Strategically align your HR efforts to your CU’s needs and build your analytical acumen.
Human resource leaders—learn how to evaluate and critique HR data, communicate and translate those results organization wide, and examine outcomes and drivers in your credit union to better assess strategic needs under the expert guidance of John Hausknecht, Associate Professor, Human Resource Studies, Cornell University.
Over the course of 2 MONTHS, 4 COURSES, and 2 LIVE-TAUGHT SESSIONS, you will take a strategic look at talent analytics, study the latest research, and apply lessons to fine tune your evaluative, presentation, and communication skills using critical thinking coupled with analytical best practices. Students will explore:
- Aligning the HR Strategy with Organizational Strategy
- Diversity and Inclusion in Practice for Human Resources
- Strategic Engagement
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Human Resources Leadership
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
Learn more about each course and session by visiting our “Curriculum” tab. Questions? Email events@cues.org.
Why Attend?
- This program was developed specifically for the credit union industry in partnership with Cornell University, and is ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH CUES.
- This is a unique opportunity for human resource professionals to access exceptional executive education from Cornell University, without travel.
- Learn directly from Cornell faculty member John Hausknecht as he teaches the live, online sessions designed to supplement and connect all the courses in this series—highlighting the applications to the credit union system and your role.
- You’ll hone skills allowing you to build your organization’s HR analytics capabilities, learn to derive meaning from metrics and results, and understand how to tell persuasive stories involving HR and organizational data.
- You’ll find all content and activities are customized specifically for the unique challenges and opportunities of credit unions.
- Activities, discussion boards, and live-taught online sessions are designed to make you an active participant in the learning process, allowing you to become a stronger HR leader at your own pace.
- You’ll earn 18 SHRM credits and 3.2 CEUs upon completion of the program.
- Expand your network of like-minded professionals as you connect and share your own experiences.
- Students who complete all coursework will earn an executive certificate from CUES and Cornell University, demonstrating their knowledge and ability to apply what they’ve learned to their careers and credit unions.
Program Details
This high-level education program for HR professionals was designed to fit easily into your schedule. Highlights include:
- Program Length. There is a 45-minute orientation on March 9. The program then runs from March 17–May 11, 2021.
- Time Commitment. The Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate Program consists of four self-paced eCornell courses open for two-week intervals; most students spend 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project. Two 90-minute Cornell faculty-led live online sessions are interspersed.
- COVID-Safe Learning Modalities. You will learn together with your class, but each student will receive their own login and participate from their own remote location, via a combination of live online meetings, interactive online discussions, audio recordings, videos, and independent study designed to provide practical experience and reflection.
Hear from CUES SVP/Chief Learning Officer Christopher Stevenson in this CUbroadcast interview where he discusses partnering with Cornell University to bring Ivy League-level digital learning programs (eCornell) to CUs nationwide.
Be sure to check out our other eCornell programs:
This program consists of four, two-week eCornell courses, plus two live-taught 90-minute facilitated sessions with esteemed Cornell faculty.
Launch/Orientation Call:
March 9, 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EST
March 17- March 30, 2021
A thorough understanding of your organization's value creation model and ability to develop competencies through processes, technology, and people are essential to ensuring that the HR organization is aligned vertically and horizontally to produce superior results. With this understanding, HR will be able to articulate how it can improve processes, people and customer outcomes, and financial results.
This course, based on the research and expertise of Christopher Collins, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Executive Education for Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, develops the skills needed to assess how organizations create value and to align the HR function to execute the organization's strategy.
You’ll analyze the Balanced Scorecard approach as a means of vertically aligning the HR system with organizational objectives, and learn how to create a vertical-alignment strategy and use it to improve HR decision-making, people outcomes, processes, customer outcomes, and financial results.
Key Takeaways
- Discuss how an organization delivers value through coordinating people, processes, and technologies
- Develop a plan to structure your credit union's people, processes, and technologies to create maximum value for stakeholders
- Use human resources alignment to maximize employee performance
- Apply the balanced scorecard to improve HR decision making
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
March 31 - April 13, 2021
The management of diversity and inclusion has evolved from "counting the numbers" to "making the numbers count." Organizations that no longer look at inclusion as having a good mix of diverse people, but as a way to fully engage employees, partners and customers, have an opportunity to compete globally. Diversity and inclusion must be embedded in an organizational culture to make a positive impact on performance.
This course, based on the expertise of Cornell University Professor Lisa Nishii, differentiates diversity from inclusion and how organizations often miss the real opportunity. Students assess three levels of inclusion and identify evidence that can be used for each level to assess presence and effectiveness. HR executives and leaders share their perspective on diversity and inclusion and how they made the shift to inclusion at organizational, managerial and work group levels.
Key Takeaways
- Distinguish between diversity and inclusion and how organizations often miss the real opportunity
- Describe measurement and evaluation methods to assess D&I initiatives
- Assess current D&I initiatives of your credit union
- Describe each of the 3 "levels" associated with D&I (organization, work-group, manager)
- Identify evidence that can be used for each level to assess presence and effectiveness
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
April 13, 2021
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Effective HR leadership goes beyond managing all the tasks and responsibilities carried out by the HR function. It also requires the critical soft skills needed from any leader like courage, judgment, influence, political agility, effective communication.
April 14 - April 27, 2021
In recognition of the strong association between employee engagement and performance, many companies have used or considered using engagement surveys. However, many of these efforts are off-the-shelf surveys that are not fully leveraged or tailored to an organization’s specific wants and needs, or tied into performance management.
This course will help you understand the difference between an average, generic engagement effort and one that has the potential to drive superior organizational performance. You’ll explore the importance of aligning engagement with your organization’s strategic goals, review data collection and analysis considerations, and analyze methods of using engagement data to drive organizational change at the line manager and broader organizational levels.
Key Takeaways
- Determine how engagement manifests in observable employee behavior
- Examine how engagement predicts organizational performance
- Audit your organization's current relevant practices
- Outline a plan for interpreting your engagement data so you can drive real organizational change
- Examine the existing workplace factors that may be at the root of suboptimal levels of engagement
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
April 28- May 11, 2021
This course focuses on building analytical acumen and taking a strategic view of talent analytics. Using a framework presented in this course, you’ll examine outcomes and drivers throughout your organization to assess strategic needs. You’ll also fine tune your evaluative, presentation, and communication skills using critical thinking coupled with analytical best practices shared by Professor John Hausknecht.
This course is designed for HR professionals who want to build their organization’s HR analytics capabilities, derive meaning from metrics and results, and tell persuasive stories involving HR and organizational data. With these skills, students will have a stronger voice in using talent analytics to persuade others toward actions that best align with organizational goals.
Key Takeaways
- Align HR analytics to support larger organizational needs, including linkage of HR data to business outcomes
- Assess and enhance your organization's maturity around HR analytics
- Evaluate findings and determine the most critical workforce implications
- Prepare and deliver persuasive data-based stories
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
May 11, 2021
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Organizations today face a multitude of challenges when it comes to effectively managing their talent. In mature markets, demographic trends are forcing companies to accelerate their efforts to build a pipeline of future leaders. In emerging markets, companies must develop talent strategies that are both nimble and effective at engaging and retaining key human capital.
Ivy League Curricula and Top-Ranked Faculty
eCornell is Cornell University’s online learning platform, which provides online professional and executive development to students around the world. eCornell courses are all developed by Cornell University faculty, and often include practical insights from other industry experts. All eCornell course content comes from top-rated programs with proven curricula.
Expert Led, with Structured Flexibility
eCornell courses are online and expert led with structured flexibility. Courses are facilitated by subject-matter experts, who will guide you, challenge you, and help you apply the course concepts to your real-world, on-the-job circumstances. Each course has a defined start and end date, but is designed to accommodate the schedules of busy professionals and allow students to complete their work at the times that work best for them, daytime, evening, or weekends.
Start and End Dates Drive Completion
A critical part of successful self-directed learning is to have a finish line, so eCornell courses have defined start dates and end dates. Most eCornell courses take about six to eight hours to complete, over a two-week period.
Interaction & Collaboration
As an eCornell student, you are never alone in your course. You are part of a cohort of other credit union staff members from across North America. Required discussions play an important part in your course, giving you and your classmates the opportunity to share and exchange your own experiences, best practices, perspectives, and examples. All this shared learning is facilitated by an instructor who brings both subject-matter expertise and real-world experience. Your interaction with peers from different organizations, and backgrounds fosters collaboration, networking, and a lot of practical, shared learning.
Emphasis on Practice and Application
The ability for you to interact with expert instructors, to ask questions and receive answers, and to learn with—and from—other participants keeps the learning interesting, practical, and above all, relevant to your work.
And there’s one more key component: practice opportunities.
Most eCornell courses include a project, which challenges you to apply the course concepts to your own organization. Others include interactive scenarios, simulations, and other engaging practice activities. All courses include tools, techniques, or job aids that you can put to immediate use in your work.
Every certificate program and course is developed with very tangible outcomes in mind. To eCornell, it’s not enough if a course helps you to know something, or even to understand it. Programs are designed to go much further, to equip you to do something—better or for the first time—at your job.
We ask, “after completing this course, what will participants be able to analyze, identify, assess, implement, calculate, or influence that they couldn’t before?” eCornell courses draw on a variety of components to provide this practical learning:
- Discussions
- Projects
- Practice activities
- Short videos
- Interviews with industry experts
- Online tools and downloadable resources
- Case studies and examples
- The guidance of an instructor
The eCornell approach positions you as an active participant in the learning process, allowing you to build the necessary problem-solving skills at your own pace and in your own style to confront the real challenges you face on the job and in life.
Participants who complete all four courses and assignments satisfactorily will receive an Executive Certificate in Strategic HR Leadership from Cornell University and CUES, demonstrating their knowledge and ability to apply what they’ve learned to their careers and credit unions. All assignments are evaluated by the Certificate Program Facilitator.
There are not college credits associated with this course.
There is a 45-minute orientation on March 9. The Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate Program runs from March 17–May 11 2021. During that time, you’ll take four eCornell courses at your own pace; each is open for a two-week interval. Plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project to complete these courses. They are interspersed with two 90-minute Cornell faculty-led live online sessions.
CUES has partnered with Cornell University to meet the development needs of HR executives and high potential HR leaders at your organization.
CUES now serves just over 1,300 Human Resources and Talent Development executives and managers. To continue to serve our mission and meet the needs of our members, we are expanding our offerings for HR leaders. Now more than ever, HR leaders are expected to be proficient in the use of HR data and analytics. We recognized the need for meeting the highest educational standards, and are partnering with one of the top business schools in the world to deliver our HR programming.
This unique program has been developed specifically for the credit union industry in partnership with Cornell University, and is only available through CUES.
You’ll earn 18 SHRM credits and 3.2 CEUs upon completion of the program.
- CUES executive education, whether in-person or online, offers outstanding networking opportunities.
- As credit union HR and talent development executives, the challenges and opportunities of recruitment and retention within the industry are real.
- You won’t want to miss out on gaining a cross-industry perspective or learning from people in other fields. Cornell University and its ILR School are the best in designing and delivering HR educational programming with insights pulled from across industry sectors. You’ll learn directly from top faculty in the field.
Live sessions will be recorded and available for playback if you miss a session.
The comfort and well-being of our attendees is of utmost importance to us; we will make every effort to make sure you are comfortable at our events!
Please email events@cues.org as soon as you know you’re attending a CUES event. Be sure to include your name, credit union, the CUES event you are registered for, and everything we need to know to accommodate your request.
We’ll be in touch with any questions we have, and let you know how we can help.
Strategically align your HR efforts to your CU’s needs and build your analytical acumen.
Human resource leaders—learn how to evaluate and critique HR data, communicate and translate those results organization wide, and examine outcomes and drivers in your credit union to better assess strategic needs under the expert guidance of John Hausknecht, Associate Professor, Human Resource Studies, Cornell University.
Over the course of 2 MONTHS, 4 COURSES, and 2 LIVE-TAUGHT SESSIONS, you will take a strategic look at talent analytics, study the latest research, and apply lessons to fine tune your evaluative, presentation, and communication skills using critical thinking coupled with analytical best practices. Students will explore:
- Aligning the HR Strategy with Organizational Strategy
- Diversity and Inclusion in Practice for Human Resources
- Strategic Engagement
- Strategic Talent Analytics
- Human Resources Leadership
- Getting Results Through Talent Management
Learn more about each course and session by visiting our “Curriculum” tab. Questions? Email events@cues.org.
Why Attend?
- This program was developed specifically for the credit union industry in partnership with Cornell University, and is ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH CUES.
- This is a unique opportunity for human resource professionals to access exceptional executive education from Cornell University, without travel.
- Learn directly from Cornell faculty member John Hausknecht as he teaches the live, online sessions designed to supplement and connect all the courses in this series—highlighting the applications to the credit union system and your role.
- You’ll hone skills allowing you to build your organization’s HR analytics capabilities, learn to derive meaning from metrics and results, and understand how to tell persuasive stories involving HR and organizational data.
- You’ll find all content and activities are customized specifically for the unique challenges and opportunities of credit unions.
- Activities, discussion boards, and live-taught online sessions are designed to make you an active participant in the learning process, allowing you to become a stronger HR leader at your own pace.
- You’ll earn 18 SHRM credits and 3.2 CEUs upon completion of the program.
- Expand your network of like-minded professionals as you connect and share your own experiences.
- Students who complete all coursework will earn an executive certificate from CUES and Cornell University, demonstrating their knowledge and ability to apply what they’ve learned to their careers and credit unions.
Program Details
This high-level education program for HR professionals was designed to fit easily into your schedule. Highlights include:
- Program Length. There is a 45-minute orientation on March 9. The program then runs from March 17–May 11, 2021.
- Time Commitment. The Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate Program consists of four self-paced eCornell courses open for two-week intervals; most students spend 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project. Two 90-minute Cornell faculty-led live online sessions are interspersed.
- COVID-Safe Learning Modalities. You will learn together with your class, but each student will receive their own login and participate from their own remote location, via a combination of live online meetings, interactive online discussions, audio recordings, videos, and independent study designed to provide practical experience and reflection.
Hear from CUES SVP/Chief Learning Officer Christopher Stevenson in this CUbroadcast interview where he discusses partnering with Cornell University to bring Ivy League-level digital learning programs (eCornell) to CUs nationwide.
Be sure to check out our other eCornell programs:
This program consists of four, two-week eCornell courses, plus two live-taught 90-minute facilitated sessions with esteemed Cornell faculty.
Launch/Orientation Call:
March 9, 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EST
March 17- March 30, 2021
A thorough understanding of your organization's value creation model and ability to develop competencies through processes, technology, and people are essential to ensuring that the HR organization is aligned vertically and horizontally to produce superior results. With this understanding, HR will be able to articulate how it can improve processes, people and customer outcomes, and financial results.
This course, based on the research and expertise of Christopher Collins, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Executive Education for Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, develops the skills needed to assess how organizations create value and to align the HR function to execute the organization's strategy.
You’ll analyze the Balanced Scorecard approach as a means of vertically aligning the HR system with organizational objectives, and learn how to create a vertical-alignment strategy and use it to improve HR decision-making, people outcomes, processes, customer outcomes, and financial results.
Key Takeaways
- Discuss how an organization delivers value through coordinating people, processes, and technologies
- Develop a plan to structure your credit union's people, processes, and technologies to create maximum value for stakeholders
- Use human resources alignment to maximize employee performance
- Apply the balanced scorecard to improve HR decision making
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
March 31 - April 13, 2021
The management of diversity and inclusion has evolved from "counting the numbers" to "making the numbers count." Organizations that no longer look at inclusion as having a good mix of diverse people, but as a way to fully engage employees, partners and customers, have an opportunity to compete globally. Diversity and inclusion must be embedded in an organizational culture to make a positive impact on performance.
This course, based on the expertise of Cornell University Professor Lisa Nishii, differentiates diversity from inclusion and how organizations often miss the real opportunity. Students assess three levels of inclusion and identify evidence that can be used for each level to assess presence and effectiveness. HR executives and leaders share their perspective on diversity and inclusion and how they made the shift to inclusion at organizational, managerial and work group levels.
Key Takeaways
- Distinguish between diversity and inclusion and how organizations often miss the real opportunity
- Describe measurement and evaluation methods to assess D&I initiatives
- Assess current D&I initiatives of your credit union
- Describe each of the 3 "levels" associated with D&I (organization, work-group, manager)
- Identify evidence that can be used for each level to assess presence and effectiveness
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
April 13, 2021
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Effective HR leadership goes beyond managing all the tasks and responsibilities carried out by the HR function. It also requires the critical soft skills needed from any leader like courage, judgment, influence, political agility, effective communication.
April 14 - April 27, 2021
In recognition of the strong association between employee engagement and performance, many companies have used or considered using engagement surveys. However, many of these efforts are off-the-shelf surveys that are not fully leveraged or tailored to an organization’s specific wants and needs, or tied into performance management.
This course will help you understand the difference between an average, generic engagement effort and one that has the potential to drive superior organizational performance. You’ll explore the importance of aligning engagement with your organization’s strategic goals, review data collection and analysis considerations, and analyze methods of using engagement data to drive organizational change at the line manager and broader organizational levels.
Key Takeaways
- Determine how engagement manifests in observable employee behavior
- Examine how engagement predicts organizational performance
- Audit your organization's current relevant practices
- Outline a plan for interpreting your engagement data so you can drive real organizational change
- Examine the existing workplace factors that may be at the root of suboptimal levels of engagement
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
April 28- May 11, 2021
This course focuses on building analytical acumen and taking a strategic view of talent analytics. Using a framework presented in this course, you’ll examine outcomes and drivers throughout your organization to assess strategic needs. You’ll also fine tune your evaluative, presentation, and communication skills using critical thinking coupled with analytical best practices shared by Professor John Hausknecht.
This course is designed for HR professionals who want to build their organization’s HR analytics capabilities, derive meaning from metrics and results, and tell persuasive stories involving HR and organizational data. With these skills, students will have a stronger voice in using talent analytics to persuade others toward actions that best align with organizational goals.
Key Takeaways
- Align HR analytics to support larger organizational needs, including linkage of HR data to business outcomes
- Assess and enhance your organization's maturity around HR analytics
- Evaluate findings and determine the most critical workforce implications
- Prepare and deliver persuasive data-based stories
*During the 2 weeks of this self-directed course please plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project.
May 11, 2021
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Organizations today face a multitude of challenges when it comes to effectively managing their talent. In mature markets, demographic trends are forcing companies to accelerate their efforts to build a pipeline of future leaders. In emerging markets, companies must develop talent strategies that are both nimble and effective at engaging and retaining key human capital.
Ivy League Curricula and Top-Ranked Faculty
eCornell is Cornell University’s online learning platform, which provides online professional and executive development to students around the world. eCornell courses are all developed by Cornell University faculty, and often include practical insights from other industry experts. All eCornell course content comes from top-rated programs with proven curricula.
Expert Led, with Structured Flexibility
eCornell courses are online and expert led with structured flexibility. Courses are facilitated by subject-matter experts, who will guide you, challenge you, and help you apply the course concepts to your real-world, on-the-job circumstances. Each course has a defined start and end date, but is designed to accommodate the schedules of busy professionals and allow students to complete their work at the times that work best for them, daytime, evening, or weekends.
