Employees expect a seamless technology experience from the first day they step foot in the door and throughout their entire employee lifecycle. In a war for talent, it’s essential to consciously court and engage your employees. But how do you engage your employees through technology when changes are happening at lightning speed and you have multi-generations in the workplace? In this session, learn how to enable your employees to be early adopters and advocates of new technology to achieve your strategic goals. Come join us for an engaging panel discussion with industry experts and walk away with actionable steps on how to make an impact on your employee engagement using technology!

Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights.

This networking session is held in conjunction with the HRMAC Reads Multipliers networking session, but the book discussions will remain separate.

How can you be a multiplier for your organization? Join fellow HR professionals to discuss this thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results.

This networking session is held in conjunction with the HRMAC Reads How Women Rise networking session, but the book discussions will remain separate.

Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights.

Short interactive presentations given by HR leaders covering different countries around the world. Topics to include: country-specific HR differences; recruiting from other countries; HR function structure, managing different culturally influenced, career ambitions; maintaining a sense of brand identity and loyalty; virtual teams spread across different countries – managing employee performance, benefits; and more!

Learn what organizations are doing to drive successful transformation, including bridging the gap between strategy and implementation, achieving individual commitment aligned to organizational objectives and quickly changing the mindset and capabilities of their workforce.

How can you be a multiplier for your organization? Join fellow HR professionals to discuss this thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results.

Join your colleagues for a new HRMAC offering in partnership with Second City Works. Learn how to identify and stop harassment as a bystander through this interactive workshop. The learning format builds knowledge and practical skills through a series of skits, short videos, exercises and improvisation.

Following "From Apathy to Empathy: Empowering the Bystander," HRMAC is hosting its Spring Networking Event! If you aren't able to attend the workshop, grab your ticket to connect with fellow HR professionals in a relaxed setting at The Corner Bar.

HR plays a major role in developing and leading the strategy of the company. The relationship between the CHRO and CEO are critical to the success of the organization; whether it is setting the strategy for growth or being a trusted advisor.  In this session, we will share stories where the relationship between HR and the Executive team was extremely valuable, and where the "lack of relationship" hurt the business.  Our panel will include executives as well as the HR professionals supporting them. 

How people communication within an organization can impact connection to purpose, engagement and overall performance effectiveness. This session will focus on the nature of communication in the workplace and HR’s role in shaping the narrative—including interpersonal communication, conflict management, and creating a favorable point of view about your corporate environment.

There are more job openings than there are people to fill them. The power is back in the hands of the employee. Never has the war for talent been so high up on the minds of your CEO's. Creating a development culture that enables you to hire the best, retain the best and build talent from within will differentiate your business from mediocrity. One of the key pieces of creating a development culture is investing in your people, especially the leaders at all levels. Aligning them to your values, and motivating them to model the right behaviors, connects your workforce to a higher purpose. Having a disconnect between the cultural aspirations you put on your website, annual report, and hiring interviews, and the behaviors of your leaders will eventually lead to unnecessary talent turnover.

Continuing the conversation about creating a collaborative culture to drive business results, this session will reveal the real accelerators of organizational performance. Hear from three local HR experts who will share their thoughts on what you, as an HR professional, can do to drive an agile culture and make team enhancements to improve business results.

Leading with Emotional Courage coaches you to build your emotional courage, exercise it effectively, and create an environment in which people around you take accountability to get hard things done.

Today, being effective in getting the right people on board is a key HR activity that directly supports the organization’s strategic plan. Successful staffing professionals need the skills to communicate effectively to entice a selected job candidate to really want to work for the company. Knowing the best tools and techniques for communicating the emotional content of the potential job is a key requirement to mitigating that risk. The Helping the Job Candidate Make the Right Decision seminar teaches a set of tools and techniques proven to enable this sort of communication.

Developing a network of personal and professional contacts can be crucial to the successful growth of any career. Knowing what to do with that network is truly what creates a competitive edge for young professionals as they navigate how to make decisions, influence at all levels and drive results. Our experienced speakers will take you through how they built their own personal board of directors, how they leveraged those connections to reach their career goals, and how you can too! Join us and learn how to network like a pro.

We know that anyone who recruits for a living or has recruiting as part of their job has a competitive side to them.  In this very competitive job market speed is essential.  This will be a simulation workshop that will take participants though a high-speed recruiting process starting with sourcing through screening and finally making the hire!

Leading with Emotional Courage coaches you to build your emotional courage, exercise it effectively, and create an environment in which people around you take accountability to get hard things done.