Course Highlights

• Gain a deeper understanding of how and when people analytics can be applied to improve critical issues such as recruiting and hiring, performance evaluation, promotion and training, compensation, and organizational change
• Become familiar with the most relevant topics general managers face concerning the management of people
• Learn a set of frameworks and theoretical models to help make key employee decisions
• Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Why attend Leading People at Work?

While people have always been critical to the success of organizations, many business leaders still make key decisions about their workforce based on intuition, experience, advice, and guesswork. However, today’s leaders can improve their people decision-making based on the collection and systematic analysis of data.

Leading People at Work: Strategies for Talent Analytics focuses on the strategies that can be used to successfully design and implement people analytics in an organization. Faculty draw on the latest practices and research to illustrate how leading companies are using cutting-edge techniques to analyze data about their employees and make their organizations and their individual employees more successful. In doing so, we will explore areas where people analytics are most effective, and where it is particularly important to incorporate them.

Participants of this program will gain a deeper understanding of how and when people analytics can be applied to improve critical issues such as recruiting and hiring, performance evaluation, promotion and training, compensation, and organizational change.

Course Experience

People analytics is a data-driven approach to improving people-related decisions for the purpose of advancing both individual and organizational success. This course explores several strategies used to attract and retain top talent and illustrates how these strategies are being designed and used at cutting-edge companies.

The course takes the perspective of the general manager when examining how emerging big data analytical approaches applied to human resource management can be used to advance business objectives. By the end of this course, participants will understand how and when big data can be used to make key employee decisions, enabling executives to position themselves as a strategic partner in their company’s talent management.

This course is not intended to teach statistics or programming. Nor will this course cover the issues involved when gathering (and analyzing) data. Instead, it is intended to acquaint participants with key strategies for the design and implementation of people analytics in an organization.

Applying to the Course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity, at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

You can begin the application process by using the red 'Enroll Now' bar at the bottom of the screen.
 

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