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Certified in Workforce Development© Functional Expertise to lead HR transformation
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Most employees when hired have one or more areas that need to be development to fully meet the demands of their job. The contents of this module include step by step guides, evidence-based models, including frameworks that help grow and sustain employees' skills and expertise.
Benefits1. Learn practices for accelerated learning and sustained development.
2. Design leadership development initiatives based on the drivers to effectiveness. 3. Design a comprehensive solution to promote career advancement of your workforce. 4. Ensure program success by instituting program evaluation, HR metric, and analytic strategy. AudienceThis product is best suited to advance employee development initiatives.
1. HR generalists/business partners 2. Talent management consultants 3. Learning and organizational development professionals 4. Coaches The CWD© Exam & Learning Package includes 5 courses. The courses cover topics in the developing phase of employee life-cycle.
This courseware is designed, keeping in mind with the needs of talent management professionals to learn the material and maximize it in their work projects. Users have access to the HCG Learning Management Platform where they can access courses listed below. Lessons include case studies, step-by-step guides, evidence-based models, webinars, assignments, quizzes, and mentor support. Additionally, users have access to job aides and worksheets, which they can readily utilize in their work projects. Read about our success methodology ►
Access duration for this certification package is 5 months.
Talent management (TM) is a systematic approach that more effectively aligns the resources of employees and potential employees with the needs of the business. When effective it helps address employee needs and enhances the work environment by promoting employee effectiveness.
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In this course, participants gain understanding of how talent management systems can create better organizations, better talent and better career. They gain knowledge of what talent management is, how organizations benefit from talent management, characteristics of a high impact integrated talent management system and industry practices in talent management. The course highlights the benefits and costly consequences of not focusing on TM practices.
In this course, participants build capability to:
Tools
This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:
Training and development is the process of acquiring or enhancing knowledge, skills and abilities to prepare the workforce to achieve higher levels of productivity and effectiveness. It involves providing employees with structured methods to gain new skills and opportunities to practice the skills in their jobs.
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In this course, participants learn the steps required to design impactful training interventions. They will gain knowledge about learning theories that lead to sustained skill acquisition. The course includes examples and case studies to demonstrate the use of training to address unique organizational needs.
In this course, participants build capability to:
Tools
This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:
Leader development refers to the activities related to improving the competence of those who play leading roles in organizations. It involves identifying those who have the potential to lead and supporting their growth through the right set of training and experiences.
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In this course, participants learn about models of effective leader behaviors, such as situational leadership theory and full range leadership theory. Additionally, they will gain knowledge on leader development programs, including accelerated leader development and charismatic leadership training. The course includes special topics on globalization and gender in leadership and current and future trends in leadership development.
In this course, participants build capability to:
Tools
This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:
Career planning is a bundle of activities that helps prepare employees for advancement within their current organization. It involves assessing the employee’s strengths and interests, mapping a career path that aligns with the organization’s workforce requirements, providing support and guidance, and channeling development effort towards the goals.
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In this course, participants will gain knowledge of the role of career planning in a Talent Management system. Additionally, the course will teach the steps involved in developing a career management system, the steps involved in managing individual careers and popular models and frameworks used by experts in career management. The learning experiences will also include examples of how three leading organizations practice career management and special cases of career planning including: new graduate career management, senior leader career management, informal career development and helping employees manage their own careers. At the end of the course, a participant will learn how to evaluate a career planning program.
In this course, participants build capability to:
Tools
This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:
Program evaluation (PE) is at the heart of practicing evidence-based talent management. It refers to the process of assessing the impact of an intervention by gathering data to compute the right HR metrics. The process involves developing hypotheses about expected outcomes, collecting data to assess impact and analyzing results to identify areas for improvement.
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In this course, participants learn the steps involved in designing a program evaluation. They develop an understanding of popular models and frameworks in program evaluation, such as Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation, Return on Investment (ROI) and Utility analysis. Additionally, the course will cover evaluation process and metrics used in common types of development programs including training interventions, leader development programs, multisource feedback interventions, executive coaching and career management systems. While this course is presented as a separate chapter, all TM interventions should have a PE component.
In this course, participants build capability to:
Tools
This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:
This learning and certification package includes the training segments and a certification exam.
Certification Requirements1. Complete the learning segments listed in the training tab, including the accompanying mandatory webinars, and quizzes.
2. Complete assignments achieving minimum score of 70%.
3. Comprehensive Exam
Take a comprehensive exam covering the five topics and achieve a minimum score of 70%.
- Computer-Based Testing (CBT) - Multiple-choice questions selected based on expert panel evaluations All certifications are valid for 3 years. To maintain the certification credentials, you must stay current in this area of expertise, build upon your knowledge, and grow as a professional in your field. Recertification requires retaking the exam.
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Certified in Workforce Development (CWD) - Learning & Exam Package |
* HCG reserves the right to change the format and program design without notice.