People as Competitive Advantage
This course gives every HR professional a core understanding of our role. What is the real role of people in business, and how can we build a company that truly leverages people for competitive advantage?
Course Snapshot
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Course Overview
How do we attract and retain the right people? How do we engage them? What does digital mean for our people, our customers, and the ways we work? How do we redesign our organizations to best leverage, empower, and inspire them? People as Competitive Advantage explores these questions and asks how we can best transform ourselves and our organizations to put people first.
Case Studies
Chevron Puts Talent First
The AirBNB Experience Extends to Employees
ING Goes Agile
This Program was created by:
Founder & Dean of the Josh Bersin Academy - Josh Bersin
Co-founder & CEO, Nomadic Learning - Matt Burr
Learning Design - Debra Newcomer
Lead Writer - Amanda Burr
Video & Animation - Tatiana McCabe
Production Coordinator & Media Management - Mike Estler
Resource Management & Production - Carolyn Ruocco
Video Editor - Brad Hinkle
Questions You'll Explore:
What role does the talent economy play in 21st century strategic business decisions?
What are “moments that matter” and how can we reduce friction around them?
How do we map the employee journey and what do we learn by doing it?
How can technology support and facilitate HR into the flow of work?
What are the digital tools every HR professional should know and use?
What are the technology trends that will likely impact future purchasing decisions?
What are the key principles of Agile and why are they relevant for HR?
A look inside the platform
Explore platform features first hand.
Field Manuals
People as Competitive Advantage is made up of four 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.
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.
Strategic HR
This Field Manual asks us to re-envision how we as an organization leverage our talent and how we see our roles. It offers tangible tools to help us update our approaches to ensure people are at the forefront of decision-making and align our work with the business strategy.
The Employee Experience
This Field Manual asks us to dive into what it’s really like to be an employee at our organization. It highlights how thinking about “moments that matter” and employee journeys can reshape employee interactions with HR and each other.
The Digital Imperative
This Field Manual explores how we can use technology to transform our HR practices so that they are “in the flow of work” and so that we are freed up to do the strategic work that only we can do.
The Agile Organization
This Field Manual looks at the Agile mindsets, workflows, and approaches that help individuals and organizations thrive in today’s dynamic, global, and crowded business landscape.
Persuasive Communication
Getting a handle on the data, and our insights into it, is just half the battle. This Field Manual explores how we frame the data for others, from the stories we tell with and about it, to the techniques we use to translate it into reports, presentations, and visuals.
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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