Fundamentals of Human Resources Management

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

Who Should Attend

• 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.

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

What You Will Cover

The 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