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Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management: Advanced
From business partner to people and culture leader: organisation design, predictive analytics, workforce economics, and a full transformation program.
- Course
- Advanced
- 8 weeks
- 48 lessons
- Updated July 2026
What you'll learn
- Think like a CHRO, aligning people strategy to enterprise strategy and communicating at board level
- Design organisation structures and operating models that genuinely fit strategy, scale, and efficiency
- Build predictive people analytics including attrition and flight risk models with statistical rigour
- Understand workforce economics, build people budgets, and measure the ROI of people investments
- Deliver a complete organisation design and operating model engagement defended to a leadership board
- Diagnose and measure culture, lead large scale change, and manage resistance and difficult transitions
- Build talent transformation and reskilling strategies, and architect an HR technology and digital HR strategy
- Understand AI bias and fairness risks in talent acquisition and people decisions, and govern AI in HR responsibly
- Architect and defend a full people and culture transformation program with an ethics and governance position
Modules
8 modules · 48 lessons · 8 assignments
Module 1: People Strategy and Business Leadership
6 lessons · 1 h 53 min
Learn the shift from running HR to genuinely shaping the business through people.
- Thinking Like a CHROPreview
- Aligning People Strategy to Enterprise Strategy
- The People Value Chain and Business Impact
- Board Level Communication and Influence
- HR as a Driver of Competitive Advantage
- Ucanly Lab: Write a Board Level People Strategy MemoAssignment
Module 2: Organisation Design and Operating Models
6 lessons · 1 h 53 min
Understand why the org chart quietly decides output, and design structures that fit strategy and scale.
- How Structure Genuinely Shapes Performance
- Organisation Design Principles and Models
- Operating Models and Ways of Working
- Spans, Layers and Organisational Efficiency
- Redesigning for Growth, Restructuring and Change
- Ucanly Lab: Redesign an Organisation StructureAssignment
Module 3: Predictive People Analytics
6 lessons · 1 h 56 min
Move HR from explaining the past to genuinely anticipating the future.
- From Reporting to Prediction
- Predicting Attrition and Flight Risk
- Workforce Modelling and Scenario Planning
- Statistical Rigour and Avoiding Bad Conclusions
- Turning Prediction Into Action
- Ucanly Lab: Build a Predictive Attrition ModelAssignment
Module 4: Financial Leadership and Workforce Economics
6 lessons · 1 h 56 min
Understand how workforce cost drives the P and L, and prove that people programs genuinely create value.
- The People Cost of a Business
- Building the People Budget and Headcount Plan
- Measuring the ROI of People Investments
- Compensation Strategy and Equity Modelling
- Building the People Business Case
- Ucanly Lab: Build a People Cost and ROI ModelAssignment
Module 5: Culture, Change and Transformation
6 lessons · 1 h 56 min
Understand how culture genuinely drives performance and risk, and lead change without losing the organisation.
- Culture as a Genuine Business Lever
- Diagnosing and Measuring Culture
- Leading Large Scale Change
- Managing Resistance and Difficult Transitions
- Building Values That Survive Growth
- Ucanly Lab: Design a Culture and Change ProgramAssignment
Module 6: Ucanly Minor Project, Organisation Design and Operating Model
6 lessons · 1 h 54 min
Diagnose why a current structure is failing, and design a target structure defended to a leadership panel.
- Minor Project: Diagnosing the Organisation
- Minor Project: Designing the Target Structure
- Minor Project: The Workforce and Cost Model
- Minor Project: The Transition and Change Plan
- Minor Project: Risk, Impact and Ethics
- Minor Project: Leadership Defense and Mentor ReviewAssignment
Module 7: Talent Transformation, HR Technology and the Future of Work
6 lessons · 1 h 56 min
Transform a workforce for the capabilities coming next, and use AI in HR while managing its risks.
- The Future of Work and the Skills Shift
- Reskilling and Building Capability at Scale
- HR Technology Strategy and Digital HR
- AI in Talent Acquisition and People Decisions
- Flexible, Hybrid and Distributed Workforces
- Ucanly Lab: Build a Talent Transformation RoadmapAssignment
Module 8: Ucanly Major Project, Lead a People and Culture Transformation
6 lessons · 2 h 25 min
Turn a real organisational challenge into a defensible strategy, and state honestly where it could harm people.
- Major Project: Framing the People and Business Thesis
- Major Project: Workforce, Talent and Org Design
- Major Project: Predictive Analytics and the Evidence Base
- Major Project: Reward, Culture and Change Plan
- Major Project: Ethics, Governance and People ImpactAssignment
- Live Session: Board Defense and Career Launch with Ucanly
Before you start
- Completion of the Human Resource Management Intermediate level, or hands on experience with HR strategy, people analytics, or business partnering with real organisational impact
- Comfort with data analysis, financial concepts, and organisational design thinking
- A computer capable of running Excel, Power BI or Tableau, and basic Python or R