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SUMMARY:Strategic HR Certificate PLUS: Practitioner to Business Partner
DESCRIPTION:HR & Compliance \nDecember 1 – December 17\, 2026 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeDecember 1 – December 17\, 20269:00 AM ET start\nPrice$1949Member · Non-member: $2459\nFacilitatorCatapult HR Specialists\nSeats28 seats28 available\n\n\n\nMove from running HR processes to shaping business decisions.  \n \nThe jump from running HR to partnering on the business is the one most generalists feel but few get trained for. The Strategic HR Certificate builds the judgment for it. It is built for mid-career HR practitioners and managers who have the fundamentals down and are ready to advise leaders\, work from data\, and shape more inclusive\, scalable practices. The certificate covers business acumen\, employee relations and triage\, people analytics\, workplace culture\, and the metrics that move the business\, with two electives on coaching managers and building a one-page business case. Participants head back to work ready to partner with leaders and bring a people lens to real business decisions. \n \nCertificate Snapshot \nInstructor-Led | 15 hours core\, plus two 3-hour electives | In-Person or Virtual \n \nCourses \n\nHR Strategy & Business Acumen (3 hours) \nEmployee Relations & Triage (3 hours) \nPeople Analytics for Small Teams (3 hours) \nWorkplace Culture & Belonging (3 hours) \nHR Metrics That Matter (3 hours) \nCoaching Managers Lab (3 hours\, elective)\nThe 1-Page HR Business Case (3 hours\, elective)\n\nElective sessions are included in this series. No separate registration is required. \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/strategic-hr-certificate-plus-practitioner-to-business-partner-2026-12-01/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
CATEGORIES:HR & Compliance
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SUMMARY:Strategic HR Certificate: From Practitioner to Business Partner
DESCRIPTION:HR & Compliance \nDecember 1 – December 17\, 2026 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeDecember 1 – December 17\, 20269:00 AM ET start\nPrice$1399Member · Non-member: $1759\nFacilitatorCatapult HR Specialists\nSeats28 seats28 available\n\n\n\nMove from running HR processes to shaping business decisions.  \n \nThe jump from running HR to partnering on the business is the one most generalists feel but few get trained for. The Strategic HR Certificate builds the judgment for it. It is built for mid-career HR practitioners and managers who have the fundamentals down and are ready to advise leaders\, work from data\, and shape more inclusive\, scalable practices. The certificate covers business acumen\, employee relations and triage\, people analytics\, workplace culture\, and the metrics that move the business\, with two electives on coaching managers and building a one-page business case. Participants head back to work ready to partner with leaders and bring a people lens to real business decisions. \n \nCertificate Snapshot \nInstructor-Led | 15 hours core\, plus two 3-hour electives | In-Person or Virtual \n \nCourses \n \n\nHR Strategy & Business Acumen (3 hours) \nEmployee Relations & Triage (3 hours) \nPeople Analytics for Small Teams (3 hours) \nWorkplace Culture & Belonging (3 hours) \nHR Metrics That Matter (3 hours) \nCoaching Managers Lab (3 hours\, elective) Optional course not required for certificate completion and must be registered for separately.\nThe 1-Page HR Business Case (3 hours\, elective) Optional course not required for certificate completion and must be registered for separately.\n\nWant the complete experience? Register for Strategic HR Certificate PLUS: From Practitioner to Business Partner to attend the full certificate series\, including the Coaching Managers Lab and The 1-Page HR Business Case electives. No separate elective registration is needed with the PLUS option. \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/strategic-hr-certificate-from-practitioner-to-business-partner-2026-12-01/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
CATEGORIES:HR & Compliance
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SUMMARY:Fundamentals of Supervision Certificate Program
DESCRIPTION:Leadership & Management \nDecember 15 – December 17\, 2026 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeDecember 15 – December 17\, 20269:00 AM ET start\nPrice$699\nFacilitatorElaine Durrman\nSeats24 seats22 available\nCredits16.5 HRCI · 16.5 SHRM PDC\n\n\n\nSix modules. Everything a new supervisor needs to lead well. \n \nSupervision covers a lot of ground — and most of it gets learned on the job. The Fundamentals of Supervision Certificate is for new supervisors and those ready to formalize what experience has taught them. From setting expectations and delivering feedback to motivating a team\, managing performance\, and delegating work effectively — the full scope of first-line leadership is covered. They'll head back to work with a practical framework and tools they can put to use immediately. \n \nParticipants leave ready to… \n\nSet expectations with a new employee and spell out exactly what success looks like\nSit down with an employee and give feedback tied to a specific moment\nWork through a team problem and land on the root cause\nCreate the conditions where each team member's motivation can take hold\nWalk an employee through a performance conversation with a clear plan\nHand off a piece of work with clear parameters and full ownership\n\nCertificate Snapshot \nInstructor-led program (3 days / 18 hours)\, in-person or virtual.  \n \nModules \n\nEffective Supervision — Establishes the supervisory role\, key leadership styles and power types\, and how the balance between tasks and people shapes team performance.\nCommunicating Effectively — Builds core supervisor communication skills\, including active listening\, channel selection\, coaching\, feedback\, and leading productive team meetings.\nProblem Solving — Introduces a five-step problem-solving process\, key analysis tools\, and practical decision-making strategies.\nMotivating Your Employees — Translates major motivation theories into simple strategies to create environments where team members find their own drive\, addressing both “can’t do” and “won’t do” patterns.\nManaging Performance — Walks through the full performance cycle: setting SMART goals\, conducting evaluations\, handling tough conversations\, documenting effectively\, and using progressive discipline when needed.\nDelegating the Work — Builds supervisors’ time-management and delegation skills\, using the Eisenhower Matrix and a step-by-step process to hand off work and overcome barriers to letting go.\n\nWhere This Fits \nThis is the foundational certificate in Catapult’s management and leadership series\, The Management Advantage\, built for new supervisors and those ready to formalize what experience has taught them. The Relational Leader Certificate (Advanced Management I) is the natural next step when they’re ready to go deeper on the people side of leadership — feedback\, coaching\, difficult conversations\, and building inclusive teams. \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/fundamentals-of-supervision-certificate-program-9/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
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SUMMARY:The 1-Page HR Business Case
DESCRIPTION:HR & Compliance \nThursday\, December 17\, 2026 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeThursday\, December 17\, 20269:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET\nPrice$309Member · Non-member: $390\nFacilitatorCindy Satter\nSeats24 seats23 available\nCredits2.5 HRCI · 2.5 SHRM PDC\n\n\n\nHow to build a one-page HR business case a CFO will actually read and act on. \nThe course covers speaking the executive's language\, putting a defensible dollar figure on a problem like turnover or a manager-development investment\, and pressure-testing the case so finance engages with it. Participants may submit a finished case to a Catapult HR Advisor for feedback after the course.  \n \nWho should attend:  \nHR practitioners and managers who need to secure budget or buy-in in the executive's language. \n \nParticipants leave ready to:  \n\nWalk into a CFO's office with a one-page case the CFO will read \nCatch the impulse to argue HR-to-HR and reframe it in leadership's language \nPut a defensible dollar number on a turnover or manager-development problem \nHear "there's no budget for that" as a prompt to come back restructured \nSubmit a real business case to a Catapult HR Advisor for review and calibration\n\n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/the-1-page-hr-business-case-2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
CATEGORIES:HR & Compliance
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SUMMARY:MS Excel Level 3
DESCRIPTION:Technology & Digital Skills \nThursday\, December 17\, 2026 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeThursday\, December 17\, 20269:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET\nPrice$339\nFacilitatorKen Worthy\nSeats10 seats10 available\n\n\n\nThis Excel course is a day of finding ways to save time and energy digging into your data to get the desired result. You will be introduced to various functions that will quickly condense substantial amounts of data through a Pivot Table\, pull out specific data through VLOOKUPs\, conditional and logical functions\, and save time through macros\, data validation\, and more. This class is a segue into our more focused courses for individual advanced Excel topics.   \n \nPrerequisites: The course requires that you have successfully completed Excel I and II (or had more than six months using the software and are familiar with the concepts presented in Excel I and II). \n \nContents: \n\nLogical functions \nConditional functions \nFinancial functions \nText functions \nDate functions \nLookup functions \nData Validation \nPivotTables \nRunning and recording a macro \n\nNote: This course will be taught using the windows operating system environment \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/ms-excel-level-3-december-17-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
CATEGORIES:Technology & Digital Skills
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SUMMARY:MS Excel Level 3
