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Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert

Online Certification  ·  10 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CHRD)

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Executive Summary

Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert (CHRD) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CHRD holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert
Acronym
CHRD
Category
Human Resources
Level
Intermediate
Duration
10 Weeks
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • HR Managers and Directors
  • HR Business Partners
  • Learning and Development Managers
  • Employee Relations and OD Specialists
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards CHRO and senior people-management roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex human resource management functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement human resource management systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to human resource management
Global Employability
Qualify for human resource management roles across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Talent Acquisition, Resourcing and Onboarding
Learning, Development and Talent Management
Performance, Reward and Employee Relations
HR Strategy, Analytics and Workforce Planning
Employment Law, Compliance and HR Governance
Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert
  • Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The HR function: roles, operating models and value creation
  • Aligning HR strategy with organisational strategy
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • HR competencies and professional standards (SHRM, CIPD)
  • The business partner and centre-of-excellence model
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Global and comparative HR contexts
  • Building a personal HR development plan
2
Attracting and Hiring Well
  • Selection validity and structured hiring
  • Flexible and hybrid working design
  • Onboarding and time to productivity
  • Benefits design, pensions and flexible benefits
  • Employee voice, surveys and action planning
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Retention strategy and turnover analysis
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Absence, attendance and capability management
  • Change, restructuring and consultation
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • AI and automation in HR processes
  • Cybersecurity and data protection in HR
  • Descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics
  • Evidence-based HR decision-making
3
Designing Roles and Paying Fairly
  • Job design and role architecture
  • Reward architecture and pay equity
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Evaluating learning impact (Kirkpatrick, ROI)
  • Objective setting: KPIs, OKRs and cascading goals
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Ratio and trend analysis
  • Headcount budgeting and establishment control
  • Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Offer management, negotiation and pre-boarding
  • Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and cost metrics
  • Instructional design and blended learning
  • Career development and internal mobility
4
Managing Performance and Capability
  • Performance management that changes behaviour
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Confidentiality and handling sensitive data
  • Conflicts of interest and integrity
  • Corporate governance and HR’s role
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Diagnosis and evidence gathering
  • Implementation and change plan
  • Data protection and employee privacy
  • Reporting automation
  • Communicating financial results
  • Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
  • Stakeholder mapping and influencing
  • Coaching leaders and managers
5
Discipline, Grievance and Fair Process
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
  • Collective relations and union engagement
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • Embedding values and behaviours
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Managing HR projects and change
  • Team leadership within HR
  • Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
  • Job analysis, job design and role profiling
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
  • Professional accreditation and CPD
  • Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
  • Benchmarking HR against best practice
6
Developing, Retaining and Exiting
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Career architecture and internal mobility
  • Exit, offboarding and organisational memory
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Designing an HR intervention or policy
  • Stakeholder engagement and risk management
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Span of control, delayering and operating models
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Learning technologies and the LMS
  • Appraisal, calibration and managing underperformance
  • Pay structures, benchmarking and market pricing
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • HR policies, handbooks and compliance
7
The HR Professional Remit
  • The HR operating model and business partnering
  • Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
  • HR service delivery and case management
  • Vendor management and system governance
  • Workforce reporting and storytelling with data
  • Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
  • Change management models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
  • Managing resistance and building coalitions
  • Culture change and behaviour embedding
  • Professional ethics and codes of conduct in HR
  • Whistleblowing and speak-up culture
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Competency frameworks and skills taxonomies
  • Restructuring, redundancy and organisational change
  • HR technology selection and implementation
8
Operations and Service
  • People analytics maturity and operating model
  • Cost, quality and cycle-time metrics
  • Employee and manager self-service
  • Data quality, integration and master data
  • Discipline, conduct and fair-process management
  • HR function performance and service levels
  • Attrition, engagement and productivity analytics
  • Process automation and workflow
  • Natural language processing
  • Self-service analytics
  • Customer service and experience principles
  • Agile and product operating models
  • Quality, defects and reliability
  • Process modelling and mapping
  • APIs and service design
9
Risk and Governance
  • Regulatory compliance and audit
  • Fire risk assessment methodology
  • Regulatory compliance and audits
  • Leading governance projects and change
  • Team leadership in governance
  • Governance transformation and reform
  • Building governance maturity
  • Measuring governance improvement
  • Governance and compliance KPIs
  • Risk and control effectiveness metrics
  • Continuous improvement of controls
  • Governance frameworks and codes
  • Environmental governance and climate risk
  • Governance of ESG and reporting
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
10
Technology and Systems
  • Applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics
  • Digital HR and the employee experience platform
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • Security governance and management systems
  • Bancassurance and digital insurance models
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Practice management systems
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Scaling technologies and business models
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Digital and market transformation
11
Projects and Delivery
  • Communication strategy in change programmes
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Implementation planning and risk management
  • HACCP principles and prerequisite programmes
  • Advisory service design and delivery
  • Innovation in service delivery
  • Designing voice-of-customer programmes
  • Governance of the CX programme
  • Voice of the customer programmes
  • Loyalty programmes and rewards
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Leading service projects and change
  • Banking products, services and delivery channels
12
Ethics and Professional Standards
  • Ethical use of AI and analytics in HR
  • Culture, ethics and behaviour change
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
  • Ethics and duty of care
  • Professional ethics and duty of care
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Ethical decision-making under pressure
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
13
Health and Wellbeing at Work
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Predictive safety analytics
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Event risk, safety and contingency planning
  • Industrial utilities, energy and process safety interfaces
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Influencing and safety leadership
14
Teams and Collaboration
  • Facilitation and difficult conversations
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Aligning teams around strategy
  • Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
  • Managing team performance and dynamics
  • Cross-functional and matrix teams
  • Leading remote and hybrid teams
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • High-performance team rituals and cadence
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Team leadership in field and project settings
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Leading service teams
15
Strategic Context
  • Organisational design principles and structures
  • Business case, cost and impact analysis
  • The HR business partner role and mandate
  • Consulting skills and contracting with the business
  • Digital marketing strategy
  • Key account management strategy
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Translating insight into strategy
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Insurance products and lines of business
  • Manufacturing strategies: make-to-stock, make-to-order and batch versus flow
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Events, banqueting and MICE business
16
Diversity and Inclusion
  • Diversity and pay-equity analytics
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Financial inclusion and the evolving customer
  • Digital accessibility and inclusion
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
  • Assets, liabilities and equity reporting
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
  • Community engagement and equity
17
International Practice
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
  • Global sourcing and trade
  • The agricultural sector: systems, actors and global food value chains
  • Transfer pricing and international tax
  • Global sourcing and international trade
  • International and cross-border tax
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Grades, standards and export certification (GlobalG.A.P.)
  • Linking performance to reward and consequence
18
Standards and Improvement
  • Continuous improvement and lean HR
  • Continuous improvement and optimisation
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Professional roles, ethics and standards for agricultural practitioners
  • The business case for productivity, quality and sustainability
  • Benchmarking against standards and best practice
  • Continuous improvement and lessons learned
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Sustainability certification and standards
  • Roles, standards and professional conduct
  • Governance of service standards
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
19
Workforce Practice
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
  • Recruitment marketing and candidate attraction
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
  • Career and talent development
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
20
People Development
  • Organisation development principles and practice
  • Coaching for performance
  • Advertising and creative development
  • Message development and testing
  • Supplier development and innovation
  • Continuing professional development
  • Career pathways and professional development
  • Measuring development impact
  • The learning and development profession
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Training and capability building
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
21
Performance and Measures
  • HR metrics, KPIs and the HR scorecard
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Strategy execution and the balanced scorecard
  • Managing performance through coaching
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • KPIs and performance reporting
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Project KPIs and performance metrics
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Managing schedule and budget performance
  • Continuous improvement and DevOps metrics
  • Concurrency and performance
  • Performance and load testing
  • Metrics, velocity and flow
22
Culture and Wellbeing
  • Organisational culture assessment and change
  • Engagement, motivation and energisers
  • Climate-smart agriculture: productivity, adaptation, mitigation
  • Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
  • Policy and public engagement
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Worker engagement and empowerment
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • Values-based decision-making
  • Motivation theories and engagement
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Advocacy and policy engagement
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
23
Legal and Compliance
  • Employment law framework and contracts of employment
  • Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
  • Tariffs, regulation and the economics of essential services
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Subcontractor and supplier management
  • Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Statutory compliance and filings
  • Regulatory reporting and disclosure
  • Financial regulation and prudential supervision
  • Tax compliance and the tax risk agenda
24
Evidence and Analytics
  • People analytics and HR measurement
  • People analytics tooling and dashboards
  • Benchmarking and external data sources
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Data ethics, privacy and protection
  • Data and information requirements
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Data analytics in audit
  • Evidence, judgement and scepticism
  • Data migration and cleansing
  • Audit evidence, sampling and professional scepticism
  • Decision support and insight
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Record-keeping and data protection
25
Change and Organisation
  • Diagnosing organisational readiness for change
  • Commercial awareness and organisational context
  • Change management and adoption
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Governance and organisational value
  • Regulatory change management
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • The organisational context and operating environment
  • Digital transformation and IT strategy
  • Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
  • Digital transformation strategy
  • Measuring digital transformation impact
  • Incident, problem and change management
  • Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
26
Leadership Practice
  • Inclusive leadership and allyship
  • Theories and models of leadership and management
  • Knowledge management and sharing
  • Budgeting and resource management
  • Vendor and faculty management
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
  • Project management principles and lifecycle
  • Risk management planning
  • Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Capital structure and financing decisions
  • Leadership versus management and when each is needed
  • Situational and adaptive leadership
  • Ethical leadership and integrity
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
27
Communication and Influence
  • Management and board reporting
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
  • Incident reporting and record-keeping
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Influencing and persuasion
  • Communicating vision and telling stories
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Executive communication and presence
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Negotiation tactics and behaviours
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Monitoring, control and reporting
28
Stakeholders and Partnering
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Stakeholder trust and reputation metrics
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Transparency and stakeholder trust
  • Categories of spend and stakeholders
  • Strategic customer relationships
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Building project relationships
  • Partnering and co-creation with customers
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
29
Learning and Training
  • Sustaining a learning organisation
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Learning strategy and roadmaps
  • Building the learning brand
  • Aligning learning to performance
  • Leading the learning function
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Building a learning culture
  • Learning in the flow of work
  • Self-directed and continuous learning
30
Financial Awareness
  • The banking system, intermediation and financial markets
  • Types of banks and financial institutions
  • Operational efficiency and cost-to-income
  • Financial statement and cash-flow analysis
  • SME lending and value-chain finance
  • Microfinance and group lending
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Impact, blended and concessional finance
  • Total cost of ownership
  • Ration formulation and least-cost feeding
  • The role of finance in organisations and value creation
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Data visualisation for finance
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert principles aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness
  • Master talent acquisition, resourcing and onboarding and learning, development and talent management
  • Apply performance, reward and employee relations and hr strategy, analytics and workforce planning in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in human resource management
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CHRD certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CHRD?

This certification is ideal for HR Managers and Directors, HR Business Partners, Learning and Development Managers and Employee Relations and OD Specialists, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CHRD certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CHRD internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CHRD certification?

The Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CHRD certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CHRD?

The Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CHRD?

The Certified HR Administration and Coordination Expert carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CHRD while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CHRD?

Graduates progress towards CHRO and senior people-management roles. The CHRD strengthens your expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness and positions you for advancement across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

HR Director
Private Sector

GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

People Manager
NGO Sector

I earned my CHRD while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

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Government
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