Connect People.
Create Culture.
People & Team Development Certificate
Why HR & Talent Management?
Help Build the Future of Your Organization
The success of any organization lies in its people. Human resources and talent management teams play a key role in identifying, recruiting and retaining the right people for the organization, but that’s only the beginning.
True success comes in connecting the people to one another and empowering them to build a high-performing organization and create a culture of openness, engagement and inclusion—a culture that every employee owns.
Gain human-centric strategies to create high-performing teams & equitable company culture with the People & Team Development Certificate from Michigan State University.
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Why a Certificate?
Grow Your Organization by Growing Yourself
Whether you’re looking to make the move from a frontline position to a more strategic role, or put your organizational experience into practice by recruiting and training the next generation, the three-course People & Team Development Certificate can help you become your organization’s people person!
These three certificate courses build outward in their scope—from the individual, to the organization, to the culture—providing you with immediately applicable knowledge and skill-based learning techniques grounded in the guiding principles for a career in human resources:
Human Resource Talent Strategy
This four-week course provides you with the strategies and techniques to formulate your HR strategy, design organizational structure, understand and analyze the talent needs within that structure, and forecast future talent needs based on analysis, strategic planning and goal setting.
What You’ll Learn
- Applying Fundamentals of Human Resources
- Conducting Workflow Analysis
- Structuring Organizational Design
Who You Are
The young or emerging professional with a desire to recruit the next generation of workers, the experienced professional looking to move into a more strategic role in human resources or the established HR professional looking to target their organizational design skills and fine-tune HR strategy.
Building High-Performance Organizations
This four-week course provides you with a firm foundation on which to build, starting with your organization’s greatest asset, your people, by applying effective methodologies for recruiting, evaluating and hiring the right people, and continually developing, engaging and rewarding your people to meet and exceed performance goals.
What You’ll Learn
- Aligning HR Strategy with Organizational Strategy
- Recruiting Talent for Today and Tomorrow
- Managing and Developing Talent for Today and Tomorrow
Who You Are
The young or emerging professional with a desire to recruit the next generation of workers, the experienced professional looking to move into a more strategic role in human resources or the established HR professional looking for the latest techniques in developing talent and motivating high performance.
Developing Organizational Culture
This four-week course provides you with the tools and techniques to evaluate the current state of your organization’s culture, understand culture within the context of the larger global business environment and strategically develop your culture to connect and grow your employees, as well as your organization’s relationships with consumers and business partners.
What You’ll Learn
- Evaluating Your Organization’s Culture
- Adjusting Culture Through Attitude
- Aligning Your Culture to the Global Environment
Who You Are
The emerging or young professional with a desire to influence organizational culture and help develop the next generation of workers, the experienced professional looking to move into a more strategic role in human resources or the established HR professional looking to better develop and strategically leverage organizational culture.
Why Online?
Achieve Your Goals on Your Schedule
The People & Team Development Certificate is offered 100% online in an interactive learning environment, giving you learn-at-your-own-pace flexibility and direct access to faculty thought leaders.
Program Details
- 3 four-week courses
- 12-week completion time
- 100% online
- Flexible and convenient class schedules
- Interactive sessions with leading faculty
Why MSU?
Learn from the Management Leaders
Led by the top-ranked faculty and management researchers of MSU’s Broad College of Business, the People & Team Development Certificate is designed to impact your personal and professional growth.
Faculty thought leaders will equip you to:
Identify, recruit and retain the right people for your organization Build a high-performance organization through motivating people Understand the values and attitudes that shape organizational culture Connect people, build the organization, and create culture to drive success