THE INFOHRM ACADEMY

Your professional development partner – building strong, credible skills in human capital management

"The workshop was AMAZING! It was the best workshop I’ve ever attended, and I’ve attended quite a few."

Regan Klein, Senior Workforce Planning Analyst Health Net, Inc
& Workforce Planning workshop participant

Infohrm announces the Infohrm-AHRI partnership for 2009

Infohrm is proud to have been selected by AHRI to run their HR Essentials Short Courses in Workforce Planning, Workforce Metrics (Metrics Essentials), and Workforce Analytics. These workshops are set to continue in the Infohrm tradition with highly experienced Infohrm Consultants facilitating all workshops and future-focused curriculum based on Infohrm’s extensive experience of over 25 years in workforce planning, reporting, and analytics.

The 2009 Infohrm Academy program is bigger and better than ever: more workshops; better accessibility; and greater value! The 2009 Academy Workshops have been revitalised with the delivery of a new and broad range of courses designed to give HR teams the ability to interpret and apply HR information for organisational impact.

Established in 1982, the Infohrm Academy gives HR teams the expertise and techniques to plan their future workforce. The Infohrm Academy delivers a broad range of courses designed to give HR teams the ability to interpret and apply HR information. The Academy’s future focused workshops cover a range of HR practices from metrics, analytics, and reporting through to workforce planning strategies, and data-driven decision-making. All workshops are designed to give HR teams the capability to become a true business partner.

Infohrm Facilitators

The Infohrm Academy workshops are delivered by experienced and talented facilitators equipped to identify, implement, and execute human capital solutions. The presenters bring passion to their workshops, receiving consistently high ratings from their delegates.

Infohrm workshops encourage sharing of experience among the group and opportunities to focus on your own specific questions. Our facilitators spend a great deal of time in the field giving you a myriad of case studies and practical advice to implement your new skills and techniques. Delegates leave with actionable ideas and a detailed reference manual to assist with immediate implementation.

Why the Infohrm Academy

Infohrm is the global leader in workforce planning, reporting, and analytics. With over 25 years of HR consulting, technical, and partnering experience Infohrm is an established world class expert on all aspects of Human Resources (HR).

Working and partnering with over 3000 global organisations to measure the impact of workforce initiatives and drive business results. The people at Infohrm are truly committed to developing strong and capable HR teams.

Infohrm gives you the choice of two workshop modes:

In-house

In-house workshops are designed for flexibility. Choosing the time, venue, and facilitator, in-house workshops allow you to tailor your own program from the global catalogue of Infohrm workshops. These workshops are designed for groups of at least ten participants and guarantee enhanced learning outcomes by incorporating the attending organisations’ data into training.

Public

Public workshops are presented in an interactive professional environment using thought provoking presentations. All presentations are designed to guide you and your staff through each step of a particular HR process, combining instructions on methodologies, tools, and techniques. Participants are armed with actionable ideas and a detailed reference manual to assist with immediate implementation.

Infohrm Academy Workshops are structured as a series, progressing from beginner to specialist:

Foundation Series

The workshops included in the Foundation Series are designed to give HR practitioners a thorough understanding of the building blocks of good HR measurement, reporting, and planning practices.

Professional Series

The workshops included in the Profession Series are designed to grow HR practitioners knowledge, techniques, and skills in relation to workforce planning reporting and analytics. The Professional Series is also designed with the executive in mind, giving a comprehensive overview of the strategic use of workforce information in business.

Artisan Series

The exclusive courses are designed to develop experienced practitioners into analytical or workforce planning specialists. With an action learning based approach, the Artisan Series aims to have attendees applying newly acquired knowledge to comprehensive case studies and organisation information. The course consists of seven contact days and monthly action learning sessions conducted over a period of 6 months. The INTENSIVE courses provide the opportunity for participants to become accredited in workforce planning or workforce analytics.

