Use people analytics to drive HR decisions and measurable business outcomes.
Skills you will gain
- Designing People Analytics Programs: Build data-driven strategies that align HR initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
- Using Data to Drive Decisions: Leverage internal and external data to diagnose challenges, predict success, and prescribe solutions.
- Communicating Business Impact: Translate analytics into actionable insights that resonate across HR and leadership teams.
- Mastering Analytics Foundations: Apply core statistics and analysis techniques essential to modern people analytics.
- Driving Organizational Change: Inspire data-informed transformation by integrating analytics with leadership decision-making.
Course Description
In People Analytics, students learn the power of using data to drive measurable business outcomes and design data-driven people strategies to catalyze change and transformation in the workforce. You will see how to find and use data, win support for your new people analytics program, diagnose missteps, predict success, and prescribe change based on data rather than intuition. With data as our foundation, we will discuss the four stages of analytics and common pitfalls of people analytics programs. Learn to motivate and inspire leaders to integrate data and analytics with their personal expertise, thus enabling a more effective use of an organization's most precious resources: people's time and energy.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to
- Describe the key elements that make up a People Analytics program and be comfortable with basic statistics and analysis that are used in the field today.
- Discuss how an organization might initiate a People Analytics program using existing internal and external data to measure business impact of human resources activities.
- Explain how data can be used to measure business outcomes in a way that others in human resources and in the organization can understand and also action for improved business outcomes.
- Identify what data is actionable, how that data can be used to understand the underlying impact of business activity, how to use data to predict and prescribe business outcomes in the field of human resources.
Skills Needed
Basic mathematics concepts and functions, including square roots and be familiar with the concepts of ratios and proportions. Should possess a grasp of elementary algebra. Also should be able to translate a verbal phrase or sentence into an expression or equation. Be familiar with basic statistical concepts or randomness, likelihood, and correlation.
Professional Credit
SHRM-CP(R) or SHRM-SCP(R) 16.5 PDCs.
Additional Information
AI* - This course encourages students to understand the current AI trends in People Analytics and HR overall. The course will highlight the potential benefits of AI for employees, managers, and HR alike - along with the risks and mitigation strategies to ensure company culture remains intact.
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