Human Resource Essentials

Build HR Excellence...

The imperative for human resources in today’s complex and challenging business environment is to build organizational capabilities that accelerate change, deliver operational excellence and focus on speed and simplicity to achieve business results. We draw on world-leading expertise, educators, practitioners and thought leadership from the Cornell ILR School to assist with the development of HR capabilities.

To Unleash the Power of HR

Build comprehensive knowledge and skills in essential HR fundamentals. Practice demonstrating HR’s value and executing business-centric tasks through case exercises and simulations. Glean insight from peers with the opportunity to network across a wide range of business sectors to gain an understanding for how HR uses organizational frameworks to develop solutions aligned to business goals, organizational structures, and business processes.
 
Ideal for HR professionals who need to learn or refresh their knowledge and skills in the basic components of human resources and employee relations.

Key Certificate Takeaways

• Build skills in core HR practices and learn to adapt them to enhance business initiatives
• Enhance personal effectiveness and impact to promote a culture of collaboration while engaging others as thought partners to implement solutions aligned with the organizational vision
• Explore talent trends and functional changes used to monitor team performance and identify capability gaps that support business initiatives targeted at building high performers across the employee lifecycle

Who Should Enroll

Business professionals who are interested in learning HR or entry-level HR practitioners with no previous formal HR education and/or are re-entering the workforce 

Electives can not be applied to multiple certificates.