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Rise and Shine Concurrent Sessions | SHRM Academy | Recertification Credits
Sessions:
Thursday | Friday | Saturday
Concurrent Sessions
 A variety of concurrent sessions are offered on each day of the conference. Session topics address staffing, performance management, recruitment and retention issues; and provide tools to enhance your knowledge and skills in the workplace.
New for 2006! The concurrent session programs have been divided into the following tracks to help you design a professional development experience that meets your unique learning needs! Concurrent Sessions
Track definitions are as follows:
Fundamentals: These sessions offer basic, practical information as well as tips and tools applicable to the workplace and especially for those who need an introductory level overview to the topics offered.
Strategies: Designed to provide more in-depth information, these sessions focus on issues and emerging policies that may have business and strategy implications for the workplace.
Resources to Complement Your Learning Experience!
 Information can be your most valued resource. Take concurrent sessions home with you on CD-ROM! Each conference registrant will receive one copy of the concurrent session presentations on compact disc in the conference packet you will receive at registration when you arrive at the conference. The CD-ROM includes important information about SHRM’s Employment services and products as well as live links to the Employment Forum Web site. It also includes information about exhibitors with links to their Web sites. Plus, if you choose to listen to the speaker while you look at the handouts, audio recordings of concurrent sessions are also available for purchase at the conference.
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Thursday, March 30
5 Keys to Successful Recruiting Leadership
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (Repeated Friday at 10:45 a.m.)
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session is designed to acquaint you with the keys, tips and tools to help you be successful as you lead your organization's recruiting efforts.
Join John Vlastelica for an informative and entertaining presentation on recruiting leadership.†He'll share practical skills, approaches and info you can use to play a stronger leadership role in your organization. He'll draw from 1) mistakes and successes he's made as a corporate recruiting leader with high-growth companies like Amazon.com and AT&T Wireless, 2) requests that recruiters and business leaders often make of their recruiting leaders, and 3) common denominator traits he sees in the best recruiting leaders he consults with.
You will learn:
- The keys to building, managing, motivating and retaining great recruiting teams.
- Five things you can do to partner with and engage your hiring managers and business leaders.
- How to actively manage your recruiting team's brand/reputation within your company.
- How to more credibly interact with and communicate with your business leaders so that you're seen as a leader, not a customer service rep.
- What you need to know about the recruiting landscape to make better recruiting plans, push back on bad ideas and get the resources you need.
Presenter: John Vlastelica, president, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc., Seattle, Wash.
Aligning a Changing Workforce with Your Business Goals
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (Repeated Friday at 1:45 p.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help organizations develop a process to align their changing workforce with the organization's business goals.
The old adage--the only constant is change--has never been more descriptive of the business world than today. Organizations are dealing with competition on a global scale, evolving technology and a workforce that is increasingly diverse in age, gender and ethnicity. Aligning this changing workforce with business goals can be a significant challenge. Will Ruch, managing partner and CEO of Versant, will provide keen insight on strategies that will help businesses maintain a competitive edge relative to their workforce initiatives.
Presenter: Will Ruch, managing partner and CEO, Versant, Milwaukee, Wis.
Hiring Individuals with Disabilities
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you recruit and retain disabled employees by examining and discussing recruitment techniques, legal obligations and the accommodation process.
Individuals with disabilities can make valuable contributions to your organization. However, many employers are at a loss as to how to recruit such employees and feel ill-equipped to accommodate such employees in the workplace. This session will provide employers with:
- Tips to effectively recruit such employees.
- What legal obligations employers have to accommodate individuals with disabilities in both the application process and on the job.
- Suggested methods of accommodation.
Presenter: Corrie L. Fischel, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C.
Moneyball for HR: The Illusion of Retention Strategies
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (Repeated Saturday at 11:15 a.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you understand the importance of linking employee survey results to other measures of performance and the business environment, by demonstrating the impact of linked research on strategies for employee effectiveness, engagement and retention.
