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Strategic HR Leadership

Microsoft

Strategic HR Leadership

 Microsoft

Instructor: Microsoft

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Model Microsoft leadership principles (Create Clarity, Generate Energy, Deliver Success) and gather feedback to continuously improve

  • Make retention decisions using AI attrition-risk insights and refine your approach through bi-annual reviews

  • Lead organizational change using structured communication plans and stakeholder engagement strategies

  • Build succession plans with accurate readiness assessments calibrated by promotion outcomes

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This course is part of the Microsoft HR Manager Professional Certificate
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There are 12 modules in this course

Leadership principles that live in a slide deck don't change behavior. Practiced principles do. This module introduces Microsoft's leadership model (Create Clarity, Generate Energy, Deliver Success) and teaches you to apply these principles in your daily HR leadership, starting with the growth mindset that makes the rest possible.

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

Your perception of your leadership and your team's experience of it are rarely identical. This module teaches you to systematically gather feedback on your leadership effectiveness, revealing blind spots, validating strengths, and creating accountability for continuous growth.

What's included

1 reading3 assignments

Reacting to resignations is too late; predicting them is too powerful to ignore. This module teaches you to interpret AI-generated attrition risk predictions and the human judgment required to use predictive insights responsibly and effectively.

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

Good decisions sometimes fail; bad decisions sometimes succeed. Without review, you cannot tell which is which. This module teaches you to systematically evaluate decision outcomes and refine your frameworks based on evidence, not intuition.

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1 reading3 assignments

Seventy percent of change initiatives fail, usually not because the change was wrong, but because the change management was. This module introduces structured frameworks and teaches you to develop communication plans that build buy-in before resistance sets in.

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

Plans are easy; people are hard. This module teaches you to execute change while navigating the human realities of resistance, fear, and skepticism, turning opponents into advocates through the Listen-Acknowledge-Inform-Involve approach.

What's included

1 reading1 assignment

Declaring a change "complete" is not the same as knowing it worked. This module teaches you to evaluate change outcomes through post-transition surveys, capturing lessons that make your next initiative more successful than your last.

What's included

1 reading3 assignments

Every critical role without a successor is a crisis waiting to happen. This module teaches you to build succession plans that identify internal talent, assess readiness honestly, and develop the pipeline that protects organizational continuity.

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

A succession plan is only as good as its predictions, and predictions improve only through review. This module teaches you to calibrate your readiness assessments by comparing predictions to actual promotion outcomes, eliminating the biases that undermine succession planning.

What's included

1 reading3 assignments

HR work that doesn't connect to business strategy is HR work that doesn't get funded. This module teaches you to map team objectives to organizational strategic pillars using skills-gap analysis, demonstrating HR's value in the language executives understand.

What's included

1 video1 reading2 assignments

Annual planning without quarterly check-ins is wishful thinking with a deadline. This module teaches you to conduct quarterly strategic reviews that assess progress, adjust tactics, and anticipate what's coming, ensuring your strategy stays relevant as reality evolves.

What's included

2 readings3 assignments

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1 reading

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