SPHR Exam Preparation
Get ready for the HRCI Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) exam, the credential aimed at HR leaders who shape policy and strategy.
About this course
Get ready for the HRCI Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) exam, the credential aimed at HR leaders who shape policy and strategy. Over seven days we cover each content area, with particular weight on leadership and strategy, and practise the judgement-based scenario questions the exam is known for.
You work through timed practice, discuss answers with the trainer and finish with a focused plan for your final preparation. The course fee covers training and materials; the exam fee is separate and paid to the exam provider.
What you'll learn
- Explain the structure, question style and content areas of the HRCI SPHR exam
- Align HR strategy with organisational vision, goals and performance
- Lead workforce planning, talent acquisition and succession at a strategic level
- Shape learning and leadership development programmes that build organisational capability
- Design total rewards strategies that support attraction, retention and fairness
- Guide employee relations and engagement strategies, policies and culture
- Prepare for the exam through scenario practice and a structured study plan
Curriculum
- What the SPHR covers and how it differs from the PHR
- Eligibility routes as published by HRCI
- Exam format, question types and time management
- Building a personal study plan
- Translating organisational strategy into HR strategy
- Environmental scanning and strategic planning
- Influencing senior leaders and stakeholders
- Ethics, governance and corporate responsibility
- Organisational design and development
- Leading change and transformation
- HR metrics, analytics and business cases
- Managing HR budgets and resources
- Risk management at enterprise level
- Strategic workforce planning
- Employer brand and talent sourcing strategy
- Selection strategy and quality of hire
- Succession planning and critical roles
- Building organisational learning strategy
- Leadership development programmes
- Career pathways and talent mobility
- Measuring the business impact of learning
- Total rewards philosophy and strategy
- Executive and incentive compensation concepts
- Benefits strategy and cost management
- Pay equity and internal fairness
- Engagement and retention strategy
- Organisational culture and values
- Policy design and workplace standards
- Diversity, equity and inclusion strategy
- Managing employee and labour relations risk
- Why the SPHR is based on US employment law
- Key law families and their strategic implications
- Reading scenario questions as a senior HR leader
- Common traps and how to avoid them
- Domain-by-domain scenario practice
- Reviewing answers and closing knowledge gaps
- Full-length timed practice
- Exam-day strategy and booking with the exam provider
Who it's for
Senior HR professionals and HR managers with strategic responsibility who plan to sit the SPHR exam.
Before you start
- Substantial HR experience, including policy or strategic responsibility, in line with the eligibility requirements published by HRCI
- Good reading comprehension in English, as the exam is delivered in English
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