Retention, long the Holy Grail of employee intervention strategies, has proven to be an elusive quest. Research linking exit interviews and other external variables to employee survey results provides important lessons about: the relative importance of engagement and satisfaction, the need to individualize efforts to strategic populations, and the need to prepare for turnover and even encourage turnover (not just fight against it) in controlling retention.
Presenter: Burgess Levin, managing principal, Strategic Services, HumanR, Herndon, Va.
Performance Appraisals, Coaching and Career Development Strategies for Engaging Employees
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (Repeated Friday at 3:30 p.m.)
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will prepare you to motivate employees and drive a higher level of performance by demonstrating industry best practices in performance appraisals, coaching and career development strategies.
Having a review once a year will not improve your team's performance, nor will it motivate employees. This session will discuss how to develop managers to give quality feedback to drive improved employee performance. This session will discuss essential coaching techniques and processes that will support employees who desire to achieve a higher level of performance. Finally, industry best practices in developing and retaining employees will be discussed.
Presenter: Kella B. Price, Ph.D., SPHR, HR and training consultant and CEO, Price Consulting Group, Newport, N.C.
This Job Board's Too Hot. This Job Board's Too Cold. This Job Board's Just Right!
Thursday, March 30, 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will reveal the best practices for quickly and cost-effectively finding top talent through the use of online job boards that champion quality over quantity.
With numerous online job boards available, anyone who wants to submit a rèsumè can do so quickly and at no cost -- so, why hasn't it become any easier for recruiters to find the right applicants quickly and cost-effectively? Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of TheLadders.com, will reveal the secrets of navigating the plethora of online job boards and the truth about what a recruiter's expectations should and should not be.
Presenter: Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO, TheLadders.com, New York, N.Y.
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Friday, March 31
5 Keys to Successful Recruiting Leadership
Friday, March 31, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session is designed to acquaint you with the keys, tips and tools to help you be successful as you lead your organization's recruiting efforts.
Join John Vlastelica for an informative and entertaining presentation on recruiting leadership.†He'll share practical skills, approaches and info you can use to play a stronger leadership role in your organization. He'll draw from 1) mistakes and successes he's made as a corporate recruiting leader with high-growth companies like Amazon.com and AT&T Wireless, 2) requests that recruiters and business leaders often make of their recruiting leaders, and 3) common denominator traits he sees in the best recruiting leaders he consults with.
You will learn:
- The keys to building, managing, motivating and retaining great recruiting teams.
- Five things you can do to partner with and engage your hiring managers and business leaders.
- How to actively manage your recruiting team's brand/reputation within your company.
- How to more credibly interact with and communicate with your business leaders so that you're seen as a leader, not a customer service rep.
- What you need to know about the recruiting landscape to make better recruiting plans, push back on bad ideas and get the resources you need.
Presenter: John Vlastelica, president, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc., Seattle, Wash.
Outsourcing the HR Function: How to Navigate Through the Human Resources Outsourcing Process
Friday, March 31, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: The audience will be able to leave more prepared to successfully understand the process for selection, negotiation and documentation of an outsourcing relation≠ship with a HR services provider.
This presentation provides an overview of best practices for those involved in strategic relationships or considering implementing human resources outsourc≠ing (HRO) programs from the customer perspective. Included is an overview of the structuring of human resource outsourcing relationships, including the key components of the outsourcing agreement and their interrelationships; the structured processes that help ensure a favorable negotiation outcomes; the selection of the best solution provider; suitable exit strategies; and best practices.
Presenter: Akiba Stern, Esq., partner, Global Outsourcing Group, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, N.Y.
Strategies for Capturing the Passive Job Seeker
Friday, March 31,, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: The primary objective of this session is to provide HR professionals with valuable tips and tools to effectively reach and recruit passive job seekers to support overall business objectives.
Using data from its latest worker survey, CareerBuilder.com reveals insights into how to reach the most elusive and sought after candidate: the passive job seeker. Passive job seekers tell all on where to find them, how to get their attention and what they consider immediate turnoffs when considering an employer's job posting. Incorporating real-life examples of companies that have been successful in appealing to this audience, the presenter provides a road map to an untapped talent pool.
