April 6, 2011

SHRP Programs Committee Meeting

Holland & Knight

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Attendees:

  1. Tammy Cowser, Director
  2. O’Brien McMahon
  3. Phil Schreiber
  4. Lew Jacobson
  5. Shelly Nelson
  6. Amy Brennan
  7. Courtney Pike
  8. Kathleen Seebert
  9. Christine Carter-Eggers
  10. Debi Lusk (Phone)
  11. Beth Williams
  12. Greg Boswell
  13. Suzie Rybicki (new member)
  14. Paul Salasky
  15. Kim Miggenburg, SHRP HQ
  • April 13 Full Day Conference:
  • Just approved for 6 hours (entire conference) strategic recertification credit hours
  • Voice Shot sent out last night to 182 SPHR Certified members in our data base telling them about this development and encouraging them to attend the conference
  • 68 attendees to date – need/want 100
  • Need greeters in the morning
  • Need three session hosts for the one breakout session at 12:45 – 2:15
  • O’Brien will host the session he put together
  • Kathleen will host the Talent and Performance Management Session (Taleo)
  • Beth Williams will host the Retaining Talent as the Economy Recovers (BPI)
  • Networking event afterwards should be promoted as well
  • Kim to remind board to attend that if not the entire day
  • Education Outlook for remainder of year
  • Tammy indicated that in addition to our normal calendar that we are working on we have added a possible workshop (see below) in June, September and October and a SHRM Legislative Update that they will provide to us as a membership recruitment effort.
  • Additionally, we3’d like to see some roundtables developed this year and most certainly next year on a regular basis.
  • The evaluations and success of each roundtable could feed into further developing the topic and/or speaker into a session, stand alone event or workshop.
  • Tammy is working on a flow chart to put together the process to mine for speakers.
  • She will also suggest wording for an evaluation process and questions to ask the speaker.
  • Once this is done, we’ll get the proper people in place to conduct interviews.
  • We have sources to pull from:
  • Our sponsors
  • Submissions
  • Our network
  • Draft of remainder of 2011:
  • May 11: Rethinking the RFP (O’Brien)
  • June 8: HR Development (Greg) – normal monthly meeting – 65 people
  • Possible Workshop added June 21, 22 or 23 (35 people – ½ day probably morning))
  • July 21: Networking Event with SMAGC (Zed451)
  • Possible July Addition: SHRM Legislative Update/Membership Recruitment (200 people classroom style)
  • August 10: Legal Update – Privacy in the Workplace (1/2 day legal update – 65-70 people)
  • Sept 22: Cocktails and Connections
  • Possible Workshop added earlier in month
  • Oct 5: Engagement - Motivation Show (Greg)
  • Possible Workshop added later in October (35 people – ½ day to 1 day – maybe 2 but doubtful)
  • Nov 9– Full Day Conference – we have space I believe at the Federal Reserve
  • Dec 1 – Networking Event
  • Additionally, we’re probably going to add some roundtable discussions this year – not many – but maybe 2 – so we’d need a room for maybe 15/20 people Workshops:
  • Successful workshop is probably 35 people – we would settle for 15-20 if need be
  • Christine and her committee talked to Lawrence about his On-Boarding (he will not charge us to conduct this workshop) and should be ready to go by one of the suggested dates in June.
  • Action Item: Kim will ask Lawrence which date is might work for him: June 21, 22 or 23
  • Action Item: Kim will work on securing space for the workshop once date is determined
  • Action Item: Kim will work with Christine on pricing and getting marketing piece together for distribution.
  • Webinars
  • Tammy indicated that we would like to have some Webinars – these may come totally from partnerships with sponsors
  • Roundtables
  • Tammy reported that we have two sites being offered to hold facilitated roundtables
  • These should just stimulate conversation – be facilitated – nothing formal
  • Possible good topics would be directed at HR101/office of one/not-for-profit sector
  • Aligning IAT with HR (Nov or Roundtable)
  • These could be a subset of programs and work their way up to sessions, stand alone and workshops
  • Would like to plan 2-4 in 2012
  • Christine feels that her Workshops committee should take these on to help develop them.
