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Sam Wilkins, Director
1201 Main Street
Suite 800
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 737-0900


The HRPD program has been redesigned, based on customer feedback, to enhance learning and improve HR staff knowledge and capabilities. Program changes encompass the following:

  • The program is designed to be completed in its entirety — learning is maximized when cohort groups share information, borrow off each others' experience and form a network. In addition, program topics are sequenced and integrated to promote knowledge retention and the connection between HR components.


  • Program content has been updated to incorporate current issues and is organized into three broad content areas: The HR Big Picture, which includes sessions like Ethics and HR; HR Functions, which includes Employee Relations and other topics; and HR Accountability, which includes HR Metrics. Some of the sessions have been consolidated and a new session, Job Analysis, has been added.


  • A blended learning approach has been implemented to include online pre-work and application activities where appropriate. In addition HR agency representatives/subject matter experts will be used to describe real examples of innovative practices.


  • Program Goals include:

  • Serving as a succession pool development strategy for state government's HR community


  • Broadening participants' HR knowledge base and developing leadership potential


  • Creating a network that shares "best practices" among agencies' HR functions


  • Challenging participants to think strategically and act as a business partner to support their agencies' respective missions


  • HRPD Information
  • 2009 HRPD Schedule Adobe Acrobat

  • 2009 HRPD Course Summary Adobe Acrobat

  • 2009 HRPD Program Requirements for Certification Adobe Acrobat

  • HRPD Application

  • HRPD Recipients



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