Member Series

The Member Series is designed to provide practical hand on learning allowing Member organisations to work with their own data using i3 (icubed). The workshop is conducted onsite within member organisations and requires a training room equipped with PCs/Laptops connected to the Internet. If unavailable, hiring other facilities would incur additional cost.

Academy Workshop Offerings

Foundation Series

  • Metrics Essentials:* (Public)
    For those new to workforce analytics or just beginning the metrics journey, this class will provide the fundamentals for working with HR data by helping participants to understand the construction of workforce measures as well as practices such as annualising metrics, benchmarking, and root-cause analysis.
  • Workforce Analytics:* (Public)
    In this workshop, a variety of analytic frameworks and techniques will be presented along with case studies addressing common workforce issues such as turnover analysis, understanding the aging of a workforce, and assessing the career-pathing trends.
  • Workforce Planning:* (Public)
    This workshop provides in-depth training on each step of the workforce planning process, from designing a planning strategy to calculating supply and demand forecasts and designing HR interventions.
  • Workforce Reporting: (Public)
    This workshop will assist HR professionals in developing a workforce reporting capability and strategy in alignment with business needs. An emphasis is placed on successful methods for gaining audience acceptance and utilisation of workforce reports, from defining audience needs to designing and delivering data-driven insights.

* Denotes a one or two day workshop run in association with AHRI

Professional Series

  • Interpreting HR Information: (In-house)
    This workshop leads participants through the building blocks of using data for decision-making, including identifying common data sources used in workforce analytics, understanding the business logic underpinning workforce data, correctly interpreting raw data inputs, and validating metrics and formulas.
  • Advanced Workforce Planning: (In-house)
    For those who want to elevate their organisation’s workforce planning capability, this class will move beyond the basics to incorporate robust financial analysis and achieve a systematic, organisation-wide embedding of the process.
  • Advanced Workforce Analytics: (In-house)
    Workshop participants will learn different analysis techniques to break down large, complex data sets to identify the stories and insights locked in the data.
  • Actioning Analytics: (In-house)
    The workshop is designed to identify, scope, and plan for potential analytic engagements that participating organisations could undertake in the next 6-12 months.
  • Making Workforce Planning Work: (Public)
    Driving workforce planning across on organisation is challenging and can be fraught with obstacles. Although many try, embedding workforce planning into organisational strategy is a rocky road, and can easily fail. This workshop is all about how to implement workforce planning and gives the tools and techniques to overcome common planning issues and challenges. Making Workforce Planning Work is designed for either HR executives with the responsibility and oversight of workforce planning processes or for experiences workforce planners looking for advice on how to make workforce planning more effective.
  • Analytics Centre of Excellence: (In-house)
    This class teaches many core functions of the Centre of Excellence, including strategic HR measurement, project management, issue identification, and communication.

Artisan Series

  • Workforce Analytics INTENSIVE: (Public)
    With highly skilled analytic staff organisations are able to fully leverage the capabilities of their workforce and business data. Formulated by experts with over 25 years HR analytics experience, the Workforce Analytics INTENSIVE course gives your staff the capability to deliver analytical insights for focused strategic growth. This exclusive course is designed to enhance your analytic skills for sophisticated analytic capabilities and comprehensive analytic solution implementation. Workforce Analytics INTENSIVE takes place over a 6 month period and gives attendees an accredited qualification in workforce analytics.
  • Workforce Planning INTENSIVE: (Public)
    With proper planning and development a workforce can make a positive financial impact on any business. Formulated by experts with over 25 years HR experience, the Workforce Planning INTENSIVE course gives your staff the capability to turn your workforce into your most profitable asset. This exclusive course is designed to enhance workforce planning capabilities giving the techniques to implement all aspects of workforce planning processes at an organisational level. Workforce Planning INTENSIVE takes place over a 6 month period and gives attendees an accredited qualification in workforce planning.

