Management Programs

Internal Consulting Skills for HR Professionals Certificate

Today's business environment offers both challenges and opportunities for HR professionals. In a constrained economy, some organizations have undertaken a range of cost-cutting measures that may include outsourcing some of all of their transactional HR functions. In a global economy, other organizations see HR as a key to creating or sustaining competitive advantage. These trends have compelled HR professionals to refine themselves, their value to their organization, and the ways they can help their organization achieve its strategic goals. HR professionals recognize the challenge and the opportunity today's business environment presents to reorient the organization's perception of their department not as a cost center or administrative unit, but as a strategic partner that contributes to the organization's bottom line.

The task of changing the organization's perception of the HR function in this direction begins with HR professional reorienting their perception of themselves and redefining their role within the organization. Earning Cornell ILR's new Internal Consulting Skills for Human Resources Professional Certificate will afford you with a fuller understanding of the criticality of functioning in a consultative manner with your internal clients, and will enable you to execute your role more effectively. To earn this certificate, you will need to complete all core requirements (48 units) as well as one to two (12 units) elective workshops.