Certificate Courses for Human Resources Leaders.

Our Certificate Courses cover the most important issues facing HR professionals today.

Each course is based on Josh Bersin Company research and is designed to help you and your team understand the best-practices, trends, technology solutions, and implementation. Each quarter we update and refresh the library, enabling you and your team to stay current on the world's most innovative solutions in every area.

Under the covers of this currculum is the Josh Bersin Company HR Global Capablity Model, which enables you to understand 80+ capablities of HR. You can assess your capablities, benchmark yourself against peers, and then use our Capablity Accelerators to access specific courses, resources, and community posts to advance your skills.

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Advanced EX Technology Workshop

As an organizational discipline and practice, employee experience (EX) can be nebulous and hard to navigate. What has the most real-world impact on EX? Where do we start if we want to improve it? Answering these questions with an understanding of the tools and technology that can support EX has never been more important. Our ability to enable great EX will determine whether we have people who will see us through uncertainty and disruption now or in the future.

  • Learning Time5-8 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramSeptember 27, 2023

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Leading L&D

The Leading L&D Program explores the ways the learning landscape has evolved and offers tools for developing new strategies that align with what both employees and organizations need to thrive.

  • Learning Time4-5 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramSeptember 27, 2023

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Change Agility

The pace of change is accelerating, and the organizations that can respond quickly and effectively are quickly gaining a competitive advantage. Go beyond legacy change management tools to learn how your organization and not only respond to, but learn to thrive within, change.

  • Learning Time4-6 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 4, 2023

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Voice, Values, and HR

Managing values conflicts is a core part of our work in HR. This Program offers a new approach for how to do this work, by voicing, acting on, and listening to values. The Program builds on Prof. Gentile's the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) methodology. It focuses on empowering HR professionals who want to create organizations where employees at all levels are able to effectively raise and resolve values conflicts.

  • Learning Time5-6 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 9, 2023

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The Organization Design SuperClass

The Organization Design SuperClass offers a valuable opportunity to learn about Org Design. It involves an immersive simulation centered around a fictional North American pharmaceutical chain called Arrow Care. The objective of the SuperClass is to envision the future of the company, design a solution to work towards that future, and implement the new organization structure.

  • Learning Time6-8 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 11, 2023

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Career and Talent Mobility

Organizations today are in a tight spot. Squashed between a tight talent market, economic downturns that force layoffs, and increasing demand for high-touch, customer-centric business strategies, senior leaders are increasingly turning to HR to find a way out.

  • Learning Time4-6 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 16, 2023

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Five Roles of the Manager

In HR, we spend so much of our time helping managers throughout our organization learn to thrive. However, in order to stay cutting edge and help the organization continue to grow, we also need to refine our own skills and techniques in the critical task of managing people—especially as the role of the manager is evolving quickly.

  • Learning Time5-8 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 18, 2023

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Talent Acquisition at a Crossroads

Talent acquisition is the most urgent challenge facing HR today. Our organizations need new skills and capabilities, but talent is scarce and competition is fierce. In all the uncertainty, one thing is clear: those who can recruit, retain, and develop great talent will quickly gain a competitive advantage.

  • Learning Time4-6 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 23, 2023

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Performance Management Reimagined

The way we evaluate and empower performance is drastically changing, and as HR professionals we need to be at the forefront of that transformation. We can succeed by making sure our efforts are aligned with the networked, collaborative nature of work and are making work easier, not harder.

  • Learning Time4-5 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramOctober 30, 2023

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Elevating Equity

Our diversity training course delivers industry-leading DEI training for teams & individuals that lead to real and substantial change.

  • Learning Time4-5 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 1, 2023

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The HR Consultant: a Masterclass with Bill Pelster

Unlike other Programs in the Josh Bersin Academy, the Masterclass centers on the insights, lessons, and stories of a single expert, and offers a deep dive into the more advanced skills today’s HR professionals need to grow in our careers and make change within our organizations. Our guide for The HR Consultant is the JBA’s own Chief Client Officer, Bill Pelster. In addition to his previous role as the Chief Learning Officer at Deloitte, Bill has over 20 years of consulting experience across North America, Europe, and Asia.

  • Learning Time3-5 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 6, 2023

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Coaching at Scale

The Coaching at Scale Program, based on research from BetterUp, offers a new look at the power and reach of coaching in today’s challenging climate. Designed primarily for an HR audience, it offers both a philosophical look at how the mindset around coaching has shifted, as well as a practical look at how we can best scale coaching across organizations of all sizes in today’s uncertain and highly remote environment.

  • Learning Time3-5 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 8, 2023

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People Analytics

Data is everywhere. As HR professionals we need to both understand and harness it to improve outcomes for our organizations. People Analytics is a comprehensive Program helps HR professionals take control over the data at hand and allow it to inform our day-to-day decisions and strategy.