Member Series

  • Workforce Analytics in PRACTICE: (Public)
    Analytical skills are a prerequisite for any contemporary HR role. Being able to demonstrate the value of an HR intervention and business impact is critical.
    Complementing Infohrm’s Workforce Analytics workshop from the Foundation Series, this workshop is designed to provide a practical hands on learning environment where Member organisations work with their own data and practice conducting analytics.
  • Workforce Planning in PRACTICE: (Public)
    An embedded workforce planning practice is critical for business success. With proper planning and development your workforce can make a positive financial impact on your business.
    Formulated by experts with over 25 years HR experience, Workforce Planning in PRACTICE gives participants the capability to reduce future organisational risks and more effectively deliver the business of today.

Academy Pricing

All prices are listed inclusive of GST

Type of Workshop AHRI Members Infohrm Members Non-Members
1-Day Workshop
(in association with AHRI)		 $715 pp $715 pp $786.50 pp
2-Day Workshop
(in association with AHRI)		 $1430 pp $1430 pp $1573 pp
1-Day Foundation/Professional
Series Workshop		 - $660 pp $770 pp
Artisan Series Workshop* - $4950 pp $5500 pp
Member Series Workshop - $550 pp -

* Register for three places and pay for the price of two!

The Infohrm Academy delivers a broad range of practical up-skilling in the interpretation and application of HR information. We deliver specific training for HR practitioners in metrics, analytics, reporting data collection and interpretation, and workforce planning strategies – while continuing to develop new programs for innovative HR practitioners.

The Academy’s origins date back over 30 years, providing training by facilitators who understand the most significant and long term challenges in HR through their work with HR executives from major organizations internationally. The presenters bring passion to their workshops, receiving consistently high ratings from their delegates.

Why choose the Infohrm Academy

The Infohrm Academy provides the skills and knowledge to develop your HR team’s capability in linking workforce and organizational objectives.

Our workshops encourage sharing of experience amongst the group as well as opportunities to focus on your own questions. Our facilitators spend a great deal of time in the field and they will share a myriad of case studies and practical advice to implement the new skills and techniques you will learn. Delegates leave with actionable ideas and a detailed reference manual to assist with immediate implementation.

  • Workforce Planning – A strategic approach to future talent needs. This workshop provides in depth training on each step of the workforce planning process, from designing a planning strategy to calculating supply and demand forecasts and designing HR interventions.
  • Metrics Essentials – Providing the building blocks to transform workforce data into valuable information. For those new to workforce analytics or just beginning the metrics journey, this course will provide the fundamentals for working with HR data by helping participants to understand how to select and interpret measures, and how to display data and measures in the clearest format.
  • Workforce Analytics – Utilising data to drive human capital decisions. In this workshop, a variety of analytic frameworks and techniques will be presented along with case studies addressing common workforce issues such as turnover analysis, understanding the ageing of a workforce, and assessing career-path trends.
  • Actioning Analytics – Implementing analytic solutions to achieve business impact. Building on the Workforce Analytics workshop, this course develops skills in scoping, planning and implementing real life analytic projects within participant’s own organisations.
  • Workforce Reporting – Improving the quality of human capital scorecards. This workshop will assist HR professionals in developing a workforce reporting capability and strategy in alignment with business needs. An emphasis is placed on successful methods for gaining audience acceptance and utilisation of workforce reports, from defining audience needs to designing and delivering data-driven insights.

Our approach to learning

To maximize the learning that occurs at the workshop, Infohrm incorporates the following learning principles:

  • On registration, participants are provided with a structured learning contract, which they are to complete with their manager prior to the workshop
  • The workshop design recognizes the mix of preferred learning styles by participants
  • The use of learning journals and review sessions during the workshop
  • Action plans are developed at the workshop to maximize transfer of learning

Academy Workshop Offerings

Metrics Essentials:
For those new to workforce analytics or just beginning the metrics journey, this class will provide the fundamentals for working with HR data by helping participants to understand the construction of workforce measures as well as practices such as annualizing metrics, benchmarking, and root-cause analysis.

