Conference Sessions By Track

MEGA SESSION: We Are Hired to Do a Job But Paid to Achieve Results: Transforming the Way to Strategically Drive HR

Workplace Application: You will understand and know how to drive sustainable and replicable results within any C-level, project-based, department or company-wide initiative.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM EST

Building a Culture of Innovation

Workplace Application: Lead your organization's pursuit of innovation as a competitive advantage by creating a culture of innovation.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Developing and Effectively Using an HR Dashboard

Workplace Application: You will learn the key components of designing, developing, and delivering an HR dashboard.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Practical and Real Strategic HR: The Normal Play Book Won’t Get You There

Workplace Application: This session identifies the top six mistakes HR professionals make that chip away at your credibility and helps you understand how your current behavior may be eroding HR’s effectiveness.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career & Company

Workplace Application: You will learn how to execute smarter, faster, and more profitable business decisions by practicing and perfecting your business acumen.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Technology Meets HR: Selecting and Justifying the Right Solution

Workplace Application: This session shows you how to write an effective business case that justifies a technology investment to your decision makers.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Optimizing HR Strategy for Organizational Effectiveness

Workplace Application: This session will show you how to determine your human capital needs and the strategy to help you get the most out of your people.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Thinking Inside the Box: How CFOs are Changing, and How to Align HR with Finance in the “New Normal”

Workplace Application: This session will provide you with an understanding of how HR and Finance will align in the future, and how metrics and Human Capital Financial Statements align with the strategic plan.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Work 4.0: What Will Work Look Like In 2050?

Workplace Application: This session will look at where work, the workforce, and the workplace have been in the past, and where current research is pointing for the future... Work 4.0!

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

HR Metrics that Matter: Learn to Drive Sustainable Business Processes

Workplace Application: This session will provide specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely methods for tracking and communicating business results.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: The Power of Proactive Planning: Align Goals and Activities with Your Organization’s Strategic Plan

Workplace Application: You will learn to develop and align HR goals and activities to your organization’s strategic plan.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Target and Measure: Evaluating the Bottom-line Impact of Training

Workplace Application: You will learn strategies for targeting, measuring, and evaluating the impact of your programs to demonstrate the bottom-line value of your training.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

The HR Executive Whistleblower: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Workplace Application: Prepare and protect your organization and yourself to effectively raise and manage whistleblower disclosures.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Top 10 Micro-Inequities: The Barriers to Innovation

Workplace Application: Learn how to effectively communicate to senior leaders how barriers to inclusion can impact productivity and profitability.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

“Strategic Business Partner”: What This Really Means, and How to Do It RIGHT!

Workplace Application: Learn the practical application of what it means to be a business partner in any HR role and how you can design your organizations for maximum impact.

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Unleash the Potential: HR’s Role in Driving the Future

Workplace Application: Learn the critical role HR plays in driving collaboration & innovation and how to align HR with your organization’s business objectives.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM EST

EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE: Adidas: How They Created Their nWOW (New Way of Working) Company Culture

Workplace Application: This Executive Exchange session will highlight how the Adidas Group capitalizes on their nWow company culture as a key strategy in moving their business forward.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: New HR Foundation to Boost Employee Value & Drive Results

Workplace Application: This session introduces a revolutionary new performance metric for quantifying employee value and the “new rules of the workplace” that call for HR to change completely.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Show Me the Money: Making Dollars and Sense of HR's Financial Impact

Workplace Application: This session will explore eight key HR areas with the most financial impact and ways you can demonstrate your value to the bottom-line.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

The True Truth on Trust: How To Give It, Get It and Grow It!

Workplace Application: This session will provide practical ideas, tools and resources on how give, get and grow trust.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

What Every HR Leader Should Know About Strategic Planning

Workplace Application: You will learn what strategy is, how to build it, and the pitfalls to avoid.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Getting Strategic Mileage from Your Employee Survey: 10 Key Business Decisions that are Often Missed

Workplace Application: Learn ways to use surveys more strategically to make important talent and business decisions.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM EST

HR Metrics that Matter: Learn to Drive Sustainable Business Processes

HR Metrics that Matter: Learn to Drive Sustainable Business Processes

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM EST

MEGA SESSION: Business Skills for the Business Partner

Workplace Application: Gain an understanding of common P&L financial elements and marketing frameworks to better align HR practices with your business needs.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career & Company

Workplace Application: You will learn how to execute smarter, faster, and more profitable business decisions by practicing and perfecting your business acumen.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Why the Best CEOs are Turning to HR to Lead the Organization Through Today's Top Five Threats

Workplace Application: Learn how to leverage your leadership skills to help your company overcome the top five threats to organizational success.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM EST

Change Management: Guidelines to Completing Successful Acquisitions

Workplace Application: This session walks through the decision-making process, communication techniques, integration and execution of change management before, during and after an acquisition.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Getting Strategic Mileage from Your Employee Survey: 10 Key Business Decisions that are Often Missed

Workplace Application: Learn ways to use surveys more strategically to make important talent and business decisions.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

MEGA SESSION: Leading Organizational Excellence by Avoiding the Top 10 HR Leadership Mistakes

Workplace Application: Learn the top 10 HR leadership mistakes to avoid so you can become a great leader.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

The Abacus, the Ouija Board and (HR) Big Data: What is Your (Measurement) Game?

Workplace Application: This session will help you analyze current HR data so you can deliver valuable metrics and analytics to drive business process value in your organization.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

What Every HR Leader Should Know About Strategic Planning

Workplace Application: You will learn what strategy is, how to build it, and the pitfalls to avoid.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

HR: Partner for Innovation

Workplace Application: This session defines strategies you can implement to develop, contribute to, and support your organization’s mission, vision, values, strategic goals and objectives related to innovation.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST

Trust and Influence: Making the C-Suite Your Sweet Spot

Workplace Application: Learn how to get noticed and heard by C-suite leaders in your organization.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST

What Did That HR Tech Salesperson Say? Demystifying HR Technology Selection and Implementation

Workplace Application: This session provides an overview of the typical HR technology research, evaluation, and purchase processes and offers insight into where and how you can better position yourself to make the “right” decisions for your organization.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST

“Strategic Business Partner”: What This Really Means, and How to Do It RIGHT!

Workplace Application: Learn the practical application of what it means to be a business partner in any HR role and how you can design your organizations for maximum impact.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST