Extreme Connections: FUN and EFFECTIVE Networking Techniques "I know I am supposed to NETWORK, but I don't have much time and I don't even know what I am supposed to be doing!" If that sounds familiar, you are not alone! Many people secretly despise the idea of "schmoozing" yet worry they are limiting their career potential without it. If you can attend one more networking session, you will leave this presentation with specific tools you can use to increase your productivity WHILE you network! Paul Wesselmann is one of the warmest and wildest networking trainers in the country and lives right here in Madison. His techniques have helped thousands of professionals build and maintain more useful networks AND transform awkward "chit chats" into more relaxed and mutually beneficial opportunities.
Winning organizations fully engage their employees’ minds, hearts, and discretionary effort in building value. Employee engagement has been proven to be the key to financial performance and competitive advantage.
Releasing Leadership Brilliance draws on extensive research identifying the obstacles that block brilliance and erode profit potential per employee. The approach is based on Simon T. Bailey’s lifetime of professional and personal experience. Simon has been called a true change catalyst who has inspired thousands of people worldwide to find their passion, take action, and make their lives and their organizations more productive.
Releasing Leadership Brilliance is designed to transform the roles of leaders and managers in your organization.
Leadership Brilliance is about:
Igniting a leadership culture characterized by engaged, connected leaders who are able to share their vision, release control, and enable employees to release their unique brilliance.
Teaching managers to rewrite their roles and engage the talented people already on their team in order to take the organization to the next level.
Mobilizing your thinking-intensive workers – people who use their knowledge, reputation, relationships and talent to drive growth – with a “platinum setting” culture.
Coaching your A-Level players for retention and B-Level players for performance.
Minimizing the risk of burnout and maximizing retention in a demanding, do-more-with-less corporate environment.
Need leaders capable of supporting an organization’s strategic goals? Need to develop leaders from within the organization to be ready for the next level – soon? This session will share the systematic approach taken by Covance, a global clinical research organization, to hire and develop leaders ready to deliver its aggressive growth targets. Specifically, it will include a look at how to tie the selection of leaders to the organizations cultural and strategic priorities, a model for what makes for a successful leader, and how to develop leaders in alignment with the organization and individual needs.
Organizational Change: Stop Managing and Start Leading
Presenter: Trevor Nagle, American Family Insurance
HR professionals are increasingly asked to serve as strategic resources in understanding and leading organizational change. In this session, participants will learn to advocate for increased incorporation of transformational leadership principles into a traditional change management framework. By understanding the interactions between individual change psychology, transformational leadership, and change management, participants will be better prepared to advise organizational leaders or become stronger change agents themselves. Blending theory and applied examples of success stories and challenges facing organizations relating to change, participants will be provided with concrete tools and resources to advance their strategic HR portfolio.
Think Like an Entreprenuer: 6 Essential Competencies for HR Leaders
Presenter: Paul Wesselmann
Whether your HR department has several employees or is made up of just you, the evolving entrepreneurial mind set suggests that HR innovators who demonstrate value to employers and employees create more possibilities for themselves and others. In this comprehensive, action-oriented workshop you will explore six competencies that can ensure your department and personal success. Paul has spent almost two decades refining this list of traits that have helped him and others increase their value to their company, their employees and themselves.
Presenter: Diane Krieman and Jill Attkison, Hewitt and Associates
Organizations are operating in an increasingly complex world. Amid intensifying competition, globalization is rapidly spreading and an entire generation of leaders is preparing to leave the workforce. These factors have dramatically escalated the demand for great talent, as most organizations do not have the ready talent supply that they need to be successful in the future. Companies today are struggling to attract, develop, motivate, and retain the best and brightest talent. Not surprisingly, many organizations have come to realize the only way to ensure a strong pipeline of talent is to cultivate it themselves-a task that is becoming increasingly challenging.
How can organizations increase the velocity with which they grow talent to ensure a solid talent bench for the future? This session will provide answers to this critical question. Drawing from Hewitt's 2007 Top Companies for Leaders® and Talent Pulse® studies, presenters will share what the best companies are doing to facilitate growth in their talent pools. Please join us to learn what it takes for companies to develop high performing talent and grow great leaders!
HR Guardian or Strategic Advisor? Skills for the Transition
Presenters: Kathleen Cronin and Mal Jeffries , Howick Associates
The role of the HR professional is being transformed from that of the guardians or enforcer of an organization’s policies and procedures into that of a strategic business partner. As demands on and expectations of HR professionals change, they must continually develop new skills to add value to the organization. As an internal consultant, HR professionals should act as a proactive advisor providing critical input into the strategic initiatives of the organization and become increasingly involved in the implementation of strategies.
If you or your team is interested in moving from a subject matter expert in HR to being a trusted advisor with internal business colleagues, this 75 minute session offers you an insider’s look at skills and behaviors that will help you make the transition. We will identify and discuss six specific behaviors that make the difference between success and failure in consulting, and look at case studies to understand the value of those behaviors to business partners.
Discussion around establishing an effective employment brand has blanketed the industry in the past 12 months. The impending scarcity of quality mid-career candidates to drive organizational performance and succession planning, coupled with diversity/inclusion focuses and the recruitment of millenials into the workforce have created a confusion of potential messages.
This session seeks to help you find ways to find clarity when answering the questions of:
Who are we as an organization?
What is the true perception of our organization?
Is our messaging hurting recruiting efforts?
Our consumer brand is so strong, why can’t it fully represent us in recruitment advertising?
How do generational differences impact our message and its dissemination?
In this session, you will learn:
What is an Employment Brand?
The impact a solid employment brand has on recruiting.
How Consumer/B2B branding will impact, but not be your employment brand.
How will advertising change the way you create and tell your recruitment story in the media?
The New World of Background Checks: Safely Maneuvering in the “MySpace” Age
Presenter: Jennifer Mirus, Boardman Law Firm
In today’s tech-savvy world, employers can gather information about applicants and employees through social networking sites such as MySpace and blogs as well as through computerized records databases such as CCAP. While these methods can provide invaluable information to employers, they can also raise legal issues and morale problems within your workforce.
This session will use actual scenarios to discuss the benefits and risks of digital background checking. You will learn:
The legal and practical pitfalls of on-line checks
What information you should and should not use to evaluate candidates and employees
Steps to reduce your legal liability in conducting such checks
The warning signs that you may be crossing into legal violations
Credibility: Key to Effectiveness When Managing Projects
Presenter: Buck Joseph, Ed. D.,University of Wisconsin-Madison
As an HR professional, you wear many different hats. One of those hats is that of a project manager.In this interactive presentation, deepen your understanding of the two components of your credibility and your believability as a project manager. See credibility be established before your eyes, analyze how it is created, and assess the degree you possess it. Learn from a true expert in the field of persuasion and influence—Buck Joseph, a Professor Emeritus from Executive Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, well-known nationally and internationally as a riveting presenter of practical ideas people can use.
Learn about--
How to create and use your ethos as a powerful tool of persuasion
How Aristotle’s “Pyramid of Persuasion” helps change agents persuade stakeholders
Need leaders capable of supporting an organization’s strategic goals? Need to develop leaders from within the organization to be ready for the next level – soon? This session will share the systematic approach taken by Covance, a global clinical research organization, to hire and develop leaders ready to deliver its aggressive growth targets. Specifically, it will include a look at how to tie the selection of leaders to the organizations cultural and strategic priorities, a model for what makes for a successful leader, and how to develop leaders in alignment with the organization and individual needs.
Have fun and build upon your HR network! Take it to the extreme by
meeting other HR professionals from Madison and surrounding areas.
Also see what Paul Wesselman has in store to make this an extreme networking event!
Beverages, hors d'oeuvres, new friends, and great prizes await you!
For more
information contact:
GMA SHRM
Management Team
2830 Agriculture Dr.
Madison, WI 53718
(608) 204-9814
fax (608) 204-9818 chapteradmin@gmashrm.org
