Course Description
Most HR professionals already have something leaders need: a clearer view of how a decision will affect people, performance, and organizational credibility. The challenge is ensuring that view becomes part of the decision while meaningful choices still remain.
How to Get Your Power Back™ is a live program for HR professionals who want to contribute earlier, speak more clearly, and stop carrying responsibility that properly belongs elsewhere. Participants work with current workplace situations throughout the program, turning reflection into an approach they can use immediately.
What You Will Learn
Identify the decisions where HR judgment must enter earlier.
Distinguish responsible HR counsel from misplaced management accountability.
Recognize how everyday working patterns weaken HR’s practical influence.
Clarify your role when expectations and decision ownership become blurred.
Prepare conversations that make organizational consequences easier to understand.
Respond constructively when leaders seek support after choices have narrowed.
Build greater credibility through clear judgment and consistent follow-through.
Session One: Understand Where Your Influence Has Changed
The first session examines how HR professionals gradually become responsible for managing outcomes without helping shape the choices that create them. You will use a current situation to identify where your involvement, authority, and accountability have become misaligned.
Map the decision path behind one current workplace issue.
Identify where HR entered the conversation too late.
Separate advice, decision authority, and implementation responsibility clearly.
Recognize when helpfulness has unintentionally replaced appropriate boundaries.
Prepare one conversation that can restore clearer professional involvement.
Between Sessions: Apply the Work to Your Reality
Between sessions, you will use the program materials to examine one active workplace decision or relationship. This short application period ensures the second session begins with practical experience rather than abstract discussion.
Test the decision-ownership approach within your current work.
Prepare the language for one consequential professional conversation.
Notice where clearer judgment improves the quality of discussion.
Return with insights that strengthen your next practical step.
Session Two: Contribute Earlier and More Effectively
The second session focuses on how HR professionals can use their judgment more visibly and constructively. You will strengthen the conversations, boundaries, and decision practices that help leaders involve HR before problems become harder to address.
Frame people concerns as decisions requiring leadership judgment.
Make the operational consequences of people choices visible.
Establish boundaries that preserve both relationships and accountability.
Respond when managers seek HR support without owning their role.
Create a practical plan for strengthening influence after the program.
Practical Resources Included With Registration
A decision-entry guide for recognizing when HR involvement matters.
A decision-ownership map for clarifying appropriate accountability.
A conversation-planning worksheet for important professional discussions.
A workplace application guide for using each tool immediately.
A personal action plan for sustaining stronger HR influence.
Designed for HR Professionals
This program serves HR managers, HR business partners, HR generalists, employee-relations professionals, and emerging HR leaders. It is particularly useful for professionals who advise leaders, manage complex people concerns, and need their judgment to influence decisions before the available options narrow.
Registration and Professional Development
Two consecutive live online sessions provide three instructional hours of practical professional development. Registration is CA$295 per participant, and Seattle Consulting Group can provide an invoice for organizational approval.
Participants who complete both live sessions receive a certificate documenting three instructional hours. This program is not represented as pre-approved for SHRM, HRCI, or other external continuing-education credits.
Satisfaction Guarantee
Every registration includes Seattle Consulting Group’s full-refund guarantee. The program must provide meaningful practical value for the professional responsibilities you carry.
Build Greater HR Influence