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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

  1. 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.

    1. Thinking Like a CHROPreview
    2. Aligning People Strategy to Enterprise Strategy
    3. The People Value Chain and Business Impact
    4. Board Level Communication and Influence
    5. HR as a Driver of Competitive Advantage
    6. Ucanly Lab: Write a Board Level People Strategy MemoAssignment
  2. 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.

    1. How Structure Genuinely Shapes Performance
    2. Organisation Design Principles and Models
    3. Operating Models and Ways of Working
    4. Spans, Layers and Organisational Efficiency
    5. Redesigning for Growth, Restructuring and Change
    6. Ucanly Lab: Redesign an Organisation StructureAssignment
  3. Module 3: Predictive People Analytics

    6 lessons · 1 h 56 min

    Move HR from explaining the past to genuinely anticipating the future.

    1. From Reporting to Prediction
    2. Predicting Attrition and Flight Risk
    3. Workforce Modelling and Scenario Planning
    4. Statistical Rigour and Avoiding Bad Conclusions
    5. Turning Prediction Into Action
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Predictive Attrition ModelAssignment
  4. 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.

    1. The People Cost of a Business
    2. Building the People Budget and Headcount Plan
    3. Measuring the ROI of People Investments
    4. Compensation Strategy and Equity Modelling
    5. Building the People Business Case
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a People Cost and ROI ModelAssignment
  5. 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.

    1. Culture as a Genuine Business Lever
    2. Diagnosing and Measuring Culture
    3. Leading Large Scale Change
    4. Managing Resistance and Difficult Transitions
    5. Building Values That Survive Growth
    6. Ucanly Lab: Design a Culture and Change ProgramAssignment
  6. 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.

    1. Minor Project: Diagnosing the Organisation
    2. Minor Project: Designing the Target Structure
    3. Minor Project: The Workforce and Cost Model
    4. Minor Project: The Transition and Change Plan
    5. Minor Project: Risk, Impact and Ethics
    6. Minor Project: Leadership Defense and Mentor ReviewAssignment
  7. 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.

    1. The Future of Work and the Skills Shift
    2. Reskilling and Building Capability at Scale
    3. HR Technology Strategy and Digital HR
    4. AI in Talent Acquisition and People Decisions
    5. Flexible, Hybrid and Distributed Workforces
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Talent Transformation RoadmapAssignment
  8. 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.

    1. Major Project: Framing the People and Business Thesis
    2. Major Project: Workforce, Talent and Org Design
    3. Major Project: Predictive Analytics and the Evidence Base
    4. Major Project: Reward, Culture and Change Plan
    5. Major Project: Ethics, Governance and People ImpactAssignment
    6. 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
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