Accelerating Your HR Career
At organizations across the world, of every size and in every industry, HR professionals are wondering: is this the place where I can build my career?
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Course Overview
Leaders, managers, and recruiters want to be able to enthusiastically say, “Yes, you can grow in your career here.”
But often, the conversation ends there. Employees, even the ones in HR, don’t always have clear guidance on what it takes to grow, which skills they need to get ahead, or whether their current organization (or industry) is really the best place for them to achieve their goals. Building a career is a process—a highly personal one that takes reflection, conversation, and a whole lot of learning.
That’s what this course is for. Accelerating Your HR Career offers individuals at all levels the building blocks they need to move themselves forward in an HR career over time. Featuring career journeys from global HR professionals, frameworks for self-reflection, and tools for making plans, this deeply practical Workshop puts individuals in charge of their careers and helps organizations grow their people.
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Field Manuals
Accelerating Your HR Career is made up of five Field Manuals (our version of an online module). Each one contains a variety of types of content and social exercises culminating in a mini-project, reflection, or debate. Each Field Manual will take you between 30-45 minutes to complete but you can jump on and off at your own pace, as often as you’d like. The deeper learning happens in the discussions with your fellow learners, so be sure to check in on the conversations regularly. While the course is for individuals looking to accelerate their career within HR, these Field Manuals will also build a foundation for helping HR professionals think about bringing these ideas and practices to others throughout their organization.
Field Manual Overview:
30-45 minutes to complete
Bite-sized, easy to read modules for an efficient learning experience.
Self paced
You can jump on and off at your own pace, as often as you'd like.
Engaging learning modules
Each field manual contains different types of content and social exercises, all culminating in a mini-project, reflection, or debate.
Know Yourself
Before you look outward, look inward to understand your own goals, passions, skills, and interests. Here are some ideas we’ll explore:
How can we honestly assess our skills, interests, and passions….and how they can connect to meaningful careers?
What are some of the systems or psychologies that can get in the way of building a career path?
Where do you see yourself five years from now? This FM will help you get specific.
Know HR
Understanding your field—the entirety of HR—is a critical step to understanding where and how you want to move through it. Ideas we’ll look at:
Map your field: look across HR and understand the matrix that underpins it. See how people move through careers, how you might move through a similar one, or make up your own way.
Learn your field: learn from experience, seek out mentors, take formal training/certifications, network, and look for unexpected opportunities.
Know Your Business
The next piece of the career-building puzzle is to get a deep understanding of the business you’re in: what is the core business, how does it make money, and who are the customers? Other ideas explored here include:
Build business acumen and a deep understanding of what your company actually does.
Determine how your role fits into the strategic vision of your business.
Get specific with questions to ask about your company’s product/service, competitors, profit/revenue.
Know Your Organization
As individuals, we fit into a field that is part of a business, which is organized under the auspices of an organization. Building a career within an organization means we need to understand how that ecosystem functions. What is the structure of the organization? How does your organization measure individual success? What do you need to know to advance in your career? Other ideas we’ll explore:
Does your organization’s HR function treat itself as it treats employees in other functions in terms of growth, or are there differences that an HR employee should know about?
What questions do you need to answer when non-HR employees ask about your organization's structure, hierarchy, and performance model?
Build Your Networks
Understanding all of these elements of career development is great…but now how do you actually move forward? We’ll look at the absolutely essential role that networks of all kinds play in building a career. We’ll ask questions like:
How do you build relationships inside and outside your organization?
What are networks of influence?
Strategic communications to build relationships: ask for advice, then ask for a favor.
Types of people to have in your network: allies, peers, sponsors, and mentors
How our behaviors and actions influence our networks
Build Your Skills
Doing good work is the bedrock of any career development plan. Assessing, building, and tracking our skill development, then, is critical to growth. But what do skills really mean in this day and age of constantly evolving HR? How can we develop the “right” skills, both aligning to our interests and what organizations need from us? We’ll dive into:
The T-shaped model of skills
Learning and growth: how to seek feedback from your manager and colleagues
How to reflect on the particular skills and assets you bring, as well as your areas for improvement?
Key tips and tricks for tracking skill development, including keeping a career journal
Build Your Plan
This final Field Manual is all about building a unique, individualized career plan. It will focus almost entirely on actions and challenges, and you’ll walk away with a plan that can evolve and grow with you throughout your career.
Field Manual Overview:
30-45 minutes to complete
Bite-sized, easy to read modules for an efficient learning experience.
Self paced
You can jump on and off at your own pace, as often as you'd like.
Engaging learning modules
Each field manual contains different types of content and social exercises, all culminating in a mini-project, reflection, or debate.
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