CMSHRM Board Meeting & Strategic Planning Session
January 24, 2013
St. Cloud State University Welcome Center
Strategic Planning Session: 2:00 to 4:00 PM
CMSHRM Board Meeting: 4:05 to 5:10 PM
Members present: Marcia Goss, Tammy Anhalt-Warner, Valerie Larkin, Michelle Arnold,
Sandie Weber, Lori Athman, Julie Schulte, Julie Haberle, Joanne Kaczmarek, Jennifer
Gertken, Tad Schoeppner, Nathan Brown, Andy Jacobs, Katrina Mathews
Absent: None
1. The Stragetic Planning session started promptly at 2:00 PM. Bruce Miles, Big River
Consulting group led the board in this session. The regular board meeting started
promptly at 4:05 PM. The board will follow up by working in small groups toward 5
priority goals set for 2013. Our main focus for 2013 is education for our members.
2. Announcements: The CMSHRM Leadership Conference was held on January 20th
and 21st. Marcia, Tammy, Valerie, Jen and Joanne, CMSHRM board members were in
attendance and received valuable information that will be implemented to our chapter over
the next year.
Jen reported that there were some very interesting topics that were shared at the
conference. Specifically, she had attended the membership sessions and learned of the
many valuable resources available on the SHRM website.
Marcia stated another section that was very intriguing was the concept of “Hacking” which
was shared in one of the sessions at the conference. Essentially, you can hack anything that
is not awesome or performing at its best. For example, if you want to increase membership
by 3%, you would hack (or take apart) all aspects that make membership increase, make
action plans to go forward and SHARE it! A similar process to what we did today with the
strategic planning.
Val reported that she also learned how many amazing resources are available on the SHRM
website and noted how valuable these resources would be to small businesses. There is a
section online where you can get answers to your questions by submitting them. In
addition, something that may be helpful for the board is the Volunteer Leader Resource
Center (VLRC) on the SHRM website. This section online contains a lot of valuable
information for board members including position descriptions.
Val noted when leaving the conference, it became very clear that we are a thriving Chapter
and we need to keep it going. We hope to keep it going by starting to invest into our
people. Tammy concurred stating that we hope to outline how to spend some of our
money and how we can reinvest in our people by following some of the ideas provided in
our strategic planning breakout sessions.
Marcia shared that Nancy Conway announced that MN is a target state this year with
SHRM for advocacy and with regards to what is going on in the Legislature. This year
MN SHRM is hoping to sponsor something new in May. This will be a 1 ½ day
conference in the Brainerd Lakes area. More details to come.
The annual SHRM Conference is being held in Chicago this year from June 16th-19th.
Linda Besse is looking into the pricing of getting a bus to go to the Conference and if there
would be at least 25 people, a discounted conference fee could be available. It is expected
that there will be 15,000 people in attendance at the conference. The conference will be
held in Orlando in 2014. A suggestion was made to budget for the President or President
Elect to attend each year. Budgets are based on income and in this meeting it is unknown
where our membership income will fall yet.
The MNSHRM Conference is being held in Duluth, MN on October 13th-15th this year.
Julie Schulte will be organizing the MN State Conference in St. Cloud for 2014. The
committee planning the Duluth conference will be making timelines for the event this year
that they will share in preparation for the 2014 State Conference in St. Cloud.
2. Membership: We have 22 new members so far in 2013 . We are currently sitting at
110 total members which is about average as we are still getting renewals and payments
coming in for 2013. Last year in April we were up to 151 total members and we are off to
a good start for this year as well.
3. Vision of Roles: A volunteer listing from last year was distributed which is utilized
similar to an organizational chart for CMSHR. Board members will all review the
document to see if there is anything that needs to be added and/or modified with the
committees and volunteers we currently work with. Also, if we have any areas of need,
please note that so we can get this up to date for Lynn, our Volunteer Coordinator.
* Joanne will get the names of the membership committee to Marcia.
* Hospitality is looking to get more student involvement with check in process (door
greeters).
* Marcia will ask if Diane Swenson would be interested in volunteering again on the Audit
committee along with Melissa Kron.
* Julie Haberle has 11 people that are currently signed up as mentors. There are no further
needs for mentors, however, volunteers are needed for speaking to clubs or classes at the
colleges.
The Volunteer Listing can be found in Dropbox under Board on the 2nd tab. Marcia will
copy and paste the document for 2013 revisions to be made. Each Board Member should
review the list before the next board meeting. Submit volunteers you are working with to
Marcia and we will review an updates list at the next board meeting. Feel free to reach out
to CMSHRM members you know who may like to volunteer.
4. LinkedIn: We need to work on better consistency or informing members on how to
receive communication through LinkedIn. Continue to email to improve communication
with members. Perhaps we need to educate members on how to improve their settings in
Linked In to improve communication of the CMSHRM group.
5. Check In Process at Chapter Meetings: The check in process continues to be more
and more effective. Currently Jen and Sandie will work on adding Pay Pal to the website
for chapter meetings. While at check in, we are looking at encouraging people to write
their checks out before getting in the check in line and/or having their cash ready. This is
something that the hospitality committee is looking into. It is noted that January meeting
may take longer for registration as there are/were many people who are submitting
applications and/or payments for the year.
6. Diversity: Katrina has had several ideas relating to Diversity which include ideas for
icebreakers and networking at the meetings. Some may include dividing tables by industry
or company size or distributing cards for table seating so members can network with
others. It was discussed that members in the past didn’t care to have “assigned” seating
however we could look at doing these activities as an icebreaker into the meeting after
members have had an opportunity to socialize and eat with one another before the meeting
begins.
Board members will continue to spread out being seated around the room.
7. Financials: A draft budget was distributed to the board. Because we are not sure on
the number of members we will have for 2013 or the membership income, this is all based
on assumptions and preliminary data. This will continue to be a work in progress until the
beginning of our fiscal year which is April 1st.
Each board member should review the budget and if there is anything that needs to be
added, removed or revised should be brought to attention at the next board meeting.
While looking at ways to invest in our members, a recommendation to contribute funds
for some students to attend a SHRM student regional conference in Iowa was proposed.
Many students are reluctant to go due to cost constraints. Currently, Lucas Joliette, a
CMSHRM student member is submitting a cost breakdown to Marcia for review. In
supporting students, the board has proposed to approve a $500 contribution for student
membership to attend this conference. Tammy Anhalt-Warner motioned to approve and
Julie Haberle seconded the motion. All board members voted in favor of the motion.
9. Announcements: Marcia announced the following: Nathan Brown is attending a
session with Linda Yozamp, MN Workforce Center which will help him in his Workforce
Development role. The session is held at the end of January. Andy Jacobs has volunteered
to attend the March Chamber Lunch and Learn session – Betsy Lund on policy books is
the topic. Andy will pass out brochures and speak briefly about CMSHRM membership
there. Val presented tips to Andy on how the sessions run.
The May 9th ½ day CMSHRM morning seminar replaces our May chapter meeting.
Calvary Community Church has us confirmed for the change date and time. Melanie
Hartmann, Hi Impact training is the speaker and it is approved for 2.5 HRCI credit. We
will need to set registration start time for chapter announcement and hospitality plan.
Business Central Magazine article (carryover from last year’s board action plans): Lori
Athmann recently wrote and submitted the article about CMSHRM and how membership
may help a business with their HR needs. The article will be released in a spring
publication.
8. Next Meeting – February Board meeting – Thursday, February 28, 2013, St. Cloud
State Welcome Center from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.
9. The meeting adjourned the meeting at 5:10 PM.
Respectfully submitted by
Michelle Arnold
CMSHRM Chapter Secretary
Lifelong Learning through CMSHRM.
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