Skills4X
Skills4X · PRACTICAL PEOPLE & HR

Learn to hire develop retain — and master the craft

A self-paced membership that teaches the real craft of People and HR: hiring well, designing fair pay, running performance honestly, and handling the hard cases. Work through modules on your own schedule and leave able to run the people function of a growing company.

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Skills4X  ·  Practical People and HR Management  ·  self-paced

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Microsoft AI Cloud Partner

ETD Business Solutions

WHY Skills4X

Why a practical approach

Most HR training stops at policy and theory. This programme is built around the documents and decisions you actually own — job scorecards, interview guides, pay bands, performance conversations, and exit handling.

Built around your work

Every session uses your real tasks, data and tools — you build assets you keep, not slideware.

Proof you can show

You finish with a portfolio artifact and a verifiable certificate governed by our ISO/IEC 42001:2023-certified AIMS.

Practical sessions your teams can apply immediately
Role-specific programs, not one-size-fits-all curricula
Learn by doing — every session is hands-on and applied
Custom content built around your tools and workflows
Ongoing support, adoption tracking & reinforcement
THE SHIFT

The shift

Move from reacting to requests and copying templates you don’t fully understand, to running a repeatable operating system for hiring, pay, performance, and retention that holds up to scrutiny.

TODAY
Doing it the hard way
The skill is picked up ad-hoc, with no real method
You reinvent your approach on every single task
Manual, repetitive steps eat hours every week
You can’t reliably repeat what worked last time
Nothing concrete to show for the effort
WHEN YOU FINISH
Working with a real method
A repeatable method running on your real, day-to-day work
A reusable, program-tailored resource library you rely on
Faster, more consistent output that wins hours back
Work you can check, defend and stand behind
A portfolio piece that proves the skill to your team
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

By the end, you'll be able to…

 Write a job scorecard that defines outcomes, not just duties
 Run a structured interview with scoring rubrics that reduce bias
 Build a pay-band structure and benchmark roles to market
 Design and run a performance review cycle with calibration
 Write a competency framework and link it to development plans
 Calculate and act on attrition, engagement, and time-to-hire metrics
 Handle a grievance or disciplinary case to a clean, defensible outcome
 Map an employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding

Skills you’ll build

Structured hiring

Compensation design

Performance management

Employee relations

People analytics

Org design

Our approach

Our programmes help professionals get genuinely good at the work itself. We combine education, real examples, and guided practice so people leave with skills they can apply immediately.

01

Assess

Map your team’s current skill level and identify gaps by role.

02

Design

Build a curriculum aligned to your tools and learning goals.

03

Train

On-demand modules and real-world exercises you apply to your own work.

04

Measure

Track adoption and confidence with post-training assessments.

CURRICULUM

A four-module path from hiring fundamentals to a complete people operating model.

Each module builds one core capability and produces a deliverable you can use at work.

01

Module 1 · self-paced

Talent Acquisition & Structured Hiring

Define roles with scorecards, source candidates, and run structured, evidence-based interviews that predict performance.

Guided lessons

Hands-on lab

Applied output

02

Module 2 · self-paced

Compensation, Benefits & Job Architecture

Build job levels, salary bands, and benchmarking so pay decisions are consistent, fair, and explainable.

Guided lessons

Hands-on lab

Applied output

03

Module 3 · self-paced

Performance, Development & Engagement

Run goal-setting, reviews, calibration, and development planning that improve performance instead of just rating it.

Guided lessons

Hands-on lab

Applied output

04

Module 4 · self-paced

Employee Relations & People Operations

Handle grievances, discipline, exits, and the metrics that show whether the people function is actually working.

Guided lessons

Hands-on lab

Applied output

Full syllabus, week by week

Turn a vague vacancy into a clear scorecard of outcomes, competencies, and signals to assess.

Build interview guides, behavioural questions, and scoring rubrics, then run a panel debrief.

Set job levels, build salary ranges, and benchmark roles against market survey data.

Design goals, review forms, and a calibration session that produces fair, consistent ratings.

Define competencies by level and translate them into individual development plans and career paths.

