Who Should Attend
HR business partners, HR managers and directors, experienced generalists, and People & Culture leaders who advise managers and executives and want to strengthen their contribution to business decisions.
How You Will Benefit
Identify the organizational conditions behind recurring people problems.
Connect HR recommendations to business priorities and evidence.
Strengthen your influence with managers and senior leaders.
Present options, explain tradeoffs, and request clear decisions.
Establish ownership and measures that support effective implementation.
What You Will Cover
When leaders expect HR to resolve recurring people problems, you need to influence the management decisions behind them. Learn how to diagnose the business issue, present a persuasive recommendation, and gain leadership support for action. Build practical skills for influencing without direct authority and clarifying what managers must own.
Work through realistic workplace cases, then develop a recommendation for a challenge in your organization. Receive written facilitator feedback to strengthen your business case and prepare for the conversation with leaders.
Seminar Agenda
Day One — Diagnose the Business Problem and Build Influence
Diagnose the Business Problem
Translate a workplace concern into a clear business problem.
Examine evidence, test assumptions, and assess alternative explanations.
Practice diagnosing recurring turnover and employee performance concerns.
Understand Authority and Build Influence
Identify decision owners, contributors, and HR’s appropriate role.
Apply the six elements of the Woods HR Power Model™.
Practice questioning assumptions and advising leaders through resistance.
Day Two — Present Recommendations and Establish Accountability
Develop and Present the Recommendation
Compare options, resource requirements, tradeoffs, and expected benefits.
Prepare a business recommendation with a specific decision request.
Practice presenting your recommendation and responding to leadership questions.
Establish Accountability and Follow-Through
Define responsibilities, implementation checkpoints, and measures of progress.
Identify obstacles that could prevent decisions from becoming action.
Refine your recommendation and prepare a 30-day application plan.
Assess Your Skills and Demonstrate Your Learning
Begin with a self-assessment to identify your strengths and development priorities. Apply your learning to a workplace case, then receive facilitator feedback on your analysis, recommendation, and implementation plan. Complete a final capability review to identify your progress and next steps.
These assessments support practical application and provide evidence of learning alongside your documented Professional Development Hours.
Program Details and Credits
Choose Your Cohort: December 8–9, 2026, or January 12–13, 2027.
Your registration covers both days of your selected cohort.
Daily Schedule:
Eastern: 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Central: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Mountain: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Pacific: 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Each day includes six instructional hours, a 30-minute lunch break, and two 15-minute breaks.
Your CA$2,495 registration includes 12 hours of live instruction, program materials, an applied assignment, written facilitator feedback, and a certificate documenting completed Professional Development Hours. An optional 60-minute group implementation clinic is also included.
Acceptance toward an employer, professional association, licensing body, or external credentialing requirement is determined by the receiving organization.
Experience You Can Trust
Seattle Consulting Group brings more than 25 years of experience in Human Resources, organizational development, employee relations, and management training. Our work has included professionals from the Government of Canada, Scotiabank, lululemon, and Enbridge. This seminar brings that experience to the decisions you face as an HR business partner: advising leaders, addressing recurring performance problems, and turning recommendations into action.
Our Satisfaction Guarantee
Attend the seminar and decide whether it delivered value. If you are not satisfied, contact sales@seattleconsultinggrp.com within seven calendar days after the seminar ends. Choose a full refund of your registration fee or a transfer to another SCG seminar of equal value.
Bring a Stronger Recommendation to Your Next Leadership Conversation
Build the skills to assess the problem, explain your recommendation, and help leaders move from discussion to accountable action.
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Cancellation and Transfer Policy
Cancel in writing at least 21 calendar days before the seminar begins to receive a full refund. Cancellations received fewer than 21 days before the seminar and registrations unused without notice are non-refundable. If your plans change, you may send a substitute at no additional charge or transfer your registration once to a future offering of the same seminar, subject to availability. Please notify us before the original seminar begins. Any difference in tuition will apply to transfers. If Seattle Consulting Group cancels or reschedules your seminar, you may choose a transfer or a full refund. Send cancellation, substitution, and transfer requests to sales@seattleconsultinggrp.com. These cancellation terms do not limit the satisfaction guarantee above or any rights provided by applicable law.
Program Disclaimer
Seattle Consulting Group seminars provide professional education and practical guidance. They do not provide legal, medical, or other individualized professional advice, and attendance does not create a consulting or advisory relationship. Participants remain responsible for applying the learning appropriately within their circumstances, workplace policies, collective agreements, and applicable laws. Where provided, certificates document completion and Professional Development Hours. Acceptance toward an employer, professional association, licensing body, or external credentialing requirement is determined by the receiving organization.