THE 21st ANNUAL

MISHRM STATE CONFERENCE

Wednesday, Sept. 30 - Friday, Oct. 2, 2009

The Lansing Center - Lansing, MI

"HR's Golden Opportunity"

Registration for the 2009 Annual MISHRM State Conference is NOW OPEN! Register at the following link: http://www.regonline.com/mishrm2009

Pre-Conference Workshops: ($75 each / $125 both)

Wednesday September 30th 9:30am - 12 noon HR Strategy - MSU Eli Broad School of Business - Laura Byars -MSU Executive MBA Programs

Driving Talent Development through Organization Strategy - In these uncertain economic times organizations are often reluctant to invest significant dollars into employee development; yet, more than ever they need high-performing employees. This session will help you translate organization strategy into development opportunities. We will also introduce the Job Challenge Profile, a tool that illuminates the developmental opportunities found in any role. This approach will not only drive an experience-based development strategy but will help ensure that your employees are optimally prepared for the future.

Wednesday September 30th 1:00 - 4:00 pm Social Media Workshop - Kris Dunn

Skeptical about the utility of all the technology tools and buzzwords as they relate to your HR career and practice? Join us for this hands-on session. For three (3) hours, you'll not only learn more about social media tools but actually get started in getting the tools set up and functional. You'll get warmed up with the "Top 10 Reasons HR Pros Should Invest Time in Social Media Tools", then start the process of getting signed in, set up and advancing your functional knowledge of the most popular social media applications.

State Conference Schedule: ($260 for conference - does not include pre-conference workshops)

(Session descriptions can be found below the session schedule)

		Employment	Total Rewards	HR Legal	Professional Development	Master's Series
Thurs, Oct 1	7:00 - 8:15 am Early Bird	Hiring Team Oriented People by Changing The Way You Interview	Managing Employee Stress in Dire Economic Times		Using Technology to Enhance Training and Reduce Costs
Thurs, Oct 1	10 - 11:15 am Session 1	Diversity Scorecards and Equity Indicators: Catalysts for Change	Building A Recognition Culture	Legal Presentation on Retiree Health Benefits	How to Build a Great HR Team
Thurs, Oct 1	1:45 - 3:00 pm Session 2	The Corporate Recruiting Revolution	Linking Pay With Performance: Competency-Based Human Capital Management	Legitimizing Hiring and Promotion Decisions: What the Courts Consider	Best Practices for Mentoring Initiatives	Master's Series 1(a): Leading Leaders Part 1
Thurs, Oct 1	4 - 5:15 pm Session 3	HR's Workforce Engage Opportunity: 10 Principles to Transform Supervisors Into Engagement Agents	Social Security Primer for HR Professionals	Corporate Immigration Compliance in Today�s Economy	Strategies for Email Sanity	Master's Series 1(b): Leading Leaders Part 2
Fri, Oct 2	7:00 - 8:15 am Session 4	Creating Progressive Work Environments		The 20 Biggest Mistakes HR Departments Make: A Lawyer�s Perspective	Appreciative Coaching: Positive Pathways for Client Engagement	Master's Series 2(a): Conflict Management Part 1
Fri, Oct 2	9:15 - 10:30 am Session 5	Accessible Technology for Pre-Employment	Changing Your Destiny: Managing the Unpleasant Truth's About Your Company's Health Care Cost	Nine Months and Counting: Lessons Learned So Far with the New FMLA Regulations	Capstone Project Review	Master's Series 2(b): Conflict Management Part 2

Keynote Speakers Featuring

Walt Stasinski: "Power of Fun at Work" (Thursday)

Rebecca Ryan: "Becoming a Next Generation Company" (Thursday)

Peter Post: "How Rude! The Effects of Incivility in the Workplace" (Friday)

Summary of Breakout Sessions

Early Bird Sessions
Hiring Team Oriented People by Changing The Way You Interview - Clement - James Goebel

Most organizations value team players, yet few know how to find and hire team players. If you truly value a candidate's ability to be a team player, how might you make this a more important component of the job interviewing process? This session explores how one company changed its interviewing strategy to focus on the teaming capabilities of candidates. Experience how this type of job interview works through hands-on exercises. Then explore the ramifications of this interviewing format to long-term organizational success by exploring how this style of job interview has contributed to building an energized and productive workforce.

