Conference Sessions By Track
Track: Workplace Culture, Empathy & Work Life Integration
704: Manifesting Hidden Greatness – Being More Than Successful in an ‘Otherness’ Environment This presentation will help attendees sharpen their diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility skills. Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | |
705: Building Powerful Teams by Overcoming Avoidance and Freeing the Elephants in the Room Attendees will learn the Curiosity First Approach coaching model that can be used to help team members powerfully navigate their avoidance of conflict. Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | |
804: It’s Okay Not to be Okay: How to Identify, Address, and Navigate Mental Health In The Workplace This presentation will offer strategies and tools to more effectively identify, address, and navigate mental health in the workplace. Sunday, June 11, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT | |
Create a Cutting-Edge Culture: Energized. Engaged. Empowered. Strategically create a differentiating culture that inspires behavior change and fosters peak performance. Sunday, June 11, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Grateful Leadership for HR Professionals Attendees will learn the exciting and transformational breakthroughs of the Grateful Leadership model, and be given simple tools to create a culture of appreciation based on that practice. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Influence in Conflict Resolution Managing escalating emotional situations is a routine activity in HR, and having a guiding framework for this process is critical to your success. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
It’s You, Not Them: What Emerging Leaders Want from Work and Concrete Ways to Support Them The next generation of the workforce provides data-driven insights into best practices to recruit new employees and engage existing talent. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Moving from Policy to Practice: How to Make the New Parental Leave Landscape Work for You Harness the parental leave timeframe (preparing, during, and returning) as a manager training and employee development and retention opportunity. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Top 10 Best Practices for Workplace Inclusion Attendees will learn simple, proven, and effective best practices for advancing workplace equity and inclusion that benefit any kind of organization! Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Why Age Diversity is Good for Your Workplace Understand why we need age-friendly, multigenerational workplaces and how to start building them now. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Why Women Left the Workforce/3 Ways to Win Them Back Learn insights from focus group research about what women need to attract and retain them in these postpandemic times. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Culture Rejuvenation: A Corporate Journey of Back to the Future Too often leaders try to change the culture, & it fails. What can be done to have a strong and engaging culture? Celebrate what you have that is good. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Dear Helga is Back: It's 2023 and the HR Issues Just Won't Stop! Dear Helga is an entertaining and practical look at complicated human resources issues and provides business-focused solutions. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Learn the four common pitfalls to avoid when developing your executive leaders into formal Executive Sponsors of key talent. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Quash Quiet Quitting: Reengaging Top Talent This session provides tangible ideas to arm your managers with to reengage and retain their employees. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
This session will be useful for practitioners in professional industries looking to substantively enhance their employee retention efforts. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Step Up: Why Military -Connected Talent Hiring Is The Solution You Are Looking For! Attendees will learn more than just the business case to attracting, hiring, and retaining members of the military community but also “next steps”. SHRM Foundation along with a panelist of workplace hiring experts will share strategies and insight that will enhance your hiring initiatives and provide a road map for your next steps. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Strategies for Engaging White Men as Allies in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work Attendees will learn helpful strategies, mindsets, and approaches for bringing everyone on board with workplace DEI initiatives. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Why Team Members of Color Leave and What to Do About It Learn how to strategically build systems that support retaining amazing talent before other organizations capitalize on your loss. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
SHRM Foundation 101 - How We're Supporting HR Leaders in Creating Social Good Attendees will learn about the various programs and services offered to HR leaders by SHRM Foundation, as well as how they can engage with and support SHRM Foundation's efforts. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM PDT | |
Advancing Equity and Diversity by Using Emotionally-Inclusive Practices in the Workplace Emotional intelligence (EI) can help increase awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which may help organizations become more productive Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Creating Empathy through Conversation Attendees will learn how to talk to anyone no matter what background using the FORD (family, occupation, recreation, dreams) framework of conversation. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Disrupting the Way DEI is Done HR professionals will understand the value of leader commitment to DEI; how learning needs to be re-engineered; HR's role in creating DEI systems that work; and review a potential formula for success. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Making "Difficult Communications" Less Difficult: Best Practices and Strategies for Success This presentation will discuss best practices and strategies for handling difficult communications in the workplace. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Preventing and Addressing Burnout Identify and prevent burnout to help employees stay engaged, doing their best work. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Psychodynamic Theories Applied to Human Resources This session will help HR professionals as well as people managers apply learnings from clinical psychology to build healthy and productive workplaces. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Take the Fear Out of Team Building Attendees will learn the basic dos and don'ts for planning team building experiences, as well a experience first-hand applications, by participation. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
