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HR Manager to HR Director: Career Growth, 4900+ HR Tools
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HR Manager to HR Director: Career Growth, 4900+ HR Tools
Advance to HR director: human resources courses, promotion strategy, personal brand, mentoring, scripts and scorecards
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 4,900+ HR tools in 925 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus templates, checklists, scripts, scorecards
- Get our top working files: HR function scorecard, improvement roadmap and ROI calculator, executive brief template, change communication playbook
- See 162 services and apps on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: 15Five, PeopleForce, Effy AI, LearningStudioAI, ProProfs Training Maker and more
- Run recruitment, onboarding and core HR processes with 700+ ready templates and sample documents instead of a blank page
- Lead interviews, reviews, one-on-ones and difficult conversations with 690+ question lists and conversation scripts
- Make pay, grading and promotion decisions with 290+ scorecards, rubrics and matrices and 110+ formulas and metric sets
- Build HR strategy, budget, people analytics and reporting that earn you a seat in executive decisions
- Use 200 ready AI prompts for ChatGPT and Claude across recruiting, performance, learning and HR operations
- Plan your own path to HR director with career worksheets, a personal brand plan and CHRO-level tools
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
- Draw on 20 years of hands-on HR practice at Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
106 sections • 795 lectures • 401h 18m total length
Requirements
- No prior HR management experience required: every method comes with a template, checklist or script you can use at once
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: files and slide decks are attached to the lectures
- A spreadsheet app and a document editor to open the files (Excel or Google Sheets, Word or Google Docs)
- This is a large library: start with the three core sections, then open the specialist sections you need
- English at intermediate level or above
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
4,902 HR tools in one course: 3,544 ready-to-use files, templates, checklists, scripts and scorecards, 162 services and apps shown on screen, plus 1,196 models and methods.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in this week's hiring, review, pay decision or board report.
Why HR managers get stuck below director level
An HR manager is asked for everything at once: a hiring plan, a pay review, an engagement survey, a succession list, a budget. Most of it is built from scratch each time, under deadline, from memory and old files. There is no time left for strategy, and without strategy nobody sees a future HR director. The gap between the two roles is rarely knowledge. It is the hours lost on work that a ready tool would finish in minutes.
What changes after this course
You stop building from scratch. For each HR task you have a working tool: a template to fill in, a checklist to follow, a script for the conversation, a scorecard for the decision, a formula for the number, a prompt for the AI assistant. The time you get back goes into the work that gets people promoted: strategy, analytics, and conversations with the executive team.
What is inside: 4,902 tools, counted file by file
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 925 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 130 standalone working files (trackers, calculators, scorecards, guides and document templates)
- 3,414 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 730 templates and sample documents: business-to-HR goals alignment matrix, HR resource budget, HR team development plan, HR strategy roadmap
- 703 step-by-step procedures and workflows: career advancement, workforce planning process, people partner review facilitation, performance review
- 715 question lists and conversation scripts: personal development planning, personal brand positioning, OKR review, development review
- 568 checklists: personal brand audit, LinkedIn profile, OKR quality, manager performance review preparation
- 299 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: succession risk matrix, merit increase matrix, RACI matrix, manager-HR responsibility matrix
- 220 ready AI prompts: assessment center exercise design, HR metrics generation, employee turnover analysis, HR business case defense
- 113 formulas and metric sets: career value calculation, HR metrics, business financial metrics, HR initiative cost-benefit analysis
- 66 other working tools: growth mindset assessment, negotiation style self-assessment, talent application worksheet, chart selection guide
- 162 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: 15Five, PeopleForce, Effy AI, LearningStudioAI, ProProfs Training Maker
- 1,196 models and methods explained with examples: Porter value chain, Ulrich four-role model, OKR goal setting, situational leadership model
Where the tools are
- Core path (3 sections, 190+ tools). The HR manager role and career path, recruitment, onboarding, training, motivation, pay, incentives and benefits, and the move to strategic HR business partner.
- People management (350+ tools). Hiring, onboarding, feedback, delegation, one-on-ones, conflict, coaching and leadership styles.
- Talent and performance (800+ tools). Competency models, assessment, 360 feedback, succession, talent management, performance reviews, OKRs and improvement plans.
- Rewards (500+ tools). Job grading, pay structures, bonuses and incentives, benefits and total rewards.
- Strategy and analytics (700+ tools). HR strategy, audit, budgeting, workforce planning, people analytics, KPIs, dashboards and reporting for the CEO.
- Learning and development (400+ tools). Corporate university, train-the-trainer, facilitation, mentoring, career coaching and leadership development.
- AI in HR (450+ tools). ChatGPT prompts, Claude Projects, AI agents, AI for people analytics, rewards and HR business partnership.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
My experience of HR leadership grew from recruitment planning to responsibility for a whole HR department. At Alfa-Bank, I budgeted recruitment expenses and developed recruitment strategy with the department head. At the STB television channel, I moved from leading recruitment and onboarding to becoming HR director and developing HR strategy independently. I was responsible for that strategy for four years. This experience informs the leadership and strategy tools in this course.
How to use the course
Start with the three core sections: they cover the HR manager role end to end. Then treat the rest as a reference library. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name, so you can find the right tool without watching everything in order.
What is included
- 795 lectures across 106 sections, 401 hours
- 925 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and working files
- 4,902 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Pick the HR task on your desk that takes the most time this month. Find its section, open the lecture, and take the template or checklist that does the job. HR managers who work from ready tools reach strategic work sooner, and every month of building from scratch keeps the director role further away. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- HR managers who want to grow into an HR director role and need working tools for every HR function
- HR generalists and specialists taking over a full HR function for the first time
- HR business partners and people partners who want ready templates, scorecards and metrics for their business units
- HR directors and heads of HR building or rebuilding an HR system and looking for tested formats to adapt
- Managers and founders who run HR themselves and need practical forms, scripts and checklists
- Career changers who want a structured path into HR management with tools at every step