This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

You have just stepped into an HR director role, and in your first week leadership asks what is wrong with HR. You do not have data yet, only intuition. Here are 350 tools to get the data: 226 ready-to-use question lists, templates, procedures and checklists, 113 models and methods, 7 working files and 4 services shown on screen.

Open a lecture, take the checklist, and start the audit this week.

Why HR is hard to judge from the inside

HR processes grow one by one, each with its own owner and exceptions. Nobody sees the whole picture: which documents are missing, which metrics are not tracked, where the legal risks are and what the business actually needs from HR. Opinions fill the gap, and the first plan is built on them.

What changes after this course

You audit HR item by item, from compliance to strategy, metrics and risk. You see the gaps, rank them, and present a report and a roadmap leadership can approve, with numbers instead of impressions.

What is inside: 350 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.

• 44 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 7 working files, including the HR audit checklist, an HR audit interview guide, an HR audit report template, an HR metrics dashboard and an improvement roadmap with ROI calculator
• 226 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 50 question lists and scripts: HR audit interviews for three audiences, Gallup Q12, exit interviews, risk culture audit
• 47 templates and sample documents: HR audit report, annual HR audit calendar, HR improvement roadmap, five-slide CEO audit presentation
• 46 step-by-step procedures: three-day HR audit schedule, 30-minute manager audit briefing, HR metric analysis, interaction mapping and risk assessment
• 39 checklists: recruitment system audit, onboarding audit, total rewards audit, HR strategy effectiveness
• 24 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: HR Efficiency Index interpretation, HR audit RACI matrix, HR strategy alignment matrix, probability-impact risk heatmap
• 14 formulas and metric sets: HR audit metrics and benchmarks, annualized turnover calculation, onboarding economic benefits calculation, training economic benefits calculation
• 6 ready AI prompts: rapid HR scoring analysis, audit gap recommendations, CEO executive summary, improvement roadmap
• 113 models and methods explained with examples: SHRM’s three HR audit levels, employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS), Five Whys, Harvard HRM
• 4 services shown on screen: Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Google Forms and a people analytics dashboard

Where the tools are

The HR audit (3 sections, 28 tools). Diagnosis, the 729-item checklist, gap analysis, metrics and the ROI calculator.

HR metrics and people analytics (1 section, 64 tools). Auditing HR metrics and analytics.

HR analytics and workforce metrics (1 section, 96 tools). Workforce metrics and analytics audit.

Strategic HR and workforce planning (1 section, 122 tools). Strategic HR audit and workforce planning.

HR risk and governance (1 section, 63 tools). Risk audit, governance and ISO 31000.

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 made the first version of this HR audit checklist in 2017-2019 and have improved it since; it has been translated into many languages. The most grateful feedback came from HR directors who used it in their first weeks in a new company: they presented the audit results to the CEO and got a complete picture and an action plan approved.

How to use the course

Start with the HR audit sections, then go deeper with the metrics, strategic and risk audit sections. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 41 lectures across 8 sections, 19.5 hours
• 44 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 7 working files
• 350 tools across the lessons, including 4 services shown on screen
• A 10-question practice test, a quiz 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

Download the HR audit checklist, go through the first block for your company, then open the gap analysis lecture. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.