Managing Employee Stress in Dire Economic Times - Mary Jo LeFevre

Employers more than ever are struggling to deal with increased employee absenteeism and 'presenteeism' due to employee stress, which creates higher risks for employee injury, error, acts of violence, disability claims, discipline problems and lowered morale. This impacts profitability and reputation. This seminar will review the hidden costs of employee stress and depression in the workplace. The session will also include strategies to develop a 'grassroots' program to understand your employee's needs and concerns and solutions to specifically address these issues. This program will review multi-faceted strategies to integrate a 'hands-on1 employee assistance program into wellness programs.

Using Technology to Enhance Training and Reduce Costs - Josh Little

This session will help HR professionals select and implement sensible technological solutions to reduce overall training costs. By the end of the session, a participant will be able to identify the challenges facing corporate training programs today, select sensible technological solutions, and implement them in order to reduce overall training costs. The program will discuss the trainer's dilemma (program growth vs. ROI), the training 'black hole' (measurement and performance), training technology, and tips to both maximize performance and minimize budget.

Employment

Diversity Scorecards and Equity Indicators: Catalysts for Change - Cami Zawacki

Diversity scorecards are catalysts for change when critical equity indicators are developed based on your organization's past employment activities. While organizations are collecting more information, often it is only the anecdotal information that informs diversity initiatives. This session features how HR leaders can use their employment demographics to study patterns and practices and use rates of their applications, hiring, separation, and promotion activities to monitor equal opportunity compliance. The diversity scorecards help measure the effectiveness of the organization's diversity initiatives.

The Corporate Recruiting Revolution - Tim Sackett

While the current economic climate has helped almost everyone in corporate staffing, the demographics of our society will eventually catch up and those companies not prepared will severely struggle to get talent. This session will teach you how to turn your Corporate Staffing Department philosophy of "Post and Pray", into a department that will rival the best headhunting firms in the industry. I've been on both sides of the fence and making this happen is a simple of process of showing leadership the value equation, getting the right people on the bus and changing how you (the recruiting department) views your role. Come learn how to revolutionize your department and add value to your organizations.

HR's Workforce Engage Opportunity: 10 Principles to Transform Supervisors Into Engagement Agents - Marc Drizin

This session will highlight Employee Engagement. Learn how to increase employee satisfaction at the work place through effective engagement of your workforce. Retention of your employees is key is producing bottom line results and helps HR measure their strategic value.

Creating Progressive Work Environments - Richard Sheridan

Menlo Innovations has been recognized as a work place with a set of progressive and innovative human resources policies. Menlo's policies support progressive strategies such as job sharing, opportunities to retrain on the job, peer reviews, and mothers that bring their infants to work. Any of these progressive policies could have been challenging to implement. However, by integrating these policies with the operational policies of the organization each of these "benefits" ultimately became a natural outcome of the way in which work gets done. This session will explore how the interplay between the operational policies and human resource policies of this firm has resulted in its unique culture.

Accessible Technology for Pre-Employment - Janet Peters
Technology has made significant inroads into human resource employment processes, particularly pre-employment. The accessibility of the technology used in these processes is much less well documented. This session will discuss employment barriers if technology systems are not designed and implemented in an accessible manner and the impact on disability non-discrimination in employer practice.

Total Rewards
Building A Recognition Culture - Mike Byam

During challenging economic times, businesses often need to ask more of their employees with little to give in return in the way of bonuses and wage increases. Therefore, appropriate recognition for extra effort and dedication becomes more important than ever.

Linking Pay With Performance: Competency-Based Human Capital Management - Joseph Kilmartin

This presentation will focus on the case of a growing company that is using competencies as the foundation criteria for successfully linking pay with performance. Attendees will learn which competencies can be linked to the compensation program and how closely or directly they can be linked. Attendees will also learn why integrating competencies to the compensation program can be especially vital when considering globalization as an imperative.

Social Security Primer for HR Professionals - Vonda VanTil

Help employee's understanding of the investment in Social Security. Explore the benefits available to them, and understand the best time to retire is and how to utilize the services of the Social Security Administration. Access the Social Security Administration and learn about what's done online

Changing Your Destiny: Managing the Unpleasant Truth's About Your Company's Health Care Cost - Daniel Rickard

With employer-provided health care receiving more attention in Washington than perhaps ever before, this timely program will reveal the true cost drivers for health plans and will provide a comprehensive toolbox of strategies to help HR professionals change company culture, better quantify risk, define broker/TPA/consultant expectations, and avoid mistakes in cost management

HR Legal

Legal Presentation on Retiree Health Benefits - Richard Warren

Many Michigan employers are sitting on a financial time bomb if they provide health insurance benefits to retirees. Lawsuits are being filed as employers cut back on these benefits. Many employers have agreed to provide retiree insurance benefits to employees with the mistaken assumption they can modify and/or terminate them. This program will provide background to the problem, and discuss strategies to limit employer exposure and, if litigation occurs, how to litigate these complex disputes.

