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Important Notice

• ● Material Language: English; Delivery Language: Japanese; Participants are asked to read English instructions before exercises.
• ● Live online seminar is delivered using Zoom.

How You Will Benefit

• ● Understand HR’s role as a vital contributor to your organization’s success
• ● Discover strategies to attract and retain top talent
• ● Examine best practices for managing performance and creating compensation, training and benefit systems that drive bottom-line results
• ● Identify and deal with potentially explosive issues with an eye to both legal requirements and the needs of your business
• ● Analyze HR issues and develop action plans you can implement in your organization
• ● See how HR and non-HR functions in every organization can create an effective, complementary work environment

Who Should Attend

• HR practitioners with less than three years’ experience; non-HR practitioners with HR responsibilities; more experienced HR professionals seeking a fast-paced review of the role of HR in today’s rapidly-evolving workplace.

Course Outline

1. Course Outline, AMA HR Philosophy, and Organizational Assessment
 - Understand Why an Emphasis on Talent, Establishing Relationships and Being Strategic Is So Important
 - Think About How Strategic or Functional Your Job Is and How HR at Your Organization Is Perceived Overall
2. Relationships and Gaining Trust
 - Understand the Importance of Building Relationships
 - Assess Your Own Relationships and Identify Areas for Improvement
 - Describe the Business Impact of Improved Relationships Between HR and Non-HR
3. Legal Responsibilities
 - Identify Legal Trends and Challenges
4. Talent Acquisition
 - Identify Characteristics of Well-Written Job Descriptions and When “JDs” Should Be Written
 - Understand Differences Between and Reasons for Using the Five Questioning Techniques
 - Know and Apply the Steps and Best Practices for a Recruiting Process
 - Distinguish Key Aspects of Orientation and Assimilation, and Generate Ideas to Make These Processes Better at Your Organization
5. Talent Alignment
 - Understand Key Concepts of Talent Alignment, Which May Be a New Term for Many
 - Have an Opportunity-Focused Mindset, So That You Can Help the Employees at Your Organization, Which in Turn Helps the Company
 - Demonstrate Your Skills and Abilities as a Strategic Business Partner By Advising Leadership on Talent Alignment, Whether They Ask for It or Not
6. Talent Management
 - Identify What Talent Management Is, What It Includes, and Important Aspects of It
 - Understand Domestic and Global Mobility
 - Put Talent Management Learnings into Practice
7. Talent Assessment
 - Understand the Objectives and Elements of a Performance Management System
 - Describe the Respective Roles of All Concerned in Preparing for Performance Management Meetings
 - Practice a Performance Management Discussion
 - Learn the Key Components of Diversity and Why Having Awareness of Diversity Is Important for HR Professionals, Leadership, and Employees
 - Understand the Importance of Assessing Talent with a Diversity Lens to Make Sure Your Organization Is a Fair and Inclusive Environment
8. Talent Development
 - Identify the Respective Responsibilities of All Concerned in the Training Process
 - Know Best Practices in Mentoring and Career and Leadership Development
 - Understand What Coaching Is and Also AMA’s Coaching Model
 - Practice How to Coach and How to Help Others Coach
9. Talent Measurement/Compensation
 - Assess Your Company’s Year-End Performance Review Process and Determine How It Could Be Conducted Better/Differently
 - See the Correlation Between the Year-End Performance Review Process and Compensation
 - Know the Characteristics of an Effective Compensation System
 - Be a Strategic Business Partner By Helping Leadership Be Fair About How Your Employees Are Compensated
 - Instill a “Total Rewards” Mindset in the Employees at Your Company
10. Talent Retention and Transition
 - Understand the Importance of Retaining the Employees You Have
 - Know All the Factors That Could Lead to Someone Leaving
 - Be Fully Aware of Key Best Practices When You Have to Terminate Someone’s Employment
 - Be Better Prepared for Letting Someone Go By Practicing That Difficult Conversation
11. Functional HR Areas
 - Differentiate Between Mandated and Voluntary Benefits
 - Discuss Typical/Popular Offerings
 - Identify Benefits Trends and Challenges
 - Determine the Contents of an Employee Handbook
 - Identify the Components of a Policies and Procedures Manual
 - Fully Understand the Uses and Best Practices of HRIS
12. Final Activities
 - Highlight Many of the Learning Points in the Prior Modules By Way of a Group Role-Play
 - Put What You Learned into Practice
 - Create an Action Plan for Your Role and Organization

Prerequisite / Pre-Assignment

English reading skills are required.