This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

369 tools for HR risk management in one course: 209 ready-to-use question lists, templates, checklists, procedures, matrices and formulas, 155 models and methods, and 5 services and apps shown on screen.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it on your own risk list.

Why people risks surprise the company

A payroll mistake goes out to the whole staff. A key person leaves with no successor. A manager is accused of discrimination. A new hire turns out to have a history nobody checked. Each of these looks like bad luck, and each was a known risk that nobody wrote down, scored or assigned to an owner. Risk management in HR is the habit of doing exactly that before the event.

What changes after this course

You have a list of people risks with a probability, an impact and an owner for each. You know which controls belong to managers, which to HR and which to audit. You notice the early signs of fraud and misconduct. You measure what used to be a feeling: turnover risk, engagement, pay gaps. You have a plan for a crisis. And you make people decisions with a method that reduces bias.

What is inside: 369 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.

• 209 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 47 question lists and scripts: risk culture audit, board conduct traffic-light assessment, risk assessment, exit interviews
• 44 templates and sample documents: anti-bribery policy, conflict-of-interest policy, non-retaliation policy, risk register with mitigation actions
• 41 checklists: workplace privacy principles, emergency action plan essentials, individual fraud warning signs, good risk culture criteria
• 32 step-by-step procedures and workflows: six-stage incident investigation, risk-controlled hiring process, premortem analysis, code of conduct adoption
• 27 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: probability-impact risk heatmap, HR risk consequence classification, fraud controls by defence line, dismiss or retain decision matrix
• 18 formulas and metric sets: annualized turnover calculation, workload-based workforce forecasting, HR initiative cost-benefit analysis, promotion versus external hiring costs
• 155 models and methods explained with examples, including ISO 31000 risk management, the three lines of defence and the fraud triangle
• 5 services and apps shown on screen: Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Loom, LinkedIn and ChatGPT

Where the tools are

• HR risk management core (5 sections, 65 tools). Human risk, ISO 31000 models, psychology of risk behavior, the mitigation plan, executive risk, risk culture, roles, decisions and personal ethics.
• HR metrics for people risk (64 tools). Recruitment, engagement, pay, performance and turnover metrics.
• Business and financial risk acumen (63 tools). Environment analysis, competition, regulation, technology and financial statements.
• Strategic HR risk and governance (122 tools). HR strategy, HR audit, organizational development, culture, workforce planning, rewards, international HR.
• Anti-crisis HR (69 tools). Hiring in a crisis, payroll and benefits control, development without a budget, downsizing, bad-news communication, contingency plans.

What this course is not

It is not legal advice and not an ISO certification. ISO 31000 is used here as a framework for thinking about HR risks. For a legal question in your country, ask a lawyer.

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 have met most of these risks in person. At a television channel with many vacancies, hiring a fraudster was a likely risk, and the security service brought it close to zero. Payroll mistakes happened, often not in favor of employees. A letter with everyone's salaries went to the wrong address. An employee dismissed without cause went to court. The same channel had work with fire, at height and with high voltage, so the company hired a very experienced safety specialist from a large plant and paid him well above the usual level. He could walk onto a set and say: stop, I forbid this. That is what a real control looks like.

How to use the course

Watch the first five sections in order: they give the risk method. Then open the area where your risks are. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 39 lectures across 10 sections, 20 hours
• 38 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations
• 369 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
• 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

Open the lecture on contingency plans, take the risk register and write down five people risks of your company with a probability and an impact for each. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.