And here we are, the very last video of them all. At least for my course. I think we both earned some time to relax like my friends are doing here in this picture that I took recently. But also as my friends are doing, I think we should take this opportunity to look ahead and see what lies in front. We're concluding the first class in a four course specialization on HR for People Managers. This course lays a foundation for three specialized classes that follow. A course in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding employees, and then managing their performance once they're in your work group, and then managing their compensation or reward. And then the specialization will conclude with a capstone project that allows you to pull all of this together in an applied way. So in terms of the People Manager Valued Proposition, I've been focused here on this horizontal part. We've looking at organizational, objectives, needs, and values and translating that into HR strategies to drive organizational goals through employee performance. Performance. And again, this lays a foundation for this three specialized classes, which will be taught by my University of Minnesota colleagues, who are experts in each of those areas. And I'm gonna let each of them introduce their course to you now. >> Finding and hiring the right people is often cited as the number one concern of businesses today. It seems we are all competing for the best and brightest workers. As you will see in our time together in the second course, a critical component of the people manager value proposition is to hire talented people who enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. At the outset of the course we will explore the importance of linking recruitment goals with overall company strategy. We then look at a number of options to recruit and select employees both effectively and legally. Throughout the course, we will examine current issues in talent acquisition, such as how companies are now leveraging social media and hiring analytics to ensure better quality hires. >> Once you have hired good employees, the next step that successful people managers take is to develop the full potential of their employees. Performance management is a process that helps managers achieve the goal of getting the best from their employees. In the performance management course, we'll discuss the skills and key processes you will need to develop your employees to attain department and organizational goals. These skills will include setting clear expectations, providing positive and corrective feedback, and delivering an effective performance appraisal. >> Successful people managers must also know how to reward employees. You begin from the question, what kind of person must we attract, retain, and motivate in order to execute our business strategy? We'll discuss how your answer to that question can help you design salary structures, benefits, short term incentives, and long term incentives that are aligned to your business strategy. We'll also help you evaluate benefits and ensure compliance. >> Throughout the specialization, we present best practices and tips that are grounded in practical learnings >> As well as scholarship in the field. When you're done, you'll have a deeper understanding of what works in the workplace as well as the tool kit for hiring, managing, and rewarding employees effectively. So we thought carefully about the design and implementation of this HR specialization. It's backed up by over 50 years of teaching experience among the lead instructors as well as 70 years of University of Minnesota expertise and leadership in this area. Let each of us help you be a better manager and leader of people.