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Business Acumen and Intelligence for HR Professionals

Online
10-15 hours
Free

Course Content

Gain business acumen and intelligence to become a Full-Stack HR Professional and earn your seat at the strategic table. Transform your HR role from a support function and cost center to a strategic powerhouse and influential profit center. This course equips you with total business acumen, teaching you to decode financial, sales, and operational strategies of the C-Suite. You will learn to use data to prove the bottom-line value of your initiatives and transform your career by confidently making decisions that drive real business growth.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID201610
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration10-15 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Analyze your company's business model, competitive strategy, and position in the market
• Evaluate financial statements like the P&L and balance sheet to determine the health of the business
• Calculate the business impact and Return on Investment (ROI) of key HR initiatives
• Translate traditional HR activities into compelling business cases using the language of finance and strategy
• Plan a people strategy that directly supports a core business objective using the "Golden Thread" framework
• Apply Lean principles to identify and eliminate waste in core HR processes like hiring and onboarding
• Create a simple yet powerful HR dashboard that visually communicates key metrics to leadership
• Define your company's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) to build a compelling employer brand
• Discuss the impact of global economic, social, and technological trends on your workforce strategy
• Relate employee experience (EX) directly to customer experience (CX) to prove HR's impact on brand loyalty
Course Code7740

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