Presenter: Matt Ferguson, president and CEO, CareerBuilder.com, Chicago, Ill.
Succession Planning for Retention
Friday, March 31, 10:45 a.m. - Noon (Repeated Friday at 3:30 p.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you to create an effective succession plan that ensures diverse leadership representation and provides your organization with the skills necessary to retain them.
In order to remain competitive in the 21st century, it is essential to have diverse leadership that is equipped with culturally competent qualities. Understanding how companies can create effective succession plans that can help retain culturally competent leaders that will lead inclusive and culturally diverse organizations will assist in obtaining organizational success.
Presenter: Doug Harris, leader and managing director, The Kaleidoscope Group, LLC, Chicago, Ill.
The ADA Doesn't Have to Mean Just Another Darned Aggravation
Friday, March 31,10:4 5 a.m. - Noon
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you prepare for changes in the workplace of today, by examining and discussing emerging human issues and experiences that every company/organization faces!
Disability is an uncomfortable topic for most people. Many people routinely push disability aside, not out of nastiness, but because of fear of the unknown. Eliminate that unknown and see how, with a positive attitude, you can let loose a tremendous force to increase your opportunities. Learn the difference between impact and intent and learn how to insure that your interactions, and the interactions of all employees, returning workers and returning veterans, are more easy, effective and efficient.
Presenter: Tim Daly, president, the Access Group, Inc., Columbia, Md.
Tips for Employing and Managing Older Workers
Friday, March 31, 10:45 a.m. - Noon
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: For organizations seeking to add older workers to their workforce, this session will provide tips to effectively attract, hire, man≠age and motivate this valued group of employees.
Older workers are valued for their maturity and institutionalized knowledge. For this reason and others, such as the fact that older workers are less absent from work due to illness than younger workers, many organizations are seeking to add these skilled employees to their workforce. Session attendees will learn tips for attracting and hiring older workers as well as tips for managing and motivating them, such as providing ample opportunities to teach and mentor.
Presenter: Jan Margolis, managing director and cofounder, Applied Research Corporation, Metuchen, N.J.
Aligning a Changing Workforce with Your Business Goals
Friday, March 31, 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help organizations develop a process to align their changing workforce with the organization's business goals.
The old adage--the only constant is change--has never been more descriptive of the business world than today. Organizations are dealing with competition on a global scale, evolving technology and a workforce that is increasingly diverse in age, gender and ethnicity. Aligning this changing workforce with business goals can be a significant challenge. Will Ruch, managing partner and CEO of Versant, will provide keen insight on strategies that will help businesses maintain a competitive edge relative to their workforce initiatives.
Presenter: Will Ruch, managing partner and CEO, Versant, Milwaukee, Wis.
Authentic Engagement of Diverse Talent: Strategies for Organizational Success
Friday, March 31, 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you improve your business bottom line by developing strategies for authentically engaging diverse talent in any environment.
Employee engagement is necessary for any organization to achieve its goals. Relational dynamics have a profound influence on engagement. Diversity in employee ethnicity, age, gender, belief system, sexual orientation and tenure are just a few of the variables that come into play. This session is an innovative approach to go beyond recruitment and retention and provide solutions to strategically improve productivity and the business bottom line through authentic engagement of diverse talent.
Presenter: Sonia M. Alvarez-Robinson, M.A., Georgia Department of Human Resources, Marietta, Ga.
Job Analysis That Results in Improved Hiring Decisions
Friday, March 31, 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you perform job analysis that will result in improved job descriptions, interviewing questions, job descriptions and ultimately in hiring the correct person with the correct skills for a specific job.
Accurate job analysis is an essential key to developing accurate job descriptions. Because performance appraisals are based on job descriptions, appropriate job analysis ensures hiring the right person for the right job. Through this process of job analysis, you will learn techniques to assess a specific job title appropriately and in a way that will impact all of your organization's hiring decisions. You can improve your organization's job analysis process by using this method.
