IHRIM 2009 Pre-Conference Educational Courses

IHRIM offers you the opportunity to take advantage of your attendance at the IHRIM 2009 Conference to attend an IHRIM educational offering.

Arrive a couple of days early and attend one of these stellar pre-conference courses. These specially designed workshops provide an in-depth look at the topics and issues of importance in HR and HR information management. With real-life examples and case studies, they give you information and solutions that will make a difference in your career and your organization’s bottom line. Choose from a variety of course topics and durations. Some are one-day programs, one is one and half-day and others are half-day. All are top notch!

These highly interactive pre-conference courses are a great value which require an additional fee and pre-registration using the pre-conference section of the Conference Registration form or register online.   For those unable to attend the IHRIM 2009 Conference, these seminars are designed as stand alone educational courses. Please use the Conference Registration form to register for one – or two – of these courses.

IHRIM is pleased to announce that our courses have been approved for recertification credit hours toward PHR,   SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For information on the number of credits per course, please contact Michelle Czosek at education@ihrim.org.

To view the session abstract, click on the seminar title below.
Session  Number Date/Time/Cost Seminar Title
One

Saturday, April 18 31, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 19 1, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
 Member Price: $750
Non-member Price: $890

IHRIM’s Fundamentals of HR Information Management
 
Two

Saturday, April 18, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
 Member Price: $595
Non-member Price: $750

IHRIM's HR Metrics & Workforce Analytics Basics
Three

Saturday, April 18, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
 Member Price: $595
Non-member Price: $750

Creating and Deploying a Digital HR Strategy
Four Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Member Price: $275
Non-member Price: $400 		Strategic Frameworks for Workforce Planning
Five Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Member Price: $595
Non-member Price: $750 		IHRIM’s Essentials for Successful Project Management
Six Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Member Price: $595
Non-member Price: $750 		 Creating a 3-5 Year Technology Strategy
Seven Sunday, April 19, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Member Price: $275
Non-member Price: $400 		Build Your Business Case: The Tools, How Tos and WIIFMs
Eight Sunday, April 19, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Member Price: $275
Non-member Price: $400 		Turbulent Times: HR’s Role is Managing Change

PDS Number 1
Saturday, April 18, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 IHRIM’s Fundamentals of HR Information Management

This course is a must for anyone who is new to HR systems, seeking to improve systems capabilities, or needing to implement a new system or expand the use of existing automated HR systems. The course content provides an understanding of the advantages and benefits of using technology effectively to enhance your contributions to organizational effectiveness. This course will assist in developing your personal plan for improved use of technology.

You’ll learn:

  • The various types of systems and automation choices available including the advantages, limits and potential of each.

  • To effectively handle the full range of issues related to evaluating, selecting, justifying, implementing, using and exploiting the potential of an HR system appropriate to your needs.

  • About issues specific to your organization through group interaction. 

Topics covered include:

  • HR Systems Introduction

  • Systems Applications: An HR Functional Focus

  • Project Management

  • System Selection

  • System Implementation

This course is designed for:

  • HR Managers from any-sized organizations with limited automation and the need to implement a new system or expand the use of existing automated HR systems.

  • HR Generalists & Professionals who can't risk NOT understanding application technology competencies in their current or planned positions.

  • Compensation/Benefits Administrators seeking to improve systems capabilities that will assist them in the performance of their jobs.

Presenter: Myron Oakes, Senior Consultant, Improvisations, Inc.

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PDS Number 2
Saturday, April 18, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

IHRIM's HR Metrics & Workforce Analytics Basics

This course is designed for individuals that are new to data analysis, HR metrics or both. This full day program begins with an overview of the field of HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics and provides training in fundamental data analytic techniques, data interpretation, and the fundamentals of reporting data to decision makers.

You’ll learn:

  • The purpose for conducting HR Metrics and Analytics in organizations is to improve decision making and how to develop HR metrics and analytics systems with that purpose in mind.

  • How to conduct basic statistical analyses to report the current conditions and trends in your organization.

  • Key metrics that can be used to evaluate the staffing levels (e.g., head count versus plan, bench strength, turnover), staffing and development effectiveness (e.g., quality of applicants attracted, offer acceptance, regret turnover, employee performance, training effectiveness).

  • Data reporting techniques that allow you to communicate intended messages to target audiences most effectively. 

Topics covered include:

  • Introduction to HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics past and present. 

  • The reason for conducting HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics is to improve decision-making—nothing more nothing less.

  • Basic data analytic techniques using EXCEL—what are they, how do we do them, and why do we use them?

  • HR Metrics—common and not so common metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of human capital in organizations

  • Workforce Analytics—putting HR metrics and data analysis to work.

  • Reporting Keys—data reporting techniques to get the intended messages to decision makers when they need them in ways they will understand.

This course is designed for:

  • Anyone in your organization that is new to the area of HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics or simply wants to strengthen their foundations. 

  • Individuals that have primary responsibility for the development and deployment of new HR metrics in your organization. 

  • Those individual that are responsible for the ongoing reporting of HR metrics to organization decision makers. 

Presenter: Dr. Kevin D. Carlson, Associate Professor of Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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PDS Number 3
Saturday, April 18, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 Creating and Deploying a Digital HR Strategy

This pre-conference workshop is a necessity as organizations enter 2009 as the "hyper-connected, millennial" generation enters the workforce at a greater pace than any prior year. The pressure being applied to HR to deliver workforce facing solutions that meet the same quality as Facebook and Google is tremendous and many of us find ourselves in the old world of Employee Self-Service. Attendees will learn and take away real life examples of how to use portals, RSS feeds, web 2.0 tools, social networking software and mobile technology to change the face of HR forever within their organizations. 

You’ll learn:

  • The ability of what functionality including Employee/Manager Direct Access, Portal, Web 2.0 and other Social Networking Software is necessary to transform a HR organization into a Digital HR enabled organization.

Topics covered include:

  • How to use Web 2.0 to drive HR optimization.

  • Why portals are a necessity in any Digital HR strategy. 

  • How social networking will change HR forever.

  • How to setup governance around social software.

  • What is Employee and Manager Direct Access 2.0 and how to determine if you are ready.

BONUS – Your registration includes a copy of Digital HR - A Digital HR research paper from Knowledge Infusion.

This course is designed for professionals in:

  • HR 

  • Talent Management

  • HRIS 

  • IS/IT 

Presenters: Jason Averbook, CEO, Knowledge Infusion and Jason Corsello, VP – Center of Excellence, Knowledge Infusion

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PDS Number 4
Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

 Strategic Frameworks for Workforce Planning

This workshop covers core workforce planning techniques including demand and supply forecasting, succession planning, forecasting competency profiles, and the integration of workforce planning with other people management functional areas. This workshop includes a strategic framework for HR planning, of which workforce planning is a component. It facilitates the development of practical skills in workforce planning through the use of a comprehensive Australian–based case study and Infohrm’s four step methodology.

You’ll learn:

  • How to develop a workforce planning approach for their organization.

Topics covered include:

  • Developing strategies to support your organizational plan.

  • Identifying skill shortages and assisting in business growth strategies.

  • Learning how to integrate workforce and strategic plans and translate human capital data into financial metrics Developing alternative scenarios about future workforce needs.

  • Adopting a range of techniques for demand and supply modeling.

This course is designed for:

  • Business Performance Managers

  • Group HR Managers

  • HR Consultants

  • HR Managers

  • HR Operations

  • HR Analysts

  • Information Planners

  • Process Improvement

  • Business Analysts

  • Senior HR Advisors

  • Strategy Advisors

  • Workforce Planners 

Presenter: Jeff Higgins, Executive Vice President of Client Services, North America, Infohrm

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PDS Number 5
Sunday, April 19, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 IHRIM’s Essentials for Successful Project Management

This course focuses on the skills, tools and techniques that project managers or project team members should know to effectively define, plan and manage projects and project assignments. This course is designed for both the beginning project manager who wants a good foundation and the experienced project manager who wants a refresher course. It would benefit whole project teams by providing them with an understanding of the overall process and their roles.

You’ll learn:

  • Project planning, including stakeholder analysis, domains of change, communications, and work breakdown structure

  • Project management approaches, and how to select the approach best suited to your project type, needs, and constraints

  • Project team assembly including defining roles and responsibilities

  • Team building, covering team dynamics and barriers to teamwork

  • Project management skills, the key competencies and traits for success

  • Estimation and justification skills, including cost/benefit analysis and risk assessment

  • Project scheduling and control, tracking methods, the use of project management software, progress reporting, meetings, and final post-completion audit

Topics covered include:

  • Project Structure – Roles and Responsibilities

  • Project Scope

  • Project Justification

  • Project Planning & Scheduling

  • Project Communication

  • Scope Management

  • Project Assessment

This course is designed for:

  • Any HR or HRS professional requiring a sound knowledge of project management

Presenter:  Jan Fretwell, Managing Director, Beachside Consulting Group

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PDS Number 6
Sunday, April 19, 8:30 am – 5:00 p.m.

Creating a 3-5 Year Technology Strategy  

The HCM systems strategic plan is the embodiment of an organization's goals and objectives (the corporate business plan) and the HCM and IT strategic plans that support the meeting of these goals and objectives. Investing in HCM technology without a strategy on how each component system will support the other often results in the implementation of systems that are not best suited to meet a company's business objectives, which results in wasted time and money, as well as staff inefficiencies. A good technology strategy is to minimize the number of vendors providing the required HCM solutions and create a more integrated HCM systems environment.

 

You’ll learn:

  • The steps to creating a technology strategy

Topics covered include:

  • Phases of creating HCM technology strategy

  • HCM and ITM defined

  • HCM technology strategy 'must haves'

  • HCM technology roadmaps

  • Decision drivers

BONUS – Your registration includes a copy of “The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management” report – a $495 value

This course is designed for:

  • VPs of HR

  • HR/HRIS Directors

  • HRIS Managers

  • CIOs/Senior IT Executives

  • CFOs 

Presenters:  Dan Katavola, VP – Consulting Services, HRchitect HRchitect and Jacqueline Kuhn, President, Kuhn Consulting Group

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PDS Number 7
Sunday, April 19, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Build Your Business Case: The Tools, How Tos and WIIFMs

Obtaining the sponsorship of your executive team requires that you convince them compellingly of the need for your HCM technology project. Without their strong support, you will struggle for budgeting, have no one championing your project when you need defending, and languish in “maybe” land. Adopting a needs assessment and gap analysis methodology documents your strengths and weaknesses and applies a quantifiable process to the creation of your business case. Adapted from IT methodology and blessed by Finance, this methodology provides strength and credibility in a systemic process that can immediately create cross functional collaboration and visibility.

 

You’ll learn:

  • Convincing the executive team of the critical need for an expensive and draining IT project requires the creation of a sound business case that documents the good AND the bad of the current HCM technology and provides an objective argument.

  • How to put that business case together. 

Topics covered include:

  • Become familiar with the needs assessment methodology. 

  • Understand how a needs assessment and gap analysis lends objectivity to the evaluation of project expenditures.

  • Learn how to develop an assessment process, gather data and formulate options for an HCM technology project.

  • Learn how to assess costs, resources, and incorporate expense data into your business case.

  • Develop an understanding of presentation strategy, executive sponsorship, and timing.

BONUS – Your registration includes a planning toolkit to begin development of your assessment strategy and tools.

This course is designed for:

  • HRIT Managers

  • HR Managers

  • HR and HRIT Analysts

  • Business Analysts

  • HR Generalists

  • Benefits

  •  Compensation

  • Talent Management

  • IT Analysts 

Presenter:  Kristie Evans, HCM Business Strategist, HR Logistics, LLC

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PDS Number 8
Sunday, April 19, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Turbulent Times: HR’s Role is Managing Change

In today's business environment of "permanent white water," every organization is always experiencing change. Small scale changes we mostly take in our normal stride. However, special expertise and processes are needed when dealing with the organizational, people, process, and technology aspects that occur with larger change efforts, such as new technologies or new systems implementation, in order to ensure minimal disruption to the business. This presentation will help participants understand the role that HR plays in the process of change and provide some tools, tips, and best practices for more effectively managing change in the new digital, virtual, global, mobile world we now live in.

 

You’ll learn:

  • How to manage the process of change in the new digital, virtual, global, mobile world. 

Topics covered include:

  • What is Change. 

  • Some Background on Change

  • The Human Process of Change

  • What is Change Management

  • The Importance of Change Management

  • Change Management Methodology

  • Types of Change Intervention Strategies

  • Ingredients for Successful Change

This course is designed for:

  • Chief HR Officers

  • VP/Dir Training, Education, Employee Development, Organization Development, Strategic Planning

  • Project Manager, Executive Sponsor or Planning/Implementation Team Member for any significant change effort.

Presenter: Karen Beaman, CEO/Founder, Jeitosa Group International and Michael Kent, Chief Human Resource Officer, Jeitosa Group International

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