Sunday Preconference Workshops

​The following in-person workshops are scheduled for 8 a.m.-noon on June 12 at SHRM22. Additional fees and registration are required for the following programs:

801: Managing Your Managers to Manage Better: A Practical and Necessary Look
Learning objectives include:
--Identifying the subject matter education your managers need.
--Discovering training techniques so you can help your managers lead effectively.
--Evaluating how managers can keep employees motivated and engaged using soft skills and effective performance management.
--Analyzing the hiring and interviewing skills managers need, as well as how to report complaints that are brought to their attention.

802: Preparing to Lead: Critical Project Management Skills for the HR Professional
Learning objectives include:
--Receiving in-depth analysis of pre-project planning.
--Defining deliverables in financial terms your senior leaders care about.
--Conducting risk probability versus impact analysis to determine reasons your project may be derailed and how to plan for and overcome those challenges.
--Discovering project management tools to organize and track your projects.

803: Leading Through Change and Crisis: Critical Skills for HR Professionals' Careers and Organization
Learning objectives include:
--Learning to effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
--Diagnosing your change-leader style, discovering how to coach others to develop theirs and enhancing your organization's approach to building change leadership capability.
--Dealing with resistance to change, exploring insights you can use at your organization, and emerging as a more competent and confident change leader.

804: The Basics and Beyond: Everything You Need to Know About Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
Learning objectives include:
--Becoming familiar with current inclusive terminology, pronoun usage and relevant data that impacts LGBTQ+ employees and understanding the differences among terms such as gender identity, expression and orientation.
--Learning the best approaches for developing policies and practices for transgender and transitioning employees.
--Exploring specific HR scenarios involving LGBTQ+ employees.
--Discussing and developing strategies to create more welcoming and inclusive workplaces for LGBTQ+ employees.

805: Benefits Bootcamp: Basics Plus COVID, Transparency and Surprise Billing
Learning objectives include:
--Understanding the basics of employer-sponsored welfare benefits.
--Understanding how various compliance areas such as ERISA, the Affordable Care Act and HIPAA are applied to employee benefits.
--Understanding how various compliance obligations work together and how to meet the workforce's needs while staying compliant.
--Understanding when employers can make plan decisions from a practical perspective and when they need to seek legal advice.

806: The Most Critical Metric Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) Can Share with HR Teams to Combat the Great Resignation
Learning objectives include:
--Learning how ERGs can interpret information to make business decisions and recommendations for HR.
--Learning one proprietary metric ERGs can share with HR teams to improve business acumen.
--Hearing from other ERG and HR leaders on how they provide guidance.

807: Workplace Ethics: Mastering Ethical Leadership and Sustaining a Moral Workplace
Learning objectives include:
--Appreciating the significant "teeth" of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
--Moving from a compliance approach to making ethics personal and the core component of your human capital strategy.
--Mastering common ethical challenges of front-line leaders and creating a model workplace and enhanced corporate culture.

808: Mind-Numbing vs. Mind-Blowing: How to Energize Your Presentation
Learning objectives include:
--Capturing the audience's attention.
--Mastering presentation skills, including proper use of tech and visual aids.
--Managing content development, presentation length and Q&As.