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OL 600 usually begins with the strategic role of HR: how the function moved from record keeping to partnership with leadership, and why people practices can be a source of lasting advantage. An early post often asks students to describe how HR works where they are employed.

The second and third modules typically focus on strategy and environment. Students read an organization's strategy, scan its external environment, and consider best practice and best fit, along with high-performance work systems.

The middle modules go through the HR system: workforce planning and forecasting, recruitment and selection, onboarding, performance management, compensation and benefits, training and development, and succession planning. Each module asks how the practice should look for a particular strategy.

Later modules cover engagement and retention, employee and labor relations, employment law and ethics, diversity and inclusion, change management, global and remote workforces, and HR metrics and analytics.

The closing modules complete the strategic HR plan. Most modules pair a discussion with a case or a plan milestone, and the final module is the heaviest.

Some instructors also assign a short self-assessment early in the term, such as a leadership or HR competency inventory, and ask students to return to it at the end. Those pieces are drafted from your own answers.

Before module one, the HR leader reads the plan brief, learns your program and settles the project organization with you, so the posts and cases can refer to it from the start.

Each discussion is drafted before the module opens. In a module on performance management, the post might compare annual ratings with frequent check-ins for a sales team whose targets change quarterly. In a module on succession, it might explain how a small hospital could build a bench for its two most critical leadership roles. Responses to peers add a law, a metric or an outcome from a company that tried the same approach.

Cases are worked from the facts given, with the strategic problem stated first and recommendations priced and timed.

Plan milestones are written to fit together, and feedback on one goes straight into the next. You post and upload each item.

For modules that ask you to interview an HR professional or a manager, the interview stays with you; the HR leader then shapes your notes into a post that applies the module's framework to what you heard.

OL 600 weeks are written by a senior HR leader with graduate training, often SHRM-SCP or SPHR certified, with years as an HR director, business partner or consultant.

The same leader stays with your section all term so the organization, strategy and plan stay consistent across ten modules.

A second HR leader checks each case and milestone for sound strategy and accurate employment law.

Where your program is health care, the writer usually has hospital or clinic HR experience; where it is HR management, a generalist with broad functional depth.

Course templates for cases or the plan are followed exactly.

HR leaders on this course have usually run the practices they write about, from designing an interview guide to rolling out a new performance system, so the posts sound like practice rather than theory.

The strategy modules come first and set the tone. Students must read an organization's strategy accurately before they can align anything with it, and vague strategy statements weaken every later module.

The workforce planning module asks for supply and demand forecasting of talent, which few students have done.

The compensation module is technical: pay philosophy, market pricing, pay structures, incentives and pay equity, all tied to strategy and law.

The metrics module asks students to show HR's return in numbers, such as turnover cost or training return, and many find the calculations and the choice of measures hard. Labor relations and legal modules add a body of law to apply. The final modules then ask for a complete, consistent plan while most students are still managing full workloads at their jobs.

Diversity and inclusion modules ask for practices backed by evidence, not slogans, and graders look for measurable goals and an awareness of the legal limits on preferences in hiring and promotion.

OL 600's workload sits in its cases and plan milestones. Early modules on HR's strategic role are light; the strategy and workforce planning modules are moderate; the compensation, metrics and final plan modules are the heaviest.

If you come to us after the term starts, the drafts begin with the module now open, once the HR leader has read the posts and papers you already submitted.

Some students keep the discussions, which suit their own experience as managers, and hand over the cases and plan. Others hand over all ten modules.

The quote lists every item with the day it will be ready.

If your section includes peer review of a classmate's plan milestone, that feedback can be drafted as well, specific and useful rather than general.