DESCRIPTION:Technology & Digital Skills \nThursday\, December 17\, 2026 · In Person · Charlotte \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatIn Person\nLocationCharlotte\nDate & TimeThursday\, December 17\, 20269:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET\nPrice$339\nFacilitatorKen Worthy\nSeats10 seats9 available\n\n\n\nThis Excel course is a day of finding ways to save time and energy digging into your data to get the desired result. You will be introduced to various functions that will quickly condense substantial amounts of data through a Pivot Table\, pull out specific data through VLOOKUPs\, conditional and logical functions\, and save time through macros\, data validation\, and more. This class is a segue into our more focused courses for individual advanced Excel topics.   \n \nPrerequisites: The course requires that you have successfully completed Excel I and II (or had more than six months using the software and are familiar with the concepts presented in Excel I and II). \n \nContents: \n\nLogical functions \nConditional functions \nFinancial functions \nText functions \nDate functions \nLookup functions \nData Validation \nPivotTables \nRunning and recording a macro \n\nNote: This course will be taught using the windows operating system environment \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/ms-excel-level-3-december-17-2026-9h/
LOCATION:Catapult – Charlotte\, 9140 Arrowpoint Blvd.\, Suite 140\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28273\, United States
CATEGORIES:Technology & Digital Skills
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SUMMARY:FMLA in Action: A Practical Approach
DESCRIPTION:HR & Compliance \nTuesday\, January 26\, 2027 · Virtual Live \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatVirtual Live\nLocationVirtual Live (Online)\nDate & TimeTuesday\, January 26\, 20279:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET\nPrice$269Member · Non-member: $339\nFacilitatorStephanie Dillon\nSeats26 seats25 available\nCredits2.75 HRCI · 2.75 SHRM PDC\n\n\n\nAdministering FMLA takes time and effort; but getting it right can save you legal headaches and fees. This course discusses the foundation for FMLA\, and also takes a deep dive into what it means for your organization on a day-to-day basis. This course is interactive. It encourages dialogue and includes breakout activities to help you better understand and apply FMLA in your workplace.  \n \nWho Should Attend \nThose designated with administering and overseeing FMLA processes and procedures within your organization.   \n \nLearning Objectives \nAt the end of the course you will be able to: \n\nUnderstand the basics of FMLA; including employee eligibility\, and covered leave reasons \nBe able to define serious health conditions under FMLA \nDefine and understand the intent and practical implications of job reinstatement \nDiscuss strategies for combatting perceived FMLA abuse  \nUnderstand the required notices and rules around medical certifications  \nAbility to communicate with leaders what to look out for regarding employee absences and when they need to contact the leave administrator \n\n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/fmla-in-action-a-practical-approach-2026-11-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Live (Online)
CATEGORIES:HR & Compliance
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SUMMARY:2027 Leadership and HR Conference: Leading in the Fast Lane
DESCRIPTION:HR & Compliance \nApril 20 – April 21\, 2027 · In Person · Charlotte \n\nRegister Now → \n\n\nCourse Details \n\nFormatIn Person\nLocationCharlotte\nDate & TimeApril 20 – April 21\, 20278:00 AM ET start\nPrice$619Member · Non-member: $749\nFacilitatorCatapult HR Specialists\nSeats500 seats472 available\n\n\n\nNavigating People\, Pressure\, and Performance Through Change \n  \nThe business landscape is shifting faster than ever — and whether you're leading an organization or running HR operations\, the pressure to keep pace while planning ahead has never been greater. The 2027 Leadership & HR Conference brings together HR professionals and senior leaders for an expanded experience designed to meet the demands of this moment\, where technology\, workforce transformation\, and evolving roles are rewriting the rules for everyone. \n \nThrough hands-on workshops and industry-leading speakers\, you'll walk away with the practical tools\, strategies\, and perspective to navigate complexity\, align your teams\, and drive performance through change — not just ideas to sit on\, but approaches you can apply immediately. \n \nKick off the conference at Charlotte Motor Speedway\, then spend two days building the clarity and confidence to lead — no matter how fast the race gets. \n \nQuestions? Email the Events Team at meeting@letscatapult.org. \n\n\nReady to Advance Your Career?\nJoin professionals across the Carolinas who trust Catapult for professional development. \nRegister Now →\n​
URL:https://letscatapult.org/event/2027-leadership-and-hr-conference-leading-in-the-fast-lane-2027-04-20/
LOCATION:Catapult – Charlotte\, 9140 Arrowpoint Blvd.\, Suite 140\, Charlotte\, NC\, 28273\, United States
CATEGORIES:HR & Compliance
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