Comprehensive Course on HR Technology - Plan, Solution, and Best Practices

Learning Objectives

• To recognize the importance of gaining executive buy-in and sponsorship of the decision to proceed with the evaluation and selection of a new or improved HRMS
• To review the steps needed to uncover and document the “must-have” Functionality that resolves end-user documented “points of pain”, as well as “desired” functionality required from a new HRMS solution.
• To explain HR technology and recent advances in HR’s use of HR technology and HR being a Strategic Business Partner
• To discuss how workforce analytics initiatives must align with the overall talent management strategy within the organization.
• To review the analytics maturity model – hindsight – insight – foresight.
• To discuss sample dashboards related to analytics and metrics.
• To list “final factors” and suggested methodology to weigh and score each factor to determine the vendor of choice.
• To be provided best-practice templates for scoring initial proposals and then identifying the candidates who become finalists.

Course Description

In the competitive business environment, every business works hard to gain an edge in every aspect of the business. To achieve overall exceptional results, they need to ensure that they provide exceptional value in all aspects. Leadership expects that the function of Human Resources is to ensure that the workforce makes this happen. 

The HR department needs a system and relevant processes to ensure easy management and smooth functioning of data, human resources, and different business processes. Though a simple excel-based HR management system or complex HR Technology solutions are there in the market, the first step businesses need to understand to go through is understanding their need and analyzing it for the long-term. This online CPE webinar focuses on the common points of pain priorities to solve through HR Management solutions that need analysis, preparation until their application is successful. It also includes best practices; tests of effort from the team, as well as from the management; vendor evaluation – selection, and getting the results. 

This online CPE Webinar on Human Resources covers the following Key Topics: 

• Need analysis for HR Technology through HR challenges, and common stereotypes
• Use of a type of potential HRMS solutions
• the importance of Talent Management with related Workforce Metrics
• HR driving collaboration in the new era of work and trends in HR technology
• What senior management wants, asks about, and their commitment to the project.
• The importance of “storytelling”, visualization, “leading” and “lagging indicators”.
• The importance of change management to ensure success in all related metric activities and resultant actionable insights
• Building a cost justification basis for the decision to implement a new HRMS solution by learning some of the potential areas of cost avoidance and cost savings
• Best practices for the timeline of the overall process of Needs Analysis, Vendor Evaluation, and Selection
• The efforts of a Core Project Team and other Subject Matter Experts – during the reading of submitted Proposals

Having 30+ years of HR Tech Consulting expertise, Marc Miller will share how you can prepare a strategic plan for creating an HR technology, the need for a strategic approach by HR, and how HR must be the main source of communications and empathetic leadership in these new normal times.

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Overview

• The function of HR has come a long way!

  12 mins
• The HR technology needs analysis process

  25 mins
• Thirteen steps of a HR business partner

  69 mins
• C-Level stakeholders want information not data

  100 mins
• Features and functions within HR technology delivery

  148 mins
• Analytics Maturity Model

  205 mins
• Critical - The importance of change management

  247 mins