Boost Human Resource Management Performance

Advance your career with flexible, expert-led non-credit courses in human resources management. Develop essential skills in talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, compensation, and employment law to stay ahead in today's competitive workforce. Designed for working professionals, our courses help you upskill and reskill at your own pace while boosting your career potential. Learn how to manage your most important resources: people.

HR Exam Prep

HR Skills®

A successful HR manager needs a combination of people skills, business knowledge, legal/compliance knowledge, analytical ability, and leadership skills. HR has increasingly moved beyond administrative tasks and plays an important role in workforce planning, employee engagement, organizational development, and business strategy. Each of the courses listed can help develop the necessary skills set for career success.

The HR Skills® Best Practices certificate consists of courses focused on the behaviors, practices and approaches that enable HR professionals and managers to foster better connections, communicate effectively, provide useful feedback, and navigate difficult situations. Through quizzes, games, real-world scenarios and commentary from subject matter experts, the HR Skills® Best Practices certificate helps the learner begin to develop the skills that are the key to a cohesive workforce

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Compensation & Benefits

Understanding compensation practices and policies is crucial for any business owner, HR professional, or manager. In this introductory-level course, you will consider issues surrounding the key aspects of pay policy: legal requirements, pay equity within an organization, competitive pay within the relevant industry, how and when to grant raises, and different ways payment can be structured. Earn SHRM and HRCI credit as you develop your compensation expertise.

Compensation and Benefits Compensation Communication Compensation Systems HR Hot Topic: Pay Equity HRCI Pro: Benefits HRCI Pro: Compensation Medical-Related Benefits Retirement Plans HR Hot Topic: Buzzworthy Benefits
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Performance Management

A formal performance management system simply makes sure all those management tasks get done consistently across an organization. This introductory-level course considers these varied elements of performance management.

Performance Management HRCI Pro: Talent Management HR Skills®: SMART Goals for Performance Evaluation HR Skills®: Progressive Discipline HR Skills®: Handling Difficult Conversations
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Employee Wellness

HRCI Pro

HR Technology Certificate

The HRCI Pro Series is a collection of certificate courses that focus on advanced HR and business concepts. By completing each Pro Series certificate, you demonstrate your knowledge in a specific area of expertise and earn a digital badge to proudly display your achievement as an HRCI Pro in HR Technology.

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Courses Included in the Bundle:

Addressing HR Technology Challenges HR Technology Tools Digital Transformation for HR Professionals
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AI for Human Resources

The HRCI Pro Series is a collection of certificate courses that focus on advanced HR and business concepts. By completing each Pro Series certificate, you demonstrate your knowledge in a specific area of expertise and earn a digital badge to proudly display your achievement as an HRCI Pro in AI for HR.

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Courses included in the Bundle:

Generative AI for HR Professionals Responsible Implementation and Compliance Artificial Intelligence and the Employee Experience
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Human Resources Ethics Series

Human resources professionals are charged with supporting the success of their organizations in ways that are ethical and socially responsible. Ethical organizations must consider questions about what is right and fair in all decision-making processes. Because HR professionals are involved in designing and enforcing policies that impact the people who work in an organization, they play an especially powerful role in shaping the ethical culture. Each of these 1.5-hour courses explores the relationship between human resources and creating an ethical workplace.

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Our NDSU Continued Learning courses offered through our vendors are designed for reskilling, upskilling, enrichment or for pay scale increases. In general, they are not applicable for use on a degree program of study as most of the courses are non-credit and not degree eligible.

NDSU strongly recommends that you seek approval or check requirements from your organization, licensing entity, or state prior to enrolling in the course or certificate of your choice. We also recommend you check each individual course or bundle and certification body to make sure it meets your individual needs.