Strategic HR Leadership (SHRL) Certification

Optimize Your Talent Strategy

Create and grow high-performing HR teams
through intention, interaction, and influence.

This practical and hands-on course will help you to be a better people leader by improving your team's performance. You'll do real work in class, including linking your team's work to business strategy, analyzing your team's design and mapping rolls, and creating learning plans for your team. And of course, you'll practice giving feedback and coaching your team to improve their performance and engagement! You'll also receive 30 tools and templates that you can use right away to improve your leadership and your team's performance!

Increased Focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Diversity, equity and inclusion are critical in today's business environment, and HR leaders are expected to serve as role models in that regard. As such, we've included new research and content focused on important topics like:

Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion and their impact on people and performance
Mitigating unconscious bias in the design and leadership of your team
Recognizing and valuing the many different dimensions of diversity
Creating more equitable environments
Increasing the feelings of belonging in your team, and
Building psychological safety that leads to better performance

Who Should Attend

Anyone who formally or informally leads a team
Anyone who wants to be a people leader in the future
Anyone whose team's performance needs improvement

What You'll Learn

Assess Your Team Leadership Skills

Assess the degree to which you model effective communication, maintain accountability, develop team members, and act inclusively.
Form an action plan based on the results of the assessment.

Connect Teams to a Larger Purpose

Communicate how the team's work affects real people within or outside of the organization.
Articulate the business strategy and how your team contributes to it.
Set clear expectations with a team charter.

Intentionally Design Teams

Design a team to align with your organization's strategy.
Mitigate unconscious bias in the design and leadership of your team.

Optimize Team Interaction

Empower your team to choose how they accomplish work.
Grow and reinforce a team mindset.
Provide relevant, personalized, and continuous development opportunities to your team.
Continuously offer feedback to your team using a three-step model with follow-up.

Influence Outcomes

Develop executive presence.
Leverage relationships in your formal and informal networks.
Evaluate outcomes and behaviors.
Model the right leadership behaviors.

What to Expect

COVID NOTICE: Due to ongoing uncertainty related to Covid-19, we encourage all in-person course attendees to avoid making non-refundable arrangements for travel and accommodations
Select training dates and times that fit your schedule; offered as a 2-day program or as a virtual series with half-day sessions delivered over 4 weeks: learn more about the virtual series format
Access log-in information, certification materials (participant guide and toolkit), and the exam in your MyHCI profile
Chat and interact with your facilitator and peers via Zoom platform available on mobile or desktop for the virtual training option
Earn your HCI certification by attending all sessions, completing all classwork, and passing the multiple-choice exam with a score of 80% or higher
Renew your HCI certification every three years by obtaining 60 credits
Attend this training and earn 13.5 HRCI Business credits, 13.5 SHRM PDC’s, 13.5 HCI credits, and 12 ATD recertification credits

Earn Your Human Capital Strategy Credential

This certification is part of HCI's Human Capital Academy program, designed to help you build in-demand capabilities, advance your career, and lead the future of HR. Click the link below to learn more about the other certification programs in the Academy and the special pricing available.

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