Start and End Dates Drive Completion
A critical part of successful self-directed learning is to have a finish line, so eCornell courses have defined start dates and end dates. Most eCornell courses take about six to eight hours to complete, over a two-week period.
Interaction & Collaboration
As an eCornell student, you are never alone in your course. You are part of a cohort of other credit union staff members from across North America. Required discussions play an important part in your course, giving you and your classmates the opportunity to share and exchange your own experiences, best practices, perspectives, and examples. All this shared learning is facilitated by an instructor who brings both subject-matter expertise and real-world experience. Your interaction with peers from different organizations, and backgrounds fosters collaboration, networking, and a lot of practical, shared learning.
Emphasis on Practice and Application
The ability for you to interact with expert instructors, to ask questions and receive answers, and to learn with—and from—other participants keeps the learning interesting, practical, and above all, relevant to your work.
And there’s one more key component: practice opportunities.
Most eCornell courses include a project, which challenges you to apply the course concepts to your own organization. Others include interactive scenarios, simulations, and other engaging practice activities. All courses include tools, techniques, or job aids that you can put to immediate use in your work.
Every certificate program and course is developed with very tangible outcomes in mind. To eCornell, it’s not enough if a course helps you to know something, or even to understand it. Programs are designed to go much further, to equip you to do something—better or for the first time—at your job.
We ask, “after completing this course, what will participants be able to analyze, identify, assess, implement, calculate, or influence that they couldn’t before?” eCornell courses draw on a variety of components to provide this practical learning:
- Discussions
- Projects
- Practice activities
- Short videos
- Interviews with industry experts
- Online tools and downloadable resources
- Case studies and examples
- The guidance of an instructor
The eCornell approach positions you as an active participant in the learning process, allowing you to build the necessary problem-solving skills at your own pace and in your own style to confront the real challenges you face on the job and in life.
Participants who complete all four courses and assignments satisfactorily will receive an Executive Certificate in Strategic HR Leadership from Cornell University and CUES, demonstrating their knowledge and ability to apply what they’ve learned to their careers and credit unions. All assignments are evaluated by the Certificate Program Facilitator.
There are not college credits associated with this course.
There is a 45-minute orientation on March 9. The Strategic Human Resources Leadership Certificate Program runs from March 17–May 11 2021. During that time, you’ll take four eCornell courses at your own pace; each is open for a two-week interval. Plan on spending 4-6 hours per week for assignments, discussion board participation and a project to complete these courses. They are interspersed with two 90-minute Cornell faculty-led live online sessions.
CUES has partnered with Cornell University to meet the development needs of HR executives and high potential HR leaders at your organization.
CUES now serves just over 1,300 Human Resources and Talent Development executives and managers. To continue to serve our mission and meet the needs of our members, we are expanding our offerings for HR leaders. Now more than ever, HR leaders are expected to be proficient in the use of HR data and analytics. We recognized the need for meeting the highest educational standards, and are partnering with one of the top business schools in the world to deliver our HR programming.
This unique program has been developed specifically for the credit union industry in partnership with Cornell University, and is only available through CUES.
You’ll earn 18 SHRM credits and 3.2 CEUs upon completion of the program.
- CUES executive education, whether in-person or online, offers outstanding networking opportunities.
- As credit union HR and talent development executives, the challenges and opportunities of recruitment and retention within the industry are real.
- You won’t want to miss out on gaining a cross-industry perspective or learning from people in other fields. Cornell University and its ILR School are the best in designing and delivering HR educational programming with insights pulled from across industry sectors. You’ll learn directly from top faculty in the field.
Live sessions will be recorded and available for playback if you miss a session.
The comfort and well-being of our attendees is of utmost importance to us; we will make every effort to make sure you are comfortable at our events!
Please email events@cues.org as soon as you know you’re attending a CUES event. Be sure to include your name, credit union, the CUES event you are registered for, and everything we need to know to accommodate your request.
We’ll be in touch with any questions we have, and let you know how we can help.