The Change Curve: Managing Uncertainty and Ambiguity Within Your Organization This engaging session gives HR professionals the skills they need to share a clear vision and manage through change successfully Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
There’s No Neutral in Trust: Three Key Strategies for Forward Movement Attendees will gain a framework for analyzing the trust levels in relationships, as well as strategies to build, sustain, and repair trust. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | |
Best Practices in Sourcing, Hiring and Retaining Justice-Impacted Individuals This presentation will describe how the activities and supports can be used to support diverse learners and produce talent pipelines for your company. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT | |
Cultures that ROCK !! - Five Proven Ways to Develop and Sustain a Phenomenal Workplace Culture is the primary factor that defines an organization, and it should be the primary focus of HR as well !! Monday, June 12, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT | |
Let’s #Cancel Polarization: Learn to Work it Out at Work Participants will learn facilitation/coaching skills to assess and positively and proactively intervene in polarization in their organizations. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT | |
Millennials and Managing Intergenerational Conflict in the Workplace Learn the conflict styles of Millennials, what they want and value in the workplace, and how to recruit, manage, and retain this valuable cohort. Monday, June 12, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT | |
Balancing Business and Bottles Attendees will leave this session with practical techniques to hire, train, and maintain working mothers in your organization. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Being an Ally to Create an Inclusive Workplace Identify the various roles that allies play (e.g. advocate vs. sponsor), and reflect on the roles they play at work. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Combatting Implicit Bias - Make Your Leaders Aware of What They Do Not Acknowledge Attendees will leave this session appreciating the dangers associated with implicit bias as well with practical strategies to move beyond awareness. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
D.A.R.E to Have a DEI Conversation: The Formula For Conversational Competence Attendees will be able to go back to their organization and create DEI initiatives that have impact and last beyond the momentary emotions around DEI. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
How to Activate an Intentional Culture of Innovation Understand the tangible factors that shape workplace culture and learn strategies that systemically activate innovation in your organization. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Onboarding Transformed: Empowering New Hires Attendees will learn the factors most important to employees in today's job market, and how they can engage and retain new hires. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
SPEAKER CANCELLED: Identifying and Overcoming Gender Blind Spots at the Leadership Level During this session, we will share critical lessons learned and many of the artifacts we created to address gender bias and blind spots intentionally. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
The Emotional Intelligence Compass for HR Leaders Learn emotional intelligence competencies that will help orient us as leaders and guide our teams to higher levels of performance. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 7:50 AM PDT | |
Working Through Grief: Restoring Employee Productivity After Personal Life Disruptions Empathy training to re-integrate employees dealing with grief, resulting in improved culture, employee retention, and productivity. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Workplace Violence: Five Strategies to Avoid a Nightmare Event Attendees will learn why people act out violently, and what organizations can do to minimize the risk of an event occurring in their workplace. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Inclusive vs Exclusive Leadership: What are You? These leadership skills are the tools you need to take your diverse team to the next level of performance. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 8:20 AM PDT | |
Alone In A Crowded Office: Overcoming Toxic Behaviors That Foster Isolation Unaddressed minor safety violations heighten neurological isolation, but with the right tools, you can ensure everyone at work feels safe speaking up. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Battle Ready: Cultivating Culture through Trust, Teamwork, Purpose, and Ownership When leaders make organizational culture their primary focus, employee engagement, retention, and performance skyrocket. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Belongingness: The Antidote to Workplace Imposter Syndrome Attendees will obtain a tool kit to foster cultures of belonging by eradicating imposter syndrome at both the interpersonal and organizational levels. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Discover Confidence in Weakness Insecurity is the plague of the soul. Learn how to extract it from their being, fostering confidence in every area of life, even their weaknesses. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Influence in Conflict Resolution Managing escalating emotional situations is a routine activity in HR, and having a guiding framework for this process is critical to your success. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
This session will be useful for practitioners in professional industries looking to substantively enhance their employee retention efforts. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
The Cherry on Top: Creating a Culture That Adds Value This session will instruct you on how to build a culture of solidarity and inclusion and improve efficiency. It will show you how to keep employees engaged and awaken the innate hunger for adding value through work and the sense of meaning it provides. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
The Science of Purpose and Meaningful Work Today's employees hunger for purpose & meaningful work--gain new science-based strategies and reap many benefits like retaining your top talent. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Why Team Members of Color Leave and What to Do About It Learn how to strategically build systems that support retaining amazing talent before other organizations capitalize on your loss. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
This session is designed to raises the most pertinent ADA issues in an engaging manner so that the take-a-ways are remembered and used in the office. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM PDT | |
Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the White House Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
