HRMN090 - Developing Human Potential: The Future of Human Resource Management

Course Description

To build a healthy and sustainable organizational foundation, we must revisit and revise what it means to manage human resources. When we shift the perspective of HR from managing people as resources to cultivating individual, team and cultural potential, we shift what is possible for organizational health and sustainability. This course will explore the tools, skills and perspectives necessary to develop human potential in today’s dynamic organizational context.

Course Outline

• Explore the impact of Positive Psychology on HRM

• Understand and apply values-based hiring practices

• Utilize tools to assess individual employees most important contributions

• Apply a strengths-based approach to performance management

• Evolve traditional job descriptions to “calling descriptions”

• Learn tools and skills to move from manger to coach

• Develop the key Human Resource competencies of self-awareness and ability to respond skillfully to ambiguity and change