Online Training Courses

Brush up on your People Inc. skills or unlock new ones by booking one of our online training courses.
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Our online training courses are available to all our People Inc. Customers and are a perfect alternative to a full on site training course.

Courses are aimed at users with different levels of experience and ability from new users to system administrators.

Each session is typically 2 hours long to enable attendees to fit this in to their busy schedule.

Courses cost £200 per individual session or £500 for Courses consisting of 3 sessions.

 

Scroll down for a brief summary of the online courses available.

New Customer and Setup Training

Duration

3 x 2 hour sessions

Objective

To gain a basic understanding of navigating People Inc. and to set up the key areas ready for use before learning how to entering new employee records and managing the employment life-cycle and finally managing absence.

Consists of the following sessions:

Session 1 – Overview of People Inc. and setup
Session 2 – Working with Employee Records
Session 3 – Managing Holidays and Absence

New User Training

Duration

1 x 2 hour sessions

Objective

Aimed at existing customers who have a new HR team member who needs to get up to speed on People Inc.

 

  • Logging in and changing Passwords
  • Overview of People Inc.
  • Using Searching and Filters
  • Adding Employees using a wizard
  • Managing Job and Salary records using a wizard
  • Understanding how FTE is calculated and used within system.
  • Recording absence for an employee
  • Leaver process using a wizard

Working with Filters

Duration

1 x 2 hour session

Objective

Filters are a key tool within People Inc. to help getting the most from your data. Learn how to create new filters to identify specific data withing People Inc.

 

  • Introduction to how filters work within People Inc.
  • Setting the Default Filter
  • Understanding principles of data queries
  • Creating new filters
  • Editing Filters
  • Filter Examples

Working with Letters

Duration

1 x 2 hour sessions

Objective

To gain an understanding of how the Letters and Email functionality works within People Inc; to set up a new letter templates and how to send letters to employees.

 

  • Introduction to working with Letters
  • Sending letters from People Inc.
  • Sending an existing letter from a Data Screen
  • Sending letters to groups of people using the Letter Library
  • Creating new Letter templates (using existing templates)
  • Managing the Letter Library

Tracking key events using the Action List

Duration

1 x 2 hour session

Objective

To learn how to create Action List Triggers and understand how the action list feature works in People Inc. to ensure important HR actions/events are not missed. Includes:

  • Introduction to the Action List Functionality
  • Viewing Actions relating to records
  • Adding Actions to a record
  • Viewing the Central Action List
  • Managing Actions (assigning/closing)
  • Using Action List Filters
  • Setting up Action List Triggers

 

Managing Employee Training

Duration

1 x 2 hour session

Objective

To learn how to create a library of courses within People Inc; set up a mandatory training program based on role and manage the day to day administration of recording employee training.

 

  • Introduction to the Training Module
  • Creating the course library
  • Setting up Mandatory Training based on role
  • Adding Action List triggers/reminders for Course Expiry’s
  • Assigning Training Records
  • Viewing Training related actions
  • Using the Training Matrix Plug-in

    Managing the Recruitment Process

    Duration

    1 x 2 hour sessions

    Objective

    To gain a basic understand of how to record and manage Vacancies and Applicants withing People Inc. including how the Recruitment process works within the system.

     

    • Overview of the Recruitment module
    • Working with Vacancies
    • Publishing Vacancies to the company website*
    • Adding Applicants to a Vacancy
    • Managing Applicants individually
    • Sending Recruitment Letters to Applicants
    • Running Recruitment Reports
    • Creating a new Employee Record from an Applicant Record

    Managing Company Vehicles

    Duration

    1 x 2 hour session

    Objective

    Learn how to create your company vehicles database and assign vehicles to employees.

     

    • Overview of Company Vehicles screens
    • Adding Vehicles and recording key information
    • Tracking key dates such as Lease end Dates/MOT’s etc.
    • Recording a Vehicle Service History
    • Assigning Vehicles to Employees
    • Recording Driving incidents

    Performing Annual Pay Reviews

    Duration

    1 x 2 hour session

    Objective

    Learn how to use the built in tools to carryout your annual pay review using People Inc. Includes:

     

    • Preparing for the Pay Review
    • Generating a new provisional salary record for each employee
    • Review salary figures by team/department/company
    • Updating amendments and adjustments
    • Applying the new pay to the system.
    • Notifying employees via a pay rise letter.

      Basic Report Writing

      Duration

      3 x 2 hour session

      Objective

      To understand how the Report Writer tool works within People Inc. and how to create some great looking reports in a variety of formats to help analyse data.

      The course is split into 3 separate sessions, each session increasing in difficulty, utilising the skills and experience gained in the previous sessions.

       

      Session 1 – Introduction to Report Writing
      Session 2 – Creating Multi Tabled and Grouped Reports
      Session 3 – Creating Summary and Cross Tab Reports

       

      Using the People Inc. Screen Designer module

      Duration

      1 x 2 hour sessions

      Objective

      Aimed at system administrated to provide a basic overview of the built in Screen Designer module within People Inc. Learn how to add fields to existing screens and create new data screens.

       

      • Overview of the Screen Designer Module
      • Understanding Data Screens and structures
      • Customising an existing screen
      • Creating a new ‘Child’ Data screens
        • Creating Fields
        • Adding Controls to a screen
        • Arranging Screens elements

        Managing Security Profiles

        Duration

        1 x 2 hour session

        Objective

        Designed to provide the System Administrator with an understanding of how the Security Module works within People Inc.

         

        • Overview of System Administration Module
        • Configuring Security Policies
        • Understanding Security Profiles and User account
        • Creating a new User Account
        • Creating a New Security Profile
        • Configuring the new user Account
        • Releasing Locked User Accounts

        Employee Self Service for Administrators

        Duration

        3 x 2 hour session

        Objective

        To provide the People Inc. administrator with the knowledge and skills needed to configure and roll out the Employee Self Service Module.

        The course is split into 3 separate sessions, each focusing on different stages of the setup and roll out:

        Session 1 – Configuring the Employee Self Service Module
        Session 2 – Administering Employee Self Service for HR
        Session 3 – Using the Employee Self Service

         

        Advanced Report Writing

        Duration

        1 x 2 hour sessions

        Objective

        This course is aimed at providing a more tailored session to meet the customers specific needs and is available on request

          Advanced Screen Design

          Duration

          1 x 2 hour sessions

          Objective

          This course is aimed at providing a more tailored session to meet the customers specific needs and is available on request