April 6, 2011
SHRP Programs Committee Meeting
Holland & Knight
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Attendees:
1. Tammy Cowser, Director
2. O’Brien McMahon
3. Phil Schreiber
4. Lew Jacobson
5. Shelly Nelson
6. Amy Brennan
7. Courtney Pike
8. Kathleen Seebert
9. Christine Carter-Eggers
10. Debi Lusk (Phone)
11. Beth Williams
12. Greg Boswell
13. Suzie Rybicki (new member)
14. Paul Salasky
15. Kim Miggenburg, SHRP HQ
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April 13 Full Day Conference:
 Just approved for 6 hours (entire conference) strategic recertification credit hours
i. Voice Shot sent out last night to 182 SPHR Certified members in our data
base telling them about this development and encouraging them to attend
the conference
 68 attendees to date – need/want 100
 Need greeters in the morning
i. Need three session hosts for the one breakout session at 12:45 – 2:15
 O’Brien will host the session he put together
 Kathleen will host the Talent and Performance Management Session
(Taleo)
 Beth Williams will host the Retaining Talent as the Economy
Recovers (BPI)
 Networking event afterwards should be promoted as well
i. Kim to remind board to attend that if not the entire day
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Education Outlook for remainder of year
 Tammy indicated that in addition to our normal calendar that we are working on we
have added a possible workshop (see below) in June, September and October and a
SHRM Legislative Update that they will provide to us as a membership recruitment
effort.
i. Additionally, we3’d like to see some roundtables developed this year and
most certainly next year on a regular basis.
ii. The evaluations and success of each roundtable could feed into further
developing the topic and/or speaker into a session, stand alone event or
workshop.
 Tammy is working on a flow chart to put together the process to mine for speakers.
i. She will also suggest wording for an evaluation process and questions to ask
the speaker.
ii. Once this is done, we’ll get the proper people in place to conduct interviews.
iii. We have sources to pull from:
 Our sponsors
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Submissions
Our network
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Draft of remainder of 2011:
 May 11: Rethinking the RFP (O’Brien)
 June 8: HR Development (Greg) – normal monthly meeting – 65
people
a. Possible Workshop added June 21, 22 or 23 (35 people – ½
day probably morning))
 July 21: Networking Event with SMAGC (Zed451)
a. Possible July Addition: SHRM Legislative
Update/Membership Recruitment (200 people classroom
style)
 August 10: Legal Update – Privacy in the Workplace (1/2 day legal
update – 65-70 people)
 Sept 22: Cocktails and Connections
a. Possible Workshop added earlier in month
 Oct 5: Engagement - Motivation Show (Greg)
a. Possible Workshop added later in October (35 people – ½
day to 1 day – maybe 2 but doubtful)
 Nov 9– Full Day Conference – we have space I believe at the
Federal Reserve
 Dec 1 – Networking Event
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Additionally, we’re probably going to add some roundtable discussions this year – not
many – but maybe 2 – so we’d need a room for maybe 15/20 people Workshops:
i. Successful workshop is probably 35 people – we would settle for 15-20 if
need be
ii. Christine and her committee talked to Lawrence about his On-Boarding (he
will not charge us to conduct this workshop) and should be ready to go by
one of the suggested dates in June.
 Action Item: Kim will ask Lawrence which date is might work for
him: June 21, 22 or 23
 Action Item: Kim will work on securing space for the workshop once
date is determined
 Action Item: Kim will work with Christine on pricing and getting
marketing piece together for distribution.
Webinars
i. Tammy indicated that we would like to have some Webinars – these may
come totally from partnerships with sponsors
Roundtables
i. Tammy reported that we have two sites being offered to hold facilitated
roundtables
ii. These should just stimulate conversation – be facilitated – nothing formal
iii. Possible good topics would be directed at HR101/office of one/not-for-profit
sector
iv. Aligning IAT with HR (Nov or Roundtable)
v. These could be a subset of programs and work their way up to sessions,
stand alone and workshops
vi. Would like to plan 2-4 in 2012
vii. Christine feels that her Workshops committee should take these on to help
develop them.
November 9 Full Day Conference Discussion:
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i. Paul Salasky reported that we have a good connection with Gallup. They are
willing to speak to many different subjects, fly a speaker in, provide an author
and free books, align the topic with our theme or visa versa
ii. Kathleen Seebert mentioned that this might be a good place to align with
some of the big schools. She will pursue her contacts with Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Management.
iii. Possible theme: Performance Management
 What the CEO wants you to know as a HR professional (possible
theme for November)
iv. HR Metrics and aligning to Business (Christine)
v. Aligning IAT with HR (Nov or Roundtable)
vi. Suzie Rabicki has a contact with Franklin Covey and they could present a
subject matter expert from any of their four business disciplines and perhaps
bring someone from Marriott Hotels, one of their big clients
vii. Beth discussed that Laura McAdams could speak Operations (possible
workshop rather than November)
 Action Item: Inasmuch as Laura spoke to SHRP before Kim will pull
the evaluations and depending on those, we might pursue this
further.
viii. Action Item: All committee members should further develop the ideas we
discussed today or suggest more, in detail if possible, to Tammy
(tcowser@marshallip.com) and Kim (shrp@gss.net)
Further program subject matters discussed
i. Finance 101 – How do HR people understand financial value
ii. What the CEO wants you to know as a HR professional (possible theme for
November)
 University and CFO presentation – together
iii. Developments in IT (Lew suggested – HRMAC does this)
 IT Conference is in Las Vegas this year – not Chicago – maybe we
could get a lot of people
iv. Insurance/Benefits
October 5th Motivation Show Event
 Greg Boswell reported that we have aligned with the Motivation Show at their
invitation to hold a program at the show.
i. Motivation show will provide
 space
 food (we believe)
 pay for parking, transportation
 Free admission to exhibit hall
 Have our program as part of their offerings
a. It was agreed that we will do that rather than just advertise to
our audience only
b. If attendees are from out of state, it might lead to interest
from sponsors and perhaps HR people from local offices
ii. Agreed that the time should most likely be mid day
 Visit exhibit hall that closed at 5:00 first or attend luncheon program
first then go to motivation show
iii. NOTE: We did not discuss pricing structure
iv. Greg has lined up speaker Michelle Smith who is well known within the
incentive industry and has national connections
 Action Item: Kim and Greg are scheduled to talk to Motivation Show
organizers on Friday to start working out details and then will get the
marketing parts of this set into motion.
August Legal Update:
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Phil reported that while his committee has not met yet, he’s thinking of proposing
presentations on privacy in the workplace.
i. It was agreed that this is a wide area of subjects and should be of great
interest to our members.
ii. Action Item: Phil to get general information to HQ as soon as he can so this
can get posted and advertised.
Possible Series suggestions:
 Top 20 Chicago Companies- How does your company become one
i. Courtney Hunt and Amy Brennan will work on this
 Senior Level Series: - Chief HR Roundtable Series
i. High level, very strategic
ii. Jimmy English, Think Tank
iii. Approach chief HR officers and see what they want from HR
iv. Suggest that we talk to Jackie Gordon, Senior HR person at YMCA and new
board member
 How to develop as an HR Generalists – from specializing in an area
i. Lew suggested
Debi Lusk reported that we have an affiliation with NIU to conduct HRCI preparation classes
and they are asking to survey our members to find out more about when they want to attend
the classes – time, location, preferred dates, etc.
 Action Item: Kim and Debi to talk at 12:00 today
Misc:
 Amy has possible roundtable and workshop space for us to use.
i. Action Item: Kim to follow up with Amy
 Action Item: Kim to follow up with Christine to follow through with possible benefits
to a workshop speaker donating his time for a workshop
i. Shelli and Christine are informally merging their efforts into one committee
Next Meeting
May 4, 2011 - 8:00-9:00 a.m. - Holland & Knight, 131 S. Dearborn, 30th Floor.