
Explore the A-player concept and learn to hire top talent and leaders to build high-performing teams. Define A-player profiles, widen candidate pools, and evaluate observable results for key roles.
Learn how to source A-players across internal and external channels, craft compelling job descriptions and pitches, and build an always-ready talent pool using referrals, recruiters, events, and social platforms.
Master competency-based interviews using GMA tests, test tasks, and scorecards to evaluate soft and hard skills, while selling vacancies at every stage to attract top candidates.
Master structured onboarding and adaptation from job offers and pre-boarding through induction and mentoring, using goals, feedback, probation clarity, and gamified checklists to accelerate integration.
Develop a practical team strategy by diagnosing problems, using swot and pestel analyses, aligning goals with the company vision, and testing hypotheses through actionable initiatives.
Explore goal setting models—MBO, KPI, OKR, WIG, V2MOM—and compare their strengths, focusing on quarterly OKRs, four disciplines of execution, leading indicators, and dashboards.
Track performance with dashboards and metrics, apply OKRs and weekly reports, and balance delegation to avoid micromanagement while driving continuous improvement.
Learn how to increase accountability and deliverables through goal setting, KPIs, and structured manager-employee dialogue, using the monkey analogy to assign problems and foster independent initiative.
Explore agile foundations and project management for teams, including Scrum roles, product owner, backlog, sprint planning, Kanban boards, and customer collaboration using Trello, Jira, or Asana.
Master Kanban boards and Trello to track progress, prioritize the product backlog, and decompose items into user stories with story points, labels, and checklists.
Lead organizational change by applying Kotter's eight-step model, diagnosing readiness, building guiding coalitions, shaping a compelling vision, removing barriers, and sustaining momentum through communication.
Learn how to execute tasks and deliver results through agile sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog management, blockers, readiness criteria, stakeholder feedback, and sprint reviews.
Learn to run effective 1:1s with team members through regular, structured sessions and rapport-building. Apply coaching questions, balanced feedback, and clear action plans to boost performance.
Lead coaching conversations that unlock employee potential by asking questions, using the Grow model, balance wheel, readiness tests, and targeted action plans within 1-to-1 settings.
Learn to design and run effective team meetings—from daily standups to strategy sessions and annual off-sites—using clear agendas, defined roles, and targeted formats to boost alignment and outcomes.
Learn to identify common problematic employees and apply practical, future-focused strategies to address anger, anxiety, blaming, resistance to change, and other behaviors to improve team collaboration.
Motivation 3.0 and total motivation reveal autonomy, mastery, and meaning at work, while gamification, goals, and six motivation sources boost performance.
Discover how Gallup Q12 measures engagement and the two-way social exchange of loyalty and motivation, and how managers implement action plans to boost engagement and business results.
Discover how continuous feedback boosts motivation by providing timely, fact-based, constructive coaching that integrates clear performance metrics and radical candor to drive sustained improvement.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence
A management decision needs more than a convincing AI answer. The real test is whether the work, evidence and accountability are clear.
Role requirements can remain vague while a vacancy moves forward. Team goals can look measurable until nobody agrees on the calculation. Assignments accumulate, meeting notes blur proposals with decisions, and workload problems stay unresolved because their causes are unclear. Copying these problems into an AI chat produces more text, but clarity still requires managerial judgment.
A stronger management routine has a visible line from the business priority to the work people actually do. Requirements describe observable results. Goals have defined measures. Delegation reflects available capacity. Meetings leave a reliable record of decisions. Actions on working conditions have an owner and a review point. AI contributes drafts and alternatives within that routine, while the manager checks the evidence and decides what is appropriate.
Mike is the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with more than 2,000,000 Udemy students. He has 20 years of HR experience and holds PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications. His professional experience includes Wargaming, Preply and iDeals. This course brings an established people management foundation together with a new operational AI management cycle.
The course opens with five practical AI lessons. The path begins with role readiness for hiring and the first onboarding tasks, then moves into team goals and KPI definitions. Next comes delegation against available workload capacity. Team meeting notes become a checked decision record, followed by an action on working conditions that supports motivation and retention. Each lesson uses one interactive HTML tool opened in a web browser, supplied context and one practical assignment. Demonstrations use fictional information; workplace practice follows the organization’s rules for approved data.
The original twelve sections follow as the management foundation. Recruitment, goals, execution, meetings and motivation connect directly to the new cycle. Team building, leadership, rewards, talent development, business alignment, communication and remote work provide the wider context. These existing lessons retain their original management focus. The new AI content stays within operational management; coaching workflows and team-wide AI adoption belong to separate courses.
What's included:
The next hiring requirement, team target or overloaded week will still need a clear decision. Putting a useful management routine into practice now creates an opportunity to improve that next decision instead of carrying the same uncertainty into another cycle.
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