HR Unleashed !! - Moving from Support Function to Strategic Business Leader This session equips HR practitioners to lead, integrate, be strategic throughout their organization, and no longer linger in the shadows. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Leadership Amid Change: Building Organizational Resilience from the Inside Out When we navigate change, we continue to grow, increase productivity and have a distinct advantage in advancing the essential HR services we provide. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Millennials and Managing Intergenerational Conflict in the Workplace Learn the conflict styles of Millennials, what they want and value in the workplace, and how to recruit, manage, and retain this valuable cohort. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Offboarding: The Secret Weapon in Employee Experience Through industry research, HR leaders can better understand how strategic offboarding impacts the retention and engagement rates at their company. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Preparing for the Worst: An Interactive Session on Building Resilience for Ourselves and our Teams Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Take the Fear Out of Team Building Attendees will learn the basic dos and don'ts for planning team building experiences, as well a experience first-hand applications, by participation. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Talk Engages Action Changes - From Words to Lasting Workplace Inclusion Participants will learn how to activate values based DEI principles in their workplaces for better results and lasting change. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
The DEI Oz Principle: An Innovative Approach to Re-Ignite Senior Executive Investments in Inclusion Participants will receive specific executive DEI engagement strategies that flow out of an approach referred to as "The DEI Oz Principle". Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Trauma Showing Up at Work: Recognizing it and Offering Support to Sustain Your People The role HR plays in identifying shifting employee behavioral patterns and communicating trauma support resources . Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | |
Adult Bullying in the Workplace: Behaviors that Impact Mental Illness and Company Culture After the session, participants will have a model to continue building upon to create awareness and behavior change in their organization. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
I Am Sooooo Stressed Out!! This Isn't Your Mama's Stress Management! This session will absolutely redefine how you take back control of your stress in a fast paced, everchanging, and dynamic HR world! Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
SOUL/Life Balance: The Practice to Go From Stressed & Overwhelmed to Energized & Fulfilled Attendees will learn the importance of reframing the relationship between life and work and how to make time to 'feed your soul' amidst it all. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
The Next Pandemic: Loneliness and the Power of Casual Collisions Identify potential risks of full-time remote work and practical ways to engage remote staff. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
Top 10 Employment Cases of 2023 This session on the top 10 employment cases will engage you from the start and provide specific thoughts for you to consider using back at work. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
Attendees will understand their role as People Champions to serve, empower, develop and unlock the full potential of their associates within their organization. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | |
A 'Hostile Working Environment' -- What It Is and What It Is Not This presentation will teach HR professionals how to identify complaints that describe a 'hostile working environment' and those that do not. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
All for One and One for All: The Power of Inclusive Tech Attendees will learn how to approach designing technology for inclusivity and intersectionality. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Alone In A Crowded Office: Overcoming Toxic Behaviors That Foster Isolation Unaddressed minor safety violations heighten neurological isolation, but with the right tools, you can ensure everyone at work feels safe speaking up. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Bambi VS. Godzilla: How to Deal with Difficult People Difficult people are in the workplace and by attending this session you will learn who they are, what they do, and what you can do about it. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Breaking the Mental Health Stigma - When Employee's Children Are in Need the Whole Company Suffers Drawing on 20-years of mental health experience, Dan will help HR professionals identify answers, tools and resources to develop an informed staff. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Defining and Communicating Your Personal Brand to Help Your Career and Your Organization Grow Attendees will learn how to effectively position yourself to create opportunities for professional growth within your organization, your industry and in your career. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Empathy: A Critical Component of Business Success Attendees will learn about empathy, it's impact to business performance, and how to measure it at their organization using SHRM's Empathy Index Tool. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
From Functional to OPTIMAL: Facing the Realities of Stress and Kicking It's A** Attendees will understand where stress is holding them back in all aspects of life and how to implement the correct coping methods. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Leadership Amid Change: Building Organizational Resilience from the Inside Out When we navigate change, we continue to grow, increase productivity and have a distinct advantage in advancing the essential HR services we provide. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
There's Nothing 'Quiet' About What's Happening in the Workplace Today Attendees will assess their employee experience challenges and learn strategies for overcoming current disengagement through three approaches. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT | |
Bosses Are People Too - Why Leadership Engagement is at an All Time Low Attendees will learn the importance of training managers in these times, including best practices in selecting and training the best people to manage people. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Offboarding: The Secret Weapon in Employee Experience Through industry research, HR leaders can better understand how strategic offboarding impacts the retention and engagement rates at their company. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
Radically Reimagining Total Rewards: King’s Hawaiian’s Journey to Irresistibility Learn to think differently and courageously about Total Rewards to so that employees reach their full potential and create value for the organization. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | |
To Fix Workplace Culture, Fix Middle Management By strategically redesigning the role of middle management, HR leaders can create high-performing cultures and better retain and recruit key talent. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT |