“HR spends too much time on administrative work and is stretched too thin!”
We know this is a daily struggle because we hear this from our peers and our members. Research from Deloitte and SHRM also backs this frustration up with staggering statistics like HR spending 57% of their time handling administrative tasks.
It’s one of the reasons our team of in-house HR experts packs the AIHR Resource Library with new templates, guides, cheat sheets, checklists, and other off-the-shelf, customizable tools every day. So that you’ll never have to start from scratch again and have the power to make your day more effective and productive.
What is the AIHR Resource Library?
The AIHR Resource Library is an exclusive collection of practical and ready-to-use HR resources developed by our team of HR subject matter experts. AIHR members use the Resource Library to streamline their daily work, from immediate assistance when they run into challenging projects to simplifying data management and standardizing documentation and workflows. It’s real-time, on-the-job support that makes succeeding at everyday tasks easier and faster.
The Resource Library contains hundreds of resources, with new ones added weekly. You’ll have access to customizable templates, step-by-step guides, practical toolkits and cheat sheets, and valuable checklists that cover a dozen HR domains, including HR business partnering, compensation and benefits, learning and development, talent acquisition and management, and much more.
How the AIHR Resource Library helps you hit your career goals
Whether it’s your first day on the job or you’re a seasoned HR professional, you will find something to help you excel in your day-to-day work, complement your learning process, and cement your position as an essential part of the team.
Enhancing skills development
The AIHR Resource Library is the perfect tool to help you build on new skills. Certificate Programs contain relevant resources to optimize your learning experience and maximize the impact of upskilling through real-world application.
Using the resources, you can directly apply the knowledge and expertise you’ve gained to solve real-world problems. This allows you to better understand what you’ve learned and increase knowledge retention. You’ll also gain insight into how to adapt and modify theories to the context and needs of your workforce and organization.
Empowering you to excel in your day-to-day work
1. Improving your productivity and efficiency
Whether you’re drafting a new policy, creating an onboarding framework, or designing a performance management guideline, starting a process from scratch or trying to overcome bottlenecks can be incredibly time-consuming. You often have to spend hours of research, planning, and experimenting to ensure every detail aligns with your organization’s needs and HR best practices.
The AIHR Resource Library provides you with ready-made solutions to significantly cut down on that time and get unstuck. With easy-to-use and customizable templates and tools, you won’t have to spend days or weeks developing materials for your tasks. You’ll be able to streamline routine processes, maintain the momentum of your workflow, and redirect your effort toward strategic and value-adding activities without getting bogged down by operational roadblocks.
In other words, the Resource Library allows you to achieve more in less time and focus on the work that truly makes an impact.
2. Increase accuracy and quality of work
It’s important to deliver accurate and high-quality work, especially when what you do has a far-reaching impact on employees and the organization. The AIHR Resource Library helps ensure this by offering you access to a suite of tools and templates designed by HR subject matter experts.
Every resource aligns with the latest HR standards and best practices, so you can use these resources to get inspired for your next project or execute your tasks with confidence, precision, and reliability.
The library also allows you to create and maintain consistency by providing standardized methods for processes like performance reviews, payroll audits, and processing employee grievances. This consistency helps minimize errors and ensures that work is seamlessly executed across teams and departments.
3. Apply to diverse HR domains
You have access to hundreds of resources covering multiple HR domains, including HR Business Partner, People Analytics, Talent Acquisition, Compensation and Benefits, Learning and Development, and much more!
This is extremely valuable when you’re the only HR hire in your organization, or if you’re managing an HR team with multiple HR functions. But if you specialize in only one HR area, you’ll still find the AIHR Resource Library very helpful when you need domain-specific templates or cheat sheets or if you want — or need — to assist on a project that’s new or not in your field of expertise.
Building better HR teams with the AIHR Resource Library
The Resource Library is not only a powerful tool for individual HR professionals but also for improving team success. Team plans give every member of your team access to the same high-quality resources, ensuring alignment and reducing inefficiencies.
You can use the Resource Library to foster collaboration and enable your team members to collectively customize resources to meet the needs of your organization. Using standardized resources also helps clarify expectations and streamline workflows. This allows your team to scale processes, effectively divide tasks, and work cohesively toward common goals.
With time freed up from not having to start processes from scratch, your team will be able to focus on strategic activities and collaborate more effectively on high-value initiatives, such as developing innovative HR strategies or enhancing employee engagement.
The Resource Library is not just a hub for resources, but a foundation to help you build a high-performing HR team. Every new project is an opportunity to leverage resources rooted in best practices that inspire new ideas, methods, or ways of working.
Enhancing work for different HR functions
Now that you have a good understanding of what the AIHR Resource Library is, how to use it, and how it can help you excel in your work, let’s take a look at specific examples of the ways different HR functions can make use of the Resource Library.
| HR functions | Common challenges | AIHR Resources |
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| HR Business Partner | Understand the different data types, their sources, and how to best use them to make informed decisions and address employee needs. | → Data Types for HR Business Partners |
| Identifying and categorizing potential causes to solve business problems. | → HR Root Cause Analysis Guide | |
| Communicate HR priorities, impact, and risks to key stakeholders. | → HR Board Report Template | |
| Talent Acquisition | Reduce bias and ensure the interview process is fair and consistent, especially when there are multiple stakeholders involved. | → Interview Scoring Sheet |
| Master Boolean search to enhance the sourcing process and effectively identify potential best-fit candidates. | → Boolean Search Cheat Sheet | |
| People Analytics | Save time and effort performing repetitive tasks in Excel like organizing data, analyzing trends, or preparing reports. | → Excel Cheat Sheet |
| Access the most commonly used metrics in HR and the formulas to calculate them. | → HR Metrics Calculation Template | |
| Understand the data type the organization is using and how to improve data quality for better decision-making. | → People Analytics Roadmap Guide | |
| Talent Management | Automate the succession planning process using criteria based on role criticality, skill scarcity, and candidate readiness. | → Succession Planning Toolkit |
| Create personalized and effective onboarding processes for new hires. | → 30-60-90 Onboarding Plan Template | |
| Use the 9-box grid to identify and prioritize the development needs of employees based on their performance and potential. | → 9-Box Grid Template | |
| Compensation and Benefits | Understand key compensation metrics and how to calculate them. | → Compensation Metrics Cheat Sheet |
| Learning and Development | Conduct an effective Training Needs Analysis to identify the skills and knowledge needed to reach organizational goals. | → Training Needs Analysis Guide |
Interested in using the AIHR Resource Library?
If you think the AIHR Resource Library is the tool you need to elevate your HR job, let’s sign up for a membership with AIHR.
As an individual HR professional, you have two membership options that you can choose from: the HR Essentials Membership, and the Full Academy License. If you’re looking for a solution for your entire team, visit the Team License page to find out more.
