Certificates in Human Resources
Why a Certificate in Human Resources
HR Professionals become up to date on the most important practices, information and skills required for managing workforce planning, recruiting, employee and labor relations, total rewards, as well as influencing organizational development and governance.
Types of Certificates in Human Resources
Satell Certificates are customizable to meet your professional development and organizational advancement needs. Select a four or eight course Certificate, and then design a program of study around your goals.
Best Practices Certificate
- 4 courses
- Select 2 courses from Human Resources
- Select 2 courses from any other areas of concentration
- Complete in 2-4 months
Advanced Best Practices Certificate
- 8 courses
- Select 4 courses from Human Resources
- Select 4 courses from any other areas of concentration
- Complete in 4-8 months
Courses Available in Human Resources
The Employee Handbook (FM0036)
Implementing Effective Wellness Programs (FM0037)
Social Media: Legal and Management Implications (FM0038)
Employee FLSA Status: Exempt or Nonexempt (FM0040)
Recruiting and Hiring the Best People (FM0055)
Course Outcomes
- Analyze and modify your organization's existing handbook based on contemporary best practices.
- Design an action plan to avoid legal gray areas and exclude policies that could potentially backfire on the organization.
- Create an engaging, productive work environment.
- Perform a handbook audit to improve and maximize the ultimate performance of your written policies in the real world.
- Identify critical policies that must be included in every fundamentally sound employee handbook and make better risk management decisions.
Primary Competencies Addressed
- Workforce planning and employment governance
- Risk management
- Employee and labor relations
Secondary Competencies Addressed
- Handling difficult conversations
- Managing conflict
- Executive presence: effective verbal communication
- Empathetic listening and communications
- Create strategically nimble work cultures that can adapt to external changes
- Align your strategy by creating mission, vision and values statements
Target Audience
- Human resource professionals, lawyers and compliance officers responsible for employment practices who want to apply best practices from current practitioners.
- Managers who want to influence HR policies and practices to create positive work environments.
- Department heads or business owners looking to minimize risk and liability while attracting and retaining top talent.
Course Outcomes
- Design and implement a successful, legally-compliant wellness program that reduces health insurance costs and promotes employee satisfaction and retention.
- Increase the effectiveness of an existing organizational wellness program, ensuring it contains the most current best practices.
- Utilize wellness testing and health coaching techniques to launch a wellness program that gets results.
- Effectively evaluate and measure employee performance to gauge the impact on costs and wellness for presentation or justification to executives.
- Increase participation in organizational wellness programs to optimize employee engagement, well being and cost containment.
- Measurably improve overall employee health and significantly reduce your organization's healthcare costs.
Primary Competencies Addressed
- Workforce planning and employment governance
- Risk management
- Total rewards (compensation and benefits)
Secondary Competencies Addressed
- Handling difficult conversations
- Managing conflict
- Executive presence: effective verbal communication
- Empathetic listening and communications
- Create strategically nimble work cultures that can adapt to external changes
- Align your strategy by creating mission, vision and values statements
Target Audience
- Human resource, benefits, operations and insurance professionals who are responsible for health insurance and other employee benefit programs that apply best practices from current practitioners.
- Business owners and managers looking to attract and retain employees while containing health insurance costs.
- Business professionals at all levels who want to intelligently advocate for workplace wellness initiatives.
Course Outcomes
- Draft an effective, up-to-date online and social networking policy to encourage use of technology while mitigating business risk.
- Communicate what is legal and what is not when monitoring employee use of social networks, e-mail and other conduct to your staff.
- Evaluate both the risks and advantages of using Facebook and other sites to screen potential employees.
- Devise an effective employee monitoring policy that stays within the proper legal limits and that defines when a person can be terminated for misuse of company-owned technology.
- Write a comprehensive, well-researched procedure on how to legally acquire electronic evidence in an investigation.
Primary Competencies Addressed
- Risk management
- Employee and labor relations
Secondary Competencies Addressed
- Handling difficult conversations
- Managing conflict
- Executive presence: effective verbal communication
- Empathetic listening and communications
- Create strategically nimble work cultures that can adapt to external changes
- Align your strategy by creating mission, vision and values statements
Target Audience
- Human resource professionals, lawyers and compliance officers who want to learn valuable current information from active practitioners and are responsible for recruitment, employee relations or employment practices.
- IT Professionals who want to influence or help design company Internet and social networking policy.
- Business owners looking to minimize risk and liability while attracting and retaining top talent.
- Managers at all levels interested in exploring the strategic value and risks of social networking and digital marketing.
Course Outcomes
- Apply the three primary tests for exemption to ensure FLSA compliance, so you know where your company or department stands.
- Define the specific types of exemptions and make these definitions available to all employees.
- Audit job descriptions accurately and assign the proper FLSA status, avoiding common errors that cause problems in today's business environment.
- Devise a guide for calculating comp time, overtime, travel time and on-call time so you have the documentation you need to instill effective managerial conduct.
- Construct a policy that guides managers in identifying exempt and nonexempt employees.
Primary Competencies Addressed
- Workforce planning and employment governance
- Employee and labor relations
Secondary Competencies Addressed
- Handling difficult conversations
- Managing conflict
- Executive presence: effective verbal communication
- Empathetic listening and communications
- Create strategically nimble work cultures that can adapt to external changes
- Align your strategy by creating mission, vision and values statements
Target Audience
- Human resource professionals, lawyers and compliance officers who want to apply best practices from current practitioners and are responsible for employment practices.
- Business owners looking to minimize risk and liability while attracting and retaining top talent.
- Managers who want to influence HR policies and practices to create positive work environments.
Course Outcomes
- Interview job candidates utilizing modern techniques and styles
- Identify high-performing applicants and avoid some of the most common hiring mistakes
- Solicit accurate candid references and perform criminal background checks
- Successfully onboard new hires and develop a realistic – yet fully productive – training program
Primary Competencies Addressed
- Recruiting, developing and retaining talent
- Total rewards (compensation and benefits)
- Workforce planning and employment governance
Secondary Competencies Addressed
- Risk management
- Employee and labor relations
Target Audience
- Frontline managers who are eager to recruit and build a stable, productive work environment for their teams
- Functional and middle managers looking for tips on how to inspire high levels of individual performance and loyalty in their areas
- Senior managers and executives looking for new ideas and best practices for building and sustaining high performance teams
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