Presenter: Gerry Roberts, principal, Resources for Outcomes Group, LLC, Dallas, Texas
Stop The Revolving Door! Employee Retention Strategies That Work
Friday, March 31, 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you implement an employee retention plan that will help your managers develop retention talents so new hires stay longer and fewer jobs require refilling.
Employment management profes≠sionals face an uphill climb with leaders who cause high turnover and then demand that jobs be filled faster. This session will focus on real reasons why employees join, stay and leave organizations. Research will demonstrate that leaders have the strongest impact on retention, and there are specific leadership talents that cause employees to stay. Attendees will assess their organization's retention effectiveness and leave with a specific retention plan.
Presenter: Richard Finnegan, chief client services officer, TalentKeepers, Maitland, Fla.
The 24-Carrot Manager: Employee Recognition Done Right
Friday, March 31, 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Repeated Saturday at 9:45 a.m.)
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session arms managers with tools they need to recognize their people in simple but strategic ways.
There is more to effective recognition than just gathering at annual luncheons to read names and hand out lapel pins. While service anniversary awards—when presented properly—play an important role in employee retention and engagement, it's the day-to-day carrots that foster trust, respect, and long-term loyalty. This session explores ways managers can use formal and informal recognition to drive company initiatives and connect employees to core values. Tips on effective presentations are also shared.
Presenter: Scott Christopher, manager, Recognition Training, O.C. Tanner Company, Salt Lake City, Utah
Behavioral Interviewing: Uncovering Job-Related Qualifications
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: Identify essential competencies needed to perform within the organization and to recognize when a candidate is demonstrating those competencies.
Learn how to strategically select and ask questions in an interview to uncover behavioral indicators in important situations and assess a candidate's competencies and skills against job-related qualifications. This session is a must for business owners, executives and recruiters.
Presenter: Joe Sommers, director of training and development, ZERORISK HR, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Bringing Visibility to Accountability
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. (Repeated Saturday at 11:15 a.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will assist you in developing organizational accountability by using action registers and scorecards to create consistency and focus.
To sustain a culture of accountability, an organization must create, document and audit business systems that support an accountability mind-set. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to view accountability as a key business process. This presentation is dedicated to visible and auditable accountability systems essential to sustain business acumen and urgency.
Presenter: Shane Yount, senior partner and owner, Competitive Solutions, Inc., Alpharetta Ga.
Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: Learn to navigate through legal and practical roadblocks when it comes to both obtaining and proving past employment information; learn to spot phony credentials and fake degrees.
With hiring on the rise, verifying past employment and education and obtaining references has become critical. Unfortunately, falsifying or inflating employment and education≠al accomplishments has become a significant problem for employers nationwide. Legal limitations also create barriers for human resource professionals when it comes to both obtaining and giving past employment information. This workshop reviews legal and effective technique for the reference-checking process and how to verify education and spot phony credentials.
Presenter: Lester S. Rosen, attorney at law, Employment Screening Resources (ESR), Novato, Calif.
Performance Appraisals, Coaching and Career Development Strategies for Engaging Employees
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will prepare you to motivate employees and drive a higher level of performance by demonstrating industry best practices in performance appraisals, coaching and career development strategies.
Having a review once a year will not improve your team's performance, nor will it motivate employees. This session will discuss how to develop managers to give quality feedback to drive improved employee performance. This session will discuss essential coaching techniques and processes that will support employees who desire to achieve a higher level of performance. Finally, industry best practices in developing and retaining employees will be discussed.
Presenter: Kella B. Price, Ph.D., SPHR, HR and training consultant and CEO, Price Consulting Group, Newport, N.C.
Succession Planning for Retention
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you to create an effective succession plan that ensures diverse leadership representation and provides your organization with the skills necessary to retain them.
In order to remain competitive in the 21st century, it is essential to have diverse leadership that is equipped with culturally competent qualities. Understanding how companies can create effective succession plans that can help retain culturally competent leaders that will lead inclusive and culturally diverse organizations will assist in obtaining organizational success.
