Morning Keynote:  Art Jackson - Performance Maximizing Leadership: How to Lead So Followers Maximize Their Potential

21st century leaders need processes and tools to establish and continually adapt their covenant with their people and their specific expectations of one another.

With the pace and intensity of business there is a vast difference between 'good' performance and "manifesting greatness" which produces consistently superior business & financial results. Front-line supervisors in today's flatter organizations play an increasingly important role in communicating vision, setting clear expectations, and eliciting innovation from everyone.

This presentation teaches time tested processes and methods that allows leadership (from senior executives to individuals) to re-think their strategies, tactics and get the very best out of their followers.

"Rarely will team members rise higher than the standard set by the team leader. As I often share with my audiences, team members pay more attention to what the leader does than what the leader says. Ideally, there is congruence between the words and the action of the leaders. Wherever there is incongruence, followers choose to believe actions."
Mark Sanborn

Breakout Session 1

1-A HIPAA New Developments, Cynthia Van Bogaert

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy continues to evolve. This session will cover the latest in regulations, laws, and enforcement in HIPAA privacy for your employer group health plans. Do you know what's new? Learn the status of and how to plan for new HITECH regulations, Health Care Reform changes that affect HIPAA privacy, new developments in breach notification, increases in Business Associate responsibilities, new types of Business Associates, increased rights for participants, new marketing limits and opt out for participants, new electronic health record restrictions, changes in the minimum necessary rule, and more. We'll cover any late breaking HIPAA privacy developments as of the date of the seminar.

Attendees of this session will:
• Gain valuable information about HIPAA privacy compliance.
• Learn HIPAA privacy compliance changes.
• Learn from specific examples of HIPAA compliance.

 

1-B Warp Speed Your Wellness Program by Changing Corporate Culture, Pat Barone

Today, employers find themselves navigating choppy waters amid an erratic economy and healthcare regulation. Whether your company's wellness program needs tweaking or launching, the quickest way to influence employees' health is through changing corporate culture. In a time when waistlines are expanding and bottom lines are shrinking, stress can run rampant and carry a company into higher insurance rates, greater absenteeism, and low employee morale. Join GMA SHRM for an interactive workshop led by internationally known health/wellness coach Pat Barone and use your corporate wellness culture to positively impact your company's bottom line.
 

1-C Why You Need to Transform Your Recruiting in 2011, Tom Steele

Making sense of Social Media and Networks. Technology is rapidly changing which is drastically changing the way candidates look for jobs and engage with employers. Unfortunately many of us are not keeping pace.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:
1. Transform your recruitment marketing strategies to Recruit Better candidates
2. Build a Talent Community and get the best advice on Social Recruiting
3. Maximize how you spend your recruiting dollars and allow you to focus on the strategies that most effectively drive down your cost per hire
 

Afternoon Keynote:  Seth Mattison - The M-Factor: How the Millennial Generation is Rocking the Workplace

American business is being rocked by the arrival of a new and powerful generation entering the workplace. Millennials (born 1982 to 2000)—the first generation to rival the Baby Boom in size—are already entering high school, trade school and college and are poised to flood the work force over the next two decades. Passionate and practical, they will bring their own set of work attitudes, expectations, and values to the workplace. How prepared will Xers, Boomers and Traditionalists be to manage them?

BridgeWorks recently fielded a national survey in partnership with i4cp (Institute for Corporate Productivity) on the attitudes and behaviors of the Millennial generation. The survey included Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, and Generation Xers to shed light on how all four generations look at the world. In addition, BridgeWorks conducted hundreds of one-on-one interviews with Millennials across the country. This research, known as MOR—Millennials on Record—tells the stories behind the stats.

This speech offers strategies for recruiting, retaining and motivating this influential new work force. Companies that are forewarned and forearmed will reap the rewards of the Millennial generation’s talents, ambition and pragmatic approach to the world of work.

The M-Factor will:

1 Use key findings from the i4cp survey and MOR (Millennials on Record) to identify where generation gaps are likely to occur in today’s workplace and marketplace.
2 Teach how recruitment strategies for organizations must be adapted to attract Millennials while still engaging the other generations.
3 Provide solutions for bridging the biggest gaps that are likely to occur within companies today.
 

