This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Every year a new trend report says work is changing, and every year HR teams read it, nod and plan the same things as before. Here are 451 tools to act on the trends: 206 ready-to-use question lists, templates, AI prompts, matrices and procedures, 157 models and methods, 79 services shown on screen and 9 research reports.

Open a lecture, take the tool, apply one trend to your own HR plan.

Why trend reports rarely change HR plans

Reports describe the direction but not the next step for a specific company. AI agents, reskilling and new career paths stay as slides, while the HR plan is built from last year's template. Nobody connects the trend to the budget, the workforce plan or the performance system.

What changes after this course

You translate each trend into a decision: how AI agents change roles, which skills to build, how to measure human-AI teams, how the workforce plan and the employee value proposition change. Strategy, finance and analytics connect the trends to the business.

A note on the structure

The course opens with four lessons on the 2026 human capital trends and how AI agents change work, drawing on public research including Deloitte's Human Capital Trends report. The course is independent and not affiliated with Deloitte. The following sections on AI in HR, business and finance, workforce planning, strategic HR and HR trends to 2030 give the broader foundation.

What is inside: 451 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 54 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 9 research reports on the future of jobs, salary budgets, training trends, employer brands and organisations
• 206 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 44 question lists and scripts: AI trust survey, adaptability competency interviews, human capital planning, Gallup Q12 engagement survey
• 42 templates and sample documents: AI empowerment employee value proposition, human capital ROI calculator, employee journey map, HR automation requirements
• 29 ready AI prompts: competency model generation, employee turnover analysis, HR process analysis, employer brand strategy generation
• 27 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: business strategy to HR alignment, risk probability and impact, A-players in A-roles talent matrix, employee experience journey map
• 25 step-by-step procedures and workflows: AI-assisted policy drafting, workforce planning, HR strategy development, onboarding checklist email automation
• 19 checklists: HR automation task selection, employee onboarding, employee value proposition audit, HRIS selection
• 19 formulas and metric sets and 1 other working tool: HR automation ROI, FTE calculation, stress and burnout cost calculation, human capital management metrics
• 157 models and methods explained with examples: human-in-the-loop oversight, explainable AI (XAI), skills gap analysis, predictive analytics
• 79 services shown on screen, including ChatGPT, Eightfold AI, Beamery, Asana and Confluence

Where the tools are

Human capital trends 2026 (4 sections, 45 tools). AI agents, human-AI symbiosis, performance, reskilling and critical skills.

AI in human capital management (1 section, 105 tools). AI across recruiting, development, engagement and analytics.

Business, finance and strategic HR (1 section, 63 tools). The business side of human capital.

Workforce planning (1 section, 82 tools). Planning for the future of work.

Strategic HR (1 section, 122 tools). HR strategy and the human capital agenda.

HR trends 2026 to 2030 (1 section, 71 tools). The longer view.

Professional growth and EVP 2.0 (1 section, 24 tools). Careers and the value proposition for a human-AI workplace.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I use AI every day, and it saves me roughly 70% of the time many tasks used to take. When I analysed a large employee value proposition survey, about 1,600 rows and 200 columns, Claude turned it into a clear report quickly, work that would have taken days by hand.

How to use the course

Start with the four 2026 trend lessons, then go to the AI, workforce, strategy or EVP sections that match your plans. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 47 lectures across 10 sections, 23.5 hours
• 54 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and nine research reports
• 451 tools across the lessons, including 79 services shown on screen
• A quiz, a 10-question practice test and a role play
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Pick one trend from the first lecture and write down what it would change in your HR plan for next year. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.