Indiana State Council of SHRM : Conference

Program Grid

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2008 Indiana State SHRM Conference Master Schedule

Monday, August 27, 2008
7:00 am	Registration Begins
9:00 - 11:30 am	Pre-conference workshop – "HR Strategies for the New Millennium" -- Steve Miranda, SHRM National followed by "State of the Profession: HR's Strategy in Indiana, Betty Lonis, SPHR, State Council Director
11:30 - 1:00 pm	Lunch on your own
1:00 - 5:00 pm	Welcome/Official Conference Opening – Everything Legal – Ken Yerkes, Barnes and Thornburg The landscape keeps changing, thanks to new laws, legislatures, activist courts and unions. You want legal advice? We have it. An annual highlight of the Conference, Ken Yerkes will bring a team of experts from Barnes and Thornburg to the podium again in 2008. Come for a fast-paced overview of the significant legal issues facing organizations today and get an update on current events. Ken and his team always deliver an interactive program of outstanding content and supporting materials for the attendees. It's a great session to get the conference started!
5:00 - 7:00 pm	Reception– at the Westin. Included in your conference fee.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
7:00 - 8:15 am	Continental Breakfast, registration lobby.
7:30 - 8:10 am	"Jump Start" Session – Insider tips on how to get the most from your conference, especially useful for first-time attendees.
8:15 - 9:30 am	General Session and Day Two Keynote – Internationally known speaker, author and consultant, Simon T. Bailey
9:30 am- 3:45 pm	Exhibitor Hall Marketplace open
Tracks	Strategic Management 1	Strategic Management 2	Workforce Planning and Employment		Human Resource Development	Total Rewards		Employee and Labor Relations	Legal Issues and Risk Management
Concurrent 1 10:15 - 11:30 am	Strategic HR in Resource Constrained Organizations. Ellen Poffenberger,Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, IUPUI; Joyce Schooley, Director of Human Resources at Indiana Blood Center; Marva Stanford, Chief Field Operations Officer, The National Arthritis Foundation. Finding, keeping, and motivating employees are goals of any workplace, yet is especially challenging for HR leaders in resource constrained environments. Hear some of the leadership strategies, change management approaches, consulting skills, and employee engagement tactics from 3 dynamic leaders representing organizations that aren’t exactly lined with deep pockets.	Igniting Gen B & Gen V: The New Rules of Strategic Engagement. Nancy Ahlrichs, SPHR, Vice President of Workforce Development & Diversity, United Way of Central Indiana. Keeping employees engaged--yes, even those no longer considered "up and comers"--is the next phase of strategic talent management. This information-packed session will focus on the research, strategic questions, and other tools needed to garner support and commitment from senior management on making engagement of Gen B and Gen V an organizational priority.	Screening Candidates Effectively Using Pre-Employment Assessments. Jocelyn Courtney, Consultant at pan, a TALX Company. As technology advances, recruiters and hiring managers are increasingly faced with large applicant pools. Given the importance of high quality hires and the ongoing war for talent, it is critical to evaluate candidates in an effective and efficient manner. Pre-employment assessments are used to screen out lower potential candidates and gather detailed information about high potential candidates. This session will focus on understanding pre-employment assessments and how to critically evaluate them.		Training for a Culture of Service Excellence. Varner Story, Sales and Service Development Manager at Marriott Employees Federal Credit Union; Wendy Danbury, Manager of Human Resources at Partners Federal Credit Union (a Disney Organization). Employees are a company’s principal resource in competitively differentiating products and services in a crowded marketplace. Learn strategies that HR and training professionals from Marriott and Disney use to assess, design, develop, implement, and evaluate employee learning that aligns with and contributes to a culture of service excellence.	Updating Your Compensation Programs. Debi Mueller, Vice President-Consulting at HR Dimensions. This session will address best practices in compensation and explore the links to business strategies that will be needed to ensure alignment to productivity and pay for performance. The components of compensation will be examined and mini-case studies reviewed to determine the possible changes that can occur in order to improve business results.		A Counseling Approach to HR Practices and Employee Relations. Pam Goedde and Jeff Stucke. Dealing with complex employer-employee issues can often seem like balancing on a legal and emotional tightrope. Learn how HR professionals can help managers and employees alike foster enhanced relationships at work. Using a counseling approach to HR practices and employee relations, find out tips, techniques, and interventions that can be used to resolve issues, improve communication, behave ethically, and perform effectively.	Legal Update. Ken Yerkes, Barnes and Thornburg. It's one thing to know the "law", it's another to know what it means in order for you and your organiziation to manage risk on a daily basis. Ken will focus on the most important legal developments in 2008 and highlight strategies on how you can manage around the pitfalls. Come join Ken as he shares his strategic roadmap with our members.
11:30 am- 1:30 pm	Box lunches available in the Marketplace. The Marketplace is open until 3:45 with more than 100 exhibitors. The SHRM bookstore and Internet café are also open.
Concurrent 2 1:30 pm- 2:45 pm	Strategic HR in Resource Constrained Organizations. (repeat of concurrent 1)	Igniting Gen B & Gen V: The New Rules of Strategic Engagement. (repeat of concurrent 1)	Screening Candidates Effectively Using Pre-Employment Assessments. (repeat of concurrent 1)	Training for a Culture of Service Excellence. (repeat of concurrent 1)		Updating Your Compensation Programs. (repeat of concurrent 1)	A Counseling Approach to HR Practices and Employee Relations. (repeat of concurrent 1)		Legal Update. (repeat of concurrent 1)
