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Yale SOM Executive Education: Human Capital Strategy: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Shape people strategies to create an effective, sustainable, and resilient organization.

Shape people strategies to create an effective, sustainable, and resilient organization.

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Feb 19, 2025
Enroll by Feb 25, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Feb 19, 2025
Enroll by Feb 25, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Today’s highly competitive business landscape is experiencing a labor transformation on a scale never seen before. Jobs are being automated at an intense pace,1 making an ability to reskill, adapt, and assume new roles the top-ranked employee characteristics for navigating the future of work.2 This widespread transformation signals the need for a shift in the way organizations approach talent optimization from the traditional siloed approach to a big-picture perspective. Organizations must shrewdly manage and empower human capital through high-level business and operational strategies if they wish to stay ahead of the pack.

Learn to make human capital strategy an integral part of your business operations in the Human Capital Strategy: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education. Following a sequential format, you’ll find out how to answer the crucial questions facing workforce management today: from talent acquisition and role alignment to learning and development. By the end of the six-week program, you’ll create your own practical action plan to prepare for the future of work.

1 World Economic Forum (Oct, 2020).

2 Deloitte (Dec, 2020).

This program focuses on high-level strategy and is therefore ideally suited to management, leadership, and decision-making professionals who are interested in aligning their human capital planning and business operations to promote their organization’s competitive edge. The skills and insights available to participants will appeal to entrepreneurs and small-to-medium business owners. In addition, this program will benefit human resources, and learning and design professionals who want to act as competent business talent advisers while remaining agile and up to date on industry trends. They may also use this program to achieve personal growth by expanding their knowledge and developing strategic leadership skills.

Course curriculum

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Discover how to align human capital strategy with business strategy as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Creating a sustainable competitive advantage through people

Module 2: Talent acquisition

Module 3: Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Module 4: Talent and performance management

Module 5: Organizational design, mission, and culture

Module 6: Workforce transformation and the future of work

About the certificate

Gain recognition for your knowledge when you earn an official certificate of participation from Yale SOM Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

$32.7 billion

The total amount that the human capital management market is expected to hit by 2027.

Fortune Business Insights (Sep, 2020).


84%

The percentage of the value of an S&P 500 company that lies in the skills, talents, work ethic, knowledge, and the health of employees.

Gallup (May, 2021).

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