Facilitator: Daphne B. Latimore, SPHR
Delivery Format: Live Virtual Workshops (90 minutes each) + Companion Reading + Quiz
Total Credit Hours: 4.5
Credit Type: HRCI - HR General
✅ SERIES OVERVIEW:
This professional development series offers HR professionals and Leaders at all Levels a comprehensive framework for building strategic leadership capacity through culture alignment, coaching presence, and influence. Each session is rooted in one of Daphne B. Latimore’s three books and provides actionable tools for immediate workplace application.
Workshop 1: Human Capital at the Core
Subtitle: Aligning Culture, Behavior, and Strategy to Drive Organizational Performance
Date: October 1, 2025
Session Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
HRCI Category: BUSINESS
Learning Objectives:
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Evaluate how behavior-based metrics can be used to drive enterprise-level performance and strengthen organizational accountability.
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Analyze the role of culture alignment in achieving strategic business objectives across departments and leadership levels.
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Apply the Equitable Excellence™ framework to develop strategies that enhance organizational effectiveness and measurable business outcomes.
Workshop Activities:
- Strategic Alignment Challenge: Participants identify one current business initiative and determine how HR behavior metrics could reinforce or derail its success.
- Leadership Alignment Roleplay: Groups simulate conversations between senior leaders and HR to identify disconnects between spoken culture and observed behaviors.
- Framework Application Lab: Participants apply the Equitable Excellence™ pillars to a case scenario and identify levers for improving outcomes (e.g., employee voice, accountability, innovation).
Workshop 2: You Should Be a Coach
Subtitle: Coaching Presence for Everyday Leadership
Date: November 5th, 2025
Duration: 90 minutes
HRCI Category: HR GENERAL
Learning Objectives:
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Differentiate between coaching, managing, and mentoring in leadership practice
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Identify behaviors that support coaching presence in the workplace
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Develop your leadership influence through curiosity and strategic listening
Workshop Activities:
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Roleplay coaching conversations
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Peer-to-peer coaching circle
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Journaling: “The moment after the breakthrough” exercise
Workshop 3: The Power of Presence
Subtitle: How HR Professionals Show Up When It Matters Most
Date: December 3, 2025
Duration: 90 minutes
HRCI Category: HR GENERAL
Learning Objectives:
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Define leadership presence in the context of HR
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Identify verbal and nonverbal behaviors that support trust and influence
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Strengthen presence in high-stakes, high-visibility situations
Workshop Activities:
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Scenario-based discussion: Showing up under pressure
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Self-assessment: Your presence style
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Application challenge: Draft your presence positioning statement
🛠️ What’s Included:
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3 Facilitated Workshops (live - via Zoom platform)
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Digital Companion Guide for each session
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Post-session Quizzes (pre-developed for HRCI submission)
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Certificate of Completion template
- The three-part trilogy series written by Daphne B. Latimore, author
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Bonus: Access to Daphne’s TEDx talk for pre-work
This program has been pre-approved for 4.5 recertification credit hours & HR General toward
aPHR®, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through
HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).“ The content of the program submitted has met the criteria for
Recertification Provider Program.