Interpreting HR Information:
This workshop leads participants through the building blocks of using data for decision-making, including identifying common data sources used in workforce analytics, understanding the business logic underpinning workforce data, correctly interpreting raw data inputs, and validating metrics and formulas.

Measuring the ROI of Human Capital:
This workshop teaches participants to identify the drivers to HR evaluation, build a business case for an HR intervention, demonstrate the financial implications of human capital strategies, and develop standard costing models.

Actioning Analytics:
The workshop is designed to identify, scope, and plan for potential analytic engagements that participating organizations could undertake in the next 6-12 months.

Analytics Center of Excellence:
This class teaches many core functions of the Center of Excellence, including strategic HR measurement, project management, issue identification, and communication.

Workforce Reporting: Improving the Quality of Human Capital Scorecards:
This workshop will assist HR professionals in developing a workforce reporting capability and strategy in alignment with business needs. An emphasis is placed on successful methods for gaining audience acceptance and utilization of workforce reports, from defining audience needs to designing and delivering data-driven insights.

Workforce Analytics: Utilizing Data to Drive Human Capital Decisions:
In this workshop, a variety of analytic frameworks and techniques will be presented along with case studies addressing common workforce issues such as turnover analysis, understanding the aging of a workforce, and assessing the career-pathing trends.

Workforce Planning: A Strategic Approach to Future Talent Needs:
This workshop provides in-depth training on each step of the workforce planning process, from designing a planning strategy to calculating supply and demand forecasts and designing HR interventions.

Advanced Workforce Analytics:
Workshop participants will learn different analysis techniques to break down large, complex data sets to identify the stories and insights locked in the data.

Advanced Workforce Planning:
For those who want to elevate their organization’s workforce planning capability, this class will move beyond the basics to incorporate robust financial analysis and achieve a systematic, organization-wide embedding of the process.

Academy Workshop Presenters

Rana Hobbs Rana Hobbs
Lead Consultant, Member Services

As a Member Service Consultant, Rana is responsible for all aspects of member management related to Infohrm products and services. She is involved in HR analytic investigations and in designing reporting strategies for the membership. Additionally, she acts as an advisor to the Infohrm product development group. Outside of her member service role, Rana is a contributing facilitator to the Infohrm workshops and training courses.

Rana came to Infohrm through their partnership with the Corporate Leadership Council, CLC Metrics. While with CLC Metrics, Rana provided analytic, training, and project management support to the membership. Prior to her work in human resources, Rana worked at IDC as an analyst and contributing telecommunication market researcher. Rana holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College.

Paige Menge Paige Menge
Manager, Consulting Services

Paige Menge has worked with a number of companies on Workforce Planning and Analysis assignments, including Aetna, Cadbury-Schweppes, United Airlines, and American Family Mutual Insurance. Paige joined Infohrm after receiving her MBA from Vanderbilt University, although she was familiar with the company from her prior experience as an analyst at Infohrm's former partner, CLC Metrics. Paige has worked for the Boston Consulting Group as well as a number of other companies consulting on topics such as human resources, business strategy, sales and marketing and market intelligence.

 

Bill Gilmyers Bill Gilmyers
Senior Consultant

Bill has worked on a variety of workforce analytics and planning projects for Infohrm’s members, with an emphasis on custom analyses including calculating the ROI of training, developing predictive models for aging workforces and modeling the cost of turnover. Prior to joining Infohrm Bill held an HR leadership and internal consulting role at The Irvine Company with a focus on human capital measurement and compensation. From 2002-2005 he served as Vice President of Human Capital Analytics at IndyMac Bancorp, leading IndyMac’s HR Center of Excellence. Bill’s work has emphasized workforce segmentation and measurement, employee profiling and predictive modeling of sales force productivity. He has also led multiple studies in the area of employee turnover and retention, and has had his work featured in SHRM’s HR Magazine. Bill received his MBA from the University of Southern California and holds a BA in psychology from Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Andrew Jacobus Andrew Jacobus
Senior Consultant