Presenter: Doug Harris, leader and managing director, The Kaleidoscope Group, LLC, Chicago, Ill.
Where Did You Find Me? Why Do You Care? Measuring and Benchmarking Sources of Hire
Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. (Repeated Saturday at 11:15 a.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will arm you with the data you need to measure and benchmark your sources of hire.
Corporations contemplating how to take their talent acquisition strategies up a notch know that a consistent supply of quality candidates is one very critical step. Debates over sourc≠ing strategies however, are too often metric-less affairs based on opinion, myth and perceptions, rather than measurement. The presenter, armed with survey results that track 1/4 million sources of hire during 2005 from highly competitive corporations, offers data and insights into how firms can improve their yield by improving their measurement.
Presenter: Gerry Crispin, principal, CareerXroads, East Brunswick, N.J.
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Saturday, April 1
Aligning and Assimilating New Hires: A Guide to Successful Transitions
Saturday, April 1, 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Repeated Saturday at 11:15 a.m.)
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help attendees understand the business case for alignment and assimilation, the critical actions and processes an organization should provide from pre-hire through successful assimilation, and the steps necessary to develop an action plan for each new hire.
An effective alignment and assimilation process is not just an orientation program that provides basic information to new hires--it provides them with a systemic, integrated process to achieve results. This session will provide attendees with the strategies and tools they can use to pre≠pare new hires, and especially new leaders, to take charge. Attendees will learn approaches to strengthen vulnerabilities and avoid common pitfalls, while providing new hires with a road map to accelerate their transition and drive business results.
Presenter: Ronald Bossert, D.Ed., vice president, Transition Leadership Services, Applied Research Corporation, Metuchen, N.J.
Extreme Caution Advised: Dealing with Federal and State Laws Regulating Preemployment Screening and Safe Hiring
Saturday, April 1, 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: Learn and get updated on federal and state laws that control the process of preemployment screening and background checks on prospective employees, and how to audit your own practices to ensure that you are in compliance.
To avoid bad hiring decisions, employers have increasingly turned to preemployment background screening as a risk management tool. No screening program can be conducted without a full understanding of a number of laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), discrimination and privacy law, the ADA, and a host of state-specific rules. The session will review the application of federal and state laws to both preemployment screening and the investigation of current employees.
Presenter: Lester S. Rosen, attorney at law, Employment Screening Resources (ESR), Novato, Calif.
How On-Demand Technology Makes Strategic Human Capital Management Possible
Saturday, April 1, 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you formulate technical requirements for a strategic human capital management session.
Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) requires integration of performance and learning data and processes as well as integration with existing systems such as CRM and MES applications. This session explores why this integration is necessary and how on-demand technology makes it possible and practical.
Presenter: Adam Miller, president and CEO, Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, Calif.
Taking It Up a Notch: Transforming the Role of Recruiter into Leader
Saturday, April 1, 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you and your teams transform the HR role from internal vendor to expert consultant in order to drive real business change and enhance our value and credibility as a profession.
In this session, you'll become aware of the opportunities and challenges recruiters face in their profession and how to address those challenges head on. You'll revisit the basis of all great recruiting and staffing excellence: the understanding that recruiting and HR is all about building and cultivating relationships. You'll discuss the tools and resources needed to take it up a notch and transform yourself into a business leader. You'll discuss how to position yourself and your team as expert consultants, not internal vendors.
Presenter: Jeremy M. Eskenazi, managing principal, Riviera Advisors, Inc., Long Beach, Calif.
The 24-Carrot Manager: Employee Recognition Done Right
Saturday, April 1, 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session arms managers with tools they need to recognize their people in simple but strategic ways.
There is more to effective recognition than just gathering at annual luncheons to read names and hand out lapel pins. While service anniversary awards—when presented properly—play an important role in employee retention and engagement, it's the day-to-day carrots that foster trust, respect, and long-term loyalty. This session explores ways managers can use formal and informal recognition to drive company initiatives and connect employees to core values. Tips on effective presentations are also shared.
Presenter: Scott Christopher, manager, Recognition Training, O.C. Tanner Company, Salt Lake City, Utah
Aligning and Assimilating New Hires: A Guide to Successful Transitions
Saturday, April 1, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help attendees understand the business case for alignment and assimilation, the critical actions and processes an organization should provide from pre-hire through successful assimilation, and the steps necessary to develop an action plan for each new hire.
An effective alignment and assimilation process is not just an orientation program that provides basic information to new hires--it provides them with a systemic, integrated process to achieve results. This session will provide attendees with the strategies and tools they can use to pre≠pare new hires, and especially new leaders, to take charge. Attendees will learn approaches to strengthen vulnerabilities and avoid common pitfalls, while providing new hires with a road map to accelerate their transition and drive business results.
Presenter: Ronald Bossert, D.Ed., vice president, Transition Leadership Services, Applied Research Corporation, Metuchen, N.J.
Bringing Visibility to Accountability
Saturday, April 1, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will assist you in developing organizational accountability by using action registers and scorecards to create consistency and focus.
To sustain a culture of accountability, an organization must create, document and audit business systems that support an accountability mind-set. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to view accountability as a key business process. This presentation is dedicated to visible and auditable accountability systems essential to sustain business acumen and urgency.
Presenter: Shane Yount, senior partner and owner, Competitive Solutions, Inc., Alpharetta Ga.
Mixing the Economic Development Cocktail: Combining Resources to Create Wealth
Saturday, April 1, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you understand how to access resources available for economic and workforce development and training.
Learn all the tips, tricks and tonics required to mix, match and maximize economic development strategies. This spirited presentation should be a beneficial elixir to anyone interested in creating good paying jobs in their community. Learn how to shop the available resource shelf and gain insight into what does and doesn't mix. Discover special garnishes for underserved and special populations of job seekers. The essential mixology needed for dealing with state, region-al and local economic development groups will be presented. Catch a warm buzz from discovering that the wide variety of resources can be blended to help recruit new business and expand existing ones. The session goal is for no one to leave with his or her glass half full. Warning: traditional concepts may be shaken, not stirred.
Presenter: Julie M. Norman, Ed.D., CEcD, CWDP, president, Julie Norman Associates, LLC, Charleston, W.Va.
Moneyball for HR: The Illusion of Retention Strategies
Saturday, April 1, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Repeated Thursday at 1:00 p.m.)
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you understand the importance of linking employee survey results to other measures of performance and the business environment, by demonstrating the impact of linked research on strategies for employee effectiveness, engagement and retention.
Retention, long the Holy Grail of employee intervention strategies, has proven to be an elusive quest. Research linking exit interviews and other external variables to employee survey results provides important lessons about: the relative importance of engagement and satisfaction, the need to individualize efforts to strategic populations, and the need to prepare for turnover and even encourage turnover (not just fight against it) in controlling retention.
Presenter: Burgess Levin, managing principal, Strategic Services, HumanR, Herndon, Va.
Where Did You Find Me? Why Do You Care? Measuring and Benchmarking Sources of Hire
Saturday, April 1, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will arm you with the data you need to measure and benchmark your sources of hire.
Corporations contemplating how to take their talent acquisition strategies up a notch know that a consistent supply of quality candidates is one very critical step. Debates over sourc≠ing strategies however, are too often metric-less affairs based on opinion, myth and perceptions, rather than measurement. The presenter, armed with survey results that track 1/4 million sources of hire during 2005 from highly competitive corporations, offers data and insights into how firms can improve their yield by improving their measurement.
Presenter: Gerry Crispin, principal, CareerXroads, East Brunswick, N.J.
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Rise and Shine Concurrent Sessions
7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
 For 'morning' people, the rise and shine concurrent sessions give you the opportunity to start the day off on the right foot! These early morning sessions provide you an opportunity to jump-start your day and are open to all conference attendees. Plan to attend these sessions from 7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Creating and Executing a Powerful Employee Brand to Attract and Retain Top Talent
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you to create an employee brand promise by executing the three stages of employee brand promise by executing the three stages of employee brand creation, and layering on generational needs, values and expectations in order to attract and retain top talent.
With a powerful employee brand your organization will win the war for top talent. There are three stages to an effective employee brand strategy: construction, communication and experience. These stages are built upon an understanding of generational identities. Given that your workforce is comprised of four generations with four different attitudes, values, and expectations, your employee brand strategy must layer on the generational identities and execute against all three stages to achieve measurable success.
Presenter: Adwoa K. Buahene, M.A., managing partner, n-gen People Performance, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intergenerational Workforce: Recruiting Older Workers
Track: Fundamentals
Learning Objective: This session will help you attract, recruit and retain
the returning retiree as you seek solutions to staffing issues facing the modern workplace when baby boomers retire and it becomes increasingly difficult to find a younger worker to take their place.
The boomerang effect, or the return of the retiree, is a result of the supply-and-demand phenomenon facing the modern workplace. Attracting, recruiting and retaining retirees will be a part of the solution to your staffing woes. This session deals with sourcing, developing and delighting experienced workers, and teaches you the traits associated with both older and younger workers. You'll also learn the benefits you'd be wise to offer older workers as you recruit and retain them for your company.
Presenter: Maureen Sullivan, president, Maureen Sullivan Communications, Manhasset, N.Y.
Mixing the Economic Development Cocktail: Combining Resources to Create Wealth
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you understand how to access resources available for economic and workforce development and training.
Learn all the tips, tricks and tonics required to mix, match and maximize economic development strategies. This spirited presentation should be a beneficial elixir to anyone interested in creating good paying jobs in their community. Learn how to shop the available resource shelf and gain insight into what does and doesn't mix. Discover special garnishes for underserved and special populations of job seekers. The essential mixology needed for dealing with state, region-al and local economic development groups will be presented. Catch a warm buzz from discovering that the wide variety of resources can be blended to help recruit new business and expand existing ones. The session goal is for no one to leave with his or her glass half full. Warning: traditional concepts may be shaken, not stirred.
Presenter: Julie M. Norman, Ed.D., CEcD, CWDP, president, Julie Norman Associates, LLC, Charleston, W.Va.
Strategies for Capturing the Passive Job Seeker
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: The primary objective of this session is to provide HR professionals with valuable tips and tools to effectively reach and recruit passive job seekers to support overall business objectives.
Using data from its latest worker survey, CareerBuilder.com reveals insights into how to reach the most elusive and sought after candidate: the passive job seeker. Passive job seekers tell all on where to find them, how to get their attention and what they consider immediate turnoffs when considering an employer's job posting. Incorporating real-life examples of companies that have been successful in appealing to this audience, the presenter provides a road map to an untapped talent pool.
Presenter: Matt Ferguson, president and CEO, CareerBuilder.com, Chicago, Ill.
Taking It Up A Notch: Transforming the Role of Recruiter into Leader
Track: Strategies
Learning Objective: This session will help you and your teams transform the HR role from internal vendor to expert consultant in order to drive real business change and enhance our value and credibility as a profession.
In this session, you'll become aware of the opportunities and challenges recruiters face in their profession and how to address those challenges head on. You'll revisit the basis of all great recruiting and staffing excellence: the understanding that recruiting and HR is all about building and cultivating relationships. You'll discuss the tools and resources needed to take it up a notch and transform yourself into a business leader. You'll discuss how to position yourself and your team as expert consultants, not internal vendors.
Presenter: Jeremy M. Eskenazi, managing principal, Riviera Advisors, Inc., Long Beach, Calif.
Additional sessions on the topics of ethics and the final regulation on defining applicants will be included in the final program.
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Recertification Credits Available
 PHRs and SPHRs are eligible to earn hours toward recertification depending on which programs you elect to attend. The Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI ) will award hour-for-hour recertification credit for each professional development session you attend, including pre-conference workshops and concurrent sessions. Recertification credit forms will be available online at www.hrci.org.
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