2:45 - 3:45 pm	Exhibit Hall Marketplace – Door prize drawings will be done by individual vendors starting around 3:15, and the Marketplace closes at 3:45, then back to the concurrent sessions.
4:00 - 5:00 pm	General Session – Teresa Linn Voors, Commissioner of Workforce Development, State of Indiana.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
7:30 - 8:30 am	Continental Breakfast in the registration lobby
7:30 - 8:30 am	“Rise 'n shine” Keynote session – Retention, Engagement, and Performance: Strategic Directions, Practical Choices Marc Drizin, Founder and Chief Instigator, Employee Hold'Em Get up early and hear the latest trends, forecasts, and data on finding, keeping, and motivating employee talent. Marc's back to present findings from his latest national research and information from his most recent book, A Manager's Guide to Workforce Engagement. This strategic-level update is a must for HR decision-makers, and will be useful for 2009 planning and human capital management initiatives.
Concurrent 3 8:30 - 9:45 am	Learning from the Mistakes of Others - Aligning Your Strategy with New Metrics. Karl Ahlrichs. The rules are changing. The strategic HR function is becoming more firmly aligned with Finance and Operations, yet HR is often using outdated values and metrics and wondering why we aren't being taken seriously. In this fast paced session, we rethink HR's strategic alignment with the bottom line and learn new vocabulary from the front lines of finance and operations. We will refocus strategic direction, define "next practices" and "next values" that will get the attention of the CFO/COO/CEO and reshape the language of success.	Successfully Managing Strategic HR Initiatives. Krista F. Skidmore, President, FlashPoint. Have you felt helpless or stuck when trying to implement a strategic HR initiative? Not sure how to start or worried that when you do you won't have the support necessary to ensure success? Back by popular demand, this interactive session will feature a case study of how one of your peers achieved organization-wide change and positive bottom-line impact. Krista will present results achieved, lessons learned, critical success factors, and other practical tips, leaving you reenergized and inspired to transform your next strategic HR initiative.	Partnerships-Tomorrow's Key to Successful Workforce Development. Darrell Curson, John Stephens, Greg Rippberger, Rueben Lidstar. Life sciences have become one of the mainstays of Indiana's growth. The Bloomington area is transitioning its workforce from existing technology into more advanced skill sets, allowing future employees to adapt to new technologies and the advancement of their careers. Ivy Tech Community College, local life science industries and agencies such as the Regional Workforce Board, WorkOne, and others are implementing programs that develop these skill sets in the ever advancing life science occupation fields.		Transitioning to 21st Century Career Development. Rosemary Jordan, Associate HR Career Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company. Learn how this Fortune 500 Company transitioned from a Corporate Career Center to a Career Center Online to better meet the needs of today's workforce: global, diverse in every sense of the word, and working in non-traditional settings including field-based. The goal was to give more employees direct access to career resources that would enable better career conversations between employees and supervisors.	Wellness Programs for Employees: Choices, Challenges, and Changes. Patricia Edwards, Director of Benefits, and a Panel of Colleagues, Community Health Network. Wellness matters – to organizations, employees, and communities. This session will showcase a case study of one large employer's experience with the design, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive wellness program for employees. Learn successful strategies, pitfalls-to-avoid, and practical tips on the choices, challenges, and changes involved in creating awareness, developing solutions, providing support, and determining metrics supporting wellness initiatives.		10 Must-Have Employee Policies for Today's Changing Workforce. David Swider at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP. In the face of an ever-changing legal environment, there are several employee policies which most all businesses, public or private, corporate or non-profit, should have in place. Dave Swider of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP will present 10 of these must-have policies, including those policies related to Sarbanes-Oxley, wage-hour safe harbors, sexual orientation and gender identity policies, personal conduct and workplace civility protections, and recently enacted updates to leaves involved military personnel and their families.	Disaster Response - Up Close and Personal. Becky Peterson, Sommer and Barnard. April 2, 2005, is a date that will long be remembered by those employers and employees whose world were turned upside down following storm damage severe enough to temporarily shut down an entire 35-story Indianapolis office building. Learn how the law firm of Sommer Barnard successfully met the challenge of maintaining the integrity of their data and systems and how they created an environment of security for their people in the eye of the storm.
9:45 - 10:15 am	Break
Concurrent 4 10:15 - 11:30 am	Learning from the Mistakes of Others - Aligning Your Strategy with New Metrics. (repeat of concurrent 3)	Successfully Managing Strategic HR Initiatives. (repeat of concurrent 3)	Partnerships-Tomorrow's Key to Successful Workforce Development. (repeat of concurrent 3)		Transitioning to 21st Century Career Development. (repeat of concurrent 3)	Wellness Programs for Employees: Choices, Challenges, and Changes. (repeat of concurrent 3)		10 Must-Have Employee Policies for Today's Changing Workforce. (repeat of concurrent 3)	Disaster Response - Up Close and Personal. (repeat of concurrent 3)
11:30 am	Lunch is served in Grand Ballroom. Sit down. Relax. Eat! We're hosting a motivational closing banquet for you and hundreds of your friends.
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Awards Presntation and Closing Keynote -- Clint Swindall, Professional Speaker
2:00 -5:00 pm	Post-conference Legislative Summit

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007