Welcome to
Chapter 0048
P.O. Box 81066
Lincoln, NE 68501
www.lincolnhr.org
Topics to be Covered
 History & Purpose of Organization
 Membership Benefits
 Membership Requirements
 Monthly Programs
 Who’s Who on the Board
 What is SHRM
 Human Resource Certification (HRCI)
 LHRMA Scholarships
 Code of Ethics
 Closing
Purpose of Lincoln Human Resource
Management Association (LHRMA)
 LHRMA was founded in 1953 but was once
known as the Lincoln Personnel
Management Association (LPMA). LHRMA
became affiliated with SHRM in October of
1962.
 The purpose of LHRMA is to provide for
the interchange of ideas, experiences and
methods concerning the relationships
between management and employees, and
to promote professional ethics and
acquaintanceship among those involved in
professional human resource
management.
Membership Benefits
 Monthly Meetings/Workshops
 SHRM State Conference
 Professional Networking
 Monthly Newsletter
 Web site www.lincolnhr.org
 Exposed to Human Resource Information
 Committee Work with Peers
 Area Wage & Salary Survey
 Study Group for PHR/SPHR Certification Course
 Career Development Opportunities
 Legislative Updates
 Membership Directory
 Scholarship Programs
 Diversity Programs
Membership Requirements & Dues
 LHRMA memberships are calendar year
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memberships.
Dues are $50.
Memberships are based on the individual vs.
corporate or institutional memberships.
The membership directory contains proprietary
information and must not be used for solicitation
purposes. It must not be disclosed, reproduced,
distributed to, or used by an individual,
organization or entity that is not affiliated with
LHRMA without the prior express written consent
of LHRMA.
To report changes to your name, title, company,
phone number, etc. contact Membership Services
at (402)781-2054 OR e-mail
infochange@lincolnhr.org.
LHRMA Monthly Programs
 Meeting Practices
 Meetings are your best opportunity to network with
other human resource professionals, further your
human resource knowledge, and share best practices
with your colleagues in the same field. This is invaluable.
 Meeting information and topic information can be found
on LHRMA website, LHRMA Resource Newsletter, and is
sent via an e-mail notification, generally a couple weeks
before the meeting registration deadline.
 Meetings are normally the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
LHRMA Monthly Programs (cont’d)
 Meeting Practices (cont’d)
 Registration options:
 E-mail reply to the e-mail meeting notification
 E-mail message to lhrma0048@yahoo.com
 Registration deadline is noon on the Friday before the
meeting.
 $5 meeting fee for late registrations
OR
 If you registered and did not attend and didn’t cancel
before the registration deadline.
LHRMA Monthly Programs (cont’d)
 Things to remember:
 Meetings are for members only and not to share with
co-workers if the member can’t attend.
 An individual who is not a member of LHRMA may
attend a monthly meeting, but MUST be accompanied
by a member of LHRMA. If the guest does not know a
member they may contact a board member and go as
the board member’s guest. Guest may attend as a
guest ONLY ONCE for the year and then should apply
for membership if they wish to continue attending the
meetings.
Special Monthly Meeting Information
February:
Student Chapter sponsored meeting with UNL, Doane, and NE Wesleyan
College campuses.
March:
Triad Meeting with the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) the
Lincoln Management Society (LMS).
July:
Recognition of newly certified PHR/SPHR members.
September:
SHRM State Conference. No regular monthly meeting.
October:
Staff Appreciation/Past President’s Recognition.
November:
Annual election of Board members, member volunteer recognition.
December:
Informal Holiday gathering.
Several half-day LHRMA workshops are generally offered during the year in the
areas of diversity, compensation and benefits or HR legal topics.
Who’s Who – Board Members
 President, Cathy Maddox, PHR
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Hampton Enterprises, Inc.
Past-President, Carmen Wiles, SPHR
Cooperative Benefit Administrators, Inc.
President-Elect, Mark Pankoke, PHR
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Programs Chair, Judy Ganoug
NE Advocacy Services, Inc.
Treasurer/Registration Chair, Cindy Mefford, PHR
Eastmont Towers
Membership Chair, Lin Blodgett, XMBA
NEBCO, Inc.
Who’s Who – Board Members
(cont’d)
 Secretary, Elly Hardekopf, PHR
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Molex
Diversity Chair, Barb Benes, PHR
Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.