Andrew is a Sr. Consultant on Infohrm’s field consulting team, delivering strategic guidance, in-depth analytics, and thought leadership to companies in all stages of their Workforce Planning and Analytics evolution. Prior to joining Infohrm Andrew designed, launched, and managed global HR and Workforce Analytics groups at a Fortune 100 Financial Services firm; and held various HR Strategy, Planning and project roles in a Fortune 15 Telecommunications company. His more recent work has emphasized workforce movement and demographic analytics, Scorecard development, and predictive modeling of employee performance and attrition. A certified Human Capital Strategist and PHR, Andrew received his MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and holds a BSA from Dallas Baptist University.

Nick Garbis Nick Garbis
Senior Consultant

Nicholas is a Sr. Consultant on the Member Services team, providing strategic and analytics support for organizations at all stages of the workforce analytics and planning journey. Nicholas brings extensive experience in business intelligence, HR technology, scorecard and report design, and advanced analytics. Prior to joining Infohrm, Nicholas workfed for a major retail organization where he launched a global Workforce Analytics and Planning function, delivering metrics technology, scorecards, statistical analyses, staffing forecasts, and ROI estimates.

Nicholas leads Infohrm’s Retail Industry Consortium which provides benchmarks, best practices, and dialogue for Workforce Analytics & Planning professionals in the retail sector. He also leads a regional networking group called the Twin Cities Workforce Analytics, Reporting, and Planning Partnership (TC-WARP) that brings together HR leaders, analysts, and consultants for networking and thought leadership.

The presenters bring their passion to their workshops, prompting attendees to provide testimonials like the following:

  • "Excellent presenters who were experienced and very willing to share their knowledge"
  • "Facilitators very knowledgeable on the subject matter, a lot of relevant examples"
  • "Provided specific, practical and targeted information and learning"
  • "Excellent overview of a wide number of techniques/tools"
  • "Well run with good discussions and group participation"
  • "Very good – lots of information is covered in two days"
  • "The small group was great and very interactive"
  • "Great workshop and networking opportunity"
  • "Practical application through exercises"
  • "Clear, concise and relevant. Excellent!"
  • "Informative, educational, interesting"
  • "Great presenter and documentation"
  • "Great workshop!"
  • "Very insightful"
Academy Workshop Presenters:
Peter Howes
Jonathan Terrell
Sam Hill
Julia Howes
Marcus Morrison
Laura Jurczak

Workshop Registration

Register for all Infohrm Academy workshops using our online registration form.

View the Workshop Calendar

Registration Fees

Workshop 1-2 delegates 3+ delegates
per person per Infohrm
member delegate		 per person per Infohrm
member delegate
Workforce Planning £1290 £1160 £1160 £1160
Evaluating HR Interventions £950 £855 £855 £855
Metrics Essentials £450 £400 £400 £400
Workforce Analytics £950 £855 £855 £855
Workforce Reporting £550 £495 £495 £495
Actioning Analytics £550 £495 £495 £495
Advanced Workforce Analytics £650 £585 £585 £585

Prices do not include VAT. Workshop fees include: tuition, workbook, lunch and refreshments.

Academy Workshop Pricing

Standard Registration Fees Infohrm Members Non-Members
1-Day Workshop $950 $1,100
2-Day Core Workshop $1,800 $2,100
2-Day Advanced Workshop* $2,100 $2,400
*Includes Advanced Workforce Analytics and Advanced Workforce Planning


  • Dates for the 2009 series of Infohrm Academy workshops have been announced.
    A variety of practical human capital measurement workshops will be held in eight major cities across the US and Canada. View the full workshop calendar or register now!

The Infohrm Academy delivers practical up-skilling in the interpretation and application of HR information while continuing to develop new programs for innovative HR practitioners.

Workshop Registration

Register for all Infohrm Academy workshops using our online registration form.