Taken before or during the rigorous SHRM HR apprenticeship coursework, the CSM Course will ensure that the apprentice's High Performance competencies are up to the task, allowing them to complete their program faster, with deeper learning and more confidence.
This course is being offered at a discount through a partnership between the SHRM Foundation and SeeMore Impact Labs, a nonprofit that invents, develops, and delivers human-centered solutions to help people and communities thrive.
High Performance competencies contribute to higher productivity, better teamwork, and higher engagement for all employees, across sectors and positions. These competencies include:
These competencies are consistently identified by employers as among the most important employee characteristics, yet are hard to hire and train for.
The self-paced, online CSM Course uses next-generation adaptive learning technology to build High Performance. CSM is able to do this by simultaneously personalizing instruction in academic and how-you-learn, -act and -feel domains, so as to address the many, disparate High Performance competencies.
The CSM Course provides math and literacy refreshers to math and literacy skills, which many college graduates require. At the same time, CSM builds learning agility and self-reliance by identifying strengths and concerns in student learning strategies and providing feedback to direct personal growth.
And CSM boosts self-efficacy by providing a variety of positive responses to apprentice breakthroughs and successes.
On competing the CSM Course, apprentices will earn the CSM Certificate, which comes along with the widely-used Credly digital badge. The certificate and digital badge come with two benefits:
A major health insurance company implemented CSM for upskilling across all positions -- frontline to managers. Employee education levels were nearly evenly distributed across high school diplomas, associate degrees, bachelor's degrees and postgraduate degrees.
I found parts of CSM challenging
100%
I found CSM motivating
100%
There are more task I can handle at work
97%
I feel more prepared for further education
93%
I feel more excited about further education
100%
"So what did [CSM] teach me? That I can overcome fear and anxiety, that I'm not a quitter when the going gets tough...I learned about math, but I also learned about my own personality. I learned about logic, but I also learned about my own patience (or lack of at times). It's not about smarts - it's about utilizing our skills and trusting that we can slug our way through a tough spot."
CSM is very highly personalized, so it takes people very different amounts of time to finish. Typically, it takes 20-50 hours.
Apprentices should work at least 2 hours per week, and can work up to 4-6 hours per day if they are trying to finish before a deadline (e.g. before apprenticeship classes start). At maximum intensity, many people can complete CSM in 2 weeks, but at 2 hours per week, completion typically will take 2-6 months.
CSM is available online 24/7.
Yes! The skills that your apprentice takes will be valuable at any time, and the small time commitment (as little as 2 hours a week) should not stretch most apprentices.
Apprentices work individually with personal coach, and can start at any time.
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