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SHRM-CP® 2026: Strategic HR, People & Business Skills
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SHRM-CP® 2026: Strategic HR, People & Business Skills
Business Acumen, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, HR Metrics, ROI, AI in HR, Employee Experience & HR Leadership
Last updated 10/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Apply SHRM BASK competencies to solve HR challenges and connect people decisions with measurable business outcomes.
- Build strategic HR leadership skills in influence, communication, ethical decision-making, and organizational navigation.
- Use workforce planning and talent forecasting to identify skill gaps, future workforce needs, and succession priorities.
- Evaluate recruitment, selection, onboarding, engagement, performance, development, and retention using evidence-based HR practices.
- Interpret HR metrics, people analytics, dashboards, turnover data, and ROI to support better workforce decisions.
- Connect employee experience, culture, motivation, rewards, wellbeing, and learning with productivity and retention.
- Assess how AI, digital transformation, and changing workforce expectations are reshaping modern HR roles and decisions.
- Strengthen business acumen by linking HR initiatives with cost, productivity, customer value, risk, and organizational performance.
- Develop executive-ready HR recommendations using data, strategy, financial reasoning, storytelling, and stakeholder influence.
- Complete a strategic HR capstone covering workforce diagnosis, retention strategy, dashboards, ROI, and executive recommendations.
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Course content
8 sections • 44 lectures • 4h 28m total length
Requirements
- No advanced HR certification knowledge is required; a basic understanding of workplace or human resource concepts will help you connect course ideas with practical organizational situations.
- Bring curiosity about strategic human resources, leadership, talent, and business performance, because the course focuses on applying HR thinking beyond routine administrative activities and processes.
- Students should be comfortable learning through short lectures, business examples, visual frameworks, and a practical capstone that connects multiple HR concepts within one organizational challenge.
- Access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone with a stable internet connection is recommended so you can watch lessons, review materials, and complete activities smoothly.
- A calculator or spreadsheet tool can be useful for topics involving HR metrics, workforce data, dashboards, return on investment, and basic financial reasoning exercises throughout the course.
- Come prepared to think like an HR business partner by considering how people decisions influence organizational cost, productivity, risk, customer value, and long-term business growth.
- You do not need coding skills, advanced mathematics, or professional analytics software; the course explains people analytics and HR metrics from a practical management perspective.
- Basic professional experience is helpful but not essential; students, early-career practitioners, managers, and experienced HR professionals can all follow the course content comfortably and confidently.
- For the strongest learning experience, keep notes and pause to reflect on how each framework could apply within your organization, current role, team, or career goals.
- Be willing to complete the strategic HR capstone, where you will combine workforce analysis, retention planning, dashboards, ROI thinking, and executive recommendations into one exercise.
Description
Artificial intelligence was used as a development aid in the making of this course, helping organize, refine, and strengthen parts of the learning experience under human direction. The timing could not be more relevant. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, based on more than 1,000 major employers representing over 14 million workers, reports that 39% of workers’ core skills are expected to change by 2030. It also projects that workforce transformation will affect 22% of today’s formal jobs through job creation and displacement.
That shift is exactly why modern HR professionals need more than administrative knowledge. Organizations increasingly expect HR to understand business strategy, use data, influence leaders, anticipate workforce needs, and guide people through change. SHRM’s 2026 Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge also expands the role of artificial intelligence across HR practice, reinforcing how quickly the profession is evolving.
This course is designed to help you build that broader capability. Across 7 sections and 42 focused lectures, you will explore Strategic HR Leadership, SHRM BASK competencies, Business Acumen, Talent Management, Workforce Planning, Employee Experience, Performance Management, People Analytics, HR Metrics, HR ROI, AI in HR, Change Management, Consulting Skills, Compensation, Wellbeing, and career development.
You will learn how to think like an HR Business Partner rather than simply process HR activities. You will examine how workforce decisions connect with productivity, retention, customer value, cost, risk, and organizational performance. You will also work with practical frameworks for stakeholder influence, executive communication, evidence-based decision making, workforce forecasting, succession planning, dashboards, and strategic recommendations.
The course concludes with a practical capstone in which you step into the role of a Strategic HR Director. You will diagnose workforce problems, analyze HR data, develop a workforce plan, recommend retention and learning initiatives, build an HR dashboard, calculate ROI, and present executive recommendations.
SHRM describes certified professionals as “recognized expert and leader in the HR field,” and its 2022 HR Careers Study reports that SHRM-certified professionals reported salaries 14%–15% higher than peers without the certification. Certification alone never guarantees career outcomes, but stronger strategic capability can help you communicate your value more clearly.
If you want to strengthen your SHRM-CP preparation while developing practical Strategic HR, People Analytics, HR Leadership, and Workforce Planning skills, this course gives you a structured path forward.
This is an independent educational course and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by SHRM.
Who this course is for:
- HR professionals who want to move beyond operational tasks and build the strategic, analytical, leadership, and business capabilities expected from modern HR partners and leaders.
- SHRM-CP candidates seeking a structured course that connects SHRM BASK competencies with practical HR decision-making, business scenarios, workforce strategy, analytics, and leadership applications in practice.
- Early-career HR practitioners who want a broader understanding of talent management, employee experience, workforce planning, HR metrics, performance, engagement, and organizational strategy in modern workplaces.
- HR managers and business partners who want to strengthen executive communication, stakeholder influence, consulting skills, financial literacy, strategic thinking, and evidence-based recommendations in their organizations.
- Talent acquisition, learning, development, engagement, and people operations professionals who want to understand how their specialties connect with broader business performance and workforce strategy goals.
- Professionals preparing for greater HR leadership responsibility who want practical exposure to people analytics, HR ROI, succession planning, change leadership, compensation, and strategic workforce decisions.
- Business leaders, line managers, and consultants who regularly make people decisions and want a stronger foundation in strategic HR, talent systems, culture, and organizational performance.
- Ambitious learners exploring careers as HR Manager, HR Business Partner, HR Director, or CHRO who want a clearer roadmap for developing future-ready strategic HR capabilities.
- People analytics and workforce planning professionals who want to connect data, metrics, dashboards, forecasting, and talent insights with stronger strategic HR and business decision-making capabilities.
- HR professionals interested in AI, digital transformation, and the future of work who want to understand how emerging technologies are reshaping modern people management and leadership.