Clone of Meetings & Events

SHRM Leadership Conference  - November 17-19.

Regional meetings begin at 1pm on Thursday, 11/17 & the conference concludes at 2pm Saturday, 11/19.  Conference and hotel registration are open and can be accessed on the conference website: http://www.shrm.org/Conferences/leadership/Pages/Register.aspx

Regional Council Summit - February 24-25

The Regional Council Summit will be held February 24-25, 2012 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX.  Watch for more information regarding this summit.

 RRHRPA meets at Sauk Valley Community College in room 2K2 at noon.    We invite you to attend one of our meetings as our guest!  

2011 Chapter Meetings

 January 25    Thinking Skills Inc. -  Future Think - Member Evaluation

 February 22     Bruce Larson - IDES Update - Member Evaluation

 March 29     GCG RISK Management - Employer Liability  - Member Evaluation

 April 25     Van Daele & Associates -  HR Strategic Planning - Member Evaluation

May 31     Doug Lee - Employment Law Update

July 20  1/2 day program Management Association of IL -  Effective Workplace Investigations -                Attendee Evaluations

 September 27     Perspectives - EAP Services

October 25     Carol Fitzgerald - Diversity

November 22     Todd Solomon - Domestic Partnerships

December - NO MEETING  - Happy Holidays

January 31, 2012   Jeff Kortes - Anyone Can Recruit - Can You Sell the Organization?

 2011 Board of Director Meetings   

Unless notified differently, Board members will meet at 11:30 in room 2K2 at  Sauk Valley Community College

 January 25  -   March 29  -   May 24  -   Sept 15  -   Nov 22

2012 Chapter Meetings

January 31
February 28
March 27
April 24
May 22
September 25
October 30
November 27

.   2012 Board of Directors Meetings 
Unless notified differently, Board members will meet at 11:30 in room 2K2 at  Sauk Valley Community College

January 31  -   March 27  -   May 22  -   Sept 25  -   Nov 27

 2010 MEETINGS

The Power of Promotional ProductsJanuary 26, 2010

Terry McGuire, Sr. VP of Marketing at HALO Branded Solutions, discussed effectiveness of

promotional products and ways HR Professionals can use them in wellness programs, recruiting,

improving morale and recognizing employees. This was an informational and entertaining presentation and each attendee left with a gift bag full of promotional products.

 This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

February 23, 2010 ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA)

Michael Killebrew, Resource Coordinator at DisabilityWorks, summarized recent amendments to ADA

and defined some of the important terms in the Act such as “Disability”, “Major Life Activity” and

“Regarded as”. He also discussed the cause and outcome of several ADA court cases.

This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

March 30, 2010 Employee Misconduct in a Digitized World

Alan Kinsey, Vice President of Inquire Hire, talked about the risks and opportunities presented by social media such as Facebook and Twitter. He reviews reasons employees are engaging in inappropriate activity.

He gave attendees tips on how to, and encouraged them to, develop policies to encourage productive use of and discourage misconduct on these sites.

This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

April 27, 2010 No Non-Sense Retention

Jeff Kortes, of Human Asset Management, provided a candid insight into the thoughts and reasoning

of employees who decide or are contemplating leaving their jobs in various organizations.

He did so in an interactive presentation that was informative, interesting, and applicable to situations that all HR and business professionals encounter.

See Attendee Evaluations

May 25, 2010 Employment Law Update

Doug Lee, of Ehrmann, Gehlbach, Badger & Lee, LLC and Legislative Chair of RRHRPA presented his annual employment law update. As always, Doug found several interesting employment law court

cases to review and discuss before revealing the outcome of the cases.

This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

July 27, 2010 Everyone Impacts the Bottome Line

The annual 1/2 day summer program was presented by Laura McAdam, founder of Profitability Now.

She used her unique combination of HR and Finance knowledge to teach attendees how HR can become a more strategic business partner by understanding ROI and key financial drivers of business.

She explained the importance of aligning an HR strategy with the business strategy, defined five key drivers of employee engagement and worked through examples of calculating ROI for HR-related initiatives such as a wellness program, RIF and implementation of Performance Management System.

See Attendee Evaluations

September 28, 2010 No

October 26, 2010 What Difference Does Difference Make?

Carol Fitzgerald, of the YWCA and Diversity Chair of RRHRPA was joined by Rebecca Munoz-Ripley,

also from the YWCA, to present the annual diversity awareness program.

They presented three activities to get attendees more involved in the program:

The first was to try to describe yourself as you would to a stranger meeting you in a crowded airport

without using hair color, eye color or eye glasses. This illustrated how much we identify ourselves by our race and how we look.

Second, the group split in small groups to discuss the first we remember noticing

our race or that there were other races.

The last activity was Carol & Rebecca leading a large group discussion to identify the ‘privileged’ and

‘targeted’ groups of people in different categories of oppression such as ageism, sexism, racism, ableism, etc. It became evident that most people are in the privileged group of some categories and the targeted group of others. The differences of the lives of the two groups was also discussed.

This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

See Attendee Evaluations

November 30, 2010 Healthcare Reform

Dawn Steinbeck and Stacey Rose, Benefit Specialists from Butler Insurance Service, a full service

TPA, presented what they considered a 30,000’ overview of healthcare reform changes from now thru 2014. They reviewed the difference in changes to Grandfathered and Non Grandfathered plans. A lot of information was provided and they made it clear that many of the questions about these changes can’t be answered until the government finalizes the regulations.

This presentation was approved for 1.25 General Recertification Credits

See Attendee Evaluations

2009 Discrimination Mock Trial

Rock River Human Resource Professional Association hosted a mock discrimination trial on July 28, 2009. The half day event was held at Sauk Valley Community College. Leslie Johnson and Stephanie Dinkel of Koehler & Passarelli, LLC were the facilitators for the mock trial. We had a great turn out with 41 participants taking part in the trial.