CAHR18 Track Preview: Business & HR Strategy
HR is the lifeblood of successful companies that often goes unnoticed as the vital element it is. Putting HR on the same level as sales, marketing, IT, etc., will bring a company to far greater heights, but doing so requires a keen understanding of how HR fits into a larger business strategy. Here’s where the Business & HR Strategy at the 2018 California HR Conference come into play.
The sessions in this track will teach you strategic approaches to maximizing employee performance and building business value by creating solid plans, measuring your efforts, and gaining buy-in from the C-suite. With expert speakers focusing on innovation, business competencies and strategic alliances, this session is not to be missed.
Learn more about everything you have to gain from these session below, then register to attend CAHR18 today. Your chance to save $50 with our Standard Rates ends July 31st!
Business & HR Strategy
Strategic planning. Innovation. Business competencies. This valuable conference track has them all.
Business Financial Intelligence for today's HR Professional
Sunday, 8/26/2018 from 2:30pm – 3:45pm, and
Monday, 8/27/2018 from 11:15am – 12:30pm
Presented by Paul Butler, Client Partner, Newleaf Training And Development
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
HR Professionals can only make so much contribution to their organization based on their technical competence. Over and above their area of expertise, they have to be excellent at managing themselves and at influencing others. But is that it? Is there anything else? Yes! In today’s highly competitive marketplace where HR Professionals must be able to demonstrate their strategic value to an organization, they also must have a sharp business acumen: in short, PIHRA members need to demonstrate Business Financial Intelligence.
In this engaging, practical and participative session, Paul Butler will demystify working capital, the income statement, the balance sheet, the statement of cashflow and commonly-heard but commonly misunderstood terms such as; depreciation, goodwill, amortization, accruals, unearned revenue and EBITDA. Outsourcing is becoming increasingly common: be on the leading edge – be a true business partner by investing in your Business Financial Intelligence. You’ll leave this session smarter and with absolute clarity on the subjects discussed and addressed. Business Financial Intelligence is a mindset and skillset FEW HR Professionals have and ALL organizations need. Help your career and better serve the C-Suite by attending this session.
Taking Your Succession Plan From Good To Great
Presented by Michael Timms, Principal, Avail Leadership
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
As of 2018, the baby boomer exodus from the workforce has kicked into full gear, and it’s only going to get worse over the next 10 years. But despite their efforts to implement succession plans, very few organizations believe that they have a succession plan that actually works. Many organizations have taken the initial steps to implement a succession plan, but most are left wondering what else they can do to have a succession program that actually delivers measurable results. Taking Your Succession Plan From Good To Great highlights the most common mistakes organizations make in succession planning, and provides strategies and tools used by world-class organizations to overcome them. Participants will learn key principles to help them turn their organization into a leadership development machine. They will also learn tips from the pros to help facilitate high potential development, and elevate their succession plan to world-class. In addition to new insights and an action plan to implement them, participants will receive free tools and templates.
Positioned for Excellence: Resolving Organizational Conflict
Monday, 8/27/2018 from 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Presented by Pamela Green
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
Today, more than ever, leaders are having to press their way through, conflict, chaos and confusion to execute business strategies. This requires a solid foundation of strong communication and conflict resolutions skills in today’s climate. The ability to bring people together to achieve a common goal can be challenging in any environment, but what can a leader do to achieve excellence when external influences impact internal outcomes? A change in behavior starts with changing the way you think before you can execute strategic outcomes.
Learn how a change in your thinking can result in sustained positive changes in your behavior and in the behaviors of others. This highly engaging presentation will help you capture and convert your mental model and transform your behaviors for high impact performance. You’ll learn, laugh, think, and feel motivated to embrace conflict and use it to your advantage to set your organization onto a solid path of the success you desire most.
The Theory of Elasticity: The Future of Human Resources
Presented by Stacie Mallen, Chief People Officer, Campuslogic
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
Throughout her career and personal life, on common denominator has been a clear and present edge for Stacie Mallen: Resilience. The other constant that has provided the opportunity to grow breakthrough cultures in 8 different High Growth Start-Up Companies: Igniting Rebellion. These two factors combine to create the Theory of Elasticity. The Definition of Elasticity: The ability to be adaptable. As the world changes all around us, the practice of HR itself is having to migrate, but we are way behind as far as priorities, metrics and organizational development.
You will walk away with some new perspectives on the following age-old topics:
• What metrics can we capture as LEAD MEASURES that help us predict business response to change?
