October 2007 Newsletter
IN THIS ISSUE
News from Dulles Chapter of SHRM and other timely HR information
November Chapter Meeting
"Managing Total Rewards"
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 (Dinner Meeting)
In this presentation, Ed Ford, Vice President of Total Recognition for Michael C. Fina, answers today’s most critical employee recognition questions of CEOs, Senior Executives and Human Resource Professionals. Ford addresses how corporations can measure the results of our employee recognition and motivational programs; get top management to understand our recognition crisis; fully engage top management in developing and designing strategies adapted to the new reality; regain control of runaway employee recognition and awards; simplify processes so we can devote less time but have greater results; and identify and expose recognition myths primarily based on historical practices and biases which are crippling corporate recognition efforts. Ford reveals the quantitative research and measurement tools and process that determine the strategies and programs which result in achieving organizational objectives.
Ed Ford has been a practitioner in the Recognition Industry for more than 30 years. Throughout these dedicated years of service, he has consulted with hundreds of companies including many Fortune 1000 clients. He is currently with the Michael C. Fina Company in New York City as their Senior Vice President of Total Recognition. Ed is an active member of World at Work, SHRM and currently a Board of Trustee for FORUM People Performance Management and Measurement. He has presented countless Educational Seminars, Symposiums and Workshops in 20 major U.S. cities and Canada on the concept of a Total Recognition Strategy. Ed is the author of the “Official Recognition Workbook--A New Mandate for Employee Recognition Programs.” In addition, he has published a Workbook on the definition and design of nomination, on-the-spot and peer-to-peer programs, with 30 award-winning case studies. As the result of extensive field research, Ed Ford has recently published “Guidelines for a Total Recognition Strategy,” and authored numerous innovative HR articles for a variety of publications.
Ed loves to challenge Human Resource Professionals to reexamine current recognition practices and specifically recommends the “Best Practices” to Recognize and Reward Employees. Ed also conducts in-house executive previews. He presently heads up a Total Recognition Team, which performs on-location assessments, certification of facilitators, train-the-trainer, measurement, and designs Custom Total Recognition Programs. Ed is a self proclaimed iconoclast (i•con•o•clast Ahy-Kon-Uh-Klast) one who questions and seeks to change traditional ideas or institutions. A person who challenges traditional beliefs as being based on error or outdated. A wave maker.
Sponsor: We welcome our November sponsor, Bernard Hodes Group, a leading employment communications firm known for top-notch customer service and cutting edge ideas. Their services include SmartPost, a job distribution tool with real-time tracking reports, and Hodes iQ, an award-winning applicant tracking system. Contact Elyse Acanda (Director, Business Development) at 703.435.8414 (or eacanda@hodesiq.com) or to learn more, visit http://www.smartpost.com, http://www.hodesiq.com, and http://www.hodes.com.
This program has been submitted for recertification through HRCI. For more information, visit www.hrci.org.
Register online at www.dullesshrm.org.
Embry Rucker Shelter Donations Update
Members who attended the September meeting donated $51! The Embry Rucker Community Shelter provides 70 beds each night for men, women, and families. In the winter, another 15 beds are made available to prevent hypothermia among people who are homeless. For more on how to help, check out www.restoninterfaith.org.
Holiday Party Sponsorships
Contributed by Sarah Cower, President-Elect
Would your company be willing to donate a gift or two to be given away to participants at the December 5 Dulles SHRM holiday celebration? As you know, Dulles SHRM offers you and your company a variety of options to market your products and services throughout the year to our members, including dinner meeting sponsorships and website advertising, and our holiday party, which is quickly approaching. We invite you to provide us with a gift or two to give our members during this festive event. As we do the drawing for prizes, we’ll mention your company name as the donor of the prize. Of course, you’re welcome to attach a business card to the prize itself. We appreciate cash, certificates, and products that will be raffled off during this celebration.
If you’d like to donate prizes, please let me know what you’ll be donating. You can bring the items to the party (which I know you are planning to attend!), or we can pick them up from your office.
We hope you will consider sponsorship of our organization. Thank you for your continued support of the Dulles Chapter! If you need additional information or have any questions, please contact Sarah Cower at sdcconsult@hotmail.com.
Dulles SHRM 2007 Scholarship Program
Contributed by Nidhi Kanungo, Student Chapter Liaison & Scholarship Coordinator
The Dulles SHRM Chapter is pleased to announce our fifth annual scholarship program. In support of the development of our chapter members, sons and daughters of chapter members, and students from local SHRM chapters, we have allocated $2,000.00 for scholarships, and up to two $1,000.00 scholarships may be awarded.
To qualify, applicants must be:
- A chapter member in good standing, a son or daughter of a chapter member in good standing, or a member of a local student chapter during the time of application and receipt of the award; AND
- Enrolled in a full-time or part-time program earning a degree in HR or an HR- related concentration in a college-level or graduate program.
We encourage chapter members and other eligible individuals to apply! Pursuing an education is expensive, and we look forward to providing these funds to deserving students!
Applications will be available at chapter meetings and may also be downloaded from the Dulles SHRM website at www.dullesshrm.org. Applications are due by October 31, 2007. Please send completed applications to:
Dulles SHRM Scholarship Committee
P. O. Box 1249
Herndon, VA 20172
For more information, please contact Nidhi Kanungo at nidikan@yahoo.com or 571-426-3994.
Your Foundation at Work: "Generating Research-Based Knowledge”
Contributed by Marlene Mouanga, SHRM Foundation Representative
Over the past ten years, the SHRM Foundation has funded more than $1 million in research grants for 79 research projects. The SHRM Foundation promotes the use of "research-based knowledge". What does that mean for you? It means enhanced credibility. Imagine proposing a new program to senior management and being able to cite solid research to demonstrate the benefits of your proposed change. The Foundation is funding practical research every year to help you do just that. Current research projects focus on critical areas such as Technology & HR, HR Measurement, Global HR, and The Changing Role of the HR Professional. Research results will help provide research-based answers to questions such as: How should a mentoring program be structured for maximum effectiveness? How do HR leaders make a strategic impact on their organizations? To review the results of recently completed SHRM Foundation research, visit http://www.shrm.org/foundation/findings.asp
The SHRM Foundation: 40 Years of Advancing the HR Profession
Strategic HR Resource List
Contributed by Chas Sumser, Certification Representative
The NOVA/Dulles Mentoring Program had a discussion about strategic HR issues and interacting with the C-suite at their September 19 meeting. They highly recommend the following list of books, journals, and websites:
- Built to Last by Jim Collins
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- HR Champions by Dave Ulrich
- Turning Your HR Department into a Profit Center by Michael Mercer
- Winning by Jack Welch
- The Heart of Change by John Kotter
- Competing on the Edge – Strategy in a Structured Chaos by Shona Brown
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring
- Futuring – The Exploration of the Future by Edwards Cornish
- The Right Job Right Now by Susan Strayer
- The 100 Best Websites for HR Professionals by Ray Schreyer and John McCarter
- The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy by Mark Huselid and Brian Becker
- Motivation and Leadership at Work by Steers, Porter, and Bigley
- Franklin Covey Project Management workshops
- Harvard Business Review (case studies and articles)
- Department of Labor website (www.dol.gov)
- The CEO Exchange (sponsored by SHRM)
For more information about the Dulles SHRM Mentoring Program, please contact Chas Sumser at chas@fgm.com.
Welcome to New Members
Contributed by Lynn Padgett, Vice President, Membership
The Dulles Society of Human Resource Management SHRM welcomes our newest members. Thank you for choosing our chapter.
Lisa Copeland
Jeff Gentile, Principal, LMG Benefits, LLC.
Larry Hopson
Anita Huffman, Principal, Huffman & Assoc., LLC
Joyce Johnson, HR Manager, TMT
Alice Page, Director of Human Resources, Reston Association
Anju Singla, OC Tanner Company
For members that join or renew and pay at the door, please remember to log into our system at www.dullesshrm.org and complete a new and/or renewing membership form if you haven’t already done so. Thank you.
Mark Your Calendar
2007 Chapter Breakfast/Dinner Meetings:
- December 5 (Dinner Meeting) – Holiday Party
2008 Chapter Breakfast/Dinner Meetings:
More information will be provided in the upcoming newsletters and at www.dullesshrm.org. Some of the topics for 2008 will include Succession Planning; New Leader Integration; Employee Engagement and Alignment; Hiring and Terminating – Legally; Annual Legal Update; and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Chapter Discussion Group
"HR Department of One: Rewards and Challenges"
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Ever found yourself staring into your computer wondering how you got yourself into this and how you can ever know all that needs to be done much less do it? If you have been or are an HR Department of One you probably have felt this way many times!! It can be overwhelming to find that you are both the person who is responsible to know and direct the function and the one who does all the work. Tina Strasheim, SPHR, HR Manager of AgustaWestlandBell, LLC, will be leading the discussion group.
In preparation for this discussion, please reflect on the following questions:
- What resources are available?
- What resources do people use?
- What are the rewards?
- How does it impact your career development?
- How can I be strategic?
- How do I know what I don’t know?
Come join the discussion around this topic and share your experiences working inside an HR Department of One! You are welcome to extend an invitation to interested colleagues.
No fee is charged for attending. However, registration is required on-line, at least 24 hours in advance, via the Dulles SHRM web site (www.dullesshrm.org): Career Growth/Chapter Discussion Groups. If you have questions, call Cindy Loison at 703-265-7520. Participation is limited to the first 25 people who sign up.
Date: Thursday, November 1
Time: 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Place: Wachovia Conference Center
1753 Pinnacle Drive, McLean, VA 22102
Phone: 703.373.8357; Contact: Tina Strasheim
The Wachovia Conference Center is located on the 3rd Floor of the North Tower (nearest the Galleria Mall) of the Wachovia Building at 1753 Pinnacle Drive | McLean, VA 22102. An interactive map and driving directions can be obtained at maps.google.com.
From Dulles Airport: Take the Dulles Toll Road West (Route 267). Exit onto Leesburg Pike/VA-7 E toward Tysons Corner. Turn left at Westpark Drive. Turn right at Greensboro Drive. Turn right at Pinnacle Drive. 1753 will be on the right.
From Route 495: Take exit 46A for Chain Br Rd/VA-123 S toward Tysons Corner/Vienna. Merge onto Chain Bridge Rd/VA-123 S. Turn right at International Drive. Turn left at Greensboro Drive. Turn left at Pinnacle Drive.
Parking: All parking is free. You may park in the "Visitor" spaces in the parking lots, on the street, or in the visitor parking garage around the back of the building (the South Tower). Do not park in the bank branch spaces, as you may be towed.
Directions to Conference Center: Once you have parked, proceed to the main entrance of the Wachovia Building's North Tower (the side nearest to the Galleria Mall). If you are near the entrance with the bank branch (closest to the giant orange cell tower), proceed past the bank branch and through the main hallway to the North Tower, where you will see a large concierge desk. Take the elevators, located to the left of the concierge desk, up to the 3rd Floor and follow the signs to the Wachovia Conference Center. The seminar will take place in the Potomac Room.
Should you have any trouble finding us on the day of the seminar, you may call the Conference Center directly at 703.760.6310 or ask the concierge to direct you to the 3rd Floor Conference Center.
Drug Free Work Week
Contributed by Evelyn Kaiser, Diversity/Workforce Education Director
DOL encourages organizations to seize the exciting educational opportunity that Drug-Free Work Week presents--this week, and all year long. Those who observe the week and conduct activities, however small in scope, are encouraged to let Working Partners know to assist in planning for next year’s Drug-Free Work Week.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) wants to remind employers and employees that Sunday, October 14, marked the start of the second annual Drug-Free Work Week, October 14-20, 2007. The purpose of Drug-Free Work Week is to highlight the fact that working drug free is key to protecting workplace safety and to encourage workers with alcohol and drug problems to seek help.
The true spirit of Drug-Free Work Week lies in activities conducted by individual employers and their employees, and DOL’s Working Partners Web site offers a number of specific suggestions on how organizations can participate. Working Partners also is distributing various educational materials, including drug-free workplace fact sheets, “tool box talks” for construction sites, and posters and stickers with the slogan “Working Drug Free Works.” These, and other helpful materials, are available on the Working Partners Web site.
DOL encourages organizations to seize the exciting educational opportunity that Drug-Free Work Week presents--this week, and all year long. Those who observe the week and conduct activities, however small in scope, are encouraged to let Working Partners know to assist in planning for next year’s Drug-Free Work Week.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
"Workers with Disabilities: Talent for a Winning Team"
Contributed by Evelyn Kaiser, Diversity/Workforce Education Director
Throughout October, which is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Office of Disability Employment Policy will profile on its Web site individuals who have personally benefited from agency-sponsored programs aimed at eliminating the chronic underemployment of people with disabilities, as well as employers and organizations that have successfully implemented strategies to hire, support, empower and otherwise value employees with disabilities.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 2007
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
"National Disability Employment Awareness Month is an opportunity to recognize the contributions and accomplishments of Americans with disabilities and to underscore our Nation's commitment to advancing employment opportunities for all our citizens."
Acting Assistant Secretary Karen M. Czarnecki Answers Questions from the Public
The Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) frequently receives questions from the public regarding various disability and employment issues. Recently, ODEP compiled a list of typical inquiries, and posed them to the agency's Acting Assistant Secretary, Karen M. Czarnecki. Following are the questions and her answers.
Question: I'm a human resources director for a medium-size company whose president has charged us with recruiting disabled veterans for a variety of positions. We have a really small HR staff, and there are so many new organizations out there assisting our returning veterans that I don't know where to begin. Can you help?
Answer: ODEP's Employer Assistance and Recruiting Network (EARN) has a staff member, who himself happens to be a disabled Gulf War veteran, dedicated to helping employers locate job-ready disabled veterans. He can help you in three ways: First, he can help you navigate through the various service delivery systems to find qualified disabled veterans. Second, he can provide technical assistance to you as you create a welcoming environment for your new hire. Third, he can source your job postings with employment agencies that train and place disabled veterans. I would encourage you to contact EARN toll-free at (866) 327-6669, or through e-mail at earn@earnworks.com. To learn more about EARN's services, visit the service's Web site at www.earnworks.com.
U.S. Labor Department awards nearly $1.9 million grant to establish National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has awarded a 24-month cooperative agreement for $1,850,000 to the Institute for Educational Leadership's Center for Workforce Development in Washington, D.C., to establish a National Technical Assistance Center on Transition and Employment for Youth with Disabilities.
"It is essential that youth with disabilities receive the support they need to stay in school and succeed in the workplace, so that they can realize their dreams and ambitions for the future," said U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. "This nearly $1.9 million grant is to help ensure that youth with disabilities graduate from high school and get the assistance they need to continue their studies or enter the workforce."
"Talent for a Winning Team" Poster Available to the Public
The 2007 National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) poster, depicting this year’s theme, Workers with Disabilities: Talent for a Winning Team, is now available. In addition to its representation of the national NDEAM theme, this poster is popular throughout the year in connection with events that foster employment opportunities for workers with disabilities.
Each year, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao selects the official theme. The Office of Disability Employment Policy leads the national recognition. Public Law 176, enacted by Congress in 1945, established October as the official month to recognize the contributions that individuals with disabilities have made to the workforce and the workplace.
That’s all for this month unless you have any ideas or suggestions? This is your chapter - let us know what’s on your mind!
Mary Saily
President
Dulles SHRM
msaily@humanr.com
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