Workforce Readiness Chair, Julie Singh, PHR
Tabitha
SHRM Foundation Representative, Russ Roberts
Family Service
Administrative Assistant, Kathy Harper
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership
President, Cathy Maddox, PHR
Human Resources
Coordinator
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Provide leadership to the chapter membership
that is consistent with the state, area, and
national SHRM policy, strategies and objectives.
 Operate the chapter effectively to ensure the
needs of the members are met.
 Serve as a resource for the membership and for
the community.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 There isn’t one specific thing for this position;
however, there are numerous opportunities to
serve on any of the committees.
Past-President, Carmen Wiles, SPHR
Human Resource Manager
 Responsibilities
 Provides guidance and advice to the President
and Board during the year when needed.
 Serve on committees where needed.
 Continues to support the membership and
Board throughout the year.
President-Elect & Gov’t Relations Chair
Mark Pankoke, SPHR,
Sr. Human Resource Manager
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Educates membership on human resource related legislation and
provides opportunities to help impact legislation through letters
and lobbying efforts.
 Supports the President and Board members in any way possible
and serves as President in his/her absence.
 Provides letter writing samples and opportunities for members
to write to legislators. Encourages members to actively participate
in the legislative process.
 Finds ways to increase membership letter writing at both the state
and federal levels, selects priority bills to focus on and monitors
the status, provides membership reports on legislation that is
relevant to human resources, introduces the committee to the NE
Senators, educates them on the steps of the bill process, and has
one committee member attend the Employment Law and Legislative
Conference in March.
President-Elect & Gov’t Relations Chair
(cont’d)
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Serve on committee to help prioritize, and monitor
state and federal legislation, help educate members on
the legislative process, and provide legislative
resource materials for interested membership.
Program Chair, Judy Ganoung
Fiscal and HR Director
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Provide interesting topics and speakers on the most
current Human Resource information for the monthly
chapter meetings.
 Orchestrate the meeting sites and menus.
 Facilitate the Programs Committee meetings to
provide diverse input to help plan future LHRMA
meetings.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Serve on the Program Committee to help provide
topic and speaker ideas for the meetings and
workshops, help make the meeting arrangements,
and assist in any way with the program delivery.
Treasurer & Registration Chair,
Cindy Mefford, PHR
Director, Human Resources
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Keeps accurate account of the monthly
expenses to ensure proper billing.
 Provides an annual report of monthly meeting
attendance & expenses.
 Provides a monthly treasurer report to the
board
 Maintains an accurate registration list for each
of the meetings and workshops.
 Ensures that meeting registration goes quickly
and smoothly.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Help at the monthly meeting registration table.
Membership Chair,
Lin Blodgett, XMBA
Human Resource Director
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Promotes LHRMA membership through current
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members and educates the community on LHRMA.
Welcomes and introduce new members to the
membership and provides them with a warm welcome.
Provides orientation for the new members.
Promotes SHRM membership and educates members
on the SHRM benefits.
Responds to membership inquiries and processes new
member applications within the week.
Membership Chair, (cont.)
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Talk to others about LHRMA memberships and
invite them to attend as your guest to a monthly
meeting.
 Notify the Chair of possible new members.
 Serve as a “new member buddy” at the new
member’s first meeting.
Secretary & Publicity Chair,
Elly Hardekoph, PHR
Senior H.R. Generalist
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Take and record minutes at the monthly board meetings.
 Gather articles, and format the monthly newsletter and
submit to publishers for print.
 Publicize LHRMA events in the LHRMA Resource and in
the local media.
 Provide a high-quality, well-designed and timely
newsletter.
 Record accurate and complete minutes of the board
meetings.
 Publicize more LHRMA events in the local print media.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Provide articles for the newsletter.
 Take pictures of LHRMA events.
Diversity Chair, Barb Benes, PHR
HRIS Analyst
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Make a significant effort to recruit diverse members in
the HR community to become LHRMA members.
 Partner with the Chamber of Commerce and other
local entities to establish a network for local diversity
recruiting.
 Raises awareness, understanding, and provides
education to the membership on diversity.
 As a committee, monitors local and regional diversity
issues and programs, and hold one diversity
workshop, annually.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Serve on the diversity committee to help raise
awareness and understanding of the membership on
diversity.
 Help recruit diverse membership
 Help provide articles for the diversity column.
Workforce Readiness Chair,
Julie Singh,PHR
HR Coordinator
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Serves as a resource for the SHRM Student Chapters at
the area colleges, high schools, and Junior Achievement.
 Stays in contact with the SHRM student chapters and
encourage the chapter presidents to attend the LHRMA
monthly meetings.
