Sharpen your pencils for September learning opportunities.
September marks the return to school for children around the US and for many of them, their Fall curriculums are scaled back as a result of the economic slowdown. Just as motivated school districts and PTAs invent creative ways to hold on to the art, sports, and music programs that [...]
Congratulations to the many clients and colleagues who have recently passed significant milestones of attaining their HRCI or WorldatWork professional credentials including PHR, SPHR, GPHR, SPHR – CA, CCP, CBP, and GRP! Take a well deserved breath of fresh air after so many long hours of studying and preparing for the exams. Now that you have [...]
With over 150 choices among the general and concurrent sessions offered at the SHRM 2010 annual conference in San Diego last week, I found myself debating more than once over which sessions to attend. My favorites were those with facilitators who were clearly passionate about their subject matter and whose presentations offered relevant and actionable information. Here [...]
The 2010 Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual conference and expo in San Diego wrapped up yesterday after nearly a week of on-site preparation and hosting that left most attendees I spoke with very impressed. Apparently, what I experienced was just the tip of the iceberg. I learned at yesterday’s general session that the planning [...]
If your training and development budgets haven’t yet bounced back to pre-recession levels, you can still find relevant and low cost or free offerings from many HR and communication experts. Do you need HRCI recertification credits? Read on.
Here is the collection of 14 or so events that are either archived or scheduled for dates in [...]
For those of you working with colleagues in the U.S., you may already be planning for many business offices being closed on Monday, May, 31st in observance of Memorial Day.
If you find yourself having meetings and calls rescheduled as colleagues prepare for the holiday and you have a few extra minutes on your calendar, here [...]
How do you keep a group of sixty or so HR professionals completely engaged (dare I say entertained) in a discussion on workplace investigations? The answer is…you invite Glen Kraemer , Partner at Curiale, Hirschfeld, Kraemer, LLP, to deliver the presentation. I had the good fortune yesterday to attend the Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) – District 7 (Long [...]
Work toward professional recertification one mile (i.e., one CEU credit) at a time.
For those of you who have trained for long distance races like a marathon, you’ll know well that success in reaching the finish line depends on you putting your shoes on and training one mile at a time. Accumulating recertification credits for [...]
With the rapid pace of change in the HR field and emerging social media influences on business communications it’s easy to feel like you might be left behind on emerging trends. Colleagues and clients often ask me for ideas on how to best keep up with the changes while balancing limited budgets and scarce capacity. Unfortunately, I can’t [...]