Higher Education Through the 2008 SHRM Educational Series
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SHRM Business Education

STRATEGY COURSES

Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
Learn how companies effectively build an employment brand. Match proven recruiting tactics to the characteristics of your organization.
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Building Business Strategy
Review the strategic-planning process. Discuss different models of business strategy and their practical application to your organization's core competencies and capabilities portfolio.
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Creating an HR Strategy
Explore the latest thinking regarding the changing role of the senior HR business partner. The course will include models of strategy and value creation and tools for aligning HR activities with company strategic actions. You will have an opportunity to practice strategic thinking and decision making in the context of case studies and practical examples.
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Developing a Training Strategy for Effective Leadership
Review HR training strategy and how it relates to overall business strategy. Discussion includes an outline of training assessment and training ROI, new training models, and the use of technology in training.
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Developing Business Models
Discover the connection between organizational strategy and business models by analyzing basic assumptions and factors driving a business model.
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Global Business Strategy and Cross Cultural Management
The globalization process of US firms continues to march on and employees have to join this willingly or unwillingly. For HR managers the selection, recruitment, training and retention of talented employees for global assignments will become a top priority. This proposed seminar will focus on linking global strategies with HR practice to provide applicable tools for HR professionals to manage the on-going globalization process in their organization more effectively.
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Strategic Diversity Management
Understand the business rationalization for diversity, and examine different organizational approaches to diversity management. Survey real-life diversity best practices and inclusive talent-management initiatives.
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Strategic Management of Mergers & Acquisitions
Develop a framework for managing major issues in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Analyze different types of acquisitions and their effect on overall corporate strategy, alternatives to M&As, approaches to managing the integration of acquisitions, and the human resource implications.
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The Legal Environment for Business Professionals
It is critical to master the general framework of the legal environment as well as the specific areas of the law that regularly and directly impact the employment relationship. Course participants will learn how employment law is developed and applied. Topics include the fundamental institutions, doctrines and processes of the U.S. legal system; alternative dispute resolution; employment contracts; and regulation of employee and labor relations.
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FINANCE COURSES

Measuring Return on Investment
Senior executives receive numerous requests from their employees for scarce corporate investment dollars to fund their projects. These projects must be justified with more than intangible benefits; they must be justified in quantitative ROI terms to stand a chance of gaining approval.
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Operating Plans and Budgets
Topics include forecasting, budgeting, developing a cash budget and performance tracking.
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Understanding the Basics of Finance for HR Professionals
Understand corporate financial concepts through an overview of corporate financial structures, key financial responsibilities and financial statements.
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COMMUNICATIONS COURSES

Conflict Resolution Skills for HR Professionals
Review real-world case studies to better understand, react to and resolve conflicts in the workplace. Assess your personal conflict resolution style with the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrumentregistrada.
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Effective Communication in the C-Suite
Building a climate of trust and loyalty among employees, persuading executives and managers to share information across functional lines, and gaining buy-in for programs and policies are three of the toughest challenges HR professionals face. Through analogies and popular movie clips, learn 10 strategies for effective corporate communication.
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Negotiation Skills for Successful Business Results
Strengthen your negotiation skills. Learn effective negotiation strategies by participating in experiential negotiation simulations. For example: Conduct an effective environmental scan, as it relates to strategic planning in the negotiation process, in business and commercial settings.
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IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT COURSES

Creating a Culture of Innovation
In the past, capital and labor were the critical elements for success. Today it is the human capacity for creativity, innovation and teamwork that is most important. This course provides participants with practical strategies to become creative and innovative leaders who effectively expedite and implement new ideas. The models taught will help develop the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty.
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Managing Individual and Organizational Change
Understand the five stages of the change process, and learn techniques to combat change-resistant attitudes. Convert your company's strategic goals into action steps, create accountability for results and build business partnerships to leverage resources and gain organizational influence.
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COURSE INFORMATION

March 3-5, 2008
Atlanta, GA

March 24-26, 2008
Washington, DC

March 25-27, 2008
Las Vegas, NV

April 14-16, 2008
Chicago, IL

April 16-18, 2008
Nashville, TN

June 21-23, 2008
Chicago, IL

Sold Out September 8-10, 2008
Washington, DC

October 13-15, 2008
St. Louis, MO

Sold Out October 20-22, 2008
Tampa, FL

November 3-5, 2008
San Diego, CA


FOUR WAYS TO REGISTER

ONLINE:
You can register online. (Credit card and gov't PO registrants only).

FAX:
Fax your Registration Form to (703) 535-6490 (Credit card and gov't PO registrants only). Please allow 5-7 business days for processing.

PHONE:
Call a customer service representative at: (800) 283-7476 (U.S. only) (703) 548-3440, Option 3 (Credit card registrations only).

MAIL:
Mail in your Registration Form to: SHRM Seminars PO Box 79482 Baltimore, MD 21279-0482 (Checks made payable to SHRM in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank).