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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
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Welcome and Introduction |
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| 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
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Human Resource Management A to Z: Defining Your HR Process and Technology Strategy |
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Forrester Research Vice President, Principal Analyst, Paul D. Hamerman |
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HR professionals are charged with building world-class workforces through strategic processes, like recruiting and performance management, while maintaining their existing transactional processes, such as payroll and benefits. Tough challenge? You bet. Paul Hamerman, a vice president at Forrester Research, will define a strategic framework to help you prioritize your initiatives, justify HR technology spending, and achieve quick HR technology wins. |
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| 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
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Cultivating Future Leaders through Training Management |
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Thomas & King Vice President, Talent Management & Inclusion and Executive Team Member , Perry Sholes |
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As Baby Boomers begin to retire, it's becoming more and more apparent that the next generation of employees must be groomed properly to take over those key roles. According to the DDI Leadership Forecast (2005-2006), companies with solid leadership development plans in place experience higher returns on equity and profit compared with their competition. Have you done your due diligence in this area? Are you ensuring that your new managers understand your organization's culture, and are your top employees prepared to take over the reins? During this session, you'll hear from the vice president of talent management and inclusion at a company that operates 88 Applebee's and 7 Johnny Carino's restaurants, who'll talk about the robust training program that is grooming his management staff for the future. |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. |
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Refreshment Break and Networking |
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| 11:15 a.m. - Noon |
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Creating Innovative Wellness Programs to Help Control Costs and Boost Employee Health |
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Senior Lifestyle Corporation Vice President of Human Resources, William P. Blouin |
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To get ahead of skyrocketing healthcare costs, many companies are interested in developing an employee wellness program. But where do you start, and how do you get buy-in from your CEO? First, you'll need to
develop a long-term strategy to grow a culture of health within your organization and help your workforce adopt better lifestyle habits. To help you figure out how to accomplish this, you'll hear from the vice president
of human resources at the 12th largest senior living specialist, which has developed a successful employee wellness program. He will discuss in detail the components of his company's program, rewards for participating employees, and progress to date. |
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| Noon - 12:45 p.m. |
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How to Avoid FLSA Collective Actions |
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Thompson Coburn Fagel Haber Partner, Labor and Employment Department, Arthur B. Sternberg |
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With the increase in collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and class action lawsuits under various states' wage and hour laws, it is becoming increasingly important for employers to understand their obligations to pay employees correctly. During this session, an attorney from a majorl law firm serving a diverse national and international client base will provide specific examples of companies that have paid millions of dollars in fines for misclassifying employees. His suggestions will help employers minimize their exposure in this increasingly risky area of compliance. |
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| 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
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Lunch and Roundtable Discussions |
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| 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
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UltiPro Overview: How the Right HCM Technology Tackles HR's Toughest Challenges |
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Choosing the right human capital management solution is key to overcoming the most common challenges HR professionals face—issues like needing to increase efficiency, wanting access to better reporting for visibility into HR metrics, and being faced with limited strategic talent management tools. Learn how UltiPro's holistic approach to HCM unleashes HR's full potential to add more value to the business. We'll review study results and specific examples of how integrated HCM automation delivers cost savings, time savings, and productivity increases. Plus, you'll see a preview of UltiPro's next-generation HCM solution—an HR/payroll portal that focuses on a personalized user experience at every level of the organization. The session will offer demos of UltiPro's HR, recruitment, payroll, benefits administration, performance management, and business intelligence features. |
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| 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
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Practical Tools and Methods for Culture Change |
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Ahlstrom Corporation Vice President of Human Resources, William W. Cox |
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Whether your business is currently in growth mode or slowing down, you face cultural challenges at work every day. Perhaps it's based on a set of belief systems, lifestyles, laws within a country, or the economy, but how your company handles these issues will determine its future success. During this session, you'll hear from the vice president of human resources at a leading supplier of fiber-based materials. He'll describe the tools that have worked at his company, those that did not, the barriers you may be experiencing, and how to break through them. |
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| 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
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Refreshment Break and Networking |
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| 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. |
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How Competency Modeling Helps Identify the Essential Traits for Job Success |
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BlueCross BlueShield Association Director of Training and Development, Joseph A. Cheatham III |
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Determining the knowledge, skills, and characteristics that lead to high performance and success in a specific job is an essential part of the performance management process. But how do you establish the core competencies for each position within your organization, and how should you use that information to identify the skill sets your company will need five years down the road? To find out, listen to the director of training and
development for a national federation of independent, community-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. He'll explain how his organization uses competency modeling to identify and retain its top performers, the job screening tools it uses with candidates as part of its leadership development program, and how the company's organizational goals tie in.
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| 4:15 p.m. |
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Drawing for Giveaways and Closing Remarks |
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