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Viva Las Vegas

Admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:45:35 +0000

I was back in the office yesterday after attending the SHRM Annual Conference. If you didn’t make the trip to Las Vegas this year, you missed a great experience. The sessions were excellent, the vendors were great and the networking was incredible. And I think that makes three great host cities in a row (New Orleans, San Diego and Las Vegas).

As far as firsts, SHRM included a social media lounge this year for conference attendees to stop by, network and most importantly…tweet. With that being said, I hope to be more active on here in upcoming weeks! Have a great holiday everyone.

Lobbying

Admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:50:52 +0000

I was in Washington, DC most of last week for SHRM’s Employment Law & Legislative Conference. As a part of the conference, you can sign up to go to Capital Hill to meet with and lobby your legislators.

But here’s something strange. It was amazing to me how many of the conference attendees were complaining after their visits to “The Hill.” The most common complaint I overheard was, “I wanted to actually meet with my legislator. Who was the kid or the aide I just met with?”

Even though this conference offered several preparatory sessions before the lobbying event, they must not have attended. I’ve lobbied on several occasions and there’s one thing you have to understand. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to actually get in front of your elected official. But many times you instead have to meet with one of his/her aides. And in many cases, those aides are younger than you – sometimes they’re recent college graduates or even still in college. But that’s part of lobbying. It doesn’t matter how old the aide is. They might be a subject matter expert or in charge of the research for that area. Or better yet, they might have your Senator’s ear. So be prepared, share some compelling information and get on their radar. And that, my fellow HR colleagues, is lobbying 101.

Out and About

Admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:30:47 +0000

As we work to get more content, visitors and comments on this site, we have planned a huge marketing campaign. If you work in HR, have HR duties as a part of your job or provide services/products to HR Professionals, we’re looking for you.

Our first stop will be in Ohio at the 37^th Annual Ohio Human Resource Conference. It’s at the Kalahari Resort from September 16^th through the 18^th.

We’ll be talking to HR Professionals and vendors – and may even take a few trips down their awesome water slides if time permits.

There will be more information to come on this event, as well as initiatives in other states…