Become the HR Leader People Want to Follow
From recruiting to performance management, employee relations, compliance, and internal processes, you’re already great at HR execution. Now it’s time to step into something bigger. The Strategic HR Leadership certification helps you make the shift from HR practitioner to strategic people leader, the kind who earns trust at the executive table, builds high-performing teams, and influences the future of work inside the organization.
Why rise into HR leadership? Because businesses don’t just need managers, they need people leaders. SHRL isn’t just a certificate that teaches HR mechanics–it’s a career accelerator, designed to help you earn new titles, more responsibility, and greater influence. Build the leadership foundation that powers the next stage of your career and discover how to act like a business leader by influencing strategy, shaping culture, and driving organizational success.
What You'll Learn
Assess Your Team Leadership Skills
Assess how you model effective communication, maintain accountability, develop team members, and act inclusively then form an action plan based on the results of your assessment
Connect Teams to a Larger Purpose
Communicate how the team's work affects real people and business strategy and set clear expectations with a team charter
Intentionally Design Teams
Design teams to align with your organization's strategy while mitigating unconscious bias in team design
Optimize Team Interaction
Empower your team to choose how they work, reinforce a team mindset, and provide continuous development opportunities and feedback
Influence Outcomes
Model the right leadership behaviors, leverage network connects and evaluate outcomes and behaviors
What to Expect
- Select training dates and times that fit your schedule
- Finish your HCI program with a free toolkit, access to additional videos and research, and a set of skills that you can use on the job immediately
- Access log-in information, certification materials (participant guide and toolkit), and the exam in your MyHCI profile
- Chat and interact with faculty and peers via Zoom
- Earn your HCI certification by attending all the 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 certification program and earn 13.5 HCI, 13.5 HRCI, 13.5 SHRM, and 12 ATD recertification credits
Certify Your Team
Equip your team with industry-recognized credentials that build strategic capability and strengthen organizational impact. Through interactive learning and real-world application, your team gains unified expertise, common frameworks and language, and the credibility to drive measurable organizational results.
Start the conversation: Schedule time with a Strategic Learning Partner or email us anytime with questions.
Course Outline
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Day One
- Define HR Leadership
- HR Leadership’s Pivotal Role
- The Three I’s in Effective Teams: Intention, Interaction, and Influence
- A shared purpose
- Build trust with a team
- Communicate purpose
- Understand and articulate the business strategy and the team’s purpose
- Strategic alignment in team design
- Keep expectations clear
- Draft a team charter
- Strategic alignment in team design
- Align roles to strategy
- Map talent to roles
- Solutions to fill roles on a team: build/buy/borrow
- Lead inherited teams intentionally
- The Business Case for DEI
- Dimensions of diversity
- Mitigate unconscious bias
- Belonging and inclusion
- Creating psychological safety
- Empower the team to choose methods for accomplishing goals
- Foster a team mindset
- Grow a team mindset
- Empowerment to participate: Building psychological safety
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Day Two
- Promote continuous learning and feedback
- Develop teams
- Why train teams?
- Match training to team needs
- Workplace learning today/sources of learning
- Identify learning opportunities for teams
- Reinforce learning
- Provide continuous feedback
- Coaching as a follow-up to feedback
- Leverage relationships within and outside the team
- Form stronger connections with team members
- Formal and informal networks
- Barriers to relationship-building
- Expand networks
- Evaluate outcomes and behaviors
- How organizations measure success
- Individual, team, and organizational measures
- Reward and recognition
- Model the right behaviors
- Team leader responsibilities
- Assess yourself
- Action planning