  • November 9 Full Day Conference Discussion:
  • Paul Salasky reported that we have a good connection with Gallup. They are willing to speak to many different subjects, fly a speaker in, provide an author and free books, align the topic with our theme or visa versa
  • Kathleen Seebert mentioned that this might be a good place to align with some of the big schools. She will pursue her contacts with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
  • Possible theme: Performance Management
  • What the CEO wants you to know as a HR professional (possible theme for November)
  • HR Metrics and aligning to Business (Christine)
  • Aligning IAT with HR (Nov or Roundtable)
  • Suzie Rabicki has a contact with Franklin Covey and they could present a subject matter expert from any of their four business disciplines and perhaps bring someone from Marriott Hotels, one of their big clients
  • Beth discussed that Laura McAdams could speak Operations (possible workshop rather than November)
  • Action Item: Inasmuch as Laura spoke to SHRP before Kim will pull the evaluations and depending on those, we might pursue this further.
  • Action Item: All committee members should further develop the ideas we discussed today or suggest more, in detail if possible, to Tammy () and Kim ()
  • Further program subject matters discussed
  • Finance 101 – How do HR people understand financial value
  • What the CEO wants you to know as a HR professional (possible theme for November)
  • University and CFO presentation – together
  • Developments in IT (Lew suggested – HRMAC does this)
  • IT Conference is in LasVegas this year – not Chicago – maybe we could get a lot of people
  • Insurance/Benefits
  • October 5th Motivation Show Event
  • Greg Boswell reported that we have aligned with the Motivation Show at their invitation to hold a program at the show.
  • Motivation show will provide
  • space
  • food (we believe)
  • pay for parking, transportation
  • Free admission to exhibit hall
  • Have our program as part of their offerings
  • It was agreed that we will do that rather than just advertise to our audience only
  • If attendees are from out of state, it might lead to interest from sponsors and perhaps HR people from local offices
  • Agreed that the time should most likely be mid day
  • Visit exhibit hall that closed at 5:00 first or attend luncheon program first then go to motivation show
  • NOTE: We did not discuss pricing structure
  • Greg has lined up speaker Michelle Smith who is well known within the incentive industry and has national connections
  • Action Item: Kim and Greg are scheduled to talk to Motivation Show organizers on Friday to start working out details and then will get the marketing parts of this set into motion.
  • August Legal Update:
  • Phil reported that while his committee has not met yet, he’s thinking of proposing presentations on privacy in the workplace.
  • It was agreed that this is a wide area of subjects and should be of great interest to our members.
  • Action Item: Phil to get general information to HQ as soon as he can so this can get posted and advertised.
  • Possible Series suggestions:
  • Top 20 Chicago Companies- How does your company become one
  • Courtney Hunt and Amy Brennan will work on this
  • Senior Level Series: - Chief HR Roundtable Series
  • High level, very strategic
  • Jimmy English, Think Tank
  • Approach chief HR officers and see what they want from HR
  • Suggest that we talk to Jackie Gordon, Senior HR person at YMCA and new board member
  • How to develop as an HR Generalists – from specializing in an area
  • Lew suggested
  • Debi Lusk reported that we have an affiliation with NIU to conduct HRCI preparation classes and they are asking to survey our members to find out more about when they want to attend the classes – time, location, preferred dates, etc.
  • Action Item: Kim and Debi to talk at 12:00 today
  • Misc:
  • Amy has possible roundtable and workshop space for us to use.
  • Action Item: Kim to follow up with Amy
  • Action Item: Kim to follow up with Christine to follow through with possible benefits to a workshop speaker donating his time for a workshop
  • Shelli and Christine are informally merging their efforts into one committee

Next Meeting

May 4, 2011 - 8:00-9:00 a.m. - Holland & Knight, 131 S. Dearborn, 30th Floor.