Employees now expect the same simple, mobile experience from their employer that they get as consumers, while executives expect HR to show measurable value for every shilling it spends. Organisations that digitise HR well free their people teams from administration, improve data accuracy and respond faster to workforce questions. Those that buy software without redesigning processes often end up with expensive systems and the same old bottlenecks.

This executive programme treats digital HR as a management challenge before a technology one. Participants learn to diagnose processes, set a vision and sequence of improvements, and make sound choices among platforms and delivery models. They examine how automation affects recruitment, onboarding, time and attendance, payroll interfaces, learning and performance management, and where artificial intelligence helps or creates risk, particularly bias and explainability.

The course combines strategic discussion with practical building. Participants design automated workflows, sketch dashboards and score vendor proposals against weighted criteria. Governance receives careful attention, including data protection, access rights and records retention. The week closes with each participant assembling a digital HR roadmap, a business case with costs and benefits, and a change plan that brings managers and employees along.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Map and prioritise HR processes for digitisation and automation.
• Evaluate HRIS, payroll, recruitment and learning platforms against organisational needs.
• Design automated workflows for onboarding, leave, approvals and performance cycles.
• Use people analytics to track turnover, absence, engagement and pay equity.
• Assess where AI tools add value in HR and where they create ethical or legal risk.
• Build a costed business case and implementation roadmap for digital HR.
• Lead change so that managers and employees adopt new systems.

The course is intended for senior people leaders and those who shape HR technology, including:

• HR directors and heads of human resources
• HR business partners and HR managers
• HRIS and HR operations managers
• Chief operating officers and finance directors sponsoring HR projects
• Talent acquisition and learning and development leads
• Payroll and compensation managers
• Public service commission and county HR officers
• Consultants advising on HR transformation

Participants leave the course with:

• A mapped inventory of HR processes ranked by automation potential.
• A vendor evaluation scorecard for HR system selection.
• At least one designed workflow ready to pilot in their organisation.
• A people analytics metric set with dashboard sketches.
• A business case template with cost, benefit and risk sections.
• A phased digital HR roadmap and stakeholder communication plan.

This executive programme balances strategic debate with hands-on building, led by facilitators with HR systems experience. Participants take part in:

• Process mapping workshops using their own HR procedures
• Live demonstrations of leading cloud HR and automation tools
• Lab sessions building a workflow and a dashboard
• Vendor selection exercises with weighted scoring
• Executive-style pitches of roadmaps with peer challenge

Executives who attend the full programme and present their roadmap earn a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion, issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.