Generative AI is penetrating every area of the workplace. Gen AI tools provide HR professionals and people managers with opportunities to reimagine and optimize processes, from recruiting and onboarding to training, performance management and development, and employee experience. Gen AI is new and comes with challenges, but as an HR professional and people manager, you need to be prepared for this moment, so that you can leverage Gen AI for your organization.

Gen AI is also an amazing digital assistant that helps you perform people analytics regardless of data literacy or in-depth analytics expertise and instantly answers all your people questions. People Analytics is rapidly becoming an essential tool for improving individual performance, enhancing employee experience, and achieving business goals. Gen AI will enable you to dive into your organization’s data, get your workforce questions answered, and deliver insights in the moments that matter to empower your everyday actions and also your big operational and strategic moves.

This is a hands-on program where you will develop a number of practical skills, such as how to do advanced prompt engineering for HR processes but also how to explore and analyze data using Gen AI and how to visualize data. Moreover, you will learn how to perform appropriate and advanced prompting, ask the right questions, understand the problems at hand, and share insights. You will work with real-world examples, specifically developed HR databases and case studies, running data analyses and making recommendations based on your findings.

Along with live online class sessions, the course includes 1:1 coaching sessions during office hours that offer personalized guidance to any workshop participant who would like to build their own Gen AI for HR use cases.

The aim of this course is to help you reimagine what is possible with Gen AI and how it can transform HR.

Lecture 1: Generative AI, prompt engineering and HR applications

Discover the state-of-the-art models and their HR applications

Gen AI as a force for performance optimization

Common pitfalls of Gen AI use

Discover how to think, model and prompt for HR applications

Hands-on Workshop: Test applications of advanced prompting for: Talent acquisition and onboarding / Leadership and employee development / Development of HR policies.

Lecture 2: Gen AI and People Analytics: Introduction

Discover the use of Gen AI for performing people analytics

Data understanding using Gen AI

Useful Gen AI prompts for data understanding

Data visualization and data storytelling using Gen AI

Guidelines about choosing the right vehicles to present quantitative information

Moving from metrics to predictive people analytics with Gen AI

Discuss how to think and model real-life problems adequately

Hands-on Workshop: Use Gen AI for People Analytics for understanding summary statistics regarding your employee data and significant variables, such as employee engagement and morale, etc. and conducting basic data visualizations.

Lecture 3: Gen AI and People Analytics for employee attrition and employee experience

Learn how to use Gen AI in order to understand employee turnover and employee experience

Use a step-by-step process with appropriate and advanced prompts to analyze data and understand employee turnover and experience in a specific organization

Use appropriate and advanced prompts to visualize the insights behind employee turnover and experience generated by Gen AI  

Link with the theoretical model of employee turnover and experience to critically evaluate Gen AI’s outputs

Understand how to build successful models for employee turnover and experience

Hands-on Workshop: Work on an actual database to understand what leads to employee attrition in a specific organization and how to enhance employee experience.

Lecture 4: Gen AI and People Analytics for performance management, compensation and inequity – How do I get started?

Learn how to start using Gen AI for simple and more advanced use cases

Be aware of the risks of the use of Gen AI and what can be done to mitigate them

Develop a policy for the use of Gen AI in HR

Learn how to use Gen AI in order to understand performance management

Use a step-by-step process with appropriate and advanced prompts to analyze data and understand performance management in a specific organization

Use appropriate and advanced prompts to visualize the insights behind performance management generated by Gen AI  

Link with the theoretical model of performance management to critically evaluate Gen AI’s outputs

Understand how to build successful models for employee performance management

Hands-on Workshop: Work on an actual database to understand performance and identify who are the underperformers in a specific organization and why. Use Gen AI to understand when and where productivity fluctuates and why in order to align compensation and training and development programs with performance.