Strategic Human Resource Development

Overview/Description
In order to excel in business, organizations must translate their vision into the necessary level of competencies needed to achieve goals. This course examines how human resource development (HRD) aligns the skills, knowledge, and abilities of staff to future organization and individual needs. In addition, the course looks at how an understanding of adult learning and motivation can assist in staff development. Finally, the course covers some organizational development initiatives that are now seen as an integral part of HRD. This course prepares HR professionals and management who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification examination.

Target Audience


Human resource managers; leaders and professionals who are preparing for the Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification examination; compensation and benefits analysts; staffing managers; recruitment consultants

Expected Duration


3.5 hours

Objectives :

Lesson Overview

  • identify the benefits of developing strategic thinking skills

    • Aligning Competencies to Organizational Needs

  • identify the benefits associated with a competency-based approach to HRD
  • match the stages in competency-based performance management to the steps of each stage

    • The Domains of Strategic HRD

  • identify the impact that organizational learning, performance, and change have on HRD
  • match the five organizational learning disciplines within a learning organization to examples

    • Lesson Overview

  • recognize the benefits of understanding adult learners

    • Overcoming Resistance to Learning

  • match Knowles' assumptions about adult learning with examples
  • help an adult learner to overcome resistance to learning in a given scenario

    • Learning Styles, Curves, and Levels

  • match learning styles with examples of how learners learn
  • recognize types of learning curves
  • distinguish between the different levels in Bloom's Taxonomy

    • Motivational Theories and Their Application

  • recognize the benefits of understanding learners' motivation for learning
  • match major motivational theories with examples of their applicability to adult workers

    • Lesson Overview

  • recognize how organizational development can help you in implementing HR strategies

    • Introduction to Organizational Development and HRD

  • recognize examples of the stages in an intervention or action-research process

    • Organizational Development and Change

  • identify the relationship between an organization's strategy and its culture
  • recognize examples of ways you can assist in a change initiative

    • Intervention Strategies

  • recognize which intervention strategy is best to use in a given a scenario


    • Course Number: hr_01_a04_bs_enus