent
- Examine best practices for managing performance and creating compensation, training and benefit systems that drive bottom-line results
- Identify and deal with potentially explosive issues with an eye to both legal requirements and the needs of your business
- Analyze HR issues and develop action plans you can implement in your organization
- See how HR and non-HR functions in every organization can create an effective, complementary work environment
Online Accreditation12 CAE, 1.2 CEU, 14 CPE
Agenda
What You Will CoverThe Role of HR and Organizational Assessment
- HR’s role in today’s workplace and beyond
- HR as a strategic business partner
- HR trends and challenges
Relationships and Gaining Trust
- The importance of building relationships
- How HR relates to non-HR functions
- The business impact of improved relationships between HR and non-HR departments
Legal Responsibilities
- Comparison and contrast of HR and managerial legal responsibilities
- Key federal employment-related terms and legislation
- Questions and categories to avoid during the employment process
- Defining and increasing awareness of workplace sexual and other harassment
- Legal trends and challenges
Talent Acquisition
- The importance of well-written job descriptions and when to revise them
- Matching applicants with job requirements and responsibilities
- Recruiting best practices
- Selection criteria, questioning techniques and background research
- Orientation and assimilation
Talent Alignment
- Aligning talent with the organization's strategic vision
- Development plans and goal setting
- Opportunities for internal mobility
- Communication and change management
- Succession planning
Talent Management
- Internal mobility
- Domestic mobility
- Global mobility
Talent Assessment: Performance Management and Diversity
- Objectives of performance management systems
- Performance management components and guidelines
- Respective roles among HR, managers and employees
- Performance management meetings: preparation, action plan, pitfalls
- Performance issues, counseling and discipline
- Assessing talent with a diversity lens
- Key points about diversity
Talent Development
- Training responsibilities
- Types of training
- Coaching and mentoring
- Career development
- Leadership development
Talent Measurement/Compensation
- Year-end performance review system
- Characteristics of an effective compensation system
- Salary surveys
- Traditional and dynamic compensation programs
Talent Retention and Transition
- Employee retention strategies
- Talent transition
Functional HR Areas
- Healthcare and other benefits
- Voluntary benefits/Total Rewards mindset
- Federally mandated holidays
- Employee handbooks
- Policy and procedure manuals
- Human resource information systems (HRIS)
Final Activity
Putting it all together - understanding and implementing your role in the organization and creating your action plan
Special Feature
This Seminar Features Blended Learning
AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner - producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.
Audience
HR practitioners with less than three years' experience; non-HR practitioners with HR responsibilities; experienced HR professionals seeking a fast review of HR’s role in today's workplace.
Cancellation:Transfer, Cancellation and Refund Policy. For Classroom, Live Online and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place or cancel without penalty at any time up to three weeks prior to your program. If you provide AMA with less than three weeks’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee. Programs included in AMA OnDemand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can. Please call us if you have any questions