  • Learning Time4-6 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 13, 2023

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The Employee Experience Workshop

The past year has led many people to reconsider what they want and need from their work—and what they expect from their leaders. Drawing on the latest research from the Josh Bersin Academy, this Workshop offers a new view of employee experience today.

  • Learning Time3-5 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 15, 2023

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The Changing Face of Total Rewards

No matter the industry, organization, or profession—from the most-well-compensated executives to novice, entry-level employees—people work in order to get paid.

  • Learning Time5-8 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 20, 2023

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Design Thinking for HR

The Design Thinking for HR Workshop draws on design thinking principles to create a practical framework that is immediately applicable for any HR professional solving complex problems within their organization. Because it’s a workshop, you’ll get your hands dirty right away, identifying a real-world problem at the start. You’ll then work in collaboration with other learners to find a solution and participate in their problem-solving processes, too. Through this practical, hands-on approach, you’ll develop a core set of design thinking abilities that will make you more creative and effective in solving complex problems moving forward.

  • Learning Time4-6 Hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 22, 2023

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The Agile Learning Organization

These are complex times to be in the business of learning. Organizations are under constant pressure to grow in directions that are, at times, counterintuitive; more agile, but also more globally aligned; more innovative, but still familiar and stable to our long-term customers. The key to survival is the ability to constantly learn and grow—as individuals, teams, and organizations.

  • Learning Time6-8 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramNovember 29, 2023

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People as Competitive Advantage

If we don’t have the right people in the right roles with the right skills, our organizations will not survive in today’s fast-paced highly competitive business environment. We must re-envision how we leverage our talent and our own roles.

  • Learning Time4-5 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramDecember 4, 2023

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The Strategic HR Business Partner

HR Business Partners are at the frontline of today’s talent strategy. They must have an intimate understanding of the business challenges their team is working to solve and be able to re-frame those challenges through the lens of talent and employee experience. This Program is for HR Business Partners committed to taking their own work and their team to the next level.

  • Learning Time5-8 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramDecember 6, 2023

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The New World of Wellbeing

Featuring a collection of global stories that demonstrate how (and why) organizations across industries are shifting the role they can play in employee wellbeing, this Program explores into the history and current state of employee wellbeing, covering all five areas that make up a holistic wellbeing initiative at work.

  • Learning Time6-8 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramDec 18, 2023

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The HR Tech Workshop

We cannot survive in today’s environment without a clear understanding of today’s technologies and the insights they provide. This workshop helps learners make sense of the crowded HR tech landscape so they can make better decisions.

  • Learning Time5-6 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramDecember 27, 2023

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The Voice of the Employee

This Program is all about the future of authentic employee engagement. Based on insights from top HR leaders across a range of industries, the Program will give you the knowledge and skills you need to take the most important step in any employee engagement initiative: putting your people first.

  • Learning Time4-5 hours

  • Duration5 weeks

  • Next Scheduled ProgramDecember 27, 2023

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Program Schedule

Below are the dates for each of our current Programs over the next 6 months. We will be adding more dates for each Program (and more Programs) soon, so check back for regular updates.

Program

Start Date

End Date

Advanced EX Technology Workshop September 27, 2023 November 1, 2023
Leading L&D September 27, 2023 November 1, 2023
Change Agility October 4, 2023 November 4, 2023
Voice, Values, and HR October 9, 2023 November 13, 2023
The Organization Design SuperClass October 11, 2023 November 15, 2023
Career and Talent Mobility October 16, 2023 November 20, 2023
Five Roles of the Manager October 18, 2023 November 22, 2023
Talent Acquisition at a Crossroads October 23, 2023 November 27, 2023
Performance Management Reimagined October 30, 2023 December 4, 2023
Elevating Equity November 1, 2023 December 6, 2023
The HR Consultant: a Masterclass with Bill Pelster November 6, 2023 December 11, 2023
Coaching at Scale November 8, 2023 December 13, 2023
People Analytics November 13, 2023 December 18, 2023
The Employee Experience Workshop November 15, 2023 December 20, 2023
The Changing Face of Total Rewards November 20, 2023 December 22, 2023
Design Thinking for HR November 22, 2023 December 27, 2023
The Agile Learning Organization November 29, 2023 January 3, 2024
People as Competitive Advantage December 4, 2023 January 8, 2024
The Strategic HR Business Partner December 6, 2023 January 10, 2024
The Organization Design SuperClass December 11, 2023 January 15, 2024
Career and Talent Mobility December 13, 2023 January 17, 2024
The New World of Wellbeing December 18, 2023 January 22, 2024
Accelerating Your HR Career December 20, 2023 January 24, 2024
The HR Tech Workshop December 27, 2023 January 30, 2024
The Voice of the Employee December 27, 2023 January 30, 2024