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Description

Human Resource (HR) Professionals play a crucial role in organizations, partnering with leaders and teams to navigate complex challenges in an ever-evolving employment landscape. Trusted for their expertise and guidance, HR professionals must be adept at quickly identifying underlying issues, adapting their strategies, and working collaboratively to develop effective, sustainable solutions.  

Influence and Impact: Strategies for HR Professionals emphasizes the critical leadership role HR professionals hold within their organizations. The program fosters self-reflection while exploring essential leadership strategies and approaches to effectively engage, support, collaborate with, and influence leaders and stakeholders. Participants will apply these concepts through case studies and real-world scenarios, cultivating a deeper understanding of their leadership roles and developing their personal leadership perspective. 

Learner Outcomes

  • Understand Your Style: Use DiSC to gain greater insight into working styles, how motivators and stressors may influence engagement with others, and adapt more individualized approaches in various HR relevant scenarios such as collaborating with and influencing leaders. 
  • Apply Key Leadership Tools: Explore various concepts, models, and tools, including emotional intelligence, psychological safety, leadership styles, motivation, and the elements of high performing teams, and how they can be used by HR both proactively, and to diagnose issues to support leaders, teams, and organizations. 
  • Explore Unconscious Bias: Review types of unconscious bias, identify ways in which biases may influence how people engage with others and influence decisions made in organizations, and how to use this knowledge to better support leaders and teams in working environments. 
  • Enhance Communication: Explore elements of effective communications and strategies for taking a coaching approach to working with leaders and others while incorporating an HR perspective. 
  • Focus on Well-being: Discuss the potential personal impacts of work on HR professionals and identify strategies to improve time management, productivity, and maintaining a greater focus on personal wellness. 
  • Real-World Application: Practice applying program concepts and connect to day-to-day work through case studies and group discussions. 
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Section Title
Influence and Impact: Strategies for HR Professionals - Saskatoon - March 2026
Type
Discussion
Days
W, Th, F
Time
8:30AM to 5:00PM
Dates
Mar 18, 2026 to Mar 20, 2026
Schedule and Location
Contact Hours
24.0
Delivery Options
In Person and Canvas  
Course Fee(s)
Regular Registration Fee non-credit $2,495.00
CEUs
24 CEUs
Drop Request Deadline
Jan 31, 2026
Transfer Request Deadline
No transfer request allowed after enrollment

Section Notes

Canvas Platform:

Please login to the Canvas Platform to access the pre-work and materials for the course. 

  • Please use your USask NSID (the first six characters from your @usask.ca email address found on your student profile; e.g. abc123@usask.ca) and your password to log in to your Canvas account.

Participant Withdrawal or Transfer Policy

  • In the event of any registration cancellation or transfer, a $35.00 plus tax administration fee will be incurred.

From 45 Days Up To 16 Days Before Program Start

  • Cancellation: You will be refunded 50% plus tax of the program fee.
  • Transfer: You will be charged an additional transfer penalty equal to 20% plus tax of the program fee.

Within 15 Days Of The Program Start

  • Cancellation: You will not be refunded.
  • Transfer: You will be charged an additional transfer penalty equal to 50% plus tax of the program fee.

For Businesses/Organizations, invoicing is an option, please contact the Registration Office for assistance at sales@edwards.usask.ca

Invoiced Registrations: Make check payable to the University of Saskatchewan and remit to the following address.

Extended Learning Registration Office
University of Saskatchewan
105 Administration Place 
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5N2
OR
Business/Organization, please contact treasury@usask.ca about onboarding as an EFT client for payment.

To pay the invoice by credit card, please visit Home | University of Saskatchewan (usask.ca) click on Pay Invoice, and follow the instructions.

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