Participant-centered “workshop methodology” will be followed during the program. The methodology will be a combination of the case method, and simulations including role plays and situation analysis. Also, interactive mini-lectures will be used to explore the themes. The focus of the entire program is to help you reflect on your decision making style and strategies rather than simply teaching you concepts.

Senior and Middle Level Executives in all functional areas of management in industry and services.

The overall coverage of the course will include:

▪ Thinking styles.

▪ What it means to be critical.

▪ Making a critical choice.

▪ Critical thinking and communication.

▪ Taking charge of your irrational tendencies during communication.

▪ Monitoring your socio-centric tendencies during communication.

▪ Misunderstanding, challenges, and risks (Critical thinking and communication in difficult situations).

▪ Being influential and persuasively argumentative (How to use facts, observations, beliefs, assumptions, claims, premises, and acknowledgment?).

▪ Critical thinking and decision making.

▪ How problems shape decisions.

▪ Behavioral traps, cognitive biases and decision traps.

▪ Decision-making processes—random, rational and proactive decision-making process.

▪ Decision Implementation.

▪ Role of argumentation and analysis in communicating decision-making.

04-6th Dec, 2023. XLRI , Jamshedpur

This program is based on combination of methods which include recent case studies from leading organizations, lecture, hands on experience on data analysis, group work to determine the best HR response to data trends, and reflection of organization specifics to contextualize the learning for organizational benefit. Participants are expected to attend this program with

reasonable understanding about data challenges specific to their organization and sector.

Continued support: Participants from those organizations willing to get into an academic partnership with XLRI are offered three months of continued support for their first HR analytic project after the MDP. Feel free to contact us for further details

about academic partnership.

1. Managers responsible for allocating resources for various HR initiatives or measuring returns from them
2. Professionals interested in optimization of human capital based change initiatives
3. Professionals interested in implementing evidence based HR investments in their organizations
4. Professionals planning to update or improve their HR Analytical skills
5. Members from organizations planning to set up an HR Analytic team for the first time
6. Professionals interested to improve the existing way of collecting HR data or make meaningful use of existing HR data for future decisions.

▪ Human Capital Analytic Continuum

▪ Analytical Foundations of HR Measurement

▪ The Workforce Analytic Process: Designing an HR Analytic Project

▪ Descriptive Analytics: Identifying Trends in Existing HR data

▪ Predictive Analytics: Making Forecasts about Possible Outcomes

▪ Prescriptive Analytics: Designing and Implementing HR Interventions based on Predictive Analytics

▪ Illustrations of HR Analytics: Staffing, Training, Performance Management, Compensation, Attrition Management and

Engagement Initiatives

04 Dec 23 – 07 Dec 23

This is an introductory program meant for professionals planning to learn about the utility of HR Analytics through a systematic development program. This program will help you to utilize HR analytics in making better HR decisions in day today work or to pursue a full time career in HR analytics. Also note that this MDP is not meant for experts who are looking for advanced analytic tools within HR domain.

HR Analytics is a logic driven process and hence do not mandate expertise in statistical techniques. We encourage even those HR professionals uncomfortable with quantitative methods to attend the program and get surprised by experiencing the utility of logic driven analytical process. Due to the necessity for close interaction, individual guidance and continued support, the number of participants for this MDP is limited to 10 – 12 participants per batch.

The coverage of the programme will be as follows:

• Introduction to Competency-based Recruitment and selection.
• Identifying Assessment Specification and Establishing the Assessment Protocol.
• Different types of Interviews.
• Behavioural Events Interview and Competency Based Interview.
• Developing Questions for Competency Based Interviews.
• Probing Techniques.
• Understanding your probing styles and its implications.
• Identifying Evidence from Competency Based Interviews.
• Understanding cultural fit.
• Developing Rating Scale for Competency.
• Evidence-based Competency Evaluation.

Participants will learn by developing Guidelines for Structured Interviews, Preparing Behavioural and Situational Questions, Examining Evidence for Competency, Observing and critiquing interview techniques, Conducting and Practicing Competency Based Interviews, Practicing Competency Evaluation based on Behavioural Evidence, Exploring alternate sources of Competency Data.

The certification process consists of the following components

(1) A knowledge test

(2) In-class assignments

(3) post-programme interview recording by the participant.

Certification will be based on the performance on all three components.

The programme is meant for Professionals, including Hiring Managers, involved Recruitment and Selection and other HR applications involving Competency Assessment.

18 – 19 Jan 24 – Mumbai

▪ You will undergo the entire gamut of Assessment Centre Exercise.

▪ You will learn by defining competencies.

▪ You will learn by observing and classifying behaviour.

▪ You will learn from lectures and discussions.

▪ You will get an opportunity to practice what you learnt.

▪ You will learn by designing exercises and evaluating them.

▪ You will learn from cases.

▪ You will learn by running a mini assessment centre.

On the final day there will be a Comprehensive Assessor Certification Test covering both practice and theory. While everyone will receive Certificate of Participation, those who qualify the test will be awarded Certified Assessor certificate by XLRI Jamshedpur. To help ensure the reading material reaches you in time, please complete the registration including payment of fee, at the earliest.

Professionals at middle and senior levels involved in Recruitment and Selection, Learning and Development, Succession Planning, Career Development and other HR applications involving Assessment and Development.

▪ Concept of competencies

▪ Approaches to mapping competencies

▪ Types of Assessment Centre

▪ Behavioral Assessment Process : ORCSE

▪ Observation skills and behaviour reporting

▪ Nature and types of exercises

▪ In basket, Group Decision making, Role Play, Fact Finding

▪ Ancillary tools : CBI and Psychometric Test

▪ Designing exercises

▪ Preparation of assessment report

▪ Giving assessment feedback

▪ Designing and Implementing an assessment centre

09th Oct 23 – 13th Oct 23 – Bangalore