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Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management: Intermediate

From generalist to strategic HR business partner: workforce planning, people analytics, performance systems, and a full HRBP strategy defense.

  • Course
  • Intermediate
  • 8 weeks
  • 47 lessons
  • Updated July 2026

What you'll learn

  • Shift from HR admin to business partnership, aligning people strategy to business goals and stakeholder needs
  • Build workforce plans, talent strategy, job architecture, career frameworks, and succession plans for critical roles
  • Understand HR metrics that genuinely matter, and run diagnostic analysis with data storytelling for leaders
  • Design performance management systems with OKRs, continuous feedback, and fair underperformance handling
  • Run a complete people analytics engagement diagnosing attrition or engagement, with a costed recommendation
  • Design competitive reward systems with salary benchmarking, variable pay, and genuine pay equity
  • Measure and improve engagement, build culture and inclusion, and handle employee relations and change management
  • Understand HR technology, HRMS, and automation, and where AI introduces genuine bias and risk in HR decisions
  • Build and defend a full HR business partner strategy with workforce planning, reward, engagement, and an analytics dashboard

Modules

8 modules · 47 lessons · 8 assignments

  1. Module 1: The Strategic HR Business Partner

    6 lessons · 1 h 46 min

    Learn the shift that turns HR into a genuine strategic function, and speak the language of the business.

    1. From HR Admin to Business PartnershipPreview
    2. Understanding the Business You Support
    3. Aligning People Strategy to Business Goals
    4. Stakeholder Management and Influence
    5. HR Consulting and Problem Diagnosis
    6. Ucanly Lab: Diagnose a Real Business People ProblemAssignment

  2. Module 2: Workforce Planning and Talent Strategy

    6 lessons · 1 h 48 min

    Plan the people a business will need ahead of time, and design how it attracts and retains genuine capability.

    1. Workforce Planning That Genuinely Anticipates
    2. Building a Talent Strategy
    3. Job Architecture and Career Frameworks
    4. Succession Planning and Critical Roles
    5. Build, Buy or Borrow Talent Decisions
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Workforce PlanAssignment

  3. Module 3: People Analytics Foundations

    6 lessons · 1 h 51 min

    Understand the shift that made analytics core to HR, and turn analysis into a decision a leader will act on.

    1. Why HR Genuinely Runs on Data Now
    2. HR Metrics That Genuinely Matter
    3. Collecting and Cleaning People Data
    4. Diagnostic Analysis and Finding Drivers
    5. Data Storytelling for Leaders
    6. Ucanly Lab: Analyse a Real Workforce DatasetAssignment

  4. Module 4: Performance and Talent Development

    6 lessons · 1 h 48 min

    Build performance systems that genuinely improve performance, and identify the people who matter most.

    1. Designing Performance Management That Works
    2. Goals, OKRs and Continuous Feedback
    3. Learning, Development and Capability Building
    4. Talent Reviews and High Potential Programs
    5. Managing Underperformance Fairly
    6. Ucanly Lab: Design a Performance FrameworkAssignment

  5. Module 5: Ucanly Minor Project, Run a People Analytics Engagement

    6 lessons · 1 h 51 min

    Turn a vague leadership concern into an answered, costed, and defended people question.

    1. Minor Project: Framing the People Question
    2. Minor Project: Preparing and Exploring the Data
    3. Minor Project: Diagnosing Attrition or Engagement
    4. Minor Project: Quantifying the Business Impact
    5. Minor Project: The Costed Recommendation and Data Story
    6. Minor Project: Findings Defense and Mentor ReviewAssignment

  6. Module 6: Compensation, Reward and Recognition

    6 lessons · 1 h 48 min

    Design pay that genuinely attracts and retains, without breaking budget or fairness.

    1. Building a Fair and Competitive Reward System
    2. Salary Benchmarking and Pay Structure
    3. Variable Pay, Incentives and Bonuses
    4. Pay Equity and Transparency
    5. Recognition and Non Financial Reward
    6. Ucanly Lab: Build a Reward and Benchmarking ModelAssignment

  7. Module 7: Engagement, Employee Relations and HR Technology

    6 lessons · 1 h 50 min

    Understand what drives commitment, handle disputes fairly, and understand the systems reshaping HR.

    1. Measuring and Improving Engagement
    2. Culture, Belonging and Inclusion
    3. Employee Relations and Conflict Resolution
    4. Managing Change and Difficult Transitions
    5. HR Technology, HRMS and Automation
    6. Ucanly Lab: Design an Engagement and Relations PlanAssignment

  8. Module 8: Ucanly Major Project, Build an HR Business Partner Strategy

    5 lessons · 1 h 26 min

    Operate as a genuine HR business partner and build a complete capability strategy for a business unit.

    1. Major Project: Understanding the Business Unit
    2. Major Project: Workforce Planning and Talent Strategy
    3. Major Project: Performance and Reward Framework
    4. Major Project: Engagement, Retention and Culture
    5. Major Project: The People Analytics DashboardAssignment

Before you start

  • Completion of the Human Resource Management Beginner level, or working knowledge of recruitment, onboarding, the employee lifecycle, and HR basics
  • A computer capable of running Excel or Google Sheets and basic dashboard tools
  • Comfort with basic HR concepts and data analysis
See the course and how to enrol
https://ucanly.io/courses/human-resource-management-intermediate