ILSHRM14 - Shaping the Future of HR

I cannot believe it is 2014.  It is mind boggling to me how fast time goes as we get older.

It's also mind boggling how fast things change.

Our profession is not what it was 20 years ago. I'm going to say that it isn't even what it was 10 years ago. 

We are different. Better. Evolved.

Sort of.

We are more entrenched in our businesses than we ever have been and yet.....we aren't.

We understand the importance of being a business partner more than ever before and yet....we don't.

It's not the same for everyone, but some of us are stuck. We are stuck in between who we were and who the business now needs us to be.

It's only going to get worse.

Business is changing and with that we have to change. We have to think about what will be expected of us in the future and adapt quickly.

It is my hope that this year's ILSHRM conference will help.

The theme is Shaping the Future of HR and everything from the pre-conference workshop to the keynotes to the Monday night mixer is going to focus on preparing each of us for what future business expects of us.

It's going to be awesome (if I do say so myself).

Let me introduce you to our keynotes:

Jeff Lanza is an award-winning, nationally known speaker whose career as an FBI Special Agent has fueled his passion for helping people and organizations. He will be speaking on Leadership Ethics: How to Ensure a Future of Employee and Corporate Integrity.

Jennifer McClure is President of Unbridled Talent LLC, a consulting and advisory firm providing services to clients in the areas of recruiting & human resources strategy, employment branding and leadership/career development. Jennifer will be sharing her very popular keynote, The Future of HR: Delivering Competitive Advantage Through Innovative People Strategies 

Jim Knight cut his teeth in the training field in the Hospitality industry, starting out as a restaurant staff-level employee for Olive Garden and Hard Rock Café. He eventually became the head of the School of Hard Rocks, running point on all training & development functions for Hard Rock International. As you would expect from someone who spent years at Hard Rock, Jim will be talking to us about Culture that Rocks!

I didn't do three J's on purpose, but that's kind of cool. With our MC John Hudson in the mix it's the perfect superfecta! 

Now for the pre-conference workshop.

You might remember Joe Gerstandt from the times he has keynoted with his Talent Anarchy partner Jason Lauritson. Joe is the bald one. Well this time he is partnering up with Doug Shaw an enchanting bloke from London to offer a three hour workshop that is going to stretch our minds in ways HR professionals are not accustomed to.

They will be presenting the Art of Leadership and when I say art I am not being theoretical. They literally mean art. Doug and Joe are going to help us tap into our creativity and apply new techniques to aid in creative thinking and problem solving. They also plan to show us how creativity can help us in our succession planning and development of employees.

Seriously, I cannot do it justice in a blog post. I'm going to see if I can't get these guys to tape a short video for us explaining what they are up to. Leave them a note in the comments if you would like that!

So there you have the ILSHRM14 updates for now. Lots, lots more to come in the upcoming weeks. 

I hope you are planning on joining us August 3-5 in Oakbrook. If you weren't, hopefully this blog post has changed your mind. To register click here.

See you soon!

Sabrina

#ILSHRM13 - You, Your Team and Your Culture, We've Got You Covered!

We have a guest post today from ...

Sabrina Baker

Sabrina Baker (@sabrinalbaker) is a certified human resource professional who spent eleven years in the corporate trenches before experiencing a layoff in 2010.  That experience drove her to start her own human resource consulting and recruiting business focused on not only helping employers, but employees too.  She is passionate about helping job seekers and in 2012 co-founded Discovering Social in an effort to help job seekers navigate this very different job market.  Sabrina serves in several volunteer roles including the current conference chair for the Illinois State Council of Human Resources

The annual ILSHRM conference is committed to providing HR practitioners, vendors and consultants across the state a chance to learn, grow and network.  Every year we spend a great deal of time focusing on how we can make the annual event something that allows attendees the opportunity to walk away with ideas to improve themselves and their work environment.

This year will be no different.

Even though ILSHRM is sharing its city with the National SHRM Conference in June, we are still planning on a full ILSHRM event in August.  On August 18-20, ILSHRM will be hosting its 13th annual state conference.  The event will be held at Drury Lane in Oakbrook, IL.

My goal as Conference Chair is to provide every attendee with a to-do list when they leave our conference.  It is my belief that after every conference one attends they walk away with one of three thoughts (or variations thereof):

"Wow that was nice, but not sure what to do with all of that info."

"Well that was a total waste of time.  Can't wait to see how many emails I have waiting."

"I learned some great things over the past couple of days and cannot wait to start implementing."

I want everyone walking away thinking that last one.  Yes our conference is nice and yes you will walk back into work with 337 emails to answer, but hopefully you will walk away with some key takeaways to help improve both you and your professional lives.

To that end, I am very pleased to announce the following keynote speakers.  We have a Doctor, a Chief Human Resource Officer, an operations-turned HR leader and a self-professed failed HR pro turned influential speaker, writer and social media pro.  Sounds like a pretty eclectic group right?

Dr. Daniel Crosby (@incblot) will be kicking us off with his motivational speech, "You're Not That Great!"  Dr. Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of minds and markets.  He has been featured in the Huffington Post, Registered Rep and Risk Management Magazine.  He was recently named as one of the 12 thinkers to watch in the world of organizational psychology and has worked with clients such as Morgan Stanley, Grant Thornton and NASA (yes NASA).

The duo of Laurie Ruettimann (@lruettimann) and Kris Dunn (@kris_dunn) will be walking us through the "9 Faces of HR".  If you have pictures of a traditional nine box grid often used in succession planning, you are on the right track.  This nine box however will have the Laurie and Kris flare added to it.

Laurie has over a decade of Human Resources experience in Fortune 500 companies.  In addition to creating Punk Rock HR which was recognized by Forbes as one of the top 100 blogs for women, she was also the co-founder of several new media start-ups including HRM Today – the first social network for HR professionals.

Kris is a VP of HR type who has led HR practices in Fortune 500s and venture capital-held startups. He works for a living, and believes that the key to great business results is to get great people, then do cool stuff to maximize their motivation, performance and effectiveness once you have them in the door.   In his own words, here are his professional stats: 3 degrees. One marriage. An SPHR that's been recertified twice. 2,000+ hires. 1,000+ fires.  In addition to his own blog, Kris founded Fistful of Talent, a multi-contributor blog which provides daily HR insights.  Kris is one of the most transparent HR pro's you can find. 

As if those weren't enough, Dwane Lay (@dwanelay) will be wrapping up our conference with "Lean Culture: The Impossible, The Possible and Living on the Difference".  Dwane is the Head of HR Process Design for Dovetail Software a leading provider of HR case management and employee request management.   He is recognized as a leading authority on the application of Lean tools and techniques in Human Resources, as well as having a wealth of experience in applying business technology to improve HR processes.  Dwane holds an MBA from Lindenwood University, as well as having earned a Six Sigma Black Belt and is a certified Senior Professional of Human Resources.

I am thrilled about this lineup.  I believe each speaker is going to allow our attendees the ability to take a good look at themselves, their teams and the culture around them and figure out ways to improve all three.

Be on the lookout for other key announcements as we continue to prepare for the ILSHRM conference.  We anticipate attendee registration to open March 1, 2013.  We are also preparing an exciting Sunday event which should allow us to help HR professionals across the state with a very specific need (cryptic I know, but can't share anything more than that right now).

Hope to see you in August,

Sabrina Baker, PHR

ILSHRM Conference Chair

Illinois SHRM State Conference

Last week our friends in Louisiana held their state conference.  Judging from the tweet stream it looked like an awesome event. Of course, the BIG SHOW - SHRM National is coming up in Atlanta June 24 - 27.


Well here in the Land of Lincoln a group of about 40 people having been working real hard to put together a fantastic SHRM state conference. No doubt, we here at the ILSHRM blog site are completely biased and have zero objectivity, so let me just throw down some things that we have planned for August 5 through August 8th extravaganza.


The conference is a full two-day event with a pre-conference session on Sunday. 


Details...


On Sunday August 5 we kick it off with A TNL Recruiting Conference. This will be lead by Criag Fisher a.k.a. fishdogs who will also be bringing along  Crystal Miller (TheOneCrystal) to help him out at this session, and probably a couple more folks from his posse.


Then on Monday we are going to go full tilt.  We are proud to have our own home town boy Charlie Judy (HRFishbowl) as the emcee for the event. Over the course of the two days we will have four keynote/general session presentations from ...

• Simon T Bailey
• Talent Anarchy - Joe Gerstandt & Jason Lauritsen
• Cy Wakeman
• Libby Sartain

For our break out sessions there are five sessions each day, with six choices for each time slot. Check out this schedule.

We have also put together a Social Media Team, these are folks, who will be at the event and helping us support the event via numerous social media channels.

• Mike Vandervort The Human Race Horses
• Matt Stollack True Faith HR
• Chris Fields The Cost of Work
• Victorio Milian The Victorio Milan Blog
• Buzz Rooney  The Buzz On HR
• Kevin Grossman The HR Marketer
• Meghan Biro Talent Culture

We have the principals from #TChat (Kevin and Meghan) with us for the conference; and on Monday evening after our sessions are over we are planning a Live #TChat event on-site at the Drury Lane Theater, and then transitioning into our Monday evening tweet-up.

Illinois SHRM has also partnered with Job Search Television Network JSTN. With their help  we will attempt to stream the TChat with LIVE Video on the internet.

These are people we have not yet mentioned who will be presenting breakout sessions, and will no doubt contribute more than just their presentations.

Benjamin McCall

Tim Sackett

Curtis Midkiff

Daniel Crosby

Paul Hebert

Paul Smith

Stephanie Thomas

Trish McFarlane

Steve Boese

Sarah White

Jennifer McClure

William Tincup (100K+ followers on twitter)

Also, we will have Geoff Webb and Jeff Waldman in attendance sharing their expertise with our attendees.  The two will be helping interested attendees to develop their social media understanding.  You can see more about the two in Susan Avello's interview.

We are building some additional resources for the conference as we speak.  We have a You Tube Channel for the conference.  We have made a twitter list of attendees (please let us know if you would like to be included).

You can also visit our Facebook Page and don't forget to sign up as an attendee at our Linkedin Event.

In addition to the aforementioned folks, this next group is what I will call "unconfirmed rumor of attendance." 

Dwane Lay | Steve Browne | Charee Klimek | Brad Galin |

Understand that this is still a work in progress, and we have a few surprises we have not even touched on yet.  So here is the hook - if you haven't signed up yet - click here ! 

Hope to see you in Oak Brook in August!

-Dave Ryan ISC SHRM Director of Social Media