Capability for Better People & Pay Decisions
Master industrial-strength Excel formulas, point-factor job leveling, audit-proof merit matrices, and predictive employee attrition models. All courses are short, modular, and your first course is free.
RewardsDNA Academy delivers research-backed, practice-oriented courses designed for busy HR professionals, compensation specialists, and people analytics practitioners. Practice through realistic workplace scenarios in the Experience Lab, and earn sharable & verifiable digital credentials upon eligible course completion.
Build practical expertise in compensation, rewards, job architecture, pay, and incentives - and understand how reward decisions influence People & Pay outcomes.
Master Compa-Ratio and Range Penetration to benchmark employee pay against market medians, detect internal compression, and lead evidence-based salary reviews with confidence.
Design an objective, legally defensible Point-Factor job leveling framework to eliminate wage compression, calibrate cross-functional roles, and build scalable pay structures.
Make audit-ready pay decisions that comply with Equal Pay Act standards, align 2D merit matrices, and manage red- and green-circle exceptions with confidence.
Construct market-competitive, internally equitable salary structures. Master range spreads, midpoint progressions, survey aging, regression policy lines, internal interpolation, and hybrid weighting.
Learn to work with people data, interpret evidence, and turn analysis into meaningful HR decisions - combining analytical rigour with practical judgment.
Use generative AI as a practical HR work assistant to draft communications, analyse people data, categorise employee feedback, and automate routine workflows - while keeping human judgment at the center of every decision.
Eliminate spreadsheet errors and master industrial-strength Excel formulas - from data cleanup and XLOOKUP to percentile compensation modeling and executive dashboards.
Shift from reactive exit interviews to predictive workforce analytics by building 11-point flight risk models, department heat maps, and high-impact stay interview plans.
Learn how to present HR data clearly through effective visualizations and compelling business narratives. Includes a ready-to-use reference kit: an ROI calculator, an executive memo template, a dashboard checklist, and flashcards - everything you need to build and present your first decision-ready people dashboard.
Learn to forecast headcount, hiring needs, attrition, and payroll costs in Excel, then convert tested forecasts into scenarios and business recommendations leaders can act on.
Design a practical HR measurement framework using the employee lifecycle. Learn how to organize HR metrics around three strategic pillars (Attract, Engage, Retain), resolve metric friction, and build executive scorecards.
Understand the behavioural science behind talent, performance, assessment, motivation, and workforce decisions - and apply it to real workplace situations.
Apply behavioral nudges, choice architecture, and organizational justice principles to guide manager choices, reduce bias, and make people decisions employees trust.
Design motivating dual-track career pathways and competency lattices that satisfy psychological needs for autonomy, mastery, and visible progression.
Diagnose systemic workplace friction using the Multiplicative Performance Model and remove the cognitive load, goal ambiguity, and tool bottlenecks that stall execution.
Master the behavioral science of candidate discovery, total rewards framing, and objection handling to close critical hires and prevent offer reneges.
Investigate employee attrition like a behavioral scientist: segment the problem, model the decision to leave, test competing explanations with evidence, and design retention actions you can defend to leadership.
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Benchmark market pay by role, level, and geography. Explore salary percentiles (P25, P50, P75) with first-principles compensation governance.
Free AI assistant to answer questions across compensation, variable pay, HR analytics, HR metrics, and practical statistics for HR.
Master the total rewards integrated operating system: connecting job evaluation, market benchmarking, compa-ratio positioning, and pay governance strategy.