SHRM10TV @ Strategy — A Conversation with Kris Dunn, social media strategist

Kris Dunn, social media strategist and HR blogger presented a session at this year’s conference entitled, “You Don’t Need A Corporate Facebook or Twitter Page, You Need Assasins”. Kris stopped by the Social Media Studio to share his insights on the topic of social media strategy for organizations and the role of SHRM in assisting HR professionals in the area of social media.

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SHRM10TV @ SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat — Dr. Karen Stephenson, Corporate Anthropologist

At the SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat, we had a chance to talk with Dr. Karen Stephenson, noted corporate anthropologist to get her thoughts on the event and the role of SHRM.

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SHRM10 TV @ SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat — A Conversation with Shannon Deegan Google’s Director of People Operations

We spoke with Shannon Deegan, Director of People Operations at Google on a range of topics including HR innovations, and the SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat. Mr. Deegan is responsible for Google’s Strategy & Operations, M&A, Mobility, Central Staffing, and Global Talent & Outreach Programs. Here are a few highlights of our conversation.

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SHRM10 TV @ SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat– WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge

As a part of the 2010 SHRM Foundation Thought Leaders Retreat and Strategy Conference we invited some of the top thought leaders in HR to join us in the Social Media Studio to share their thoughts on the conference and other innovations.     First up,  WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge, recognized as an innovator in the areas of talent management and executive leadership.   In addition to his duties at WD-40 Mr. Ridge, is the Founder of the www.thelearningmoment.net and the co-author of Helping People Win at Work.

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SHRM10 TV @ Diversity — A Conversation with Shirley Davis

At the SHRM 2010 Diversity and Inclusion Conference we spoke with Dr. Shirley Davis, SHRM’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives about the conference and other topics. Highlights of our conversation can be found below.

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The Road to Strategy Blog — “Is HR a Strategic Partner?”

By Rich Horwath,
Keynote Speaker at the SHRM 2010 Strategy Conference

Rich Horwath

During a trip to England to lead a strategy program for executives from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, an interesting topic came up. Several of the European business leaders wanted to know what role HR plays in strategy in the United States. They were surprised to hear that over the past five years, HR executives’ own assessment that they play a solid role in strategy development dropped from 41% to 32%.

Why is that? Is it because their colleagues from marketing, sales, finance, and operations have greater strategic insights than HR managers?

No. I believe it’s because HR executives haven’t had the tools and frameworks as readily available as the other disciplines to communicate their strategic insights with the rest of the organization. If you’re an HR manager, what tools are you using to generate and communicate strategic insights to your colleagues?

The answer can determine whether you’re sitting at the big table during the meeting or setting up the big table prior to the meeting.

Share your thoughts on the Strategy Conference group on SHRM Connect.  For more information on Mr. Horwath and other speakers at this year’s Strategy Conference,   click here.

About the Author

Rich Horwath works with Fortune 500 companies located in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. He guides executive management teams through the strategy development process and has helped world-class organizations such as Abbott, Adidas and Pfizer increase their organizational competency in strategic thinking.

SHRM10TV — SHRM CEO Hank Jackson @ The Economist’s Human Potential Conference

The Economist’s Ideas Economy: Human Potential, exclusively platinum-level sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), attracted nearly 300 people to its September event in New York City dedicated to bringing top thinkers to an engaging conversation around the idea of human potential. Included among the high-profile attendees were CEOs,policymakers, entrepreneurs, educators, authors and HR professionals, among many others. With thought leaders in government, business and academia, the engaging and wide-ranging program addressed how to optimize human potential for a drastically changed workforce of the future.   See excerpts from Hank Jackson’s remarks below:

The Road to Strategy 2010 — Preparing for Change

By Steve Miranda, SHRM Chief Human Resource and Strategic Planning Officer

Here in North America, October is a month that’s all about change. Leaves on trees begin to change colors. Temperatures begin to drop, and there’s a crisp chill in the air. In the business world, October signifies the final fiscal quarter for many organizations as they balance the competing priorities of successfully wrapping up the year against the changes required to implement new strategies and business plans for the following year.

The SHRM Strategy Conference, October 6-8 in San Antonio, Texas is also all about change. It’s about learning new skills and best practices that will prepare you and your organization to successfully flex and bend as you lead the teams you support to even greater successes in an increasingly complicated world. As many of the world’s countries slowly emerge from the recession, many organizations are preparing for even greater changes ahead and discovering new ways to be successful in a new workforce frontier. HR leaders, like you, are the ones that will be blazing these new trails.

No one knows about change better than Anne Mulcahy. She was the former chairwoman and CEO of Xerox. She led Xerox through an incredible change that turned the organization around. Before her role as chair and CEO one of the roles she held during her career at Xerox was VP for human resources. She has walked in many of your shoes and understands what it is like to not just support change but to actually lead it from her role within HR. We are excited that Mulcahy will be speaking at the SHRM Strategy Conference this October.

As many of us know, one of the best ways to learn is by listening to stories. I’d therefore like to invite you to tell us your story. I want to hear how you are preparing your organization and yourself for change. What changes are you personally as well as your HR departments working on to help your organization be successful in the years to come? Tell me your experiences and challenges on SHRMConnect at http://community.shrm.org/?q=node/1378.

 About the Author

 

Steve Miranda is the Chief Human Resource and Strategic Planning Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In this role, Steve is responsible for the development of world-class HR programs for SHRM, as well as globalization and planning strategies focused on serving existing and future members.

Best of SHRM10 — The Official Annual Conference TweetUp

Video from our first-ever SHRM Annual Conference TweetUp co-hosted by Monster.com at Vin De Syrah in San Diego, CA.

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SHRM10 Blogapalooza Kicks Off in Illinois! — By Curt Midkiff (@shrmsocmedguy)

DaveTheHrCzar and IL SHRM10 attendees

After weeks of planningthe post SHRM10blogapalooza tour has kicked off. Over the next few months, I will be attending a range of events to engage in interactive communication with our members and external audiences to get their input and feedback on our social media efforts.

MY FIRST STOP — IL SHRM Conference — The first stop of the tour was the Illinois State Conference.   Two of my popular SHRM “tweeps”  John J. aka @jkjhr and Dave R.  aka DaveTheHrCzar invited me down to join them and over 500 attendees at the Drury Lane Conference Center.    In the person of Dave Ryan, I think I found a kindred tech spirit as we spent the first few hours of my trip discussing techie items capped off with a trip to Best Buy for camera equipment.    The hotel alone made me wish I had another day or two here, but duty calls at the home office so the Blogapalooza bus must head back to DC tonite but not before spending a little time with some volunteer leaders for an annual conference recap and reception.

I am joined here by some familiar SHRM faces — Vince from the SHRM Store and Martha Ramirez, Director, Midwest Region who are here interacting and representing the home team!

Stay tuned for pics and videos of the conference and make sure to visit their blog at