• What is Cultural Elasticity and how does it apply to High Growth Companies, Large Enterprise Business and Stable Mid-Cap companies alike?
• How does the spirit of rebellion create forward thinking innovation within the context of process, business and top line success?
• What is Reflection and how does it foster greater Organizational development?
• How does someone in the practice HR embody Resilience themselves to guide the organization through change and evolution of
People Analytics: Delivering Measurable Business Impact
Presented by David Swanson, Consultant and Author, Davidswansonhr
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
Using data to drive measurable business outcomes and preparing the workforce to be important participants in driving the strategy and sustainability of an organization are today’s keys to success.
This session will provide a hands-on guide for designing data-driven people strategies that can act as catalysts for change and transformation. Human Resources professionals will gain an overall understanding of the field of data analytics as it pertains to people practices. In addition, information will be provided to motivate and inspire leaders to combine the power of data and analytics with their own expertise, thus enabling the more effective use of an organization’s most precious resources: people’s time and energy.
The four stages of analytics will be discussed, common pitfalls of people analytics programs, how to find and use data, winning support for a people analytics program, diagnosing what has happened, predicting success, and proscribing change based on data not intuition.
Understanding Metrics – How to Connect HR’s Goals to Business Strategy
Tuesday, 8/28/2018 from 11:15am – 12:30pm
Presented by Ryan Kohler, CEO, Applicantpro
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
As an HR Professional, you’re required to add value to the overall objectives of your organization by ensuring that your department’s goals align with your company’s business strategy. In order for this parallel to occur, HR must have a firm understanding of what key metrics consist of and how they impact the overall success of an organization. Ryan will guide participants through the sometimes overwhelming world of business metrics and more importantly, how to make HR more competitive by connecting the dots between HR metrics and business strategy so that they become one and the same.
Developing HR as a Strategic Business Partner: HR Transformation 3.0
Presented by Margaret Graziano, CEO, KeenAlignment and Tiffany Tremmel, Chief Talent Strategist, Clow Valve
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
The life of your company depends on the culture you inspire. The number one driver of employee engagement and workplace performance is culture, so why do so many companies fail at establishing one that wins? Current research suggests that one of three hiring decisions is based on insufficient information for either party to make informed choices. Similarly, one in three new hires does not make it past their one-year work anniversary. Creating a high-performance organization requires a paradigm shift and an increased focus on workforce engagement.
Join Tiffany Tremmel, Chief Talent Strategist of Clow Valve Company and Margaret Graziano, CEO of KeenAlignment, through their journey to transform a 139-year old manufacturing company into a 21st Century optimizer of people and talent by creating a culture of purpose, passion and learning.
Beyond Engagement: The New Frontier of Belonging
Presented by Tiffany Stith, President, COO, Lawry’s Restaurants, Inc.
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
From Airbnb to Brene Brown, there is a frontier beyond employee engagement being forged – and it’s called “belonging.” Heralded by an emerging workforce that wants more than flexible work hours, C-suite visionaries are integrating corporate purpose and employees’ quest for significance into strategies that are redefining workplace fulfillment. Whether your company’s newly on the path of reinvention or simply looking for a cultural tune up, there is a proven set of questions, considerations, interventions and measurement that you can use to tap into this movement.
You will leave the session with the following takeaways:
1. Fundamentals on building a culture of belonging
2. Practices in assessing current state and gaps
3. Practical action steps to build your belonging road map
Join this panel of C-suite change makers and thought leaders, including Lawry’s President and COO Tiffany Stith, Califia Farms Chief People Officer Karen Gifford and Bolton Executive Vice President Jacque Roth, for inspirational stories and practical tools to create belonging at your workplace.
HR Technology as a Strategic Investment
Presented by Jacqueline Kuhn, EVP, Strategic Consulting Services, HRchitect
Track: Business & HR Strategy
Credit: Business
The use of technology in HR continues to be a key tool, but proving to Senior Management that it is a strategic investment has been challenging. For HR to make that last key jump from administrative to executive, it is paramount that the correct technologies and tools are in place. This session will outline methods to prove the strategic value of an HR technology investment.
The presenter will explain how to position the acquisition and use of HR technology as a strategic investment for the company and will also identify various methods to create the business case and cost justification to allow for purchase and implementation of HR technology. Additionally, the presenter will demonstrate how to use HR technology analysis to create meaningful business related analysis and analytics.
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