Breakout Session 2

2-A Coaching Skills for HR Professionals, Kate Adametz

HR Professionals perform many roles. One of the most important, but maybe not always obvious is that of ‘Coach’ for leaders, staff and peers alike. This presentation is designed to highlight how employing specific soft skills used by professional coaches can add to your professional skill set, or rejuvenate your current skills allowing you to add even more value to your work group, direct reports, internal customers and organization as a whole. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of what coaching is, how it can enhance their own professional development and the development of those around them, and learn tools to add or expand upon their own personal skill repertoire.  

Professional coaching as an employment benefit is gaining momentum in organizations as a powerful and customized development resource and tool. This session provides education and tactical training on how coaching skills can be applied to the work that HR professionals do specifically.

Session Deliverables:

• Define coaching and its benefits
• Describe application for HR Professional
• Learn & practice specific coaching skills such as:

• Powerful Questions to Create Learning
• Acknowledgment to Reinforce Behaviors
• Effective Feedback to Reflect back
• Creating Structure to Support Goal Achievement
 

2-B Who's to Blame? HR's role in mending the organizational "fault" line, Dan Linssen

1. Understand the sources of blame, so you can be alert for their presence.
2. Understand why blame is both irrational and destructive, so you can teach others.
3. Understand how to reduce blame, so you can minimize its impact on your organization.

2-C Employment Law Update, Jennifer Mirus

It’s a new year, and our legislatures, agencies and courts have been busy in the world of Human Resources! From social media, new recordkeeping requirements and GINA II, to the retaliation litigation boom and the possible “federalization” of the Wisconsin FMLA (can this be true???), there are many key developments about which you need to be aware.

Don’t miss this chance to get up to speed on the latest statutes, regulations, court decisions and best practices—you’ll be glad you did!

The session is designed to provide an overview of the current landscape of labor and employment laws and give practical tips on how best to position your organization to deal with recent and anticipated changes in workplace laws.
 

Breakout Session 3

3-A We Have to Start Meeting Like This, Jeff Russell 

Meetings are a fundamental fact in the life of every HR professional. Whether it’s your weekly staff meeting, or that special project team you’re heading up, or your monthly management meeting that you sometimes chair, meetings take up a lot of your time. It is through meetings that we receive and give information, deliberate issues, air our concerns, offer suggestions, explore opportunities, and make decisions. But, too often, our meetings drift, are unfocused, and lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. This session offers useful tools to HR professional who want to become meeting masters!

Some of the topics to be covered during this session include:
• Developing an outcome-based agenda.
• The roles of the leader/facilitator and participants.
• Tools and strategies for keeping the meeting on track.
• Ideas for dealing with counterproductive and disruptive behaviors.
 

3-B Valuing Human Capital on the Balance Sheet, Cathy Welsh

With the changing economy, CEOs are looking for many different ways to show return on investment. When they look at the balance sheet many business assets can be found, but we rarely will find the most expensive asset Human Capital. When a machine is broken it is fixed or replaced.
When computers and their systems become obsolete they are upgraded. Both typically receive routine maintenance. Why don’t we take care of the people behind the productivity the same way? What type of affect does this have on the balance sheet?

In this session we will discuss:
• What is the CEO expecting from the HR department?
• What is the real cost of maintaining Human Capital?
• How to look at human resources like other expenses on the balance sheets?
• What are the signs of an unengaged team or team member; and how does it impact the business?
• Best practices and lessons learned in maintaining Human Capital.

 

3-C Employment Law Update, Jennifer Mirus
 
It’s a new year, and our legislatures, agencies and courts have been busy in the world of Human Resources! From social media, new recordkeeping requirements and GINA II, to the retaliation litigation boom and the possible “federalization” of the Wisconsin FMLA (can this be true???), there are many key developments about which you need to be aware.

Don’t miss this chance to get up to speed on the latest statutes, regulations, court decisions and best practices—you’ll be glad you did!

The session is designed to provide an overview of the current landscape of labor and employment laws and give practical tips on how best to position your organization to deal with recent and anticipated changes in workplace laws.