Legitimizing Hiring and Promotion Decisions: What the Courts Consider - Stacy Hickox

Many employers face discrimination claims by people who are not hired or turned down for a promotion. A compilation of employment discrimination federal court decisions will be reviewed to provide a greater understanding of how much of an inquiry is made into the reasons justifying an employer's hiring or promotion decision. For those courts which review those human resources decisions, we will look at exactly what factors justify those decisions in the courts' eyes.

Corporate Immigration Compliance in Today's Economy - Scott Cooper

Layoffs, salary cuts, and increased vigilance by the Department of Homeland Security require employers to rethink their immigration-related programs and policies. At the same time, the need to retain certain highly skilled foreign nationals and to operate in an increasingly global human resource environment requires innovative approaches to meeting your business' needs. You will gain ideas on how to scale your program to meet new regulatory and market expectations and how to tackle compliance problems which you may not even know exist.

The 20 Biggest Mistakes HR Departments Make: A Lawyer's Perspective - Gary Chamberlin

Overview of the most frequently noticed HR practice issues facing employers. Learn legal risks associated with wage and hour compliance, termination practices, overtime exemption classification and FMLA logistics. Review appropriate uses of employment form documents, supervisor training and non-compete agreements.

Nine Months and Counting: Lessons Learned So Far with the New FMLA Regulations - Jim Thelen

After years of anticipation, the U.S. Department of Labor issued final revised FMLA regulations last November, which became effective this past January. Employers had no choice but to quickly adapt to several new forms and notice requirements, and many had little, if any, time for training on how to use the new regulations to rein in FMLA abuse. In this session, attendees will learn about the various ways in which employer rights were strengthened and also discuss 'best practices' for FMLA administration.

Professional Development
How to Build a Great HR Team - Bill Hendry

Organizations need to have highly effective HR teams, since the work they do affects the entire organization. Team building provides a way to improve team and organizational effectiveness and increase job satisfaction. HR professionals will learn the 7 key components of effective teams, and tips on how to take action to implement the model. This session will expose participants to a team effectiveness model that has been developed through both research and practical application that can be used to chart of path to improving.

HR Team effectiveness Best Practices for Mentoring Initiatives - Michelle Fanroy

This session will focus on designing, implementing, managing and evaluating internal mentoring programs. You will be introduced to techniques on how to form strategic alliances. Presenters will also cover the "ins and outs" of managing internal relationships.

Strategies for Email Sanity - Randall Dean

It seems that every day, managers and professionals are getting buried deeper and deeper under a continuing stream of both useful and useless e-mail. Without a system for getting "control of the beast", many people spend too much time inefficiently managing their e-mails and identifying key priorities and tasks. This session will allow participants to retake control of their e-mail account and activities through proven strategies and systems for daily and long term e-mail management developed by a leading author and expert on time and e-mail management and professional organization.

Appreciative Coaching: Positive Pathways for Client Engagement Jacquelin Binkert

Appreciative Coaching has its roots in Appreciative Inquiry, a successful change strategy used worldwide. It is a transformational model of individual change that has been presented internationally to HR professionals and managers. Presenter will blend theory and practice using real world examples. Participants will learn and practice new tools to help them flourish with their clients using appreciative language and a spirit of inquiry that brings forth the best in others. This session will help participants to engage their clients from an appreciative perspective, which focuses on what happens when people are at their best - which creates a springboard for positive change

Capstone Project Review - Faith Swanson

This session will provide examples of demonstrating the ROI of a large HR initiative by planning appropriately, data collection, and communicating effectively to senior leadership. In 2006, Right Management and Meijer co-presented on a strategic initiative to prepare candidates for their most critical position - Store Director. The "Capstone" process included multiple components, and was delivered internally by HR and Senior Leadership. Now, over two years later, the presenters have validation data showing that the Capstone was successful - graduates of the program have better performing stores. Discussion will include lessons learned and challenges to demonstrating ROI for this tremendous initiative.