Work through grievance, disciplinary, and exit cases, and read attrition, engagement, and hiring dashboards.

HANDS-ON

You leave with a complete people operating playbook

Across the modules you build a working playbook for one real or chosen organisation: a scorecard and interview kit for a live role, a pay-band structure, a performance and calibration process, and a case-handling guide.

Everything is built on your own scenario, so it doubles as a portfolio piece and a ready-to-use toolkit.

People operating playbook + hiring kit
Role & scorecard
Interview kit
Pay bands
Performance & calibration
Operating playbook
YOUR TOOLKIT

Your toolkit

You’ll work with the real instruments of the trade — scorecards, structured interview guides, salary survey benchmarking, competency matrices, calibration grids, and HR dashboards built in Excel and an applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse or BambooHR.

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FORMAT & LOGISTICS

How the program runs

Format

Self-paced

Access

While subscribed

Delivery

On-demand lessons

Membership

All Skills4X + Resource Library

Language

English / Arabic

Community

Diwan + mentor
INSTRUCTORS

Learn from a practitioner who's done the work

Founder & Dean of Education
More than a decade across AI, people analytics and governance, delivering bilingually across MENA, GCC and Africa.
Dr. Ahmed El-Shamy
Co-founder, CEO · DBA, Royale Business College UK
WHAT YOU EARN

A Programme Completion Letter that proves you shipped

Awarded on completing your function-specific program and capstone — a verifiable, shareable credential governed by our ISO/IEC 42001:2023-certified AIMS.

DigisoulSkills4XISO/IEC 42001

PROGRAMME COMPLETION LETTER

This is proudly presented to

[ Participant Name ]

for successfully completing the

Skills4X · Practical People & HR

Structured hiring · Compensation design · Performance management · Employee relations · People analytics

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[Month YYYY]

CREDENTIAL ID

Skills4X-HR-2026-0001

Dr. Ahmed El-Shamy

 

Co-founder & Dean of Education, Digisoul

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SKILLS4X MEMBERSHIP

One membership. Everything included.

Your Skills4X membership is billed annually — 599 EGP / month (7,188 EGP / year). It unlocks every Skills4X track, the full Resource Library, and exclusive access to the Diwan community. Learn about Diwan →
Every Skills4X trackLearn any discipline you need — one membership covers them all.
Resource library & templatesReady-to-use checklists, frameworks and templates for the work.
Practitioner communityConnect with peers and mentors in the Diwan community.
Programme Completion LetterEarn a completion letter for every track you finish.
PREREQUISITES

What you'll need to get started

Built for HR generalists, people managers, founders, and anyone moving into a People role; no prior HR qualification is required, just a workplace or scenario to apply the work to.

Bring your real work

You build with your own tasks and data from day one — you leave with assets you can use, not just notes.

Skills4X

A practical, applied skills track · self-paced

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FAQ

Questions, answered

You’ll be able to define and hire for a role with a scorecard and structured interviews, set fair pay bands, run a full performance and calibration cycle, and handle grievance, disciplinary, and exit cases to a clean outcome. The focus is on the documents and decisions a People function owns day to day.

HR generalists who want to go deeper, people managers responsible for their own teams, founders building their first HR function, and professionals moving into a People role from another discipline. It suits anyone who owns or influences hiring, pay, and performance.

It is fully self-paced and on-demand. You work through four modules and their topics on your own schedule, completing each deliverable as you go. There are no live sessions or fixed cohort dates, so you can start immediately and move at your own pace.

Most members complete the core modules over a few weeks of part-time study, but there is no deadline. You can move quickly through familiar areas and spend longer on the build exercises like scorecards, pay bands, and your performance cycle.

A complete people operating playbook for one organisation: a job scorecard and interview kit for a live role, a salary-band structure, a performance review and calibration process, and a case-handling guide. It works as both a portfolio piece and a toolkit you can use at work.

No. The programme assumes no formal HR certification or prior people-management experience. You only need access to a workplace or a chosen scenario to apply the exercises to, since every deliverable is built on a real or realistic organisation.

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