"HR Tomorrow...Expand, Connect, Engage"

"HR Tomorrow...Expand, Connect, Engage"

Registration and Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by Eaton Corporation

Welcome & Morning Keynote Speaker

Michael Davis, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources, General Mills

When Being Great in HR Matters Most

Morning Session I: Breakouts

Sherry McDonald, Principal, Leadership Consultant and Coach, Optimal Coaching and Consulting LLC

Utilizing Emotional Intelligence to Successfully Implement (or Sabotage) Your Change Management Efforts

This highly interactive session covers the fundamentals of emotional intelligence and why it matters to leaders implementing change. This includes some of the latest brain science research and the critical link between emotional intelligence and how our brains work to guide behaviors, and specifically impact your change management execution tactics (positively and negatively). The fundamentals of successful change management will be covered and the speaker will review the key emotional intelligence awareness needed to be effective in implementing change.

Tom McMullen, VP & North America Reward Practice Leader, Hay Group

Retention and the Role of Rewards: Challenges During an Economic Recovery

Employee retention is critical, particularly during economic recoveries when organizations aggressively compete for share of market and talent. While unemployment is still high nationally, talent shortages in a number of labor markets are being experienced and research indicates that there is considerable discontent in the workforce. Reward professionals face enormous pressure to maintain competitive pay structures and to make special deals to retain talented employees. Our research focuses specifically on the impact that reward strategies, policies, and practices have on employee retention.

Phil Jury, Managing Consultant, Valtera Corporation

What Employees Want

Have your recruiting strategies kept up as your organization has become more complex and more global? How can you be sure that the Employment Value Proposition (EVP) you are communicating is one that is valuable to the talent you seek to hire and retain? This presentation will provide insights and information to help you make some important adjustments to increase the relevance of your recruiting and retention messages. The speaker will discuss how EVP differs by country and by employee segment, based on 27 characteristics.

Gene Sheih, Senior Counsel, Wells Fargo & Company

The Social Media Revolution 2012 in 3D: Meet Foursquare, WikiLeaks, and Shocking Facebook Apps

WARNING! UNCENSORED! If you think you've seen it all, please fasten your seatbelts as we tackle the newest generation of social media such as Foursquare, Groupon, WikiLeaks, and racy Facebook applications (sex, gambling, drugs). This cutting edge, interactive session features the exciting adventures of employee Sam Elliot with YouTube videos and discussion concerning the impact of these hottest social media trends on employment law. Although you fired Sam at last year's conference, he is up to new tricks in this engaging 3D experience!

Lisa Stevens, Talent Management and Strategy Consulting, PDI Ninth House

Building Powerful Programs and Strategies for High-Potential Leaders

Today's changing business environment has driven a growing number of organizations to develop and enhance strategies for identifying, retaining, and developing their high-potential leadership (HiPo) talent. Groundbreaking new research shows that when HiPo programs effectively balance the needs of the organization with the experience of the individual leaders, organizations reap tangible benefits. This presentation will address how to maximize the performance of your HiPo leadership talent and will review key practices in the High Potential Experience Cycle.

Morning Session II: Breakouts

Roy Ginsburg, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Employees Gone Wild!

This presentation focuses on some of the toughest questions confronted by an HR practitioner. What do you do when employees engage in conduct that seriously damages the company's reputation? When the conduct is of such consequence that the financial repercussions are immediate and severe? What if the behaviors jeopardize the company's very existence? Or are caused by the C-level executives? How do you manage the PR crisis? The legal crisis? The potential criminal law implications? This presentation will involve an interdisciplinary panel and will focus in part on crisis management.

Joe Gruis, Senior Sales Consultant and Jessica Amon, Senior Market Manager, Unum

Voluntary Benefits Fulfillment

This presentation will focus on how an HR department can get the most out of a Voluntary Benefits enrollment. If done properly, a Voluntary Benefits enrollment can be used by an HR team to not only help fill gaps in a company's benefits offering but also to educate employees, boost employee morale, reduce HR's administrative burden, and improve production.

Rana Hobbs, Director of Customer Success, HumanConcepts

What’s Trending in 2012 and Beyond? A Look at Organizational Planning Practices

Is your organization ready for 2012 and beyond? Does it have the agility it needs to adapt to change quickly and effectively? Persistent concerns about risk and cost require organizations to be more agile in managing the workforce. Join the speaker as she discusses how to overcome these challenges through organizational planning. Learn why agility, data integration, and social and mobile collaboration are a necessity for your organization this year, in the midst of changing economic, business, and social conditions.

Sharon Sackett, VP of Talent Assessment, and Jason Ortmeier, Vice President of Leadership Development, MDA Leadership Development

Accelerating Leadership Development

To develop and grow, leaders must understand the skills they need to acquire, focus on those most relevant to their work, and engage in the most beneficial development activities.

This session will focus on the Awaken, Align, Accelerate development framework - an integrated three-phase approach to leadership development and growth. Attendees will learn how this simple, yet pragmatic framework can dramatically increase the effectiveness of leadership development efforts and why it is important to have balance in all three phases.

Tom Steele, Web 2.0 Recruiting Geek, Jobs2Web, Inc.

Social Media Recruiting in 2012: What Works and What Doesn’t

What day of the week generates the best job posting results? Attendees will find out and learn other relevant social recruiting information during this interactive session. The presenter will share aggregate data, trends, and metrics to help employers understand and respond to today's sourcing trends. Participants will learn which social channels are driving the highest visitation and application rates by job category, industry and social source, as well as other interesting factoids.

Lunch - Sponsored by GE

Afternoon Session I: Breakouts

John Budd, Professor and Director, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson School of Management

What is Work, and Why Does it Matter for HR?

What is work? Drawing from his recent book, "The Thought of Work," Professor Budd’s presentation uniquely reveals the wide-ranging nature of work by uncovering the diverse ways in which influential thinkers and practitioners conceptualize work. Why does it matter what work is? Effectively selecting, motivating, engaging, and rewarding employees depends on what work means to them. But these meanings likely differ across employees, so it is important to think carefully about the different meanings of work.

Sally Luck, HR Director, Corporate Services and Wellness and Karen Welle HR Manager – Health and Benefits Programs, Hallmark

Creating a Culture of Health and Wellness through Integrated Programs and Incentives

This presentation will demonstrate how HR professionals can begin to change the culture in their companies to improve health, wellbeing, and health care consumer behavior by making healthy choices easy and rewarding. As a self- insured company, Hallmark has been able to effectively manage the costs of providing healthcare to its employees using an integrated strategy to change the culture and to better educate employees. This strategy involved wellness programs and services, the foods available to employees, a rewards program, and changes in medical benefits plans.

Craig Weber, Founder, Weber Consulting Group

The Conversational Capacity, an Essential Competence for Human Resources Professionals

Human resource professionals have a challenging role that is hard to perform well. Why? It’s at the center of some of the toughest decisions facing an organization, and it’s the “go-to” function when something “hits the fan.” To perform this difficult role effectively, HR professionals need higher conversational capacity, the ability to orchestrate open, balanced, and non-defensive dialogue about inherently difficult subjects. This interactive presentation is for anyone who wants to understand the powerful human factors that limit conversational capacity, and a specific discipline for building it.

Afternoon Keynote Speaker & Closing

Michael Byungnam Lee, Ph.D, President and CEO of LG Academy

Thoughts on Market, Company and People