 Upon request helps the student chapters obtain speakers
for their meetings and assist with the student sponsored
LHRMA meeting held in February.
 Monitors and evaluates LHRMA activities concerning
education issues and encourage chapter involvement
with our student chapters.
Workforce Readiness Chair
(cont’d)
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Serve on the Workforce Readiness Committee
 Assist students with job shadowing, resume
critiquing, and mock interviews.
 Provide company internship information and/or
company tours.
 Serve as a judge for the Junior Achievement
mock interview event.
SHRM Foundation Representative
Russ Roberts,
Human Resources Director
 Responsibilities & Goals
 Raises awareness among LHRMA professionals as
to the services and support provided by our national
professional association, SHRM.
 Conducts fund raising activities semi-annually
within the membership to help financially support
SHRM. One project will be to gather “goody
baskets” from member companies for LHRMA
professionals can either bid or receive as a drawing
prize.
 Volunteer Opportunities
 Assist with the fundraising activities in conjunction
with a LHRMA event/meeting.
What is SHRM?
 The Society for Human Resource
Management is the leading voice of the
human resource profession, representing
the interests of more than 233,000
professional and student members.
LHRMA encourages its members to join
SHRM, but a SHRM membership is not
required to be a LHRMA member.
SHRM Membership Benefits
 A Voice in Washington - representation,
membership involvement, direction and
legislative updates.
 Information Resources - information center,
white papers, and sample forms & toolkits.
 Publications – HR Magazine, HR Week, SHRM
Legal Report, Mosaics, and Research Reports.
 Professional Development – annual conference,
seminars, legislative converence and legal
update, SHRM Learning System, Self-Study
Products, books & videos, HR Salary Surveys,
and the SHRM Academy.
How do I become a SHRM member?
 Yearly dues - $160. SHRM offers a $15 discount to
first time members or members who rejoin after a
year’s lapse which makes it a $145 joining fee.
LHRMA offers an additional discount of $25 to help
promote SHRM which makes it a $120 membership.
 Each year LHRMA holds a special SHRM
Membership Drive for only $99. This is available
from 2/1/08 till 4/30/08. Contact Membership for
more information.
 Applications are available from the SHRM website
at www.shrm.org or from the LHRMA website at
www.lincolnhr.org or from the Membership Chair.
Mail SHRM application to LHRMA Membership
Chair.
Human Resource
Certification Institute-- HRCI
A designation distinguishes you among management
and peers, and shows your commitment to the human
resource profession. In addition, these valuable
credentials can open doors to unlimited career
opportunities. The designations are:
 Professional Human Resources--PHR
 Senior Professional Human Resources--SPHR
 Global Professional Human Resources--GPHR
 LHRMA offers a PHR/SPHR Certification Prep Course
 Uses a lecture format that encompasses the six
functional areas that make up the test specifications.
 Held one night per week for 3-hour sessions for
13-weeks in Spring/Fall
HRCI – Human Resource
Certification Institute (cont’d)
 LHRMA instructors, who are certified practitioners in
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Human Resources provide both practical and technical
expertise to participants.
Each participant gets a certification guide.
Each participant needs the text, “Human Resource.
Management” 10th Edition, plus the study guide.
Enrollment Fee - $25 LHRMA Members, $35 non-LHRMA
members.
There has been a 95% success rate of passing the exam
for those who participated in the study group.
More information about the exam or eligibility can be
accessed online at www.hrci.org.
Human Resource Scholarships
 UNL Scholarship - In conjunction with the
College of Business at UNL and the
Student Chapter Advisor, we award a
student the Richard Bourne Scholarship
for $500.
 NE Wesleyan University Scholarship - In
conjunction with the College of Business
Administration and Economics at NWU
and the Student Chapter Advisor, we
award a student the Dr. LaVerne C. Rudell
Scholarship for $500.
 Doane College Scholarship - In
conjunction with the Doane College
Director of Financial Aid we award a
student with the M. David Osterhout
Human Relations Scholarship for $500.
LHRMA Code of Ethics
As a member of the Lincoln Human Resource
Management Association, an affiliate of
the Society for Human Resource
Management, I recognize and accept
the responsibility incumbent upon me
as a member of the Human Resource
Profession. I pledge myself to observe,
practice, and maintain ethical practices of
the profession.
And Finally,
We are excited to have you as a new
member and we look forward to
seeing you at our monthly
meetings.
Please consider the many
committee volunteer opportunities
throughout the year and contact a
board member to request
involvement.